Juice cleanse
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »Yea, ppl on here can tend to NOT read the question your asking and offer "advice" that you did not ask for. To the point where your like wow -- some really think their "experts" on nutrition. haha Just laugh it off.
For two days, you'll be find. Not sure that will be long enough to make you crazy with craving that chewing experience or anything like that. If anything, it might just help you wean from the rich foods and decrease your desire for them and sweets. Most juices, in my opinion, have a sweet taste -- even the veggie rich ones.
And for two days, maybe you'll learn something about your body, juices etc and grow from there.
Best of luck!
Yeah, I always get so annoyed when people try to help me in the "General Diet and Weight Loss Help" section.
I demand blind support for every investment, no matter how fruitless. Anything else is mean and negative.
The usual suspects do tend to come into every one of these threads and try to dispell woo and save the OP (or anyone else lurking) the time, money, and suffering that they are determined to waste. How dare they!11 -
jmbmilholland wrote: »For those who were asking what is special about the Groupon cleanse. it is apparently the magic of "pressing" that gives this elixir its power:
"We don’t juice our juices, we PRESS our juices. Pressing produce helps keep the nutrient-rich enzymes intact and is the healthiest way for you to get your raw, unadulterated juices. Cold-pressing provides 3-5 times the nutrients and enzymes found in a pasteurized, juiced cleanse. Live more of your life in the RAW!
Packed with healthy nutrients and enzymes, our juice cleanses are designed to help make your body feel detoxified and unhindered. Each of our cleanses will detoxify your body of accumulated impurities and leave you looking and feeling as if you were glowing. Our Juice Cleanse contains high quantities of protein as well as a healthy dose of essential minerals and vitamins. Juice from the RAW finds a comfortable medium between nutrition and deliciousness with our cold-pressed juice cleanse program."
Also, for those expressing wonderments over the wondrous ingredients, they are apparently "pressing" romaine, spinach, carrots, apples and the other usual things that I get the old-timey way from the salad bar at work, but possibly they are getting the ingredients from unicorns, and not my salad bar (which also includes pickled pepper rings, which I don't see here):
http://www.juicefromtheraw.com/pages/nutritional-info
Finally, if you happen to be married to, theoretically, say, a professional chemist who also holds a double major in biology, whom you suspect might relentlessly mock you and debunk your magical juicing powers, not that this is intended to represent any real-life situation or entity, fear not: there is a helpful section on how to get your spouse to join you on your juicing journey, nay, pilgrimage: have him watch some youtube videos ("at youtube.com") with you ("After you watch those movies, you will be speaking all night about what you just learned and how you can use that information to improve your lives"), and then after you finish your cleanse, be sure that he then presents you with a nice dinner or better yet, a nice vacation:
"Before you start your juice cleanse, become clear about your juicing goals and set a success gift. A success gift is something you decide to give yourself after you successfully complete your cleanse. You and your partner can treat yourself to anything from a dinner at a nice restaurant to something as exciting as a vacation. What you do is up to you, but having some extra motivation will make it easier for someone to agree to join you on your journey."
So, as G.I. Joe says, "Now you know, and knowing is half the battle."
In for unicorn fruit!4 -
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AriesGal329 wrote: »So I got talked into doing a 2 day juice cleanse. Actually it's supposed to be 3 days but I know myself well enough to know I would hate that. I can handle 2 days. Anyone else ever do this?
You mean, not eat solid food for three days? No. No man. That's like...Why would i do that?5 -
Yea, ppl on here can tend to NOT read the question your asking and offer "advice" that you did not ask for. To the point where your like wow -- some really think their "experts" on nutrition. haha Just laugh it off.
For two days, you'll be find. Not sure that will be long enough to make you crazy with craving that chewing experience or anything like that. If anything, it might just help you wean from the rich foods and decrease your desire for them and sweets. Most juices, in my opinion, have a sweet taste -- even the veggie rich ones.
And for two days, maybe you'll learn something about your body, juices etc and grow from there.
Best of luck!
What do you think you learn about your body by avoiding solid foods for two days to overcompensate from an indulgent vacation? Besides what it feels like to crouch painfully on the toilet for 48-72 hours?5 -
WinoGelato wrote: »Yea, ppl on here can tend to NOT read the question your asking and offer "advice" that you did not ask for. To the point where your like wow -- some really think their "experts" on nutrition. haha Just laugh it off.
