juice fast

[joeyshoe]

So I watched a documentary on netflix called, "fat, sick and nearly dead." It was about an Aussie that was overweight and had some health issues so he went on a 60 day juice fast. He consumed nothing but the juice of misc fruits and veg for 60 days (water also). He ended up losing a crap ton of weight and started reducing his medication for his health issues.

It's basically and detoxing thing. I'm trying it for a few days and I started tonight. Dinner was pretty rough. I tried adding some garlic and ginger thinking I could whip up some super healthy elixir, but it turned out pretty nasty. All I can think about is food. cheese. potatoes. cream of mushroom. anything. sooo starving.

I've gone a few weeks without gluten and that was pretty rough, but I think this will be worse. I'm shooting for a few days, but i'll go for longer if I start feeling better.

Anyone try anything like this? One of the signs/symptoms that a health guide gave as a reason to stop the juice fast was.....HUNGER. [ROFL2]

Hopefully I don't rip someones head off at work tomorrow.[Bang]

[Lex_Luthor]

We have a student at kung fu that is around 400 lbs. He has also seen the movie and has started doing it. He is not using a juicer, but a blender, so he's making smoothies instead of juicing. But he's already lost something like 18 lbs in his first week! Keep it up. The main thing I've heard is that you feel like an absolute trainwreck for the first few days. Those are the ones you need determination to push through. Then you should start to feel much healthier with more time.

[birddog]

Tried it a while back but the mundane diet killed me. It was he same meal, same texture, same taste, same same same. I lasted ~ 4 days.

Think if I was going to do it again I would have a regular dinner with juice throughout the day. That way you would at least have something to look forward to. I felt good on it and still try to mix juices in during the day from time to time. It is definitely a great way to get veggies in.

Oh and if you do it for any regularity you will poo like never before. I hear you grow out of it but it was a pretty busy time for my toilet. [ROFL1]

[BuffCyclist]

Green smoothies. Look it up. Now. Seriously. GO! [LOL]

My fiancee got into them a while back and ended up destroying my blender, so I bought her a new Ninja (fantastic blender by the way!) and she used to drink one of these everyday. Now, she drinks one over 2 days (both for breakfast), because she runs out of time drinking all of it.

Her recipe is roughly this:

1 cup water
1/2 cup oatmeal (depending on when she can eat next)
1 banana
1 carrot
1 apple
2 cutie mandarins (when in season)
1 tbsp milled flax seed
1-2 handfuls of frozen strawberries (roughly 1-2cups in actuality)
1/2 to 1 FULL head of romaine lettuce!

Blend it all up, and it makes around 50oz of smoothie. The taste isn't all that bad, and if it is, add some more strawberries. It is very filling and doing this, you can eat more lettuce than otherwise possible. Also, you can use fruits/veggies that are going bad and it doesn't matter. Half of the time the lettuce she uses is starting to go brown and is no longer crispy. Most people would throw it out, but throw it into a blender and you still get all of the nutrients and antioxidants.

Anyways, if you want to learn more, there are tons of websites out there for green smoothies They not only help you lose weight and eat less junk food, you get a ton of nutrients that most people don't get.

[joeyshoe]

we bought a juicer on craigslist. I think he may see more benefit without all the fiber and such. As I understand it, you want your digestive system to just relax and not have to work. I don't really know. I'm just gonna go to bed now and feel sorry for myself.[ROFL1]

Juicers come up pretty often on craigslist. I'm assuming most people want to try it but don't have enough will power to get through. I admit, i've thought about putting the thing up for sale and we picked it up this weekend....lol

I'll update with some more info and hopefully, weight loss stats, as they become available.

I'm around 240 lbs. so i'm not trying to lose too much, but getting back down to 200 would be pretty amazing.

dinner was: 3 carrots, 1 apple, 1 orange, 1 beet, 1/2 zucchini, 2 garlic cloves, nugget sized chunk of ginger, some watercress greens, 1/2 cup watermelon and 2 stalks of celery. produced 900 ml of juice of which i drank about half. couldn't take anymore.

[UncleDave]

The first 3 or 4 days is rough. It gets easier after that.

