Juice fast

Ok then.

Have fun with that.

this is for people that want a lifestyle change.

or use it for daily life.

a fast is a fast - it is not sustainable nor should it be a recommendation because it ruins ppls lifestyle.

It would really help you in the long run to learn and understand the difference between water weight loss and fat weight loss.

Whatever floats your boat. Are you at least using vegetable juices like V8 Tropical? That has to be better for you than straight apple juice, grape juice, or cranberry juice.

I should have thought twice about posting a thread of this nature let alone coming back to this site PERIOD. Water weight haters strike again

Is this a "success story" or a "general diet and weight loss help" story? Water weight loss is great and all until, well, you drink that water weight back again lol. Whatever makes you happy is all that matters

I have been off this site for 8 months . I could not maintain a 14 to 1500 calorie a day plan which is essential if you really want to lose weight. I know i will get skeptics but the only real solution for me was to go on juice fast I am on day 7 and i lost 11 lbs . MFP is great but what i lost in 7 days would have taken me more than a month with MFP What i have learned during this fast which i might end by the end of next week , is to appreciate small amts of food fruits veggies etc. It is much easier to transition to 1400 calories or less per day after doing a juice cleanse because although you will lose weight there is a price to peid and that is pure torture and some starvation. If you stick to the green juices every 3 hrs or so you wont feel hungry but at some point you will crave food but not in that drastic sense as if you just drank water . I will be back on the calorie count shortly

A juice fast isn't healthy or sustainable life-long. I hate to burst your bubble but the 11 lbs you've lost is mostly water weight. Not fat. Weight loss requires diligence, patience, and hard work. It requires a whole lot of willpower to eat in moderation. You are clearly lacking that and unfortunately a juice fast can't give you willpower.

Thank you . You have to realize that some of the people on here are not advocates of juicing because this site only caters to calorie counting freaks who use the water weight theory to support their jealousy Juice fast does help i dont recommend it for a long stretch but the most important aspect of it is that is cleans your system out and replaces the bad stuff with vitamins and nutrients through green juices

Just so you know, lashing out at people does NOT make them more responsive to your fast. You can't force people to like what you're doing. This site isn't just for calorie counting freaks. It's for anyone who's looking to lose weight and it's a great fitness tool in that regard. Why judge when you don't want to be judged? I'm one of those calorie counting freaks you speak of and without it I wouldn't lose weight. Fasting is great and all, I appreciate it, but water weight, regardless of how much overall weight you lost, still creeps back up if you don't slowly introduce foods back into your diet. It will drastically increase if you aren't careful because it's not necessarily fat/muscle you've lost. Be nice and people will be nice to you. The street goes both ways.

Here we go again with the water weight I knew i would hear it from someone. Weight loss is weight loss whether its water loss or whatnot . By making a statement such as that regardless of whether or not your right or wrong destroys the happiness of ones achievements Thank you for the inspiration

If you are trying to lose weight, then is it a good assumption that you are trying to lose fat and retain muscle mass? Is it also a good assumption you are trying to get to a weight you can maintain over the long term? If either of these assumptions are true, then your means and your goals are in conflict. There's lots of evidence that juice fasts, like any kind of VLCD, don't lead to sustainable weight loss. And similar mounds of evidence that water weight lost during a fast is typically regained within a few weeks of the fast's end. Moreover, there are few examples of people starting with a VLCD and managing to transition successfully to sustainable weight management programs.

So what are you suggesting we to help you celebrate? Your decision to choose a well defined path to failure?

By the way, you can certainly lose a lot of weight on a VLCD. Starvation works that way. And it is a pretty safe bet that whether it is fifteen or fifty pounds, you will have regained it within twelve months, while having actually lost muscle mass.

Tell you what dude i will bet the ranch that if i lose 50 lbs in the next 55 days on the juice fast you will tell me its water weight that i lost

Oh god. Please tell us you aren't really planning this.

If you're thinking of that Fat Sick and Nearly Dead guy, he was under a doctors supervision when he went 60 days or whatever it was. Please don't do this. A human body needs more fat than you can get in vegetable and fruit juices. And without protein, your muscles will waste away. Think of someone in a cast. When they get their cast off after 6 weeks, their arm is all thin an atrophied. Don't fast for this long. Unless you want your whole body to atrophy like that.

If you feel you want to incorporate juicing into an overall diet plan, that's a sustainable idea. But only vegetable and fruit juice for 55 days? Holy moly, just no.

Tell you what dude i will bet the ranch that if i lose 50 lbs in the next 55 days on the juice fast you will tell me its water weight that i lost

Nope, probably muscle. Not a gamble I'm personally willing to take, seeing as my heart is made of muscle. But I've lost 35 lbs eating well over 1400-1500 calories per day every day since I've been here.

So people who actually know what they're talking about are haters? Juice fast all you want but don't try to tell people its "the way to go" when nutrition, physiology, science and plain old common sense disagree with you.

weight loss whether its water loss or whatnot . By making a statement such as that regardless of whether or not your right or wrong destroys the happiness of ones achievements Thank you for the inspiration

I should have thought twice about posting a thread of this nature let alone coming back to this site PERIOD. Water weight haters strike again

How old are you? I ask because these two responses sound like they are coming from a frustrated teenager.

Loss of weight and loss of fat are not the same thing. Everybody loses water in the beginning, and it especially happens when you do an all juice fast, which is also considered a VLCD.

I suggest you go eat some food.