Anyone here ever done a juice diet?

[Jer]

This morning is officially one week since I started. As of weigh-in this morning I've lost 15.4lbs and I feel great. The heart burn issues seem to have subsided since getting back on my heart burn meds and I'm slowly figured out how much juice I need to drink. I'm thinking I may have been drinking too much juice so I will still continue trying to feel this out. The few flavors available to me of the Blothouse Farms juices are starting to taste not as good so I need to get my hands on a juicer so I can start adding in more variety otherwise I may start to dislike these. Clothes are fitting better and I can start to see a difference and I like the direction this is headed. The foods I miss most are Chinese food, sushi & BBQ with a shorter craving for Mexican food every now and then. It hasn't been too bad though overall and I'm looking forward to continuing this until I'm a healthier version of myself.

[Dr_Fwd]

Feeling better yet Dr_Fwd? I just had some Naked Juice for breakfast and have been watching the clock for lunch time since I got in. I'll eat a salad.

Feels pretty good. For me the toughest time is evening, I feel so freaking hungry every evening. .. will see how it goes today.
Oh, and I'm doing juices and water only, no other food.

[Jer]

The best time, is when you have to go shopping for new clothes because what you have is too baggy, and you look ridiculous.

I had some t-shirts that I wore regularly that I'm not swimming in & the ones I had that were too tight to wear are now the ones I wear. These are all shirts with the same size on the tag. Pretty soon I'll be getting out the old boxes of smaller sizes I put away as I got fat and seeing what fits and still looks decent. Once I get settled on a weight I can shop for some new stuff which will be great since there's a bunch of shirts I want to order right now but I really wouldn't know what size to even order. Last thing I want is to buy something I can only get a month out of. These are good problems to have.

yeah people read and put to use information from the internet at their own risk. the people posting it don't retain liability, especially when not an expert. you're just giving your experience nothing wrong with that.

Someone earlier commented on the fact that Spyder isn't a doctor to be qualified to give out advice. I don't subscribe to this at all. In my personal experience and that of a LOT of people I know this 'expert' advice hasn't been very helpful in terms of overall health at all. In fact, most are quick to prescribe prescriptions and tack more on to combat the side-effects those create rather than saying... you need to lose weight. Doctors have become a larger source of skepticism for me lately than someone on the internet who has been through the same thing I'm going through.

i dont want to go off topic here (which means i sort of am). Ive never researched an all juice diet, but it sounds interesting. OP after you try the juice diet you might want to research intermittent fasting (Fast and Feast). I did a 16hr off 8hr on for 3 months and lost 60lbs. Good part is you get to eat food

i used this site: leangains.com for most of my resource information. awesome job at wanting to stay healthy!

That sounds awesome but I'm also worried about cholesterol, hardening arteries and overall health in conjunction with weight loss. On top of that this juice fast is what is helping me to get away from food entirely for a short period to try to break the bad habits and cravings I have. It seems this diet might not be as healthy of an avenue but I will certainly research and consider it.

Screw it. I'm starting today. It's not like I need to be 100% at work anyways.

Atta boy! You'll be glad you did in no time at all.

Day 3! Minus 5lb! So far so good!
OP, thanks for inspiration!

Nice work! Heck, if a few other people end up getting healthier due to motivation created in part of this discussion then that's a pretty good feeling.

I had a Naked Juice at 6 and am feeling pretty good. No hungrier than I would usually feel. I'll be having another for lunch and then pick up a juicer after work.

The nerves inside the body or different than the ones on the outside of the body. This is why heartburn can mimic heart attack symptoms and vice versa. Your hunger can also be quenched with liquids the same as solids so lots of time you hear people say that if you are hungry between meals drink some water and the hunger should subside. What I've discovered is that when you're 100% on liquids the 'full' feeling is slightly different. It's a feeling I'm still adjusting too because I think sometimes I'm drinking more juice than I need to. You still crave food too but those cravings change over time and get better... well, in my personal limited experience anyway and what I've read backs this experience up.

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[Jer]

Feels pretty good. For me the toughest time is evening, I feel so freaking hungry every evening. .. will see how it goes today.
Oh, and I'm doing juices and water only, no other food.

