How to start a juice cleanse?

I'm not certain what you mean by cleanse...but we have a Ninja juicer which you can get on Amazon for $99.00. This blender can actually make almond milk out of almonds. (I've never tried it, but someone on Amazon did.)

The trick to juicing on your own is to search the net for some good recipes. I've made the mistakes of just stuffing raw spinach, etc., in there an ending up with undrinkable slug.

My favorite juicer recipe is one 16 oz can of organic pumpkin, 4 cups of almond milk, cinnamon and Stevia. Incredibly filling without making you feel overstuffed.

Another favorite device I like is the Hamilton Beach steamer (the two tier which is about 30 bucks on Amazon.) Can put two layers of raw veggies (e.g., carrots on the bottom closer to the steam) and cauliflower on the top (since they steam more fully more quickly), and make some tasty steamed veggies if you toss on some spices (I like oregano.)

Now, every now and then when I feel that I just need to take a break, I'm very stressed and I know I'm going to make very bad choices or I just need to reboot, I'll do a 3 day program of the stuff I described above....it just seems to get me out of a bad pattern or get me started on a good one.

What you are doing is not juice. What you are doing is a smoothie. And if OP were going to do some sort of liquid diet or whatever, this IMHO, would be the way to do it. It's food, but in drinkable form. I wouldn't go all liquid (OH THE BATHROOM HORRORS) but adding a smoothie or even two to your diet would be just fine. My issue with juicing is that you don't actually fix anything. You don't actually get MORE out of it. You get less and it is COSTLY. And it isn't something you can do forever (drink only juice). But you can do smoothies for forever. Blenders (even good ones) aren't that costly. And you can have a TON of variety along with a device that does more than extract water from perfectly good items that could be eaten. Not to mention, blenders can do more than just make smoothies. That's why everyone is saying don't do it -- long term, it's not beneficial, it's costly, and you don't really get much from it if you don't continue it.

I have to say, the reason many people on here are blunt and give direct answers is because questions like these come up literally several times a day. And for anyone who has been here a while, you see the post and IMMEDIATELY roll your eyes. As much as people WANT to be supportive, listening to the same ol' things over and over day in and day out while still trying to be involved and do your thing is hard. Especially if those things are not beneficial long term. Good luck to you!

Again, I started with saying I don't know what you mean by cleanse. My description of what do is based upon a medical supervised "cleanse" I did a Northwestern University's Center for Integrative Medicine last year (supervised by Dr. Judy Fulop). Northwestern called this a cleanse or detox.

If the OP's definition of "cleanse" means cayenne pepper and lemon juice in distilled water, e.g. (I think this was Beyoncé's Master Cleanse a few years), well, I have no input on that. But, if she means cleanse by another definition (the Northwestern one, e.g.,) what I described was the regimen I followed.

Everything that goes into a blender isn't healthy for you and not every thing that goes into a blender is healthy for you either.

I'm confused... I wasn't arguing with you...

I'm not certain what you mean by cleanse...but we have a Ninja juicer which you can get on Amazon for $99.00. This blender can actually make almond milk out of almonds. (I've never tried it, but someone on Amazon did.)

The trick to juicing on your own is to search the net for some good recipes. I've made the mistakes of just stuffing raw spinach, etc., in there an ending up with undrinkable slug.

My favorite juicer recipe is one 16 oz can of organic pumpkin, 4 cups of almond milk, cinnamon and Stevia. Incredibly filling without making you feel overstuffed.

Another favorite device I like is the Hamilton Beach steamer (the two tier which is about 30 bucks on Amazon.) Can put two layers of raw veggies (e.g., carrots on the bottom closer to the steam) and cauliflower on the top (since they steam more fully more quickly), and make some tasty steamed veggies if you toss on some spices (I like oregano.)

Now, every now and then when I feel that I just need to take a break, I'm very stressed and I know I'm going to make very bad choices or I just need to reboot, I'll do a 3 day program of the stuff I described above....it just seems to get me out of a bad pattern or get me started on a good one.