[10mm-man]

Did it but it an unrealistic diet. You lose weight but getting your eating habits correct is more important. I did lose weight but I also gained it back...

I did Nutrisystems a couple months ago and went from 211 to 195 in about a month. More realistic and get's your eating habits in check, gives you a better idea of how you should eat, and balances blood sugar which is the most important.

[Fentonite]

I had good luck with an all-protein diet once. Absolutely no carbs. (too bad I like beer so much). This diet sounds like all carbs, which can lead to insulin resistance, blah, blah, blah,.... but it's certainly hard to argue with the results that have been posted. Props to anybody who can stick with something like that. if it works for you, great! All it would take for me to fail is the aroma of a neighbor's BBQ, and I'd fall off the juice wagon, and into a big NY strip!

[theGinsue]

When I was going to church, the senior pastor would do juice fasting for 3 weeks/yr.

I've been wanting to try it but haven't had the willpower (and no juicer).

[GilpinGuy]

If your goal is losing weight, I'd look into the low-carb thing. "Atkins" is the big name for it, but any low carb diet will work fine. And by "diet" I don't mean starving yourself or getting into the "buy our supplements every month" bullshit. Don't let the name scare you into "it's a fad diet thing". It's not at all.

It just makes sense when you know the facts. My Doc is 100% behind me and things look good so far as blood work (cholesterol: the bad kind went down, the good kind went up - that was a major concern for me). I'm excited to see what the full year checkup will show in January.

I'm down 50 lbs since December 27th and it was a piece of cake for me (ok, the first 2 weeks were a bit rough). By the way, I've never bought a supplement or "weight loss product". PM if you want any info.

Also, I did the "Master Cleanse" a few years ago. I went 30 days and it sure cleansed the hell out of me, that's for sure (!!!), but I would not recommend that to most folks. Pretty hard core - and I'm not sure how healthy that really is. Probably not very healthy, but damn the stuff that came out of me.........[Help]

[UncleDave]

Fasting for 30 days plus is perfectly healthy if done right. Most of us faced enough body far stores to feed our bodies that long. Once your body starts metabolizing the stored body fat your blood sugar will balanced out, and in most cases your cholesterol wool drop to normal levels too. It is important to keep using your body, read exercising during the process or you will loses muscle. A buddy of mine would do this for 30-40 days at a time, with his Dr. monitoring everything weekly. They checked blood suffers, cholesterol, muscle mass every week. He did both juice and water fasts that way. The longest I went was 30 days.

[Tim K]

It's a short term solution. It's simply an extreme form of calorie restriction, though I'll grant that the calories consumed are at least good calories.

The results of any crash diet are nearly always the same. You'll lose muscle and fat at about the same rate. When you go off the diet you'll have that much less muscle mass to burn calories. Expect to gain it all back and have it harder to lose the next time

Ask me how I know.

Fat runs rampant in my family. My sister and I have licked it after 30 years of working at it, and our answer has been lifestyle change. It works and it lasts. My sis lost 100 pounds 3 years ago and has kept off every ounce. I lost 40 and am very fit for an old guy.

Balanced diet, moderate calorie restriction, and exercise is the long term solution. if you want a plan that's proven to work, try "Body for Life".

[Circuits]

As noted before me, it's not for everyone, and it's not a miracle plan. It still takes willpower and exercise.

I'm juicing now, under my Doctor's supervision, but the fast is just to do a "system reset" and get started weight loss, and has to be combined with diet and lifestyle changes to make a long-term difference.

There's certainly nothing wrong with juicing for a week or 10 days, maybe every three to six months, or add daily juicing to your meal plan instead of as a calorie-restricting fast to make sure you're getting your vitamins and nutrients.

You can pick up a decent centrifugal juicer for $60 or so on Amazon, and unless you're a fanatic about it or opening a commercial juice bar, there's not really a need for anything heavier duty (i.e. expensive).

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

I cut 20 pounds in two weeks by only eating clean calories(1200-1500) per day, I also exercised a minimum of 1 hour up to 3 hours per day. This is not a long term solution but you have to get to your target weight and maintain it somehow. If you have a smart phone or tablet I recommend the ap myfitnesspal as an accountabilibuddy... Good luck!