Yeah, I think evenings were harder for me but a big part of that is my wife would bring home food, cook food or re-heat food and the smells were intense even with the most bland of food. Heck, she grabbed a Caesar salad on her way home from work and ate it next to me outside with a breeze and even with all that I could smell and taste every single ingredient in the thing. I don't even like Caesar salads and I wanted to dive into that damn thing. The cravings are weird and commercials and smelling food will trigger them.

[Jer]

I don't think a juice diet is the way to go. For instance I ate 1200-1400 calories(good calories not 4 cheeseburgers) per day and exercised 2-3 hours per day. I cut 20 pounds in 2 weeks for a jiu jitsu competition. You have to exercise, even if you just walk.

I wish you guys all the luck in the world. Keep up the hard work!

If you're the type of person who does this sort of thing then this diet isn't for you. My life is such that even if I could control my food cravings and what I take in there's no way I could work out 2-3hrs per day with my life currently the way it is. It just wouldn't work. I'm happy that that works for you and agree that it's a healthier way but it's not the only path to being healthier.

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[Jer]

I understand Jer and please don't think I'm bagging on you or the juice diet. I am in no way shape for form a dietician, however I look at longevity of the diet. If you lose xx amount of weight in x amount of time and you're satisfied with where you are how are you going to keep it off? In my mind if a person learns to eat properly and maybe loses the weight at a slower pace, you will already know how to eat right.

Do you have a treadmill? Can you wake up 20 minutes earlier and just walk on it before your day starts? Can you watch the news in the evening walking on the treadmill? If so bam that's almost an hour of nice slow pace exercise for ye ol ticker.

Again I can of stress to you how much I'm not trying to critique or judge or whatever, just wanna throw some ideas and food for thought.

Also - when I went from 2000+ calories a day to 1200-1400 I was not hungry often. But when I was I used gena-slim which is a hunger suppressor.

Best of luck my friends!

I think you should read post #38 of this thread, particularly the last paragraph. I think if you read that you will see why the basis of your post doesn't work for everyone.

I have said numerous times now that my life doesn't allow it and believe me when I say this. I've been a work-out nut in the past and have MADE the time when I didn't have it. I'm an only child of a single mother who's cancer has taken a turn for the worse recently. Anyone who has been in these shoes knows that being a care giver (or the only one in my case) is an all-consuming thing and you can't plan for anything. If I had a normal 9-5 job at an office I'm not sure I would even have it anymore. Couple that with a dog that we rescued that was a mill dog and as a result she has some special needs. One of the behavior experts we're working with (yeah, one.. that's how bad she is) said she's a 0.01% dog with her set of issues. The shortened version of this is that she can't be left alone unless I throw them in the back yard. Depending on weather this is incredibly unpredictable. I can't crate her and I can't leave her alone in the house (again, I could go into detail but we're already WAY off topic) so my ability to leave the house to do anything is limited and is usually spent taking my mother to and from doctor appointments & emergency rooms and what not. So, when I am at home it's not like I can just put all of these things on hold and go run on a treadmill for an hour even if I could control my diet which is more critical to over-all health and I've explained why in post #38, last paragraph.

I understand where you're coming from but like I said, you're trying to force a square peg into a round hole by putting your present situation on others and wondering why they just can't do what you do. I know because a decade ago I was the one telling people to make time and work out all the time and just eat better and.... I get it. But everyone is different and their circumstances are also different. I'm trying desperately to keep this thread on track and not bring my personal issues into the conversation because nobody cares about that. It would be much easier if some people would realize that not everyone's life fits what they picture and simply trusts when I say that this is the most healthy thing I can do right now. It's working well thus far and research indicates that side-effects are minimal if any. The hope is that this two months will buy me some time to where things can get a little more situated in my life and I am able to eat better and work out more and all of the above.

This thread is about juice dieting though so let's just keep the conversation to that. If you wanted to start a BJJ or other topic thread you can discuss those things there and I'm sure I may follow for research purposes and who knows, if/when my life changes to where I do have 2-3hrs (hell, even a half hour would be nice) to devote per day maybe I will take that hobby up. Right now it's simply not int he cards.

Ultimately I'm healthier today than I was 1 week ago so it's hard to argue with results.

[Wulf202]

I read a book about it by some quack (self described and proud of it) convinced me to try it. I lasted 3 days.

Good job and keep it up.

[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?