For two days, you'll be find. Not sure that will be long enough to make you crazy with craving that chewing experience or anything like that. If anything, it might just help you wean from the rich foods and decrease your desire for them and sweets. Most juices, in my opinion, have a sweet taste -- even the veggie rich ones.
And for two days, maybe you'll learn something about your body, juices etc and grow from there.
Best of luck!
What do you think you learn about your body by avoiding solid foods for two days to overcompensate from an indulgent vacation? Besides what it feels like to crouch painfully on the toilet for 48-72 hours?
I would learn how numb my butt could become sitting there.6 -
Yea, ppl on here can tend to NOT read the question your asking and offer "advice" that you did not ask for. To the point where your like wow -- some really think their "experts" on nutrition. haha Just laugh it off.
For two days, you'll be find. Not sure that will be long enough to make you crazy with craving that chewing experience or anything like that. If anything, it might just help you wean from the rich foods and decrease your desire for them and sweets. Most juices, in my opinion, have a sweet taste -- even the veggie rich ones.
And for two days, maybe you'll learn something about your body, juices etc and grow from there.
Best of luck!
Back before I learned how the human body worked, I tried to do a juice cleanse several times. Just bought lots of produce and a juicer. And you're right - I learned something about my body. I learned my body appreciates actual food. It took about 6 hours for me to start wondering if it was okay to gnaw on my arm. So I decided to eat a salad, just greens. Then i decided to eat some crunchy cucumber.
Then I ordered a pizza.
Now that I know better, if I've been overdoing it, I will focus on eating light for a couple of days, focusing on lots of fiber. But you're right, it's so silly and inconsiderate of us to try to educate people rather than watch them make the same mistakes we did.8 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »Yea, ppl on here can tend to NOT read the question your asking and offer "advice" that you did not ask for. To the point where your like wow -- some really think their "experts" on nutrition. haha Just laugh it off.
For two days, you'll be find. Not sure that will be long enough to make you crazy with craving that chewing experience or anything like that. If anything, it might just help you wean from the rich foods and decrease your desire for them and sweets. Most juices, in my opinion, have a sweet taste -- even the veggie rich ones.
And for two days, maybe you'll learn something about your body, juices etc and grow from there.
Best of luck!
Most juices have a sweet taste because they're loaded with sugar.
hahaha well of course they are??
Never said they weren't.
I personally like the taste of a homemade juice.
Would I do a "cleanse?" Nope
But I'm not this lady and for her doing it for TWO days? Who cares??WinoGelato wrote: »Yea, ppl on here can tend to NOT read the question your asking and offer "advice" that you did not ask for. To the point where your like wow -- some really think their "experts" on nutrition. haha Just laugh it off.
For two days, you'll be find. Not sure that will be long enough to make you crazy with craving that chewing experience or anything like that. If anything, it might just help you wean from the rich foods and decrease your desire for them and sweets. Most juices, in my opinion, have a sweet taste -- even the veggie rich ones.
And for two days, maybe you'll learn something about your body, juices etc and grow from there.
Best of luck!
What do you think you learn about your body by avoiding solid foods for two days to overcompensate from an indulgent vacation? Besides what it feels like to crouch painfully on the toilet for 48-72 hours?WinoGelato wrote: »Yea, ppl on here can tend to NOT read the question your asking and offer "advice" that you did not ask for. To the point where your like wow -- some really think their "experts" on nutrition. haha Just laugh it off.
For two days, you'll be find. Not sure that will be long enough to make you crazy with craving that chewing experience or anything like that. If anything, it might just help you wean from the rich foods and decrease your desire for them and sweets. Most juices, in my opinion, have a sweet taste -- even the veggie rich ones.
And for two days, maybe you'll learn something about your body, juices etc and grow from there.
Best of luck!
What do you think you learn about your body by avoiding solid foods for two days to overcompensate from an indulgent vacation? Besides what it feels like to crouch painfully on the toilet for 48-72 hours?
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WinoGelato wrote: »Yea, ppl on here can tend to NOT read the question your asking and offer "advice" that you did not ask for. To the point where your like wow -- some really think their "experts" on nutrition. haha Just laugh it off.