[joeyshoe]

Didn't rip any heads off at work today, but I sure am hungry. I'm planning on just doing this for a few days, not just for the weight loss, but for the detoxing. It sure does make me appreciate food, and I doubt i'll be stuffing my face with too much crap after this since i'd rather not partake of this joyous event too often.

[Monky]

Good for you for trying.. but Joey.. if you don't change your lifestyle you WILL put the weight back on.

[Irving]

I know a guy who was talked into turning vegan, and he is now off of his blood pressure meds that he was previously told he'd have to take for the rest of his life.

I know a second person who has beat cancer TWICE through her diet, with ZERO chemo.

[rshives]

My wife and I are following the Eat to Live way of eating. Dr Furmman, who was the main doc in the documentary, is the one who came up with it and tweeks it for certain people. Working pretty good so far, loosing some weight anyway.

[blacklabel]

I'll stay paleo. I love meat too much and losing an average of 10 lbs a month without drinking my calories is pretty damn nice.

[Monky]

I'll stay paleo. I love meat too much and losing an average of 10 lbs a month without drinking my calories is pretty damn nice.

+1 I need to be more strict w/ Paleo... haven't been to the gym in a few weeks thanks to the back and I feel like I've gained 20#s and not in a good way.. even though I haven't.. I feel icky.. been eating quick meals.. no real ability to cook till yesterday.. ugghh.

[blacklabel]

+1 I need to be more strict w/ Paleo... haven't been to the gym in a few weeks thanks to the back and I feel like I've gained 20#s and not in a good way.. even though I haven't.. I feel icky.. been eating quick meals.. no real ability to cook till yesterday.. ugghh.

We're probably 85% strict but definitely need to improve that. The nice thing is that when I decide to start lifting rather than losing weight, I simply eat more of the same things to support muscle gains rather than weight loss but I'll still be eating clean. A juice diet doesn't support that.

[spyder]

So I watched a documentary on netflix called, "fat, sick and nearly dead." It was about an Aussie that was overweight and had some health issues so he went on a 60 day juice fast. He consumed nothing but the juice of misc fruits and veg for 60 days (water also). He ended up losing a crap ton of weight and started reducing his medication for his health issues.

It's basically and detoxing thing. I'm trying it for a few days and I started tonight. Dinner was pretty rough. I tried adding some garlic and ginger thinking I could whip up some super healthy elixir, but it turned out pretty nasty. All I can think about is food. cheese. potatoes. cream of mushroom. anything. sooo starving.

I've gone a few weeks without gluten and that was pretty rough, but I think this will be worse. I'm shooting for a few days, but i'll go for longer if I start feeling better.

Anyone try anything like this? One of the signs/symptoms that a health guide gave as a reason to stop the juice fast was.....HUNGER. [ROFL2]

Hopefully I don't rip someones head off at work tomorrow.[Bang]
I believe we've talked about this before on the forum... Anyway, my wife had chronic hives (came out of no where), if you watched the video, you know how she found the video in a search. Anyway, we started the juice thing for her, who, hasn't had hives in about four months now. I did it just because (mainly support), and lost 50lbs in a month and a half. I stopped the diet at the beginning of summer and haven't put a pound on since... I'm more than likely going back on it to lose more (and the energy gain after a bit is unreal). I will say though... Nothing is more addictive than food, I know that now...............


I know a guy who was talked into turning vegan, and he is now off of his blood pressure meds that he was previously told he'd have to take for the rest of his life.

I know a second person who has beat cancer TWICE through her diet, with ZERO chemo.
^ That is not uncommon.


For those interested, watch a video called "The Gerson Miracle" on Netflix. Very interesting.

[rondog]

I gotta do something, because I could sure stand to lose about a buck-forty. I figger the extra weight I'm carrying around equals about three of those 40 lb. cement mix bags from Home Depot. Carry three of those fuckers around all the time, no wonder I hurt all over.

So I just ordered four lbs. of bacon from Gilpin Guy........[Shake]