5LBs in 5 Days: The Juice Detox Diet. Jason Vale
many currently have: that juice is fattening. This is once again based on the misleading information put forward by many dieticians and doctors that ‘all sugars are the same and therefore juices will make you fat’. THIS IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE, as this email and thousands like it illustrate.
I have lost 5lbs and 2in off my waist and that is with only exercising 5 times. I feel lighter and cleaner on the inside. Pain from my osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia is nearly gone. Rosacea is cleared, whites of eyes are brighter and a nice natural colour to my lips … No going back.
Lynette
Osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia nearly gone and rosacea cleared in just five days. I am not suggesting for one second that this is some kind of miracle cure for all disease, or that if you have these conditions you will get the same results, but this is the type of thing that is happening all over the world as we speak. This ‘detox/diet’ is not simply about rapid healthy weight loss, but a way to give the body a chance to heal naturally.
Adult acne now GONE. Happy days! We had to travel to the USA for 5 days a week or so ago and without a juicer and staying at a hotel and hospital (for our son) the food choice was awful ... So the acne started coming back. But since being home almost a week it's gone again. Juicing is the way…
Denise
I used to be covered in psoriasis; I also had bad eczema and am more than fully aware of what it’s like to live with a skin condition. My psoriasis covered my neck and face and it’s no picnic living with that, I know. I personally managed to clear my skin by removing all the rubbish in my diet and putting in what nature intended in juice form. My skin took a while to clear as psoriasis is a bugger to shift, but here we have a case where this person’s acne went in just five days. I don’t wish to give any false hope to those with this condition, but this is pretty incredible and once again shows the healing power of the body once it’s given the chance and the right tools to work with.
Not only am I down 7.5 pounds but I feel fantastic! My mental clarity and patience has improved so much… And the BEST part is I quit smoking! I quit cold turkey when I started [juicing] … and haven't looked back since. I was so preoccupied juicing that I didn't even think about smoking.
Shannon
Another person down over 7lbs in just five days; once again illustrating the ‘condense success’ nature of this programme. Clearly the biggest side benefit this person had wasn’t the weight loss, but the fact they stopped smoking! This isn’t the first time I have heard this either; I have had many letters over the years claiming the same. If you do smoke, please don’t necessarily expect this to happen to you, but as nicotine only takes three days to leave the body and the actual withdrawal is no more powerful than that of caffeine, why not kick the cigarettes into touch for the next five days and see what happens after that?
10.5lbs down… Yeowwww! To celebrate my clearer skin, better mood and bags of energy I had a banana berry crunch! Yum. Even my hubby and work colleagues noticed a change in me; think the word glow was used!
Caroline
Clearer skin, better mood, glowing inside and out, and down over 10lbs in just five days. Not bad, methinks.
Lost 7lbs this week on the 5-day juice programme. In total, 41lbs gone since I started back [9 months ago], just a pound off 3 stone. Dropped 3 dress sizes, skin looks amazing, and it’s so great to be a size 12 again…
Joeli
Later in the book I will strip away all of the usual false arguments against juice diets, one of which is that once you finish the diet you will simply gain all the weight again. Many medical professionals claim it is not a sustainable way to long-term weight loss. This email is just one of thousands I have that says otherwise.
Well I feel like I've accomplished a lot this week: I lost 11lbs in 5 days! A lot of people said I'd didn't have it to lose when I mentioned that I was doing it, but obviously I did! (I am 6ft and reasonably slim). I did the 7 in 7 in January and lost 9lbs, but I exceeded that this week! I teach Pilates over 45 hrs week and have inspired a lot of my clients to try juicing! I love that juicing keeps me focusing on what I put in my body.
Christina
This lady did the 7lbs programme in January and dropped 9lbs in seven days; this time she lost a massive 11lbs in just five days. This is why I developed this programme. By removing one juice a day and adding in my SAB training (coming later) she condensed success and managed better results in fewer days, plus she got his weekend back!
I weighed myself last Tuesday night and was 19st 11lb (277lbs). This morning, 18st 5lbs. Yep 1st 5lb. (19lbs). WOW. That took me 6 weeks on my last diet! I cannot believe in 4lbs time I will be the lightest I have been in about 15/16 years.
Greg
This man dropped 19lbs on the seven-day juice programme. I wanted to add his story to this book to illustrate a very important point. Clearly this man didn’t lose 19lbs of fat, but he is 19lbs lighter than he was a week ago. All the body is ever looking to do is heal. By removing the junk coming in and replacing it with only the pure ‘live’ nutrient-filled juice contained within nature’s fruits and vegetables, the body can go into healing mode. This man was 277lbs; his body was not designed to be that weight, and was always looking for an opportunity to ‘detoxify’ itself. This is why in such a short period of time he had such dramatic weight loss. The body was finally given a chance to let go of unwanted crap, and did just that.
The weight loss was clearly not all fat, but it wasn’t muscle either; it was the body doing whatever it can to remove the ‘danger’ to its very survival. When all the junk coming in was removed, the liver, kidneys, lungs and bowel could finally get to work and do what they are always looking to do; remove the rubbish and heal the body. The removal of junk leaves the organs open to do their job and the juices can get on with helping the healing process by providing key nutrients. It also took this man over six weeks to achieve the same level of weight loss last time. As I mentioned at the beginning, I’m all about ‘condensed success’ and turning months into weeks – this is exactly what happened here.
My first experience of a juice detox and I am totally hooked; I lost ten pounds and feel fantastic, calmer, no more sugar cravings, am craving healthier foods, slept better, more energy and can’t wait for my next juice … It has transformed my life. Thank you so much.
Rebecca
This email represents thousands of similar ones with the same message. It is not simply about the initial weight loss (although 10lbs is not to be sneezed at!) but how your cravings change at the end. ‘...No more sugar cravings, am craving healthier foods...’ – isn’t that the Holy Grail? Isn’t that what we ultimately want, to change our cravings for junk into actually wanting healthy food? I get this more than anything else, and what you think you will be craving at the end of the juice detox is not what you actually crave. This lady also reported she felt fantastic, had more energy and was sleeping better.