Juice fasting

good luck with it and let us know how it goes!

IM SO GLAD I FOUND THIS THREAD!

I went to my doctor because I have strange rashes and acid reflex and you know what his remedy was...JUICE FASTING. And I only weight 120 pounds So to help maintain my weight and detox I'll be adding some bananas and avacados in the beginning. Nuts later on -that was my choice because I'm positive I'm not allergic to nuts and I don't want to loose weight too quickly. I'm sure If I drink enough I wont. Anyways-

So that was two weeks ago that I went to the doctor and I still haven't done any fasting completely little self control I guess --BUT I have been having only juice for like half a day and maybe a whole day once a week-I know I won't get well until I do it completely but I've been on and off vacation and family events.

I need to plan better for my juice fast. Any ways- Haven't read every ones post but am definitley curious to see why and how everyone's juicing is going.

One thing I did notice while juicing is that the longer I stay clear of bread the less acid reflex I get. so sad news- gluten may be my issue.:( But I guess I'll see when I really get serious and go for ten days.....still have the rash.

Also-I'd love help and support from anyone who's done a detox fast or is going through one.

Amazing healing power in juicing. I had tennis elbow terribly and after a 21 day fast, gone! You will breathe better, your organs will work better, you will feel amazing! In the animal kingdom, when there is sickness, animals fast to heal. Except humans because we think we're going to die or something, it's crazy. Anyway, I hope you can get your plan together and really get this going. It's not easy, some days are really hard, but it's so worth it!

I never ate when sick as a kid-makes sense. I believe I'll be juicing end of august-for now I am going to eat as raw and clean as possible-and in august I'll try to cut back on coffee -I think if I really plan and ease into a juicing life style then my body will heal-especially if I do go the 10 or 20 days-But once or twice a week or once a day I think is a good start -so thanks for the support-hopefully their will still be juicers at the end of august.

Btw-what's an enema?-is it just a laxative or something else???

Ok Juicers! Has anyone used the Oster Pro Juice Extractor3168? I am not ready to buy a Breville elite or anything like that so I am trying to find something to start- wonder if this is any good if any one has any experience with it?

Ive read a few reviews on that juicer and they were mixed. I would recommend The Breville juice fountain Compact. Its the cheapest breville at 100 bucks and it does a wondeful job and holds the quality the other models use. i got mine on amazon but i saw it at Bestbuy the other day.

Double post- sorry

Day 7: Lost 16 lb. so far. The grand total since last summer. Once I lost 14 lb. more I'll be at my low for last year. It will also be nice to pass it and do much better than I did last year. I'm still re-programming my brain so to speak. That's what this reboot is for me. Retraining my brain to associate things I used to associate as good as not good or at least once in a blue moon. (I never see the blue moons btw)

Where will I be in 53 days? Hmm. I don't know yet. Yesterday was tough. I cut down from 6 drinks a day to about 4. And in doing so lost 1.8 lbs since yesterday. But I didn't have enough energy to go to the gym yesterday. I woke up too early too and even with a short nap the energy didn't come back. Yet, this morning I got up and had no trouble at all. I'm on my 2nd juice already. I probably won't need anymore for 3 to 4 hours.

What did I give up permanently? Soda, Coffee (caffeine), sweets, fast food (except subs), etc. We generally make our food at home. And if we do go out it's for lunch and not for dinner. Dinner is definitely at home. Money has been saving itself practically! And we're better cooks now and eat much better in general than anything we ever got in a restaurant. We even learned to make our favorite salsa's from our favorite mexican restaurants. And recipe by recipe we started eliminating our favorite places because we can make it better for less than 1/2 the price. Many good changes! I'm a father of three and we have a system. And right now, it's working very very well.

1 bowling ball down, more to go!

Everyone is talking about how great they feel on day 7 or 8. Wow, they're right. I feel right as rain.

Everyone is talking about how great they feel on day 7 or 8. Wow, they're right. I feel right as rain.

I know, day 8 for me and i feel absolutly amazing. As i am typing this i just want to get up and do somthing. I woke up to go to the bathroom last night and i felt like i could jog a marathon. Im down another 3 pounds O.o for 18 total and i feel ontop of the world and everything is just effortless. Im off of work today and its payday so its time to drink some fresh juice and go get things done.

There are quite a few juice recipes on the Fat Sick Nearly Dead website:

http://www.fatsickandnearlydead.com/about-the-film/learn-more/recipies/

im gonna start my juice fast today. is it okay if i juice any kind of fruit and veggie without counting the calories? and is it okay adding some yoghurt plain to the juice? thanks for the info

Starting Day 4: Woke with a headache again. Downed my Green Drink...15 min later still had the headache. So I had 4 oz. of coffee. Tomorrow I'm switching to Green Tea.
Breakfast : Chard, spinach, blueberries, flax seed oil & whey powder.
Lunch: cucumber, tomato, kale, chard, spinach, tomato, carrot, & Brewer's yeast. ( this got really foamy & I could only drink 3/4 of it)

I've lost about 3 lbs. I was able to do my 30 Day Shred on Wednesday & today. I did 45 min. on the elliptical on Tuesday.

I'm going to keep adding flax oil & whey or hemp to my blends because of my weight training. I need the protein to repair damaged muscle tissue.

Keep on juicin' & blendin'!

I've been counting my calories actually just out of curiosity and then I'm ready to keep track daily after the fast. Win win.

I don't even bother counting calories or logging anything because i can't find anything in the database for fresh juice. If you log the fruit itself, its counting everything else you did'nt consume so theres really no point.

A minimum of 4 16 oz servings of juice each day is all you need . I usually have one every 4 hours starting with all fruit in the morning and greadully removing fruit and adding veggies to each subsequent drink until its all veggies at night.

I usually Juice as follows.

Morning
1 Red apple (anykind)
7 Strawberries
15 grapes (anykind)
A handfull of blueberries
1 peach or nectarine or apricot or plum

Afternoon
1 large Orange
1/6 of a pinnaple
1/2 mango
2 large carrots
1/4 cucumber
1/4 lime

Early Evening
1 bunch of kale
1 granny smith apple
1/2 cucumber
2 stalks of celery
ginger root
1/4 lemon

Night
1 large tomato
3 carrots
1 bunch of brocooli
1/2 cucumber
3 stalks of celery
half head of romaine or kale
1/4 lemon


Ill exchange fruits and veggies here and there to mix things up but overall its mostly consistent and this routine has worked wonders and

Good Luck to those starting!

I JUICED TODAY! My roommate is doing it also to help support me. I am eating bananas and avacados-I tried to put the ingredients of the juice down to count calories but I may just estimate the next couple of days.

Well today was really east-but that's also because I allowed myself 2 bananas and a whole avacado-Yum! And my juice was very good. The bananas and avacados left me a bit full and I didn't drink all the juice I was supposed to....tomorrow I will make sure I am juice FEASTING and not FASTING.

Any was-Day 1-Still have a rash-Still feel kind of icky (i've been feeling lethargic and gross lately) but not so much acid reflex ! Hopefully day 2 will go well.

Day two went great! except for at work, I had a terrible leg ache and after a big rush I had to sit down for a minute because I wasn't feeling well. Got more water and a salted nut roll (don't judge ) and took an aspirin for the leg and I feel amazingly again! I feel like I'm cheating everyone on here because I am not completely juicing. We are doing the 5-5-5 from the website but decided to throw in nuts to if we feel like we need them. I was pretty shocked when i saw the number on the scale though....been years since it's been so low.......
eta: at work everyone ordered erbert and gerberts subs (my favorite at work) and I stuck by my delicious watermelon/grape/mandarin mix!