Juice Fasting For Weight Loss
Juice fasting for weight loss is not a new idea - it has been used in many different cultures in the world for thousands of years. Recently, with the onset of obesity fast becoming an epidemic, it has come to the fore in certain health and diet expert circles, though it has not been mainstreamed as a weight loss strategy yet. The health benefits of juice fasting can indeed be life changing, and prove to be an essential key in jumpstarting any weight loss program.
What powers the effectiveness of juice fasting is that we flood the body with an over abundance of the good stuff in turn leaving no room for the bad. In essence, juice fasting flushes the body with alive, enzyme rich juices which then go to work detoxifying, cleansing and healing the body in the most powerful and natural way. In addition, since very little energy is needed to digest these juices that bypass the digestive tract entirely (think of a power shot of nutrition directly into your cells) that energy is used instead to restore and rejuvenate from the inside out.
Due to the hectic and stress filled lives that most of us are leading today, our natural detox reflex has been overwhelmed and shut down as a result of the incredible volume of toxins that we ingest each day. Since our systems are often carrying around years of built up toxicity that has been accumulated and stored, juice fasting can sometimes be challenging as these toxins make their way out of your system. It’s crucial to take some time to fully understand just what the body will be undertaking during a juice fast in order to effectively and calmly navigate through any of the ‘cleansing reactions’ that are possible to occur.
Common cleansing reaction include headaches and light-headedness and are rarely more severe. While most cleansing reactions are mild and pass quickly even these can be inconvenient when unprepared. We want to welcome such reactions as they are evidence that the body is effectively doing it’s job of eliminating the toxins that are weighing us down, and be prepared so that we can effectively manage them while awaiting the impeccable health and vitality that’s on the other side.
No other diet on the planet can help the you achieve radiant health and build immunity to any and all ailments like juice fasting for weight loss while also melting off the pounds. So it’s not just about losing those extra pounds or feeling rejuvenated, but juice fasts can help fight a number of diseases in the long run. So you can expect not only to lose weight, but to gain health as a result!
With juice fasting, perseverance is the key but the rewards are great as the effects do start showing immediately. So keep the end goal in mind and let your body perform it’s miracle housekeeping magic for you.
It is important to know in detail what juice fasting for weight loss is, how to go about it and what knowledge is essential to be equipped with. There are certain books on the subject written by experts that can help a person who is new to juice fasting. These introduce the reader to the idea behind juice fasting in detail, and the right way to go for scheduling the juice fasts, plus when to fast for the greatest effectiveness. As juice fasting is not yet mainstream and harmful fad diets are all the rage, it is imperative that some knowledge and preparation be sought before starting on the diet. Juice fasting has the capacity to change your life if you go about it in an informed and prepared manner.
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Fasting to Lose Weight: Are You Losing Weight or Losing Days Off Your Life?
December 2, 2009 by Melissa Newton
Filed under Weight Loss
Many Americans struggle with losing weight, and the new trend is fasting to lose weight. Any diet requires commitment and sacrificing the foods you love to get the perfect silhouette you dream of. It is so demanding that people generally search for the plan with the fastest results. There are healthy programs that include exercise, maybe replacement meals and restricted calories. Unfortunately, people sometimes get so desperate they will try anything including fasting to lose weight or synthetic processed supplements that have ingredients they can’t even pronounce.
Do you have the time or patience to sift through all the diet programs on the market to find which one is right for you? Is fasting to lose weight okay? Isn’t there a magic pill that will melt the pounds right off your body? Well, I’m sorry to tell you the answer is no. The best and only way is to diet and exercise.
Please understand that being on a diet is far different that fasting. Dieting is eating healthy foods in small reasonable portions. Fasting is not eating, or trying to starve the weight off. Fasting to lose weight is not only harmful to your health, it will lower your body’s metabolism which will cause you to store fat, not actually lose any weight.
