Anyone here ever done a juice diet?

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Originally Posted by rondog

Just curious about using a juicer - what do you do with the leftover material after the juice is extracted? Or is there even much left? Never been around one before, all I can relate to is an orange squeezer thing for making orange juice. Just seems like there would be a lot of pulpy material leftover - and do you have to add any water to create a quantity of juice? Or is it all right out of the food?

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For purposes of this diet you would simply discard the fibrous material left over after juicing. What you want is the juice because that's where the highest concentration of vitamins & nutrients are which is what you're after with this diet. Once you're done you can use those leftovers for many things including making things like healthy snack chips and stuff. You won't need to add water to any of the juice as it's tasty just as it sits. Real juice before all the big $ corporations got a hold of the idea of juice and ruined it.

Ate a salad from Wal-mart and bought a bag of cherries. The salad had chicken, croutons, cheese, and dressing.
I haven't officially started, but no reason to not eat healthier in the mean time.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Ate a salad from Wal-mart and bought a bag of cherries. The salad had chicken, croutons, cheese, and dressing.
I haven't officially started, but no reason to not eat healthier in the mean time.

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I don't think you need to lose weight, unless you've become fat since our last meeting.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Ate a salad from Wal-mart and bought a bag of cherries. The salad had chicken, croutons, cheese, and dressing.
I haven't officially started, but no reason to not eat healthier in the mean time.

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It's funny you saw that because the few days leading up to this I was making better decisions about what I ate and part of me was like.... there, 'I'll just eat better' but I knew it wouldn't last and I proceeded with the juice diet as planned. I feel like this is making a change in my life to where I can't help but make better decisions once I'm done. Without some sort of a big life change I knew it wasn't going to stick.

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Originally Posted by Dr_Fwd

I don't think you need to lose weight, unless you've become fat since our last meeting.

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I've put on a good 25 lbs since I was in decent shape. Pretty much all of it on my stomach. I want it gone.

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Originally Posted by Irving

I've put on a bad 25 lbs since I was in decent shape. Pretty much all of it on my stomach. I want it gone.

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Fixed that for you. [Flower]

How much juice are you guys drinking in a day?

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Originally Posted by Sparky

How much juice are you guys drinking in a day?

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I don't have a quantifiable answer for you. I'm guessing on the order of 6-8 8oz glasses per day but I don't measure out and just drink whenever I feel hungry. Other than that I'm drinking water pretty much all day. I've seen some that have you measuring stuff out and are real strict about guidelines and I don't doubt that's ideal but so far I've done fine just winging it and listening to my body.

Also, if you think that the Naked, or Bolthouse juices are the same, they are not, not even close. They might have a lot of some really good ingredients, but as you can read, they pasturize it which breaks down, and makes a lot of the nutrients, vitamins, and enzymes worthless to your body (kinda kills the whole idea). That is why you see vitamin C added to a lot of stuff, because pasturizing it actually breaks down the vitamin C to a useless amount of nothing, and they have to add it all over again (like orange juice). If it is pasturized, don't do a juice fast with it, I'm not saying it is bad, because I don't know... What I do know, is that all of the natural vitamins, nutrients, and enzymes < important* that makes this fast what it is known for, are mostly not in store bought juices in the quantity needed, if at all....... All you are doing with the store bought juices, is starving your body of calories, which ya, will make you still drop weight fast, but it isn't even as close to being as healthy for you as a fresh, natural juice fast. I want to throw that out there right now...........

Are you guys juicing organic or regular grocery store stuff?