Earlier this week, Susan and I watched a documentary titled Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. You can read my full review here, but the 10 second version is it’s a film about two guys who reboot their diets, their health, and their lives by doing a 60-day juice fast.
24 hours later, we now own a juicer.
The documentary contains some dietary scientific mumbo jumbo, most of which I’ll spare you from. It’s explained that micro-nutrients come from fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and beans. Everything else contains macro-nutrients. According to the film maker, those foods containing micro-nutrients make up less than 5% of most people’s diets. I’d guess I eat less than that. Ideally, I think you’re supposed to shoot for something between %25-%50.
The filmmaker experienced extensive weight loss, something not wholly unexpected for a guy who drank approximately 400 calories worth of fruit and vegetable juice three times a day. In 60 days, the 300+ pound filmmaker lost 75 pounds. Perhaps even more important, many of the director’s health issues cleared up as well. By the end of the fast, he said he felt mentally sharper, too. I’m guessing he also developed an extreme appreciation of chicken fried steak with white gravy.
Is drinking glasses of juice a long term weight loss solution? No. I realize this. Susan realizes this. We are not dumb. The idea is to use this juice fast as a way to kickstart some healthier habits.
Starting tomorrow, we will be beginning a 10-day juice diet. Susan’s afraid to commit to 60-days, or 30-days, or 11-days. I feel like I could do 30-days pretty easily. Then again, we haven’t started yet. Along with the Walmart juicer, Susan also brought home 82 pounds or so of vegetables. We kept the receipt, just in case. (For the juicer, not the vegetables.)
So wish us luck, and forgive our crankiness over the next few weeks, days or hours, however long this lasts. My personal goal is to make it up until our Chicago trio (about three weeks). We’ll see where things go from there.
Good luck! I hope it works out well
Are you doing the diet he has on his website? I hope you don’t try the beet drink. That’s like drinking blood directly from a cow’s sliced throat. Some of those drinks I was gagging to try to get down. Even worse was the cleanup. What a stink.
I’m not sure which Walmart juicer you got but when I got mine I did a lot of research and the ones that my Walmart had, and the ones on their website, aren’t the kind you need to do this guy’s diet cause they won’t juice a lot of the stuff. I ended up getting a Juiceman.
The only juice I ever liked was apples and carrots. But even that was only good the first time. I could never get it to taste like that again.
Yeah, so good luck.
Good luck with this. I had a similar experience once cutting out all liquids from my diet except tap water for a period two weeks. At times the side effects may seem unbearable, but I encourage you to stick with it because the rewards far outweigh the in-the-moment discomforts. Concentrate on the long-term over the short-term.
Wish you had called me first before buying juicer been there tried that diet the juicer was used five times total. Hope you have better luck
My husband and I watched Fat, Sick….etc. last week, and ordered a juicer off of amazon this weekend. We are following the standard reboot from the rebootyourlife.com website. I am mainly doing the juice fast to see if it improves some belly issues. So far I’ve had a few headaches, am hungry fairly quickly after eating, and cheated with a spoonful of peanut butter. Don’t be discouraged, I think the juice recipes from the FS&ND website are pretty good! I definitely am not at the point where I have loads of energy, but I’m feeling pretty damn self righteous! Good luck, I’m looking forward to reading your progress. Misery loves company. My weight loss so far is 3 pounds.
You are going to disappointed with my next post, hah.