Upon understanding that fasting to lose weight does not work, you should now be looking at several diets that give you all the nutrients and energy that your body needs. You can find several meal plans in books and/or over the Internet. If the existing diets do not work for you, you can always ask a professional nutritionist to work with you and create a customized diet according to your needs. That may be a bit too costly, but it may pay out in the end.
Also remember that dieting is just one of the steps that you can do to lose weight. If you want maximum results the soonest possible time, you can also invest your time in a good exercise routine. Coupled with the proper discipline, you will find that exercising and dieting will not only give you a perfect body but they can also make you much healthier and happier than fasting to lose weight.
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Three Day Diet - Is It Rational?
February 12, 2009 by Dwain Shramek
Filed under Diet
In 1985 the famed three day diet first came on the scene. It boasted creation of a ’specific metabolic reaction’ to cause quick weight loss and the system to be cleansed. This reaction has never been proven or even attempted to be explained. The diet is to be followed for only 3 days, with an off period of generally 5 days in between diet times. All the versions of this diet share in common specific steps that must be followed and foods that must be eaten in order for the diet to work. What better way to blame the dieter when it doesn’t work than ‘you botched the formula’.
First day breakfast includes coffee (no sugar), one half a grapefruit, and a piece of toast with 1 Tbsp peanut butter. For lunch, you are allowed a can of tuna, a piece of toast, and black coffee. Dinner consists of 3 ounces of chicken or lean meat, a cup of green beans, one cup of carrots, one apple, and one cup of regular vanilla ice cream. The following two days of the diet are pretty similar in meal quantity, though the specifics change, for example Day 2 recommends two beef franks for dinner in place of three ounces of lean meat. The diet claims that weight loss of 10 pounds is achievable over the 3 days that the diet lasts.
Hogwash is the answer. The question is what is a specific reaction to that claim? As stated the metabolic reaction has never been examined much less proven. Any weight loss would be mostly water loss due to a lack of carbs which help the body retain water. That could lead to dehydration.
Because of binge eating after such starvation and because most of the weight lost is from water, the weight will quickly return after the three days. Deprive the body of water for three day cycles enough times and a person could develop kidney damage, dehydration, or a host of other dangerous conditions.
The 3 day diet is best treated as a no day diet. In other words, don’t do it.
Walking To Lose Weight - Effective And Easy Way To Lose Weight
February 11, 2009 by Dwain Shramek
Filed under Diet
Burn more calories than you eat or drink to lose weight. Once the diet part is planned, get to the exercise. This should include seven days a week, 30 minutes a day of aerobic exercise.
It can be running on a treadmill, swimming, or simply walking to lose weight. Walking is a low impact way to accomplish the exercise goal. Here are some walking tips.
Walking for 30 minutes a day seven days a week is a great start. In fact, it’s much better than the five day, or even three day, plan that many gurus recommend. 30 minutes of exercise 3-5 times a week just isn’t enough. The body needs work every day. That means seven days a week and if walking is the way to make that tolerable every day for the rest of your life, then walk.
Once the walking is established do some other activities to increase your physical output. This can include simple things like raking leaves instead of blowing them, silly things like playing tag with your children, as well as other every day habits such as parking in the furthest space from the store rather than the closest.
After getting accustomed to walking that 30 minutes every day, make some adjustments by adding intervals. Intervals are short bursts of increased activity sprinkled into a normal routine.
Start out by running for 30 seconds every 10 minutes of the walk. Gradually up this to a one minute run every five minutes, which would work like this. You walk for the first four minutes, then run for the fifth, then walk the next four minutes, run the next minute, and so on for the whole 30 minutes. Keep in mind that a run is not a jog, it’s faster, it’s a sprint. So if you have to work up to run with jog at first.
Walking to lose weight is healthy, no doubt. But it’s also a terrific way to get around the neighborhood, meet neighbors, and see things you probably never see while driving around everywhere you go. If it gets boring you can ask a spouse or family member to exercise with you. Make it a family affair, or get the whole neighborhood involved.
