Juicing is working for me!

I did a 30 day juice fast last summer and lost 27lbs! I have Hashimotos and was able to put that into remission and it is still not bothering me a year later. My blood pressure dropped from 140/85 to 118/70 and it is still that low. I feel like I am a much healthier person to this day. I gained about 20 pounds back and I would love to juice fast again but I just don't have the willpower. It is tough and you have to be in the right state of mind. I am now counting calories and strength training. I do have a mean green juice most nights for dinner and feel fantastic in the morning. Good luck to all of you juicers and hang in there. Ignore the people that wont support you because it truly is healthy and wonderful for your body. It will give you amazing health results!

Do you really want to go through life losing 30 pounds and then putting it back on over the course of a year?
Why not just eat at a reasonable deficit and then maintain when you get to your goal weight?

For all you juicers, I have a few questions. After I gave birth to my son (2 1/2 years ago) I was juicing in the morning and having 2 solid meals. I felt great and it helped to get some of that baby weight off!!

I would like to start juicing again, but I'm not sure if I want to just juice. Can you juice all day and have a solid healthy meal (chicken & vegetables)? How many juices do you make/drink a day? Can I make a big batch in the morning to take to work and drink as I feel the need?? Or should you make fresh juice every time?? I can't bring my Jack Lelane to work with me!! Sorry for all the questions, but I'm new at this.

For all you juicers, I have a few questions. After I gave birth to my son (2 1/2 years ago) I was juicing in the morning and having 2 solid meals. I felt great and it helped to get some of that baby weight off!!

I would like to start juicing again, but I'm not sure if I want to just juice. Can you juice all day and have a solid healthy meal (chicken & vegetables)? How many juices do you make/drink a day? Can I make a big batch in the morning to take to work and drink as I feel the need?? Or should you make fresh juice every time?? I can't bring my Jack Lelane to work with me!! Sorry for all the questions, but I'm new at this.

This week I have been juicing for breakfast and lunch and I eat dinner with my family. I eat a healthy dinner. I also use protein powder in my lunch juice because I workout in the morning and I need the powder protein for muscle recovery. I am losing weight. I do not feel deprived or starving. I also take my multivitamins and a probiotic supplement. I snack on raw fruits and vegetables between meals (or juices) because you still need the fiber. I find juicing helpful in the sense that you may be able to introduce to your diet in the form of juices vegetables and/or fruits that you may not eat otherwise. I feel that the juices should not completely replace whole fruits and vegetables, but it is really up to you.

I have read that you should try to drink the juice within 2 hours of making it, because this is fresh juice and since it is not pasteurized it could be easily contaminated with bacteria. I also read that if you need to store the juice you should use glass containers vs plastic.

I love making fresh vegetable juice. I don't like cleaning the juicer.

I saw the movie FSND and it was one of my reasons for starting here on Mfp--like that dude, I started developing these weird "pot marks" all over my body and I went to a couple of doctors and none of them knew why and/or said it was something that nobody knows why or how it comes about--these marks/spots were totally hideous and I was desperate so, I did the juice thing but in a modified way. I juiced a huge variety of only organic and really strange (for me) and different types veggies and herbs and hardly juiced any fruits at all--but I did EAT fruits at this time instead. I had two of these different types of wide variety veggies juices per day and one nice sized meal per day (example large breakfast and juiced for lunch and dinner and ate fruit/healthy snacks about 2 per day or juiced for breakfast and ate a big organic/healthy lunch and juice for dinner with two snacks, and visa versa for dinner, etc.). My one meal per day DID NOT include any junky/greasy/fast foods nor processed sweets at all. No meats, no dairy, nor any "white" foods except baked potatoes. No sodas, no store brought juices, no coffee...my only liquids were homemade veggie juices and/or water only. I also turned my back on mostly all processed foods, I only ate out at restaurants every other week, if at all and any sweets that I'd eat (which wasn't a lot), I made them at home 98% of all the foods I did eat was homemade...I did this for approximately 2 1/2 or 3 months straight--no holds barred/no "cheating" so to speak--straight up IMB--NLB (I mean business--No looking back).

Here's what happened to me:
*I dropped 4-6 pant sizes in 2 1/2- 3 months time (going from a 20W to 16 and 14W jeans) from 1X-XXL to medium/large
*I lost almost 20 pounds in that time (doesn't sound like a whole lot of loss from the scale's point of view, but I saw and felt HUGE loses in inches all over my body, I was literally shrinking and looking and feeling FABULOUS too
*Even my shoe size went down in that time, my feet shrank almost 1.5 sizes.
*My body fat % went down so astronomically--it was nothing less than miraculous.
*NO loose skin, in fact my skin and hair in that short amount of time turned into the most beautiful and glowing skin and hair in my life...people were commenting that I looked like I was 15-20 years younger ALL the time. The hideous spots left completely after 2 or 3 weeks of doing this. My fingernails were always brittle and cracking, they were growing like weeds.
*My energy boosted like crazy--I sleep like a baby and started exercising like a child--super energized like never before!
*My eye sight improved so much, I didn't wear my glasses anymore--no more blurry eyesight at all.

