Juice Cleanse?

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  • ValGogo
    ValGogo Posts: 2,168 Member
    I've never done a cleanse all the way through to the end. Most cleanses are three days and by then, you just feel awful. Plus, you put your body into starvation mode and you end up rebounding and gaining more weight than what you started off with.

    Your body will not go into starvation mode after 3 days. That is just nonsense.

    I don't agree with juice cleanses - or any detox or jump start cleanses - however incorporating juices into your diet is fine.
    'Incorporating them into your diet' being quite different to 'replacing your diet with them'

    Starvation mode....Most American's wouldn't know starvation mode if it parked on their doorstep.

    I don't like words like that. Starvation is starvation.....meaning you're gagging for food, there are spiderwebs in your stomach, the flies are building condos on your mouth.

    By the way, I'm American, in case you were all wondering.
  • segovm
    segovm Posts: 512 Member
    I've never done a cleanse all the way through to the end. Most cleanses are three days and by then, you just feel awful. Plus, you put your body into starvation mode and you end up rebounding and gaining more weight than what you started off with.

    Your body will not go into starvation mode after 3 days. That is just nonsense.

    I don't agree with juice cleanses - or any detox or jump start cleanses - however incorporating juices into your diet is fine.
    'Incorporating them into your diet' being quite different to 'replacing your diet with them'

    Starvation mode....Most American's wouldn't know starvation mode if it parked on their doorstep.

    I don't like words like that. Starvation is starvation.....meaning you're gagging for food, there are spiderwebs in your stomach, the flies are building condos on your mouth.

    By the way, I'm American, in case you were all wondering.

    I know, I always think of an Ethiopian with a distended belly trying to form any sympathy for a 250 pound American describing the woes of starvation.
  • MissMissle
    MissMissle Posts: 293 Member
    I disagree with folks who say "there's nothing to cleanse"...

    After not pooping for 4 days + while having fiber pills, miralax, and metamucil everyday... still to no avail.... trust me, there's *kitten* that you want cleansed, pretty much more than anything youve ever wanted in your life...so much that you don't mind posting your pooping whoas on public forums and don't bat an eye asking about bowel mpovements with the co-worker in the next cubicle over you just met...

    Anyway, I have yet to find anything that actually 'works"... though a high dose of fish oil topped with some Miralax seems to do the trick.

    In for the juice ideas though, if anyone has anything that actually will cleanse.... if I could find those Gummy Bears for under $800 I would totallt try them - WHY are they so expensive LOL!
  • bevmcarthur
    bevmcarthur Posts: 341 Member
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  • Savemyshannon
    Savemyshannon Posts: 334 Member
    I juiced for 14 days just recently, within the last month. I didn't like to call it a cleanse, because I don't really subscribe to the idea that the body needs help cleansing itself of waste, it does that automatically.

    Some honest, objective things I learned while juicing:

    The Good:

    *Completely changed my tastes. After a few days of drinking carrot juice, sweets and candies started tasting unbearably bad and overly cloying.

    *I started to crave veggies, especially carrots and spinach.

    *I felt healthy and my skin looked really good. I was hydrated and uh, "things" were moving along regularly and easily.

    *I lost about 13 pounds total. I was also 280 to start with, though, so that's an important thing to remember. I also KEPT it off when I went back to eating.

    *Maybe it was a placebo effect, but I felt really energized and great while doing it. I suffer from horrible migraines and I didn't get a single one while juicing. I felt a start of a headache once, and after a kale juice it was gone almost immediately. I also found some juices to be just as energizing as a cup of coffee.

    The Bad:

    *You really, really miss eating. Sometimes I just fantasized about what it'd be like to bite into an apple instead of juicing it.

    *The clean up is the worst. I spent literally, 2-3 hours a DAY juicing my meals for the day and then cleaning everything up. It got to the point that my entire day looked like this: wake up, juice 4-5 juices for the day, clean up, walk the dog, go to work, come home at midnight, go to sleep. I had zero life.

    *You feel isolated. Eating is social. I turned down invites from friends because I knew I couldn't eat. I skipped my lunch break at work or I would take it in my car, because watching my co-workers eat while I drank juice became hard. People generally look at you like you're nuts when you explain it to them.

    *It's expensive. It's way cheaper to eat an apple and a kale salad versus juicing a pound of kale, 5 apples, 2 cucumbers, 6 celery stalks and a lemon for EVERY JUICE.

    My end opinion was, it's definitely not for everyone. I liked it, and I'd probably do it again every now and then. The people who claim you'll gain everything back don't understand or juiced improperly. I was drinking 1300-1500 calories of juice a day, so when I went to eating, I continued to lose weight because I was still in deficit.

    If you really want to do it, ease into it. Just start by incorporating juice into your diet and then slowly move from less food to more juice, until you're strictly juicing. Otherwise, you'll be completely miserable. And don't bite off more than you can chew. For me, it was easier to say, "How long can I go?" versus "I will do this for 14 days" and then feel bad if I 'quit.'
  • Censor76
    Censor76 Posts: 48 Member
    It's great if you can enjoy/tolerate the juices. I'm actually doing one right now, it's probably my fifth one and finally found a brand I like.

    I would suggest strongly to not do this for weight loss. You'll lose a few pounds that will most likely come back immediately after you start eating solid food again. I'm not sold on the "cleansing" purpose, that's what our liver's are for. For me it helps to reset my brain in regards to sugar/fat/caffeine consumption.


    It's not for everyone. Good luck!
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    It's pointless- waterweight will be lost. Also, our organs cleanse our bodies for us.
  • tyork04
    tyork04 Posts: 2
    I'm currently doing a juice cleanse. I'm on day 5 (of 7) and I feel great! I'm down 6lbs and my skin looks great and my energy has been at an all-time high. Days 2 and 3 were the hardest. It's important to try out different recipes and find the ones you like and stick with them. Yes, the cleanup sucks and it's very time consuming and can also be very expensive but it's also a great way to get all the nutrients from fruits and veggies that you wouldn't normally eat. After my "cleanse" is over with, I plan on incorporating juice into my daily diet.
  • Illini_Jim
    Illini_Jim Posts: 419 Member
    My papaw used to drink prune juice and was on the can for hours. He lived to be 103. Chewed tobaccy every day too and had a small shooter of moonshine before bed.
  • cebreisch
    cebreisch Posts: 1,340 Member
    I have yet to find a doctor or dietician who thinks cleanses are a good idea. Not one - none, nada - advocate them at all.
  • segovm
    segovm Posts: 512 Member
    I drink two or three mostly fruit smoothies a day and I don't know that I feel particularly cleansed. I sure like them though and so they are just a part of my daily caloric blend. Regardless of calories consumed through shakes though I can only call the sensation of not having chewed food in my stomach overwhelming hunger.

    Were it possible to get all the nutrients I want through juice without all that being hungry thing I'd do it all the time. Just can't seem to blend up chicken breast and broccoli all that well yet.
  • dcgal23
    dcgal23 Posts: 3 Member
    I'll juice for one day every once in awhile (usually Blueprint because its convenient), but not for weight loss because it really won't help you lose weight. It's just great to get a bunch of vitamins into your system and the day after you are usually bouncing off the walls with energy. Not eveyone likes them, but you won't know if it would do anything for you (be it mentally or physically) unless you give it a shot. Then you can come back to the forum and tell everyone how it went :smile:
  • Fittie4Eternity
    Fittie4Eternity Posts: 12
    I would advise against that sweetie. I used to do juice cleanses back when I was severely anorexic. I found that they didn't really do anything and some of them have very harmful effects on the body x Just eat clean
  • LucasEVille
    LucasEVille Posts: 567 Member
    but it's also a great way to get all the nutrients from fruits and veggies that you wouldn't normally eat

    There is your problem, your not eating correctly before the expensive fad diet. So what happens when you finish your "cleanse"? You go back to the same eating habits because you haven't addressed the issues in your diet and you put all the water weigh back on you just lost!

    Juicing your fruit doesn't magically create extra nutrients, think about what your eating, stick to your macros and avoid pooping water for a week.
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    LAXATIVES! LAXATIVES!

    way more flushing power!
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    LAXATIVES! LAXATIVES!

    way more flushing power!

    what I meant was:

    LAX-A-TIVES!! LAX-A TIVES!! (chanting)
  • Armyantzzz
    Armyantzzz Posts: 214 Member
    Use mostly veggies vs fruits... Fruits have sugar (natural) and tend to have more calories. My favorite cleanser drink is 1 beet, 1 lemon, bunch of parsley, 1 cucumber, and ginger root. If the drink is too bitter add another lemon or more ginger. Another cleanser is ..1 pear, 1 beet, spinach, ginger , apple. Enjoy.. :wink: :smile: :wink:
  • george228
    george228 Posts: 2 Member
    A note of fair warning: My Fitness Pal members are not very keen on juice cleanses to the point of berating. The general consensus is just eat healthy / clean, and you will achieve the same type of "cleanse" because your liver and kidneys get the job done given the proper tools.

    Agree with this, in fact drinking juices can play havoc with your insulin levels, esp if your having issues. Such as PCOS. I was recommended by a dietician to actually avoid fruit juices. Better to just stick to portion control, calorie control and eating clean.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    I have done three 3 day juice cleanses. I bought them from a local juice bar and they were really good. I felt that the juices helped get rid of cravings for carbs, which are my enemy.
    Out of curiosity, why would sugar help rid you of cravings for carbs?
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    A note of fair warning: My Fitness Pal members are not very keen on juice cleanses to the point of berating. The general consensus is just eat healthy / clean, and you will achieve the same type of "cleanse" because your liver and kidneys get the job done given the proper tools.
    Actually, not sure I've ever seen "consensus" and "eating clean" in the same sentence here.:tongue:

    Most folks here will say: eat at a deficit to lose and your body will cleanse itself.
  • Alonzo_Harris
    Alonzo_Harris Posts: 12
    Even if your objective was to "detox", why would that necessarily have to entail drinking only juice? It'd make a lot more sense to stick with unprocessed foods and drinking only water.

    I think of "juicing" as something along the same lines as fasting. If it's a challenge you wish to take on or if you find some sort of therapeutic value in doing it, knock yourself out. But in terms of general well-being, weight-loss, or even removing "toxins" from your system there's nothing necessary about it at all.
  • SherryTeach
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
    Today it will be 111F In Phoenix. Yes on days like today when my stomach refuses to eat any hot food

    a veggie green smoothie or a fruit smoothie (not talking ice cream here ) toss in a frozen banana taste wonderful

    juicing is great way to learn new veggies and fruit you walked by in the produce isle and another thing

    if your just bored out of your mind with eating the same thing over and over year after year mix it up a little

    yes I know my Liver and Kidneys remove the toxins when we have triple digits here in AZ with 110-115 like this week
    a nice juice tonic taste wonderful..refreshing, healing.. and its a dry heat ha ha ha

    I'm in Phoenix. Yes, today it will be 111˚. That is why ice cream was invented. And cold grapes, frozen fruit bars, cold baby carrots, chilled wine, fudge bars, broccoli salad, and all sorts of other things to eat.

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