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I juice a lot and think it's amazing. But if you won't eat the vegetables you won't like the vegetable juice. You'd probably like the fresh fruit juice by you'd need to add a LOT of fruit to mask the green vegetables and that is not a healthy way to juice. It took me a while to like the vegetable juice and I love eating…

It also contains the highest amount of antioxidants of any tea, so that's a plus :)

Avocados, olives, almonds, hazelnuts, pecans and certain oils. Edit: Forgot young coconuts, hemp seeds, Chia seeds..well pretty much all seeds lol

I had a similar experience experimenting with sweeteners. I'm glad I finally gave them up, I feel so much better. Some people may react differently to different chemicals, it's like allergies really. I have a genetic predisposition to hate cilantro, it's not something I control but it tastes like metal to me :-) I envy…

Great mental image of this :laugh:

This is why I gave it up too! Chronic headaches for years, I saw tons of doctors, took all different kinds of medicine, but once I gave up Diet Coke (or any artificial sweeteners) no more headaches! This is HUGE for someone who would go to bed and wake up with a headache every.....single......day...... for years. Like you…

I understand nutrition VERY WELL, thank you very much. What I don't obviously understand are these varying definitions of catch phrase's "Clean Eating" or "IIFYM", now that I have a better understanding of what those mean (well on this thread anyway) I can see other's points of view. This has nothing to do with my…

Excellent, thank you. We are both really on the same page you know? It's just both the 'clean eaters' and 'IIFYM' can take it to an extreme that isn't really necessary. Just like religion I guess :wink: Your definition sounds like a very healthy way to eat/live, but some of the other definitions I've seen have not sounded…

Educate me then? Everything I've seen and read on here is eat anything you want if it fits in your Protein, Carb, Fat macros or some people think it means just as long as you don't go over your calories. Or I hear a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, it doesn't matter what it is. How can eating clean and IIFYM be the same…

If your goal is weight loss then IIFYM is just as good as eating clean. If your goal is health and nutrition then it's completely different.

Yes, this. I love avocado's so I don't try to mask the flavor. If you don't like them then don't eat them. Like others said I guess there are other ways to get the same nutrients. What I do is take a bowl of kale and an avocado and just mush the avocado in the Kale, lathering each leaf with smushed avocado :-) I add…

I second this ^^^^ If you're that concerned, don't eat out. That might have a bigger impact on what restaurants serve than anything else.

I had a pretty amazing experience after removing aspartame (and all other artificial sweeteners) from my diet. This might be attributed to the fact that I really drank a LOT of diet coke for a pretty long time, way more than any one person probably should. But giving it up was the best thing that I did for my health. So do…

Yes, but when you're a diabetic that is not all that matters. I'm not saying refined sugar is bad, people can choose what they want. But in whole fruit, the sugars are bound up with fiber that slows the absorption of sugar from the intestines and this reduces the rise in blood sugar when you eat it. Fruits are also loaded…

That's strange, I've read and learned the opposite. Guess I should investigate more, thanks! You can get a lot of flavor without the fat :-)

I like the title :-) I'm not vegetarian, but Plant based and whole foods. I eat a little meat and a few eggs but no dairy, oils, processed foods, refined anything, etc. etc. I also juice. This is a new (and exciting) change I've made after a lot of nutritional research and a 10 day juice fast. I don't log my food anymore,…

Well done!!! What an amazing accomplishment and you have a gorgeous figure by the way

Water works pretty well, if you have a good pan. Coconut oil or butter is better than the oils you mentioned (especially for high heat cooking) but it's still an oil and has calories. What I do is saute some mushrooms and onions first, they are a little oily and coat the pan pretty good, then I add the rest of my stuff. If…

That's not exactly true. The molecular structure are the same correct, but how the body processes them is different.

I agree

OP - although I don't agree with you calling them "evil" congratulations on finding something that works for you! I've been going through a juice fast right now as an experiment in health not weight loss. I have noticed how those very 3 things impact my health, along with salt, artificial sweeteners, and OTC drugs. It's…

+1

What type of juicer do you have? I will mix in other things with the kale to help the juicing process too, like a cup of kale, an apple, more kale then juice instead of Kale by itself. I think it helps a little.

This is great!

I just started but I read about the storage since I can't drink it fresh at work. I make breakfast, 2 snacks and lunch the night before. You can store it for 12-24 hours in preferably a glass jar. I put mine in 16oz mason jars. The less air that is in the juice container the better. How long you can store the juice will…

I just did this yesterday :-) She works with the same trainer I do and in passing I told her how fantastic she looked and how far she'd come. Yea....she looked a little uncomfortable, she thanked me and blushed. I don't care though, I wanted to do it. I think as long as you don't make a whole conversation about it and just…

I'm not sure it matters, but I'm not positive. I do circuit style because it doesn't take as much time. When doing sets of the same exercise you rest in between, but rotating to another exercise using another set of muscles and not resting I get done faster.

Good answer :-) I can't imagine an average person burning 3500 calories exercising in a day. Like many said running a marathon or something equivalent. I hiked for 4 1/2 hours with a 35lb backpack and according to my heart rate monitor burned 1,400 calories.

Yes you can, but like others mentioned there are some form difficulties. I would try just the bar with risers to start. Or, try other exercises to strengthen those muscles first and work up to deadlifts.

^^^^ Good advice. My problem turned out to be #3, tight calves. No shin problems once I started focusing on stretching my calves.