Juicing Forum

I slept unusually well last night. Everything seemed a little foggy and I felt sort of 'out of it' like I was drunk before I went to bed and I was giggling a lot for no reason. This morning I woke up and juiced again. I drank the 'jolt juice' and it was pretty good. It was way better than the Sunset Passion Juice I drank last night. (My mom tasted the sunset passion juice and said it tasted like rabbit food, but she liked the jolt juice). I weighed myself in the morning and I weighed the same as what I weighed yesterday. So no weight loss yet! For lunch I had the 'mean green' juice and that one was okay as well. Like someone else had posted, it is a 'lot' of juice to drink!!! It's two whole cups worth and it has been really hard for me to force myself to drink that second cup. It takes a lot of forcing it down, but I am able to do it.

Today my dad picked me up and took my family out to eat at Broadway Bar and Pizza and I had to sit there, drink water only, and not order anything. It was tough. And then, since it was my brother's birthday, I came home to brownies and cake sitting next to my juicer and everyone had brownies and oreo ice cream except for me!! Today has really been a test, but I am hanging in there!

Day 3. 4 pounds lost

Today is the third day and so far it has been pretty easy. I haven't had any cravings until I watched Cake Boss.. and then I craved cake. After cake boss, Honey Boo Boo came on and all of my motivation came back to me and hit me like a ton of bricks! lol. The juice that I had this morning was the Morning Glory juice. It was really good and very easy to drink all of it. The one I just had for lunch was the Bruschetta Tang juice. It didn't make very much juice... only half of what the other ones made so maybe I am doing something wrong. Anyways, it tasted like spaghetti sauce. Which was sort of nice for a change. I closed my eyes and pretended I was eating spaghetti!!

I've still been going to the bathroom normally but I had a little bit of diarreah last night. It cleared up this morning though, so that's good. Just so everyone knows, I am a 22 year old female who goes to college at home and still lives with her parents. Haha. I thought I would try this juice cleanse because I have to go back to school on Monday the 9th, so it was a good time to detox while I was on break so that I can be sick at home if I get sick at all - which I really haven't. Just the diarreah and some very small headaches that only last for a few minutes.

If I can, I am planning on juicing until a few days before the 4th of july. My whole family is getting a cabin in another state. Apparently it will be far away from a town and kind of in the middle of nowhere, so I plan to stop juicing right around then so I can eat normally with the family for my vacation. When I get home, I will probably start juicing again until my birthday, July 30th. Then it's off to meet my internet boyfriend on August 7th (which is why I wanted to start juicing in the first place. I want to look good when I go meet him. Wish me luck everyone!

I'm no expert but As far as Ive read that is normal and expected part of detox. Poisons are being released from your tissues, making their way into the blood stream so for the first few days you are more toxic than before you started. And this also becomes a mental/ emotional detox as well. I never realized how much the foods I eat effect my emotions and brain as well. Hang on. Hang tight. Realize how sucky this is and guess what. When you make it through this and stay clean you will never have to go through it again. Peace.

Tonight is a tough one again. I was still in a bad mood, but not as bad as last night. Again, it was really difficult to juice in the kitchen while the rest of my family ate chili dogs and macaroni and cheese for dinner. Watching them eat dinner is always really hard.

Hi DonnaB. It's good to know there's someone out there who has started around the same time as me. 6 pounds is amazing! Good job. I am on day 5 and the hardest part for me is when my family is eating food around me. Today they were eating BLTs with chips and potato salad and it looked so good! And then my mom made cinnamon bread and the whole house smelled like cinnamon. Oh and then I have my boyfriend on the phone telling me about all of the yummy food he's eating. And he just doesn't get fat. He has an amazing metabolism and food just goes right through him. So on top of me being emotional, I get super jealous that he can eat whatever he wants and I feel sorry for myself.

Day 5 - No weight lost today. 8 pounds lost total.

What has been keeping me going is what you said. Thinking that it's not forever. Knowing that soon I will be back to eating solid food again. Even a salad sounds amazing right now! College break is over on Monday so maybe it will be easier once I start up classes again.

Good luck to you as well! Although it's not really luck, it's willpower. And boy, do we have a lot of it!!

Hi Spiff,
WELL DONE for not giving in - sounds like you've had a rough couple of days. 9 pounds is amazing.
On Day 6 I had lost 9 pounds then today (Day 7)I had gained a pound! Was gutted cos I didn't do anything different yesterday apart from go for a run - figure that out lol !!!
Am gonna keep going until Friday though as I'm not missing food as much now. I know what you mean about salads sounding amazing - they really do right now.

Keep going Spiff - it's not forever.

Got more groceries and still going strong. It's day 9 today and I've lost 11 pounds so far. Hope everyone else is doing good! The cravings are pretty much gone but I do miss food. But at least it's not those crazy cravings where your mouth is literally watering. I was even dreaming about food. All is well now though and I'm going strong. Hope it's going good for everyone else. Keep at it. Thanks for the encouragement DonnaB and thank you MissSyl for the recipe. I'll have to try that one out because I need a break from all of the "mean green" juices xD

Unfortunately my fast has come to an end. We ran out of fruit again for over 24 hours and I was unable to get any so I went too many hours without drinking again. I just don't feel like it has been healthy on my body. So from now on, I am just going to juice whatever meal I can whenever the groceries are available. I am sick of starving myself. I'll have to wait to try again until I get my own income. It was a good run though and I did lose 11 pounds. I will continue to eat only healthy foods.