How to count juicing calories and macros?

nicnicaomhanach · January 2015

hey guys,

I'm on a juice fast and I was wondering if there was a way of counting the calories and macros from homemade juices in your daily food diary?

Any help would be much appreciated!

kommodevaran · January 2015

Help: Stop. Eat food instead.

terbusha · January 2015

yep, eat the food. When you juice, you lose all of the good fiber. Plus, you won't get enough calories and nutrients just from juice.

Laurend224 · January 2015

kommodevaran wrote: »

Help: Stop. Eat food instead.

Yep.

jasonmh630 · January 2015

kommodevaran wrote: »

Help: Stop. Eat food instead.

This. Just eat the food.

nicnicaomhanach · January 2015

Well I have worked out that I get about 200 calories from one glass of juice and I'm drinking about 4/5 a day. And all the nutrients are there as well. I just want to include them in my food diary.

Laurend224 · January 2015

So how long are you planning on subsisting on 800-1000 calories of juice a day? What do you think is going to happen when you start eating food?

rand486 · January 2015

Laurend224 wrote: »

So how long are you planning on subsisting on 800-1000 calories of juice a day? What do you think is going to happen when you start eating food?

Not to mention their teeth... All that sugar! No protein...

OP, you need to do some research (or even a quick google) on how unhealthy juice diets really are.

Liftng4Lis · January 2015

Heres your help: EAT REAL FOOD.

ASKyle · January 2015

PURE CARBS (sugar!)- Eat real food! "All the nutrients are there"- NO! You took out all the fiber

MorganMoreaux · January 2015

nicnicaomhanach wrote: »

hey guys,

I'm on a juice fast and I was wondering if there was a way of counting the calories and macros from homemade juices in your daily food diary?

Any help would be much appreciated!

I've never done a juice fast but I do juice on a regular basis as a supplement to my nutrition. I juice the item and then measure how much of that particular juice I have and then log it into MFP. For instance say I juice two small carrots and receive 1oz juice. I add that to my diary - the dairy has the nutritional info for homemade juice. I do that for each item I juice.

enolan68 · August 2020

nicnicaomhanach wrote: »

hey guys,

I'm on a juice fast and I was wondering if there was a way of counting the calories and macros from homemade juices in your daily food diary?

Any help would be much appreciated!

I know this post is old but I don't think she was asking for your judgement just an answer. I too was wondering how to add juicing macros to my FOOD diary so judge not and answer the damn question. If you don't know...don't contribute. Sheesh. Oh and thank you to the ONE person who contributed something useful.

TeaBea · August 2020

enolan68 wrote: »

nicnicaomhanach wrote: »

hey guys,

I'm on a juice fast and I was wondering if there was a way of counting the calories and macros from homemade juices in your daily food diary?

Any help would be much appreciated!

I know this post is old but I don't think she was asking for your judgement just an answer. I too was wondering how to add juicing macros to my FOOD diary so judge not and answer the damn question. If you don't know...don't contribute. Sheesh. Oh and thank you to the ONE person who contributed something useful.

I disagree - most of these posts have been helpful. Just because the posts don't agree with your methods does not mean they aren't helpful.

Juice has lots of MICRO-nutrients, macro-nutrients not so much.

This is why posters above suggest real food. Juicing is a FAD from many years ago. Just log the calories from the fruits/veggies you are juicing and subtract out most of the fiber. Your overwhelming macro is going to be carbohydrates.

HeidiCooksSupper · August 2020

A smoothie including both the solids and the liquids has all the nutrients. Juice does not. Juice is hard on your blood sugar/insulin levels.

Juice "cleanses" do nothing but risk damaging your gut flora. They are not a good idea. They are unhealthy. If you don't like that answer, so be it, but it is the truth.

manderson27 · August 2020

enolan68 wrote: »

nicnicaomhanach wrote: »

hey guys,

I'm on a juice fast and I was wondering if there was a way of counting the calories and macros from homemade juices in your daily food diary?

Any help would be much appreciated!

I know this post is old but I don't think she was asking for your judgement just an answer. I too was wondering how to add juicing macros to my FOOD diary so judge not and answer the damn question. If you don't know...don't contribute. Sheesh. Oh and thank you to the ONE person who contributed something useful.

1. You revived a dead thread
2. The OP is advocating a very low calorie diet which is against the rule of MFP
3. Juice fasting for long periods was a fad diet that has no place in healthy weight loss
4. The responders to this post are trying to give good advice to someone who obviously doesn't understand the damage she could do to her body by only drinking juice

Raising dead threads just so you can accuse people who may not even be here anymore of being judgemental is a bit judgemental.

To those lurking and reading this thread: There is nothing wrong with adding juice to your diet but there is everything wrong with ONLY drinking juice in the hopes of losing weight, it is not a healthy approach and when you stop and go back to eating food you will regain any weight lost and have to start over.

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