Juicing success stories

arilukaszewicz1 wrote: »

TavistockToad wrote: »

Cutting out fat and protein from your diet isn't 'healthy'.

Thanks, but I asked for actually feedback not your random opinion.

Feed back can be positive or negative....welcome to the internet.

Juicing removes the fibre, which is important, and seriously lacks protein and fat. If you are set on drinking the calories and want to increase fruit and veg, consider a smoothie instead, adding some nuts/seeds (or avocado) for fat and a protein powder to help with nutritional balance. You might find that it doesn't keep you feeling full/satisfied for very long. Personally, when I'm on early mornings, I will have a smoothie (as described with nuts and protein powder), and it will keep me satisfied for several hours, others report being hungry right away.

arilukaszewicz1 wrote: »

Funny part is I was asking for stories of people who have actually done it. If you haven’t, then move along. Rude people smh

I don't have to do it to know that I would be hungry....often. Filling food components are protein, fiber and fat. Your juice diet removes most of those things.

Where is the published study that says juicing is "healthy?" I know it's on many juicer packages, but that's just a sales pitch.

@nutmegoreo is correct....a smoothie with added fat and protein powder is going to be more satisfying.

Sorry not a success story but...

I did try this a few years ago and found it unsustainable. It was a bit expensive as you needed a lot of fruit and veg for the week, much more than I would have eaten normally. The fruit juice was ok but any juiced veggies made me feel really nauseous. I was really hungry all day then binged in the evening. Oh and did I mention the diarrhea? no? I had terrible diarrhea.

So all in all not a good experience. I now eat my fruit and veg much nicer.

Agreeing that cutting out fat, protein, and fiber from your diet isn't healthy.

I've juiced. Got headaches and felt poorly, presumably from the high sugar load unopposed by fiber etc.

I watched "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" a few years back and was somewhat inspired by it but knew I didn't want to juice again, so starting making veggie smoothies in my food processor to retain the fiber. I also added protein powder and various things for fat, creating a balanced meal.

My experience with home juicing taught me that I do not want to clean a juicer every single day, or ever.

When I first started on Mfp 6+ years ago, I started juicing and I "lost" kinda a lot of weight and gained energy extraordinaire...everything was sunshine, roses and lollipops--then, after about 2-3 months--Uh-oh. I hurt my ankle exercising and the super expense of the veggies, the storage of them taking up all the room in the fridge, the mess involved in actually making and cleaning up the juicing. THE UNSUSTAINABILITY of it all. The Torture of smelling food I had to cook for my family, the smell of food everywhere, being around family and friends watching them eating and drinking and LIVING and me, drinking some boring and not too tasting juices all day and night---UGH and YUCK. Then it happened, because of the just unreasonableness, the tiresomeness and sheer boredom and just plain "foolishness" on my part of even "doing" juicing in the first place... I went back to my old eating ways (that got me fat in the first place) started eating again, the way I used to and not only did I gain ALL of the "losses" I made in the 2-3 months of juicing back, I gained 20+ more lbs on top of what I lost (in a little less than 6 month time period after juicing)back to my initial starting weight plus a lot more and it took/has taken me 6+ YEARS to finally reach my goal weight after juicing. Juicing is/was so not good for me. It caused me far more YUCK than before I started juicing. I lost about 20-25lbs juicing(got down to about 175lbs, but GAINED it all back, plus a lot more, almost 220lbs! Today, I'm 153lbs but I'm telling you based on experience, you may "lose" weight and even lose a substantial amount juicing BUT you will "find" all that weight you lost PLUS A LOT MORE. Juicing is so not worth the mess, stress, yuck and torturing yourself drinking juices all the time to lose--I'm speaking from experience. Was my juicing a success? It seemed like it at first, but ultimately super was NOT a success for me, actually was a mega defeat better yet, it was a nightmare to/for me...during the whole process. A waste of time, a waste of a LOT of money and just plain YUCK for me.

Take your time with reaching your weight goals, we didn't gain overnight and it's going to take some time to get it off. How I finally got to goal was taking my time in getting down to size--refusing to "hurry:" the process (like I did when I started juicing--I was trying to "hurry" the process of "losing" weight--that was my real/main goal in juicing). I now am eating whatever I want to, just smaller portions and less frequently.