10 Day Juice Fast

I use fasting, including liquid, as a part of my nutritional discipline. It works for me. 10 days is a long time - do check with your doctor about it. Your digestion will be affected - important technique is how you break your fast. What plan are you using?

My favorite juices: carrot-apple-ginger and kale-romaine-spinach-parsley-lemon.

I'm currently doing the 10 days of juicing and for me after 3 days I had to add a meal. I'm currently juicing for breakfast and lunch then eating a healthy dinner. I found that I had enough energy for my day to day stuff, work and maybe a light workout like walking but I was wanting to get back to my more intense workouts so I added the meal for more energy. I'm on day 8, I lost 5 pounds. I feel great and I really look forward to my juice in the morning, they taste so good. "The big book of juices" has 400 juice recipes, I bought mine on amazon for $15. Make sure to add the veggies, I found the fruit has so much sugar in it that I had tons of energy but would crash mid-day.

Organic fruit and veggies are best but if you're looking for most affordable go to costco to get your staples like apples and carrots. You really will go through alot of those as they are a base ingrediant in a lot of the recipes

Thanks for the advice! I saw that from your Green juice diet that you decided to splurge on a more expensive juicer than the Black and Decker! I'm gonna see if my local library has "the big book of juices"

The library is a really good idea, I was telling a co-worker about the book and she looked it up to buy it and for some reason it's now $150 on amazon. Not sure if when I bought it they messed up or if it's messed up now. It has a lot of good easing into veggie recipes

Hey!

I once read a book called 'slim for life; freedom from the food and diet trap' by Jason Vale, over here (UK) he's known as the juice master and he also has a book called 7lbs in 7 days, my partner and I followed the plan a while back, it was pretty tough, but we both lost a fair bit of weight, the hardest thing was going back to food, we ate really lightly and healthily for a while afterwards, anything too heavy was too much - you just need to be careful, but I love all his books!

Tacita

So what does thisinvolve, Just curiouson what you eat and how much, I know its mostly liquid made from fruit and veggies etc.
U can send me a message as well if you like.
Thanks

SMOOTHIE IT, DON'T JUICE IT!

Most of the fiber and nutrients are in the peal which is discarded in juicers. Make a delicious and refreshing smoothie and get all the benefits.

So this is all you eat 3-4 times a day then? Doesn't it make u feel as if u are starving? What about adding whey protein powder
to it? I think i would be starving to death doing this lol. It may help me shed some pounds though. I make smoothies so this could work.

Today is day 10 for me and suprisingly no, you are not starving after drinking the juices. I feel very full after them. I do get hungry about an hour before I normally would but otherwise they are very filling.

I am still trying to figure you out if you use protein in them or just fruit and veggies? And this is all you eat every day 4-5 times a day,
So a liquid diet so to speak. Remindsme of a friend I knew that drank slim fast shakes all day every day.

Doesn't this get boring?

Yes, permanent weight loss only comes from permanent changes. This is just the pre-change. Personally, I'm changing my stripes from omnivore to vegetarian. That is a permanent change.

But yes, anytime you just go back to usual, you will gain ALL the weight back and then some. Consistently. That is unless you had a wonderful diet to begin with in moderation.

From now on i'll be on a high nutrient density diet. Bye bye cheese burgers!

I'm having nothing but juice for these 60 days. Oh and water. Protein? Um, no. At the 61 day mark. And it will be fresh and healthy. I am exercising 2 - 3 days per week for about 65 minutes on an elliptical and working with dumbbells as well for my arms. Nothing fancy, just lots of reps. And that's been slow in starting recently. I'm slowly getting up to speed on it.

One noted side effect: As I close on having lost nearly 30 lbs in (20 days tomorrow) is a bit of back pain because my muscles in my back are re-adjusting to my new weight which is changing rapidly. But think of the lack of back pain once the weight is off!

It's not like I'm going to eat too much broccoli or salads after this 60 days. And it's not like I'm going back to my old ways. My brain has changed already. I know people who are doing this juicing diet but eating a meal here and there and every time it's their "old" food they don't feel well anymore eating that. It's like a rock in your stomach after you're used to good nutrients. And most of that will become waste since there is little if any nutritional value in it. I'm talking mainly of the fast food variety or chain restaurant variety.