Juice Fasting For Weight Loss and
Juice Fasting For Stubborn Fat!
How much weight will I lose on a juice fast?
The main benefit offered by a juice fast, to those who
wish to lose weight, is the speed of the weight loss.
Initially, weight loss can be as high as three-to-four
pounds per day, but as the fast continues, the average
loss will be one pound-per-day.
To
see a person drop 30-to-40 pounds in a 30-day juice fast
is to see a person totally transform his life.
Self-esteem is given a boost and for the first time in
their life, discipline becomes a lifestyle. The fast
becomes a catalyst for a total life overhaul. People
start dressing better, showing more confidence, becoming
more organized, more dedicated in relationships and more
at peace.
Juice fasting for weight loss and stubborn fat
Trying to stay on a diet can turn a simple journey to
the supermarket into an epic challenge of
self-discipline. How can you ignore all the
florescent-lit aisles of junk food offering every
temptation known to the tongue when you are hungry
depressed and feeling deprived? It becomes a war of
desires where your willingness to surrender is quickly
rewarded.
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In a culture that esteems fashion-model thinness as
perfect beauty, fat is the ugly disease that must be
cured. This creates an obsession with weight-loss that
increases the difficulty in losing weight. It is like
trying not to think of a white horse. The more you try
not to think of it the more it comes back into your
thoughts.
Obsession, slow metabolism and high-calorie food are a
deadly combination for weight gain. The worst offenders
of weight gain are starches, fats, and refined sugars.
Since the biggest part of our diet is starch in the form
of breakfast cereal, cookies, cakes, pies, chips and
bread, it has the greatest impact on weight gain.
Starches are worse than sugar. For a short amount of
time, the blood sugar will peak allowing the body to
store the excess sugar as body fat. Starch is different
in that it is a slow release of sugar, which is perfect
for long-distance runners, however, if you are inactive,
the slow-releasing sugars will be turned into body fat.
Excess calories equate to excess fat.
For many, juice fasting is a last ditch effort to lose
stubborn fat that has resisted every attempt at weight
reduction. Diets may have given you a short-lived
victory, only to suffer defeat by one indulgence that
escalates into a feeding frenzy resulting in being
heavier than before the diet.
How juice fasting affects addiction to food
My war with food addiction lasted 10 long years. I had
been healed from years of drug abuse, but my battle with
addictive behavior was not over. I desperately wanted
control over what I ate, not for weight loss, as I was
thin, due to a very fast metabolism; but binge eating
made me feel like garbage.
Cookies, cakes, ice cream and chocolate were the enemies
I loved. At the saturation point, where I could not
stand myself anymore, I would fast and my body would
recover from the damage of the abuse, but it only
deepened the power of my addiction.
After 20 days of
juice fasting, I would go on a feeding frenzy destroying
all the benefits of the fast. My resting stomach was
stuffed with the most volatile mixtures of food.
Sometimes it took weeks to recover. After years of
blowing fasts, the realization came that fasting was
increasing my compulsiveness.
Fasting had become a drug.
I longed for the freedom of the fast, that amazing
feeling of being in total control. Victory tasted sweet
but it never lasted. Over and over I plunged into the
pit of hell, blowing the fast and enduring painful
feelings of being a failure, guilt and feeling out of
control.
Tom wrote a book on how to overcome overeating
My book,
Eating in Freedom, was written after years of
my continual battles with compulsive eating in a
desperate attempt to get free. I discovered principles
for keeping my thought life pure and reassuring. With
each chapter, I learned, and by the end of the book, for
the first time in my life, I was free from food
addiction.
Not only did it work for me but thousands of
others. No fancy secret knowledge, just methods to
change how you think, for when you change how you think,
you change how you eat. Once you get your diet and
thinking to this point, it becomes a lifestyle; then you
will naturally want the foods that are good for you.
How the juice fasting diet affects metabolism
The fear is that while juice fasting, the metabolism will slow
down and afterward there will be more weight gained than
before the fast. Initially, any calorie reduction will
cause a lowering in the BMR or base metabolic rate.
Cleansing will bring health that will increase metabolic
performance and energy output. In other words, you will
eat less and feel more energetic.
The greatest impact you can have on increasing your
resting metabolism is exercise. After a workout, you can
be sitting on the couch reading while burning calories,
as the muscles are grabbing glucose from the blood to
replace glycogen supplies. The key to weight loss is
fewer calories and more exercise. A diet high in raw
food provides fewer, low-density calories, and
higher-fiber, more-filling foods.
