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Best Juice For Weight Loss


The consumption of vegetables and fruits is very beneficial for your health. Drinking fruit and vegetable juices is a good way to start losing excess weight. Fresh juices offer several benefits including improving your overall health. People who suffer from various ailments are advised to go on a vegetable or fruit juicing diet.

Juicing fruits and vegetables is also a great way to maintain a healthy body and a great shape. It is not only a delicious solution to help you with your weight loss goals but also an incredible way to increase your vitality and keep your stamina up.

So What Is The Best Juice For Weight Loss?

Fruit juices act as a cleanser for your body. Citrus fruits are usually the best cleansers. If you are not a fruit-eater, then the best way to consume fruit is to squeeze them. Freshly squeezed fruit juice tastes delicious and is just as healthy as eating a piece of raw fruit.

Fiber is lost when squeezing fruits so a healthier alternative is to blend the whole fruit. You need fiber to help cleanse the body and prevent many types of diseases. Fiber adds bulk to your diet and stimulates the digestive system. It is also a big help in reducing excess pounds.

Nature has blessed us with a huge variety of fruits. They can be combined in creative ways to come up with the best-tasting and healthiest fruit juices for you.

Vegetable Juices For Weight Loss

A technique to help consume the large quantities of raw foods we need everyday is through vegetable juicing. Vegetable juices are low in calories and fats yet rich in nutrients.

Regular vegetable juicing is a significant key to good health as it is an important source of nutrients that keep the body detoxified. It is a powerful tool to keep your weight loss goals on track. Vegetable juices also help us maintain a high level of vitality. Because vegetable juices have virtually no fat, itâ??s a good idea to supplement them with essential oils such as fish oil, flaxseed oil, and evening primrose oil. These healthy fats will aid in the absorption of certain vitamins and minerals.

Best Juice for Weight Loss

A number of studies revealed that vegetable juices contain more nutrients than fruit juices. Vegetable juices contain basically all the nutrients required to build and sustain the human body in prime health. They also help in weight loss.

However, you shouldnâ??t turn your back on fruit juices either. They are also rich in antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, and they are a good cleanser for the body.

Fruits and vegetables have different functions in the body. Combining these two is the most effective way to lose weight and gain various health benefits.

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Done

This is me waving my white flag to the universe. I am done being sick. I’m tired of being sick. I’ve tried pretending that I’m not sick- showing up half-assed to meetings, my work, and everything else, but I’m not there. I’m half there. My body is present, but I’m not me.

I’m tired. I’m fatigued. I’m coughing. My ears are stopped up. My head is full. And I’m tired mostly, of being sick. I try very hard not to tweet “I’m sick. I feel like crap. I’m still coughing.” even though sometimes I want nothing more than to curl up on the couch with blankets, the remote and a cup of hot tea. Guilt free.

I want a break from responsibility, my to-do lists, I want to check-out and sleep. But, I can’t, because people depend on me and I have deadlines. But, like my last posts said, I’m done with over extending myself. With stress. With piling more stuff on my plate. I know, deep-down that this sickness is my body forcing me to slow down. And I’m fighting it tooth and nail. Because I just want to go, go, go.

Here is one of the books I’m reading:

And it’s speaking to me. Because I don’t want to be sick anymore, and because I don’t want to be depressed, and I really don’t want to be sick down the road. If I’m annoyed at a seven week cough, I just don’t know how I’d handle diabetis, cancer or heart disease. I’d check out.

So I’m going on a special “diet”, I’m trying this out for a month.  I say diet loosely because this isn’t all about weight loss. And it’s not about eating anything I don’t like to eat. It’s about eat less of the stuff that I know makes me sick. Weight loss is a perk, I won’t lie, but I just want to be well. I want to feel well and be less sick.

Time to go grocery shopping…

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Juice Fasting Recipes


A lot of juice fasting recipes are available on different online sites as well as in published cook books. Juice fasting recipes aim to help you on your journey as you engage yourself in a detoxifying process for a healthier body.

To start off, you need to know the basic procedures as well as the necessary equipment needed in order to make delicious and healthy fruit and vegetable juice right in the comforts of your own home. Here is a list of some of the things you will need before proceeding to the juice-making process.

A dependable juicer that can effectively extract the juices from your chosen fruits and vegetables
A peeler will be necessary if you are someone who does not like to include fruit or vegetable skins on his juice drink.
Knife to help you cut and slice fruits and veggies
Food spatula to help you scrape off your juicer from left over chunks or froth of fruits and vegetables that you wish to incorporate in your drink.
Drinking glass
Ice cubes
Garbage receptacle

If you have all the necessary tools, you can now start making these three easy-to-make juice fasting recipes.

Juice Fasting Recipe #1: Apple-Celery Juice

Apple is known for being rich in Vitamins A and C which are natural antioxidants. It aids in proper digestion and cleanses the harmful toxins found in your colon. It is also rich in potassium that helps correct fatigue and body weakness caused by electrolyte imbalances. On the other hand, celery promotes good kidney function to help excrete body toxins in the form of urine. It is also known for its natural calming properties that relax your brain and body.

Ingredients:

3 medium-sized apples, seeded
2 stalks of celery, finely diced
Honey to taste
Ice cubes

Preparation:

Thoroughly wash the apples and celery stalks in running water.
Slice the apples in quarters and remove the seeds to avoid the occurrence of bitter taste.
Finely dice each celery stalk.
Run the apples and celery stalks on the juicer.
Using a spoon, remove the foam or froth prior to pouring your juice down to your drinking glass.
Add honey to taste.
You can also add ice cubes.

Juice Fasting Recipe #2: Cucumber Juice

Cucumber is naturally rich in Vitamin A, potassium, manganese, sulfur, silicon, and chlorophyll. It is known for promoting a healthy and radiant skin. Cucumber is also high in water content which prevents you from being hydrated while on a juice fasting routine.

Ingredients:

3 medium to large dark green cucumbers
A small piece of ginger
A tray of ice cubes

Preparation:

Wash the cucumbers. Check if they have traces of wax (some cucumber sellers put wax on these vegetables).
Peel the cucumbers.
Puree all ingredients including the cucumber seeds and small piece of ginger on the juicer.
Serve your cucumber juice cold by adding some ice cubes.

Juice Fasting Recipe #3: Carrot Juice

Carrot is a good source of beta-carotene and Vitamins A and C. It also acts as a good and natural antioxidant that fights off and removes toxins out of your system.

Ingredients:

3-4 medium sized carrots
Lemon or honey to taste
Ice cubes

Preparation:

Wash carrots thoroughly and trim off the ends.
Run it on your juicer and serve with lemon or honey drops to taste.
Add ice cubes if desired.