I am not asking about the woo effect as I am sure 99% of what I read/hear/saw in the documentary and elsewhere is exactly that.
However has anyone done a 10+ day juice only fast (is it really a fast?) the idea sounds kind of challenging! My wife and I are planning to cut out red meat completely and doing some form of a mediterranean diet (more for health than weight loss but I would not mind losing about 15-20
So what do you guys think? Ever done anything similar? I would love to read some experiences!
I’m leery of any diet changes that aren’t long-term and sustainable. If your intent is to “jump start” weight loss then their might be some benefit, but in my experience a more tempered approach to making lifestyle changes has a better chance at real success.
I too support a gradual change in the way you eat. Ease into a new diet. Don’t go for a fast. It does work for some people, a very small number. But for the vast majority it will actually just cause a sort of breakdown where you’re likely to just say “fuck it” and start eating all kinds of bad crap.
I think it’s generally a good thing to cut down on red meats and enjoy them as a very rare treat, but cutting them out ENTIRELY is probably not necessary if it’s something you really love.
Focus on trying to get a lot of your calories from lean proteins and green or leafy vegetables. Don’t absolutely fear fried foods but if you do eat something pan fried make sure it is a healthy oil like olive oil.
Treat yourself every once in a while to something sweet or nice but keep it in very limited portions
Is that the ‘fast’ where you basically drink lemonade with cayenne pepper in it? I’ve heard nothing but BAD things about it from doctors and health communities. The reason you lose weight so fast is because of the intense, violent diarrhea you experience from the peppers irritating your digestive tract. A friend of my brother’s was on it and he was absolutely miserable and had a horrible case of diarrhea. But he was confident that it was just ‘cleansing’ his body of ‘toxins’. Yeah, it was cleansing him on the lining of his GI tract is what it was doing.
If this is the diet based on “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead”, it is a whole veg/fruit juice diet, heavy on the veg, light on the fruit.
I’ve done juicing as a supplement to eating better in general. I stopped after a while because I wanted more of the fiber that was getting tossed in the compost pail. I did kind of like it - I was replacing only one meal a day with what ended up being 16-22 oz of juiced kale, spinach, parsley, carrots, scallions, apple, lime, celery, etc. I do have to say I have never been more regular in my life and I lost some weight, but cleaning the juicer was a pain in the butt.