The BAD News...
Because I had soooo much energy, I literally hurt myself exercising. I was peddling my stationary bike one day with my Vibrams barefoot gymshoes so FAST, my foot got caught in the peddle and it's a miracle my foot didn't get cut off! I still went to my Tae Kwon do classes anyway and then hurt my knee trying to be Bruce Lee, Jr. --that was the beginning of the end.

Eating this way and drinking this way (only organic, and high quality foods and fish) is SUPER expensive.

Storing all of the exotic organic veggies was a pain--took up HUGE amount of space in my fridge, and making the juices became a boring pain too--I hated it!

Because my foot and knee hurt, I slowly stopped exercising as much and then stopped all together. Once I stopped exercising--I started going back to my old habits of eating fast foods and junky processed foods. In about six months I not only gained ALL the weight back but 6 more pounds.

Today, I'm struggling and am about 20 pounds more than my loss with my juicing experiment. So my conclusion is while it does indeed work, in the long-run, it won't...because it's NOT sustainable--unless you live this way forever, you WILL gain it all back and even more...That said, if you are totally committed to doing this as a lifestyle and forever forsaking the S.A.D. (standard American diet) then it will work, if not--it's not worth the time, expense and short-term commitment, to me anyway!

I would love too. I new so I need some help and recipes on how to start a healthy lifestyle and meal choices

MFP Juicing group

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/328-juice-fasting-fat-sick-and-nearly-dead

Joe Cross' web site

http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/

*facepalm*
Stop starving yourselves everyone!

Ditto this!

I started juicing today. I have had juices randomly over time but today starts me off at one juice a day. I am not fasting and sure I would love to lose weight but as of right now I am trying it for many health benefits. Medication doesn't seem to make me better so why not try anything I can, right?

Haters gonna hate

So...I'm not "hating" I'm actually curious as to the difference between juicing and just eating what you would juice?

What would be the difference and what are the benefits?

Yeah, I know google is my friend and all but I really don't want to spend hours sorting through opinion articles about it. Does anyone have a link to an actual scientific study that outlines this?

I'm not hating, either.... but I highly doubt there's any scientific studies... any evidence is pretty much anecdotal. I could throw my 2 cents ( rounded down to $0, now... I'm Canadian.... ) worth in..... I have some juicing experience, but that's not what you asked for.

I started juicing today. I have had juices randomly over time but today starts me off at one juice a day. I am not fasting and sure I would love to lose weight but as of right now I am trying it for many health benefits. Medication doesn't seem to make me better so why not try anything I can, right?

Haters gonna hate

I doubt anyone's gonna hate on you for juicing once a day. What would be cool, would be if you joined up with the MFP juicing group, and posted there,

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/328-juice-fasting-fat-sick-and-nearly-dead

or even in this thread, with your progress and thoughts on what juicing once a day is doing ( or not doing ) for you.

How to you track/ log juicing on myfitnesspal

I've seen posts about this before. Searching MFP or the web, should yield you some web sites that give calorie counts or nutritional info for various homemade juices.

I just started "Juicing" and i need some good recipes. I need to shed my baby weight!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/328-juice-fasting-fat-sick-and-nearly-dead

http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/

https://www.google.com

oh it works wonders for me too
I am on the whiskey juice.

I just started "Juicing" and i need some good recipes. I need to shed my baby weight!

OP lost a whopping 6 pounds in August juicing, then was never heard from again. Perhaps you might want to try something that works longer. Unless you only have 6 pounds to lose. I'm going out on a limb here, and guess that the OP probably has gained those 6 lbs back by now, and possibly even more.

I wonder how OPs juicing is goiing? l am going to eat ice cubes and lemon water as a cleanse after the holidays. Not sure if I should add some fruits or vegetables, I'm scared to gain if I add fibre. I think for now the lemons and ice cubes will do.

wait what? Ice cubes??? No other foods...and afraid to gain weight from eating fiber really?

I think that poster adds The Colonel's 11 different secret herbs and spices to the ice cubes as well... so, it's all good.

I just started "Juicing" and i need some good recipes. I need to shed my baby weight!

OP lost a whopping 6 pounds in August juicing, then was never heard from again. Perhaps you might want to try something that works longer. Unless you only have 6 pounds to lose. I'm going out on a limb here, and guess that the OP probably has gained those 6 lbs back by now, and possibly even more.

Do you have any peer reviewed scientific studies to back this opinion?

J/K.... ( mostly )

I did a 30 day juice fast last summer and lost 27lbs! I gained about 20 pounds back

Ding ding ding!

Why is it so hard to see that you can't restrict like this and expect the results to last forever. Unless you plan on having nothing but juice for the rest of your life... you are going to gain that back when you go back to your normal habits.