On the 30th August 2015 we fasted with juice (80% Vegetable with 20% fruit) for the last day of 28 days straight, during this time I only had my juices and water, I gave up my cups of tea even though I had black tea with one Sugarine tablet, I didn't want anything to interfere with my results, so many professionals say that having a sugarine or sugar substitute can effect your weight loss efforts so I couldn't have that, I was on a mission.
The next morning I went and had my full blood tests so I could have them ready for my doctors visit in 2 weeks time, to be honest, I could have kept going with the fast, I got to the stage where I didn't miss the food at all in fact I remember the first day we ate I was craving my juice instead, anyway we juices and included sensible meals at least once a day, we went to Armidale and took our juices with us and we ate out (not a fan these days) and we still managed to stay on track. September 14th 2015, my doctors visit, I had been to the doctor 6 weeks earlier and he had written me the script for LIPIDIL (cholesterol tablet) the doctor thought I was returning to see how the new tablets were going, he was extremely happy when I entered his office, as he was going over my results and commented that he didn't think the tablets would work that well, my cholesterol had dropped from 7.7 to 4.6, when I told him that I hadn't even filled the script, he wanted to know how I got it down so fast? so naturally I told him that I had found my magic pill and it is vegetable juice fasting, he was astounded with my diabetic control and my cholesterol and not to mention the 8 kilos I had lost, more so when I told him that I had also stopped taking my pills after the first 5 days, he just said that I would have to be careful not to let my calcium levels drop and my B12 but other than that, his words were " there is nothing more I can do for you!" under different circumstances (like if you were really ill) you would hate to hear your doctor say those words, but in my case it meant I was in optimum health. So there is my story of my experiences with the juice fast, but my story is not over I am still juicing, in fact I started a reboot yesterday, mainly because I have been to 3 weddings in the last month and I wanted to kick start my weight loss again, yesterday I loss .5 and today I loss .6 great beginnings, I plan to go 10 days this time around. I have to say that once you have done a 28 day fast, a reboot is easy, even when you have a house full of people eating steak and potato bakes for tea. Well as Joe Cross would say "Juice On!" I would like to add "Keep on Keeping on!"
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Kim M
12/11/2015 00:54:36
What are your favourite vegetable juice recipes?
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Wendy
16/11/2015 10:00:25
Hi Kim, my favourite juice is the mean green which is ...celery, cucumber, english spinach, green apple, lime, lemon and ginger, I always make an extra mean green up and then at the end of the day I make a smoothie up using banana, avocado and the serve of mean green, this makes a very filling and nourishing drink to end the day, we call it our sunday roast ha ha
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Wendy MeersI am a mother of two grown daughters, 3 beautiful grand-babies. Retired freelance Web Designer and a Sugar Free - Juicing Crusader& Keto supporter Archives
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