has anyone done a juice fast???

I did a 24 hour one and felt like crap. I watched the fat, sick, and nearly dead documentary and the one thing Joe doesn't mention is that he lost a 1/3 of the weight in muscle. BAD! I enjoy juicing and do several meals a week in juice but I don't buy into the juice fast for a long period of time as a healthy option. I've also read studies that indicate you flush out toxins pretty quickly and long term flushes don't do much.

Scott

my cousins did for 30 days. they lost crazy weight, some hair, their skin looked horrible, were constantly crabby, and gained it all back the second they started back on solid food.

GOOD LUCK!

I did a week long juice fast to cleanse, not lose weight. I lost about 10 pounds and managed to keep 7 of it off.

Beware, you might gain back the weight when you go back to solids. Also, your attitude changes without food. ._.

dont do any fasts

I've done a few short ones and a 30 day one once. I didn't plan on doing it that long, but I felt great and wasn't graving solid foods. The first three days are the hardest. It gets easier if you can ake it oast three days. You can do a juice fast in a healthy manner, HOWEVER... Your reasoning will be the key for your motivation. Why do you want to do it? You will have to make sure you get a balance of fruit and veggies. People tend to drink more fruit juice and not enough veggies because it tastes better. Also, the danger with juice fast is coming off of it. The length of the fast, will determine how long you take to come off. Solid foods should be introduced slowly as well as the increase in calories. You will likely consume less calories while on the fast, getting your body used to sustaining itself on low calories. Unless you plan to maintain a low calorie lifestyle, going back to consuming your previous calories will likely result in weight gain.

I would not reccomended doing a juice fast simply as aweight loss tool. The other danger is once you come off the fast and reintroduce bad food choices, you are likely to binge on all of the things you have been avoiding. It has to be a part of a lifestyle change, and should be entered into slowly and carefully. If you still plan on doing, start by eliminating refined foods, then eliminating animal based foods, then begin the fast. You must take the same care and plan coming off of it. If you are trying o detox or jump start weight loss, I recommend doing a slow detox by consuming mosly raw fruits and veggies. Look into a book called Eat to live by Dr. Fuhrman.

If you still want to do the juice fast, do your research and make sure you understand what to expect in the process. Don't sabotage yourself. Check out the website: www.freedomyou.com

Good books are also, Juice Fasting and Detoxiication by Steve Meyerwitz and Juicing for Life by Cherie Calbom. I am sure there are other great resources, but these are the ones I am familiar with.

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i did the lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper powder then laxative cleanse for 7 days. i lost 14lbs but gained right back cuz loss was mostly water. day 1-3 was real tough, by the day 6-7 you feel calm and senses are heightened, low energy but no longer hungry. weird feeling...:glasses:

oh, forgot to add, the last 24hrs i drank magnesium laxative w/ olive oil. this made me pass dozen pellet sized (looks like pistachios) in my stool. this was supposed to be the toxins from my colon. sorry for tmi. :embarassed:

Juice fasts can be healthy if done right, but any more than 10 days or so is pointless and can start to get unhealthy. I generally recommend between 5-8 days. The first 2-3 you usually feel like crap, and then you start getting the energy and feeling well.

Am I missing something here? Not to be negative, but we have a liver to detoxify us and kidneys to filter our blood...... Each to their own, I guess.

This is what I think any time someone mentions "detox." Unless you have OD'd on some toxic drug, you don't need to go to some outside source to detoxify your body. You do that naturally! It is a good way to cut calories, though--that's why people lose weight on these things obviously. But your body is supposed to have food in it... so it's probably not very good for you unless you make the juice drinks pretty substantial/ hearty.

I did it for 2 weeks.. I did lose weight on it.. but the first few days ohh gosh my head killed me I was so tired.. surprisingly I wasn't hungry.. I played around with ingredients.. I felt very good once my body detoxed.. but its kinda expensive is the down fall... I do plan on doing it again soon

Headache and fatigue come from lack of nutrients, they're not "detoxing" symptoms.

asyouseefit what have you detoxed from to know what detoxing symptoms are? If it was from the lack of nutrients you would not get past the symptoms as you do when detoxing from other things like drugs and alcohol. The longer you would go without "food" the worse the headaches would get. But they don't. I had terrible headaches for 3-4 days the first time I juice fasted then they went away. This time I had not built up all the crap in my body, because I had gone mostly vegan, and I had no headaches. Do some research for yourself. I would NOT be juice fasting for weight loss alone. If you don't have health problems that warant it, then just cut out the sugar and processed foods and you are bound to lose weight.