Anyone here ever done a juice diet?

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Day 18

Starting Weight: 293.5
Previous Weight: 274.8
Current Weight: 274.0

I'm half a pound from 20 and am planning on keeping this up for another week and a half. Still feel great and I'm starting to tell people at work why I always have this green juice with me and how it's helped in the past 3 weeks. They all find it hard to believe that I haven't eaten anything in that time period.

[Jer]

Day 7 since breaking the juice fast check-in:


Starting Weight: 290.8
Current Weight: 268.8
Previous Weight: 269.4
Lost since yesterday: 0.6
Total Weight lost: 22.0
Most Weight lost: 23.4
Lowest Weight: 267.4
Gained since fast: 1.4

Lost just over another half pound which was good since I met a buddy at Dickey's yesterday for lunch. I must say though that the meal I ate was substantially different than it would have been before the fast. My two sides were the potatoes & green beans, nothing fried. I only had like two bites of the potatoes and some of the green beans. I didn't eat the bread which was difficult since the bread they include is incredible. I also had non-sweat tea with a splash of sweet in it and normally I would get full sweat tea and the non-sweat tea tasted like crap before. This time it was just fine. I used probably half of the BBQ sauce that I would normally use and when it was all over I resisted temptation to have some of the free ice cream they offer. I was stuffed with less meat than I normally eat too. So, like I said, not one of the most sensible meals I could have eaten but I knew this would happen from time to time and I was smart about how I went about it and that's better than how I handled things before. If I can keep losing a half a pound per day eating like this I would be more than happy. It's not the few pounds per day I was getting with the juice fast but I'm also eating again and eating things I enjoy eating so this is a path I'm happy to keep up. I didn't exercise too much yesterday so I imagine that trend should continue when I'm able to add in even more exercise since it's been a couple of days since I exercised. I'm now only 1.4lbs away from my lowest weight while I was on the juice fast.

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Day 20

Starting Weight: 293.5
Previous Weight: 272.3
Current Weight: 269.9

I moved my mom out of a 2 bedroom apartment into our house yesterday. It kicked my ass but I also lost 2.4lbs. I'm planning on another week of this.

[Jer]

Nice man. Keep it up!

I forgot to post my Day 8 update so here's that along with the update for today:

Day 8 since breaking the juice fast check-in:


Starting Weight: 290.8
Current Weight: 267.8
Previous Weight: 268.8
Lost since yesterday: 1.0
Total Weight lost: 23.0
Most Weight lost: 23.4
Lowest Weight: 267.4
Gained since fast: 0.4

Day 9 since breaking the juice fast check-in:


Starting Weight: 290.8
Current Weight: 267.6
Previous Weight: 267.8
Lost since yesterday: 0.2
Total Weight lost: 23.2
Most Weight lost: 23.4
Lowest Weight: 267.4
Gained since fast: 0.2


As you can see I'm VERY close to getting back to the lowest weight I was at when I quit the juice fast. My gains today weren't the best but I know why. I had an open house to go do yesterday afternoon and I had a couple of beers & a burger patty & piece of bacon. This was in addition to my lunch & dinner which were both a fraction of what I would have normally eaten prior tot he juice fast but even though I did a couple hours of exercise yesterday morning (mowing a couple yards) it still didn't offset the crappy eating. I knew this was likely what was going to happen but it's going to happen from time to time. Just glad I didn't gain anything and I'm hoping to be down again tomorrow. Who knows, I might wake up to being the lowest weight than I've been in years if I lose 0.3lbs or more.

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Bless me Father, for I have sinned.....

I fell off the wagon, sumbitch ran over me with all 4 wheels, and the horse kicked me too!

Wife had to have some friends over, and she had me smoke two pork butts/shoulders. I spend all day smoking 14lbs of meat, it turns out the best I've ever made, plus all the other fixin's, you damn right I'm diggin' in! So, a couple pounds came back on, gotta start the juicing up again Monday. Damn that 'Q was good.....

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Day 9 Check in:
Starting weight: 215.4
Current Weight: 204.0
Difference: -11.4

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Day 21

Starting Weight: 293.5
Previous Weight: 269.9
Current Weight: 269.1

I spent 8 hours Saturday moving furniture and boxes. I thought that this would leave me sore for a few days but I felt fine yesterday and even better today. I'm really surprised I recovered so quickly considering how sedentary my life normally is.

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Day 22

Starting Weight: 293.5
Previous Weight: 269.1
Current Weight: 270.7

I gained 1.6 lbs. I didn't drink enough water yesterday but I don't see that warranting a gain like that. I had a few dreams about cheating last night. The other variable is the scale. I'm going to pop some new batteries in it and see if that might be a problem.

[Jer]

Day 22

Starting Weight: 293.5
Previous Weight: 269.1
Current Weight: 270.7

I gained 1.6 lbs. I didn't drink enough water yesterday but I don't see that warranting a gain like that. I had a few dreams about cheating last night. The other variable is the scale. I'm going to pop some new batteries in it and see if that might be a problem.

The water makes more of a difference than you would think. Hell, when I pee it's usually good for 0.4lbs or so that's why I peed before I weighed myself. Helps to rule out variables. So if you don't drink enough water your body will hold onto more water to prevent dehydration and it won't be able to carry the leftovers from burning the fat off as easily. Taking all that into account you can see how not getting enough water can cause a gain that seems significant but for someone our size really isn't. That's why I've been preaching the necessity to drink water and if you think you've drank enough, drink a little bit more.

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I'm with you Jer. I'm about 80oz down today already. I got by this weekend because of the physical activity but the lack of water yesterday screwed me.