For two days, you'll be find. Not sure that will be long enough to make you crazy with craving that chewing experience or anything like that. If anything, it might just help you wean from the rich foods and decrease your desire for them and sweets. Most juices, in my opinion, have a sweet taste -- even the veggie rich ones.
And for two days, maybe you'll learn something about your body, juices etc and grow from there.
Best of luck!
What do you think you learn about your body by avoiding solid foods for two days to overcompensate from an indulgent vacation? Besides what it feels like to crouch painfully on the toilet for 48-72 hours?
^^Maybe that she'd learn "hmmm, I don't like the way I felt"
Duh?!
I think it's funny that so many are bashing her when she's curious to try something new.
Good, bad or different ... I think you guys are just crazy to attack her.
She bought it -- is going to try it -- and wondered if others have.
Seems pretty simple to me.
I don't think she needs a positive comment from myself to "save" her.
So silly.1 -
A few years ago when I was more naive and believed everything I read, I watched the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly dead about an obese guy doing a juice fast for a couple months (or something like that) and changing his life. He made it all sound so amazing, so I decided to follow his recommendations and do a juice cleanse.
I bought a juicer and lots of produce, read his website (and there are a lot of people who form a sort of juice fast community).
I made it close to three weeks and stopped after my husband begged me. A large part of the problem (aside from the many that people here have listed) for me was that after the 7-10 days, I started having a visceral reaction to drinking most of the juices - especially the veg ones. As much as I tried to like them and made myself drink them (because it was the only thing I could have), even the smell started turning my stomach.
One day close to two weeks in, I threw up every veg juice I tried to make. Violent, uncontrollable vomiting - not that I think "green juice" is inherently disgusting or bad, but my body just refused. That experience left me with such a strong gut-reaction that even to this day, seeing someone drink a green smoothie makes me feel a little queasy. I can't even stand the smell of tomato juice drinks. It's just such a bad visceral memory.
That was quite a problem since I still had two weeks of juice fasting left to do but could no longer stomach a lot of the juices. Mostly I was left with some fruit juices (which I really quite liked), but trying to live off fruit juice is a miserable, miserable experience. I ended up feeling so weak and so dizzy that I hardly got out of bed, and after awhile, the idea of even getting up to make a juice seemed like too much effort, so I started going all day without making one.
20 days in, I finally listened to my husband who had been initially supportive but begged me to quit due to worry. Even quitting wasn't easy! I threw up everything I tried to eat for the first day. The second day, I managed to eat some canned peaches and lived off those for a couple of days, slowing adding in yogurt.
It was such an awful, awful experience. I don't even remember how I got through the last days of the juice cleanse except I think I slept a lot. I felt like a massive failure for a long time for being unable to last a month or to make it a regular part of my lifestyle as I had intended. One I stopped, I just couldn't face doing it again, even for a shorter period of time, and I got rid of the juicer. I was really hard on myself for failing.
I lost 21lbs in just less than 3 weeks (obviously a lot of water weight) and a bit more while trying to get my stomach to accept food again, but of course it didn't last.
Now I forgive my younger, dumber self who didn't know any better but learned a very valuable experience, even if it means I can never drink anything green again.
I don't think any harm will come to the OP from doing a 2 day cleanse, but it's an expensive way to do very little besides make you pee.8 -
I don't think anyone is attacking her. They are just stating the facts - a juice "detox" is unnecessary and, in this case, expensive.6
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WinoGelato wrote: »Yea, ppl on here can tend to NOT read the question your asking and offer "advice" that you did not ask for. To the point where your like wow -- some really think their "experts" on nutrition. haha Just laugh it off.
For two days, you'll be find. Not sure that will be long enough to make you crazy with craving that chewing experience or anything like that. If anything, it might just help you wean from the rich foods and decrease your desire for them and sweets. Most juices, in my opinion, have a sweet taste -- even the veggie rich ones.
And for two days, maybe you'll learn something about your body, juices etc and grow from there.
Best of luck!
What do you think you learn about your body by avoiding solid foods for two days to overcompensate from an indulgent vacation? Besides what it feels like to crouch painfully on the toilet for 48-72 hours?
^^Maybe that she'd learn "hmmm, I don't like the way I felt"
Duh?!