Set Of Easy-To-Follow Rules - Free Fast Weight Loss Diets
February 7, 2009 by Dwain Shramek
Filed under Diet
The quickest way to lose weight is through diet and exercise, period. That means taking in fewer calories than you utilize. There’s no need to starve, and in fact periods of starvation such as missing a meal could lead to more weight gain when the body enters ’starvation’ mode, not to mention starving yourself could cause tremendous damage to your body. Like so many other things slow and steady wins the race. In the long run a smart every day diet combined with good exercise is the quickest way to lose weight. That’s without the yo-yo effect of many fad diets.
Diet doesn’t mean a diet, a short term alteration of regular eating habits. Diet means the everyday, day after day, for all the days of your life way that you eat. A good diet includes foods from every one of the food groups, taken in moderation and the right amounts. And with a well balanced diet it’s easy to adjust calories down when you need to lose a few pounds temporarily.
Sounds like a big change, huh? It might not be. You may already eat most of the foods needed for a well balanced diet, just not in the right portions. Cut down quantities, replace starches with whole grains, and you can still even eat cake while losing weight.
The key to maintaining a healthy diet is planning. When you fail to plan you miss meals, that leads to binge eating. When you fail to plan you often find yourself at the mercy of a fast food restaurant or a friend whose menu leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to healthy foods. Plan meals in advance, including for occasions like parties and social gatherings.
It only takes a few questions to find out what’s on the menu and plan the days other meals accordingly to not ruin your diet. Part of the plan is understanding that sometimes the plan will fail. Don’t let a failure discourage you. One cheated meal doesn’t mean the whole diet, remember it’s an every day forever diet not just a few days diet, has failed.
Seven days a week exercise for at least 30 minutes. Little things like parking further from the office can add extra activity that makes a huge difference.
Combine the healthy every day diet with physical activity for the quickest way to lose weight.
Are Rapid Weight Loss Diets Of Any Use?
February 5, 2009 by Dwain Shramek
Filed under Diet
The amazing miracle weight loss system that can make you lose 10 pounds in 10 days no matter what you eat! Eat as much as you want, eat more than you want, eat double what you want, and still lose weight with no exercise! Drop one pant size in a day, but beware because this might work so well you’ll pop out of reality! If these advertising claims are true then rapid weight loss is a miracle reality of the modern world, requiring no effort on the dieter’s part.
Baloney! But even though they mostly aren’t true, Americans pay over 40 billion dollars a year on pills, programs and weight loss products that simply don’t work. Failure doesn’t stop new diets from springing up out of the wood work, or people from trying them. Remember Joe Frazier’s diet, chew the food but spit it out? He claimed it made him full and gave him all the nutrients without the fat.
See, mimes had the secret to weight loss all the time. Then we have the pills, creams, drinks and formulas that miraculously remove weight. Remember Fen-Fen? The people who contracted heart conditions sure do.
Studies show that Very Low Calorie Diets, or VLCDs, work. People got wind of this and now try them at home. That’s a problem because of their nature. When people are so much overweight it becomes a health problem, VLCDs were made to come to the rescue. These diets often include eating half or less of their daily caloric intake. They’re intended to be implemented in medically supervised closed settings, where people can’t cheat. When used outside of a closed setting, often a clinic called a ‘fat farm’, these diets can be dangerous to the dieters health and will generally not work because of binge eating after a period of partial starvation.
Rapid weight loss causes a number of health problems. Painful gallstones develop in up to 25% of people who lose large amounts of weight over a few months. Uneducated dieters can often become dehydrated because they don’t realize a large portion of the water people need to drink comes from foods. It’s easy to compensate for this by drinking more water. Malnutrition can develop from not eating enough protein over a long period of time. The body can even become unable to process protein, which leads to serious illness and even death.
Rapid weight loss is a great idea. But it’s not for most people, and should be administered and supervised by qualified medical professionals.



