Juice Cleanses? Are they worth it?

yirara

misskitty2018 wrote: »

you'll never know until you try it....I don't see the harm as long as you are not starving yourself. go for it! Sometimes you need to give your body a little kick start.

What makes you think your body needs a kick start? What exactly needs kick starting and how does it work?

paperpudding

Juice is great if you like it and allow for the calories.

Ditto smoothies,gravy and any other liquid foods.. I do like soup in winter myself

But as PART of a balanced diet - not by themselves and not with any magic attached (detoxing, cleansing, kick starting)

Having said that, 3 days won't hurt you. it wont do you any good either but at least it is harmless enough.

stevencloser

irridia wrote: »

Juicing only, will definitely make your pancreas very overworked. Nothing to slow the glucose entering your bloodstream. It's also extremely expensive and a waste of good food. if you need to consume to get you to take your veggies then do smoothies. Takes less produce to make, contains all the fiber and if you use fruit, they can be a good sub for milkshakes, but too much fruit might still negatively impact blood sugar and therefore weight loss.

Your blood sugar has no impact on weight loss.

mfoxton1

Hmmm...I'm on day 2 of a store bought 3 day juice "cleanse". It works for me for different reasons - not the perceived health benefits so much as the psychological benefits. First, I love pressed juice and it's a part of my life, but nearly impossible for me to find the time to fit juicing into my lifestyle. So I usually only buy it. Second, I was falling off the healthy wagon in a big way, and needed a kick in the a** to get going again. And third, I need a concrete excuse to cut back on my dAily coffee and wine habits.

My juice cleanse is heavy on the veggies and actually includes a good sized (solid!) salad at the end of the day, totals ~1100 calories, and they recomend nuts/fruit/veggies if I get hangry. I've done it before with home-pressed juice. In the end, I won't have lost weight, but I'll be refocussed and my liver will be thanking me for the vacation from wine.

So I think - don't rely on it for any miraculous health benefits, don't live on juice, but don't completely discount the benefits. Sometimes it's your brain that needs the kickstart, not your body.

1houndgal

threec wrote: »

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »

If I'm drinking my calories they are going to contain alcohol.

.....Or gravy

Or chocolate.

Lesscookies12

You will starve I sometimes have a smoothie for breakfast or even lunch, but I always have a big dinner just to keep myself from not being hungry and possibly binging.

MostlyWater

You might gain weight on a juice cleanse.

boehle

RecognitionT wrote: »

One of my rules is to never drink my calories. Liquids just don't have the same effect of filling someone up as the same number of calories coming from solids. Water all day erryday.

There's nothing you can't get from a juice cleanse that you can't get from just eating fruits. If anything, the juices are worse because of added sugars, the fruits are ol' natural.

But if you're into it, go for it. Your life.

and that is why YOUR body is amazing LOL

psychod787

I say this JOKINGLY..... If you want a real cleansing add a few tablespoons of Epson salt to your juice for a real..... Cleanse! No I would not juice cleanse.

singingflutelady

psychod787 wrote: »

I say this JOKINGLY..... If you want a real cleansing add a few tablespoons of Epson salt to your juice for a real..... Cleanse! No I would not juice cleans.

Or golytely. Now THAT is a cleanse.

jessiferrrb

psychod787 wrote: »

I say this JOKINGLY..... If you want a real cleansing add a few tablespoons of Epson salt to your juice for a real..... Cleanse! No I would not juice cleanse.

even regular salt will do the trick. chug some warm salt water and prepare to be cleansed and flushed. do not make plans.

psychod787

I feel odd even having to add the word jokingly to the post, but I guess there are people eating Tide pods these days.

Debmal77

I'm waiting for the chocolate cleanse.

mph323

Debmal77 wrote: »

I'm waiting for the chocolate cleanse.

https://medicinal-foods.com/the-raw-chocolate-diet-chapter-2/

Your welcome!

StevefromMichigan

kayytyye wrote: »

I've been thinking of doing a 3 day juice cleanse but just not 100% sure on it.

What are your thoughts?

Nope

Momepro

Nope.

MikePfirrman

3 days won't do a lot and if it's just to lose weight it's pointless. My wife developed Fibromyalgia 3 or so years ago. An important part of her healing (she's pretty much recovered now) was fresh juicing. When people think of juice, they think of fruit. We used mostly veggies. Cabbage is amazing for stomach health. For years, prisons used cabbage juice to heal ulcers. Cabbage juice kills h Pylori, which causes peptic ulcers (so does potato juice, oddly enough). We used cabbage, cucumbers and celery for the "base" - so much for raising glucose - very little sugar or calories. We'd add in fresh ginger, turmeric root (both fantastic for inflammation), cilantro for heavy metals (mixed science on it but we've had luck with it), and spinach or kale. We might add in a bit of pineapple core (a natural digestive enzyme).

We try to eat a WFPB (whole food, plant-based) diet. We strive for six/seven cups of veggies a day, which is really hard to do without juicing adding three/four servings of vegetables. There are also a lot of specific benefits things like cabbage give you (sulforaphane is amazing for you and been proven to assist in the activation of the Keap1-Nrf2 Pathway -- which is a major factor in reducing oxidative stress and DNA damage). Also, fresh juicing reduces the amount in landfills. We juice broccoli stems, cabbage cores, beet greens, pineapple cores and many things that people normally just throw away.

Most will say eat the fiber, but there's honestly no way we could blend all of these veggies up and drink them (four servings is around 3 lbs of veggies). Plus, we get tons of fiber any way throughout the day. Fresh juicing serves a purpose and it certainly doesn't have to be loaded with sugar. We'd also sometimes add lemon or lime to make it more palatable. Losing weight loss quickly isn't a great reason to fresh juice if you only are planning on doing it a few days. Not a difference maker. Perhaps helping a damaged microbiome heal? Perhaps if done for a while (like a couple of months). I'd say it's better than breakfast cookies, pop tarts, and all the other horrific garbage out there. I've tried to make our green juice in a Ninja and a NutraBullet. Not drinkable. Nasty. It does taste good, though, juiced. Find me a Nutrabullet recipe that doesn't have a ton of fruit. We don't use apples, bananas, etc. in our juice.

As for price, we juice for around 5 days a week (2 decent sized servings each for two people) roughly for around $25. Much less than Starbucks.

Aaron_K123

No.

PAV8888

My dog will sniff through **kitten** to find **kitten** to eat!!!

I ask her: juice cleanse for a shiny coat, or kibble?

Every single time she picks "kibble"!!!!

SFJULES66

If it re-sets you psychologically, go for it. A calorie is a calorie, and Pressed Juicery is over 1200 calories a day. There’s nothing magic about a juice cleanse, but if it makes you feel good then do it. But don’t do it if you think it’s the answer to weight loss, because it isn’t. Do it if it makes you feel good and stop if you feel like it’s too much for you.