How the juice fasting diet affects digestion
After a juice fast, the body is more efficient. Digestion is
better due to a cleaner colon. The colon walls have been
cleansed of impacted feces, allowing improved absorption
of nutrients. The good news is that greater efficiency
equals enhanced energy. Healthy people burn more
calories. They also eat less because they are more
active and feel better about themselves. They don't need
food as a security blanket.
The above juice fasting article was written by Guest Writer,
Tom McGregor, author of
Eating in Freedom,
which you can download into your computer today.
Tom had an overeating disorder and once ate an entire
gallon of ice cream in one sitting and almost froze his
stomach. He shares his story in this article:
My war
with food addiction.
Juice fasting to lose weight? Here are some great
juicer recipes and fruit smoothie recipes to help you
get started!
Morning Sunshine Smoothie
2 large oranges
1 red grapefruit
6 frozen strawberries
1/2 banana Squeeze the juice from the
oranges and grapefruit.
Put the juice in a blender and blend with the
strawberries and banana.
Watermelon Dream Juice
2 cups cubed watermelon, cold
2 cups cubed cantaloupe, cold
1 inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled
Pass the ingredients through a juicer.
Strawberry Thirst Quencher Smoothie
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1 cup orange juice
2 tsp. fresh squeezed lemon juice Put ingredients in a
blender.
Carrot Cleanser Juice
4 large carrots
1 stalk of celery
1 apple
handful spinach
juice from 1/2 lemon (optional) Pass
the ingredients through a blender.
The story of how Tom helped Carl W. lose 100 pounds
on a 40-day juice fast
Note from Healthrecipes.com:
Carl had a liver disorder and his 100-pound weight
loss from juice fasting was unique to his condition.
While juice fasting is not recommended for those
with liver disorders, we believe that freshly-made
juices from carrots, beets, celery and lemon are
good for the liver.
"Fasting with water, juice and a complete diet of
natural foods gave me a new lease on life! The
disease crippling me was chronic hepatitis. Drug
abuse began at thirteen and after years of serious
addiction, I contracted hepatitis, a very painful
and frustrating illness.
As the years progressed my liver deteriorated,
causing my other filtering organs (kidneys and
spleen) to be overworked, thus damaging them,
causing even more pain. For sixteen years I
suffered. My liver was swollen to the size of a
football. The liver is the largest cleansing organ,
and does not have room for swelling. When it does,
constant irritating pain is felt from the rib cage
to the stomach. Hepatitis is impossible to forget.
Life was dismal and without hope. I was a
270-lb., burned out drug addict coming off a massive
intake of chemicals. It took 20 to 30 tranquilizers
a day to prevent my mind from losing its sanity.
My emotions were out of control. Nerves were like
electrical wires on overload. Without knowing what
else to do I phoned Tom (author of
Eating in Freedom),
a friend I had not seen in years. Tom's heart was
moved. He explained that I was in serious trouble
and needed help.
After a few days of sleeping, I awoke only to
realize how grossly complicated my rebellious life
had become. The past 20 years flooded my conscious.
I had played the role of someone else; someone
tough, ruthless, and invincible. All that was left
was an empty, barren soul. The flood of tears
wouldn't stop as I agonized over the loss of my
family. There was no one to blame —I was a victim of
my own demise. I thought moving in with Tom would
help the massive depression that was now my life,
but nothing could stop my eyes from seeing painful
reality. Tom stayed up several nights listening to
my sad story. If all my pent up anguish hadn't found
an outlet, my insides would have exploded.
After 20 days of juice fasting the changes were
remarkable. As the pain lessened, I started to feel
alive again. I wasn't cured, but because of the
results I continued the fast.
After 40 days of juice fasting, there was a
metamorphosis from a sickly, unstable human into
someone vibrant with health and well being. My
self-esteem began to build gradually as I shed 100
pounds. At the start I weighed 270 lbs. This bulk
was caused by the retention of large amounts of body
fluids. Due to the drugs and the damaged liver, my
body could not release these fluids.
After the 40 days my weight had dropped to 170
lbs.; whatever had caused the bloating had healed.
The swelling on my right side from my liver had
disappeared completely. My mind was clear and
stable. For the first time in years, I could live
without tranquilizers! I sincerely thought drugs had
done permanent damage to my brain. I was wrong!
If a butterfly could talk of its experience of
changing from a crawling insect into a
multi-colored, graceful, flying creation, it would
most likely be saying the words I felt in my heart.
I was given back what drugs took away.
This knowledge has brought me a new zeal for
life. It has freed me from a tremendous addiction.
It has brought me closer to God in spirit than ever
before."
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