I think it's funny that so many are bashing her when she's curious to try something new.
Good, bad or different ... I think you guys are just crazy to attack her.
She bought it -- is going to try it -- and wondered if others have.
Seems pretty simple to me.
I don't think she needs a positive comment from myself to "save" her.
So silly.
Perception is an odd thing. Please point out even one instance where anyone 'attacked' or 'bashed' the OP as you allege.8 -
MiloBloom83 wrote: »AriesGal329 wrote: »So I got talked into doing a 2 day juice cleanse. Actually it's supposed to be 3 days but I know myself well enough to know I would hate that. I can handle 2 days. Anyone else ever do this?
You mean, not eat solid food for three days? No. No man. That's like...Why would i do that?
Right?! I'm in for chewing. It burns calories! 2 -
WinoGelato wrote: »Yea, ppl on here can tend to NOT read the question your asking and offer "advice" that you did not ask for. To the point where your like wow -- some really think their "experts" on nutrition. haha Just laugh it off.
For two days, you'll be find. Not sure that will be long enough to make you crazy with craving that chewing experience or anything like that. If anything, it might just help you wean from the rich foods and decrease your desire for them and sweets. Most juices, in my opinion, have a sweet taste -- even the veggie rich ones.
And for two days, maybe you'll learn something about your body, juices etc and grow from there.
Best of luck!
What do you think you learn about your body by avoiding solid foods for two days to overcompensate from an indulgent vacation? Besides what it feels like to crouch painfully on the toilet for 48-72 hours?
^^Maybe that she'd learn "hmmm, I don't like the way I felt"
Duh?!
I think it's funny that so many are bashing her when she's curious to try something new.
Good, bad or different ... I think you guys are just crazy to attack her.
She bought it -- is going to try it -- and wondered if others have.
Seems pretty simple to me.
I don't think she needs a positive comment from myself to "save" her.
So silly.
Not one person is bashing her. People tend to respond to help OP save money from doing something useless. Or dangerous...because we've either tried it or just know that it will do squat based on the science.
So what information do you have to offer, or are you just here to derail the topic?5 -
I did a juice cleanse last night but it wasn't juice, it was eggnog. Not touching eggnog ever again.7
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queenliz99 wrote: »I did a juice cleanse last night but it wasn't juice, it was eggnog. Not touching eggnog ever again.
But but but...rum?1 -
eat a snickers0
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cerise_noir wrote: »MiloBloom83 wrote: »AriesGal329 wrote: »So I got talked into doing a 2 day juice cleanse. Actually it's supposed to be 3 days but I know myself well enough to know I would hate that. I can handle 2 days. Anyone else ever do this?
You mean, not eat solid food for three days? No. No man. That's like...Why would i do that?
Right?! I'm in for chewing. It burns calories!
Don't forget to log it as exercise. 2 -
WinoGelato wrote: »Yea, ppl on here can tend to NOT read the question your asking and offer "advice" that you did not ask for. To the point where your like wow -- some really think their "experts" on nutrition. haha Just laugh it off.
For two days, you'll be find. Not sure that will be long enough to make you crazy with craving that chewing experience or anything like that. If anything, it might just help you wean from the rich foods and decrease your desire for them and sweets. Most juices, in my opinion, have a sweet taste -- even the veggie rich ones.
And for two days, maybe you'll learn something about your body, juices etc and grow from there.
Best of luck!
What do you think you learn about your body by avoiding solid foods for two days to overcompensate from an indulgent vacation? Besides what it feels like to crouch painfully on the toilet for 48-72 hours?
^^Maybe that she'd learn "hmmm, I don't like the way I felt"
Duh?!
I think it's funny that so many are bashing her when she's curious to try something new.
Good, bad or different ... I think you guys are just crazy to attack her.
She bought it -- is going to try it -- and wondered if others have.
Seems pretty simple to me.
I don't think she needs a positive comment from myself to "save" her.
So silly.
Do you have any examples to share with us where people were bashing/attacking the OP?
Because I saw none of that in this thread.3 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »I did a juice cleanse last night but it wasn't juice, it was eggnog. Not touching eggnog ever again.
But but but...rum?
And brandy and whiskey and sugar and cream and egg. Lol1
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