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Juice Fasting, any tips/tricks/criticism?
MindLib
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So I decided to go on a pure raw juice fast for three days. Just because I wanted to see what it's like, and if it had some of the health bonuses raved about on random health forums all-over the net. I have no prior experience with this sorta thing, and while I've read a few things online, nothing seems concrete whether words of the critic or proponent.
So, the diet is really simple. Consume nothing but brewed green tea, distilled water and juiced (not liquefied, the pulp is tossed) raw vegetables and fruit. I'm a pretty fit guy, I just felt a little verklempt and meh lately, and I always wanted to try this.
Thoughts?
So, the diet is really simple. Consume nothing but brewed green tea, distilled water and juiced (not liquefied, the pulp is tossed) raw vegetables and fruit. I'm a pretty fit guy, I just felt a little verklempt and meh lately, and I always wanted to try this.
Thoughts?
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Yeah, it's not fun, and it's been about 30+ hours now. I feel weak as a motherfucker, but I swear my colon has never felt this...clear. I honestly feel like I'm able to move my torso in ways that I haven't for a long time. The idea is to clear up and balance your system.
Good luck. Maybe it will suck less for you.
and even then they won't make you do that
Skip it unless you don't value your health.
But that's because you're starting eating again and this is a placebo effect that doesn't do anything to your system other than make you feel like shit for 2.5 days.
This. This. All day this.
There's really no reason to do these type of crash diet/fast type things. They're not good for your body on any level. At all.
The only legitimate reasons to fast are religious, spiritual, and as preparation for a medical procedure/examination. Fasting to improve your health is a dangerously misguided notion that is up there with bloodletting in terms of backwardness.
Thing is, your body doesn't work like that, and these "toxins" are really just made up words to make you feel uncomfortable about your own eating habits. As long as you eat a normal diet and don't destroy your liver with alcohol your internal organs should have no problem keeping your body free of anything harmful.
Not pooping is NOT a sign of health, it's just a side effect that makes you feel slightly better about your decision because it plays on stereotypes about cleanliness.
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Though there is some research being done these days that shows health benefits including longer lifespan for calorie restriction, but that's an entirely different sack of bananas.
Go eat breakfast.
Was it the exercise thread that discussed this? Fasting is a bit like self-mutilation. Your body freaks out and pumps out all sorts of stuff because it's pretty sure you're dying, and that gives you a bit of a high. But then, you know, you're mutilating your body.
I figure if you want to starve yourself for three days for the experiance, why not, just wouldnt make a habbit of it (as in only do it once). Of course im not a doctor and might be hidously off the mark.
This must be the stupidest fucking idea I've ever read, sorry.
Look, the Internet is full of horrible, horrible ideas. Just because you read somewhere that drinking nothing but juice for three days "cleans out" your system doesn't mean you should do it.
Don't fuck with your body like that or you might regret it.
It's not so much that he is going to cause grave harm to himself by doing it once, rather that if his intended goal is to improve his health, it's pretty stupid to do something that has the opposite effect. Would you recommend that someone suffering from acne smear butter all over their face? It's not going to cause their face to melt off, but it's equally stupid.
I've been on multi-day fasts and there certainly are some interesting consciousness-altering effect, similar say to a light dose of shrooms. Technically you aren't fasting so I'm not sure how much of that you might experience. Personally I'm more or less done with that type of self-experimentation, and that kind of behavior negatively affects my physical/health goals.
this isn't the worst thing you could ever do, people do it all the time and are just fine, the human body can go a long time without solid food
but no this isn't a good idea to go about getting the results he believes he'll be getting.....it's not doing what he believes it's doing so not much reason to continue, instead just eat better
Not only that but it was really expensive destroying that much fruit and veggies for a little bit of juice, that shit just wasn't enough nutrients.
I'm gonna finish my third day by just eating vegan, and then I'll eat some chicken tomorrow. I appreciate the thoughts.
Honestly it's just to ease back into things. If I got a cheeseburger right now I think I think I'd double over.
Along with this I have severely cut down on my red meat intake. My usual foods are Chicken, Fish, and Veggies.
Both my weight and cholesterol have gone down significantly while on this diet.
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The problem isn't this particular diet, but the fact that the OP is willing to actually try the bullshit mumbo-jumbo pseudo-scientific nonsense that he reads on the internet.
I mean, today it's "drink nothing but juice for 3 days". What will it be tomorrow?
in fact NOT eating certain things makes you weaker and worse off
eating vegan is a viable diet. You can get your proteins and etc from things that aren't meat, you just have to be careful
And along those same lines, reexamine the chain of reasoning that led you to select a juice fast and alter your actions in the future such that you avoid the obvious flaws in this chain of reasoning.
Unless you want to end up in ketosis or vitamin deficient or something.
No. Ketosis is a result of lack of carbohydrates in the diet.
And, just to make sure everyone is on the same page, there is nothing wrong with ketosis.
And I said that if he doesn't go further than Tube's advice to quit doing this stupid diet, he might end up in ketosis, which would happen when he gets roped into another stupid worthless fad diet.
Shall we move on?