Juicing Diet?

You are better off eating the fruits or veggies themselves that turning them into juice. Why save the sugars and throw out the fiber and some of the other nutrients. Juice diets should especially be a concern of overweight people who have been warned about a tendency to diabetes.

Please no hate or rudeness... I am looking for advice , stories and just plain help.

My mother has recently ordered a Juicer and it will be here in about 10 days. Were thinking about doing a 30 day juicing diet ... the real kind , with real veggies . I was just wondering if anyone has had success with it , or has stories ithat they'd like to share.

To get this out of the way , no it is not starvation . No it is not a fad diet . Many people do it or have done it with no dangerous outcomes , so please don't start with the lectures !

Did you know juicing is very bad for you?!

Just kidding. :bigsmile:

Seriously, I LOVE my juicer. Juice is very good for you. I sometimes makes juices to have with a meal, or I sometimes have homemade juice for a snack. Juices are fun to make, and there are plenty of good recipes out there.

However, I would not recommend having nothing but juices for 30 days because you will not get all the nutrients you need, and you won't be getting sufficient calories, especially if you exercise. All juicing for 30 days sounds extreme to me, and a setup because you will gain whatever weight you lose back as soon as the 30 days expire and you go back to regular eating.

Why do you want to do a 30 day juicing diet?

Just figure this out for a minute: Why are you choosing a juicing diet? To lose weight? That comes from calorie deficit.

Why drink juice from vegetables instead of eating them? Is there a nutritional advantage to this?

You're doing it for 30 days. What is your expectation in those 30 days?

Will you be supplying enough correct macros (fat isn't high in vegetables or fruit) from juicing? If not, then you may not be efficiently losing the weight you want (meaning you may lose lean muscle).

Not a lecture, but questions you should look at objectively.

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I think that juicing some things and using that juice to blend other fruits and veggies for huge smoothie is probably fine.
I personally am on a little jump starter blending cycle. I blend raw fruits and veggies with a little almond milk here and there and hemp protein powder here or there. The amount of food to get the right amount of calories is huge with blending raw, the amount of fiber keeps me full. You will essentially be removing one of the most important components to a healthy diet and metabolism if you strictly juice. If you don't combine the right types of veggies and fruits you can end up jacking your blood sugar around all over the place. I do know of some raw vegans who after quite a while on point with their lifestyle were fine to juice fast here or there to speed up healing from an illness or wound, but they were at healthy weights, with normal metabolic functions.

Good luck with whatever you choose!

I think that juicing is amazing along with a low fat plant based diet, it helps you get more nutrients as you use a lot of veggie/fruits to do the juices, but you might consider not doing juicing alone for a long time, it might be hard to follow and you might crave more filling food

I'm a big fan of my Nutri- Bullet, which liquifies the peels and seeds so you aren't discarding anything.

I'm a big fan of my Nutri- Bullet, which liquifies the peels and seeds so you aren't discarding anything.

I think that sounds better because it doesn't remove all the healthy fiber from the fruit and veggie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD8e4Mg3NFU

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead...

http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/

I got hooked on juicing from this movie as well. It was kind of a timing thing... I happened to be ready to do something, right after seeing this movie. I bought a juicer, and a whole pile of fruits and vegetables, and went at 'er. The first thing I realized, was that I don't like the taste of certain vegetables... and they were making the juice taste nasty. ( to me ) I also found that mixing fruit and vegetables just wrecked the taste of some otherwise, very tasty fruit juice. So, after a very short period of time, I'd discovered what I really enjoyed, and I figured it was healthy enough, for the short term, and that's what I went with. I did straight juice ( I like to refer to it as a juice 'binge' ) for 10 days, and after 10 days, I felt a bit spaced out and wobbly... so I added back in salads... and soon after, started putting nuts, and occasionally chicken on my salads. I'm currently happy enough with where I'm at ( not done yet, though.... ) to juice a couple times a day... and eat a couple salads, and not be too rigid about my diet.

Ya, I lost some muscle with this approach... but I did lose 30 lbs in 4 months, and I feel a helluva lot better. My only advice to you would be, not to feel obligated to stick with your initial 30 day plan, if it turns out to be too hard. And to have an exit strategy.... Everyone knows, it doesn't matter how much weight you drop in the short term.... it's what you do after that that counts.

Truths:
Some folks lose a lot of weight because they are eating at a severe calorie deficit.
Some folks do a hospital program-based very low calorie diet but with frequent monitoring by a physician and prescription supplements to assure proper nutrition.
Some folks do a very low calorie diet on their own or without the necessary cardiac and blood monitoring, get very sick and even die.

Juices are less good for you than whole vegetables and fruits because the fiber is removed. Does this mean juices are always bad for you? No, but it does mean to drink them in moderation and in the context of a well-balanced diet.

I love my juicer, but... juicing is NOT a sensible diet. Been there, done that, regained every gram I'd lost the moment I went back on solid foods. This despite the fact that I was very careful with the transition. :ohwell: