Fruit and Veggie Fasting

HealthyMakeover
HealthyMakeover Posts: 142 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Anybody have any experience with this as a "cleanse" for a day? I have been reading about fruit and veggie flushes, and I wondered if they had any benefits even if done for just one day.
I might attempt tomorrow, but add in a hard boiled egg in the morning for some protein.

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  • SailorKnightWing
    SailorKnightWing Posts: 875 Member
    One day of eating only fruits and veggies will neither hurt nor harm you. There is nothing to "cleanse" that your liver doesn't already do on a regular basis. But one day isn't enough to do any real damage, either.
  • nippoleon
    nippoleon Posts: 43 Member
    You might lose some weight from the amount of time you'd be spending in the bathroom, depending on how sensitive your stomach is...
  • FindingMyPerfection
    FindingMyPerfection Posts: 702 Member
    Eat the whole fruit so you get the fiber and chewing.
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    28 day challenge floating around out there; one day meh. 28...were talking plumbers delight.
  • tonedthighsbubblebutt
    tonedthighsbubblebutt Posts: 40
    What possible benefits are you going to get from just eating fruits/vegs vs. eating a balanced diet of whole grains, fruits, veggies, healthy fats, and protein? Your body needs fats and proteins to survive. If you want to stop eating crap, stop eating it. Doing a "cleanse" is unnecessary. Let your liver and kidneys serve their purpose and eat a balanced diet.

    For what it's worth, this has been discussed many times already on the numerous juice cleansing threads here.
  • HealthyMakeover
    HealthyMakeover Posts: 142 Member
    I don't know?
    I made this topic to get these questions answered.
    I'm not pretending like I think it's going to work.
  • kennie2
    kennie2 Posts: 1,170 Member
    There are lots of people that eat fruit and veggies (in the raw form and some even cooked although some nutrients are lost then)
    but yeah you'd have to do it over a day to get the benefits

    and also to people making toilet jokes, if you eat ripe fruit your digestion will thank you for it, and you won't spend all your time in the toilet, you'll have a very healthy bowel movement once your body adjusts.

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