Liquid Diets.... Am I doing it wrong?

Hello, everybody!

Im Ariana, and I started my liquid diet today... Im not sure if I'm doing everything right, but Im gonna try it out for about 3 or 4 days and see how my body reacts to it.

Im planning on drinking juice (sugar free), coffee (using water), tea, and water, and maybe vitamin water... But the most important thing is that I dont touch any chocolate, sweets, or any of that stuff. Im also thinking of eating a light breakfast each morning to start my system.... Any advice, guys?


Love, Ariana

What juice is sugar free?

How else would you make coffee?

Choose a more long term and sustainable approach to weight loss.

I'm doing a protein water 1 day diet, every other day. It's basically 100% Whey protein mixed with water and you drink that for the entire day, about 8-9 glasses. It's supposed to keep you full because of the protein and your body "eats" the stored nutrients that the body holds on to. It's the Jennifer Jolan diet. On the off days you eat normally or I should say healthy. It's not as extreme as just fasting, but it does cleanse the body and helps with the weight. I've been doing it off and on for a while and I've lost a couple of inches.

WTF

OP, I hope you can tell from the response here that no one is going to support you on a liquid diet because it;'s unhealthy and frankly, it's downright dangerous. I know whereof I speak.

Back when Oprah lost a wagon-full of fat on a liquid diet called Optifast, I signed up. Sure, I lost weight, and fast....about 20 lbs, in 3 weeks. But the re-introduction to solid food was sorely lacking. When I finally DID eat, the weight came back and then some....just as quickly as it came off.

Also, while on this liquid diet, I had to know where every bathroom in the tri-county area was, because your poo is watery and very explosive. I was exhausted and felt weak alllll the time because of the malnutrition.

The ONLY thing that works is following your TDEE and exercising. Of course you will not lose as fast as a liquid diet, but you will be healthier, stronger, have more energy, and if you're doing it right, it will become a lifestyle instead of a diet.

I'm doing a protein water 1 day diet, every other day. It's basically 100% Whey protein mixed with water and you drink that for the entire day, about 8-9 glasses. It's supposed to keep you full because of the protein and your body "eats" the stored nutrients that the body holds on to. It's the Jennifer Jolan diet. On the off days you eat normally or I should say healthy. It's not as extreme as just fasting, but it does cleanse the body and helps with the weight. I've been doing it off and on for a while and I've lost a couple of inches.

Please . . . . tell me you're kidding.

Hello, everybody!

Im Ariana, and I started my liquid diet today... Im not sure if I'm doing everything right, but Im gonna try it out for about 3 or 4 days and see how my body reacts to it.

Im planning on drinking juice (sugar free), coffee (using water), tea, and water, and maybe vitamin water... But the most important thing is that I dont touch any chocolate, sweets, or any of that stuff. Im also thinking of eating a light breakfast each morning to start my system.... Any advice, guys?


Love, Ariana

Sugar free juice, isn't that water? How do you propose to give your body all the protein, essential fatty acids, fibre, minerals and vitamins it needs for optimum function? Otherwise expect your digestive system to stop, you to become constipated, dehydrated, put your body into a state of stress, if you are 'lucky' a dangerous electrolyte imbalance. Coffee and tea are both diuretic, not in any way unhealthy as a small component of a healthy diet not so much as a huge proportion.

Oh yes you can easily dehydrate even on a liquid diet, your body needs macronutrients to hold onto that water. And no the body cannot tell the difference between a very low calorie diet/ 'detox'/ 'cleanse' and a famine.

My advice is to befriend a few of these people on here, and then view what they eat in their diaries. Use it to figure out what to eat yourself.

Let MFP calculate your calories, or find out your TDEE. Add in some healthy exercise, and you got a plan that will work in the long term.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12 < always a good thread to read for a newbie.

Start out slow, don't let it overwhelm you and cause you to quit.

OP, I hope you can tell from the response here that no one is going to support you on a liquid diet because it;'s unhealthy and frankly, it's downright dangerous. I know whereof I speak.

Back when Oprah lost a wagon-full of fat on a liquid diet called Optifast, I signed up. Sure, I lost weight, and fast....about 20 lbs, in 3 weeks. But the re-introduction to solid food was sorely lacking. When I finally DID eat, the weight came back and then some....just as quickly as it came off.

Also, while on this liquid diet, I had to know where every bathroom in the tri-county area was, because your poo is watery and very explosive. I was exhausted and felt weak alllll the time because of the malnutrition.

The ONLY thing that works is following your TDEE and exercising. Of course you will not lose as fast as a liquid diet, but you will be healthier, stronger, have more energy, and if you're doing it right, it will become a lifestyle instead of a diet.

Jana, I totally remember when Oprah went on her liquid Optifast diet (though I thought it was slim fast because that's what I tried - didn't work). She came out looking all slim and slender - and then she gained it all back and then some because she started to eat real food again!

OP, this could happen to you too and really upend your metabolism That would be awful for you.

Liquid Diets.... Am I doing it wrong?

Yes.

Definitely yes. Try looking it intermittent fasting instead, if this kind of thing appeals.