What you are doing is not juice. What you are doing is a smoothie. And if OP were going to do some sort of liquid diet or whatever, this IMHO, would be the way to do it. It's food, but in drinkable form. I wouldn't go all liquid (OH THE BATHROOM HORRORS) but adding a smoothie or even two to your diet would be just fine. My issue with juicing is that you don't actually fix anything. You don't actually get MORE out of it. You get less and it is COSTLY. And it isn't something you can do forever (drink only juice). But you can do smoothies for forever. Blenders (even good ones) aren't that costly. And you can have a TON of variety along with a device that does more than extract water from perfectly good items that could be eaten. Not to mention, blenders can do more than just make smoothies. That's why everyone is saying don't do it -- long term, it's not beneficial, it's costly, and you don't really get much from it if you don't continue it.

I have to say, the reason many people on here are blunt and give direct answers is because questions like these come up literally several times a day. And for anyone who has been here a while, you see the post and IMMEDIATELY roll your eyes. As much as people WANT to be supportive, listening to the same ol' things over and over day in and day out while still trying to be involved and do your thing is hard. Especially if those things are not beneficial long term. Good luck to you!

Again, I started with saying I don't know what you mean by cleanse. My description of what do is based upon a medical supervised "cleanse" I did a Northwestern University's Center for Integrative Medicine last year (supervised by Dr. Judy Fulop). Northwestern called this a cleanse or detox.

If the OP's definition of "cleanse" means cayenne pepper and lemon juice in distilled water, e.g. (I think this was Beyoncé's Master Cleanse a few years), well, I have no input on that. But, if she means cleanse by another definition (the Northwestern one, e.g.,) what I described was the regimen I followed.

Everything that goes into a blender isn't healthy for you and not every thing that goes into a blender is healthy for you either.

I'm confused... I wasn't arguing with you...

Sorry about the confusion...what I was trying to say: We don't know what the OP is actually proposing. People define "cleanses" differently.

Well, the OP didn't say fruit juice, it just said "juice". But even a 3 day water fast is unlikely harm an otherwise healthy body.

we know nothing about the OP, nor do we know their medical history etc. So nobody can state with fact that "it will do no harm."

Read those two posts, and tell me how they are different?

I saw that when I posted it. You brought up a 3 day water fast in a juice cleanse thread and stated that it probably would do no harm in a healthy body. Could I have worded my response different? Sure. The point still stands that we know nothing about the OP to make those types of statements.

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The OP wants to do it to kickstart her journey/jumpstart her diet/lose weight/cleanse unnamed toxins/fire up her metabolism/etc. She's not doing it just for kicks. She has specific reasons she wants to try this and none of them are going to pan out.

Tell us again how she wont achieve any of these goals, from your extensive experience?


Still waiting....

Please... please gods I don't believe in...tell me Rocbola wants to compare fitness results.

But I won't bite. I know you'll move the goal posts after I prove I've lost more weight than you, got in better shape than you, and have achieved more than you... then you'll say something like, "I meant overall health!"

And I did it all without cutting out food groups, without expensive blenders, without having to convince myself that everyone who disagreed with me was a paid shill for Monsanto.

Don't worry mate. If anyone is looking for advice on how to become skinny fat, I always send them to you.

Why is OK to use the discovery of others and the study of science to;

Power our homes
Propel our cars
Defy gravity and fly internationally
Save our lives with paramedics
Allow us to communicate and share ideas globally via this very forum

But not to decide if a juice cleanse works or not?

Another thing you could do, if you are truly interested in finding out how well this works, is to go to the 'Success Stories' section and ask how many of those people who have not only lost weight but who have improved their cholesterol, reversed their diabetes, improved their strength, gotten whatever health ills under control if they did a juice fast/cleanse and if it helped. And if not, what they DID do. If that isn't enough, check out other sites where you have folks with successful loss and health improvement such as 3 Fat Chicks or Calorie King. OR, even google people who have lost weight and kept it off long term.

Or, I could look on Pubmed for peer reviewed studies and see the result. If there were any.

I've made the mistakes of just stuffing raw spinach, etc., in there an ending up with undrinkable slug.

Why is OK to use the discovery of others and the study of science to;

Power our homes
Propel our cars
Defy gravity and fly internationally
Save our lives with paramedics
Allow us to communicate and share ideas globally via this very forum

But not to decide if a juice cleanse works or not?

Because if you have never spent $300 on a juicer, watched a stupid documentary/sales pitch, spent $50 on vegetables to extract a cup of brownish juice, drank it, and then felt like killing yourself afterwards, you have no idea what you're talking about. YOU ONLY KNOW PROPAGANDA!

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