Intro to Juice Fast

A juice fast is a type of fasting and detox diet in which the someone consumes only fruit and vegetable juices. It has been shown to create increases in rehabilitation and health recovery. When I use a juice diet the main reason I use it is to create rehabilitation. For permanent natural weight loss there needs to be a healing phase.

Reasons

These foods are digested rapidly as the juice digestion process expends only a small amount of energy. People choose to undergo these fasts for various reasons and via various methods. These fasts are often marketed together with supplies, supplements and support groups.

Additional reasons for undergoing fasts include religious reasons, losing weight and attempting to wean one’s self from unhealthy habits, i.e., smoking, drinking soda, overeating, caffeine addiction, etc. Some more serious participants use juice fasting as an alternative to conventional medical practices, i.e., as a healing technique for pain, cancer, depression, arthritis, severe infections that failed antibiotics, autoimmune diseases and many other supposedly incurable diseases.^[1]

Some practitioners take part in semi-annual week-long (or longer) periods of fasting in order to cyclically purify the body along with the nature's annual cycles. These semi-annual fasters and others may also take monthly, shorter (two or three days) periods of fasting. Some fasts involve a week-long trip to a spa resort, with Thailand being one especially popular destination.

Fiber

Because pure juice contains little to no fiber, fasters often use an enema or a herbal or saltwater laxative during the time of fasting to efficiently expel waste from the intestines and colon. Another method is mixing psyllium husks in with the juice. Because psyllium is not absorbed by the body but increases in volume greatly upon absorbing water, it creates the bulk necessary to keep the bowels moving.

Some Commonly Used Fruits and Vegetables:

• Vegetables - celery, cucumber, tomato, bell pepper
• Greens - parsley, kale, beet greens, chard, spinach, dandelion leaf
• Cruciferous vegetables - broccoli, cabbage
• Root vegetables - carrots, beets, sweet potatoes
• Fruits - dark grapes, apples, citrus, Açai berry
  Herbs - yucca root, fennel, spearmint, peppermint, basil, ginger, garlic, green onion, chile pepper, fresh turmeric root, milk thistle
• Wheatgrass juice, spirulina (a blue-green sea algae)^[1]

Resetting the Nervous System

When it comes to a fast and natural weight loss, I am trying to break a habit of the nervous system. People who are overweight have an imbalance in how their bodies create energy. It has become entirely dependent on sugar to do so.

I have found several ways to change this naturally. But a juice fast is the fastest way I found to do it. I was able to cut down the average length of time for a client to reach their weight loss goal by months by using a juice fast as a launching pad. Sort of like a reboot of a computer.

Transitioning

I have found that transitioning into and out of a juice fast is key to natural weight loss success with a juice fast. What I do different from common attempts to fast is how I transition a person to the fast and how I transition them out of it. This makes it less taxing on the individual and much easier on them as well. For most, they find it easy to do the fast when before the thought of a fast was “impossible” to them. This transitioning is the missing ingredient in my experiencing.