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What is juice feasting?

Tomorrow is the start of my juice feast. I am excited, equiped, ready, but also a little scared. This promises to be a life-changing experience, and as much as we need change in our lives, we tend to feel threatened by it.

Let me first explain what juice feasting is. Some of you have expressed concern over this decision and I would like to set your mind at ease.  I’m going to quote from The Fresh Network Blog:

Juice fasting has been around for decades, and involves consuming only juices and usually much less than your daily calorie requirement meaning (a) you will lose weight pretty rapidly; (b) you will need a lot of rest and might not feel great as the detox can be intense, meaning that (c) you may not be able to work or carry out your usual duties while doing it; and (d) you probably won’t be able to continue on the juice regime for more than a month.

Then along came juice feasting.

On a juice feast you consume all the calories and nutrients your body needs; just in the form of juices (4-5 litres a day of them!) rather than solid foods.

Juice feasting is basically about supplying your body with EVERYTHING it needs, but in the most readily absorbable form. Your body has to turn everything you eat into a liquid anyway before it can use it, so you’re just relieving it of that work and freeing up the energy it would have expended on that - while supplying it with abundant vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, phytonutrients and enzymes.

So, now you may wonder why I’m juice feasting. There are several reasons:

1. Detoxification. A juice feast will bring about rapid detoxification.

2. Weight loss. This goes hand in hand with #1. Toxins are stored in the fat cells and on a juice feast fat is lost rapidly, getting rid of the toxins too.

3. It is a journey of discovery and will challenge me like nothing in my life has ever challenged me before. I want to prove to myself that I can do it.

4. It will be a bridge between our current, unhealthy diet and our new 90% raw diet, getting rid of cravings and developing a reliance on fresh raw produce.

5. It should clean out my intestines of years of accumulated waste.

6. I will be connecting with my body-mind, building a relationship of trust and respect.

7. It will teach me to listen to my body, to identify false hunger and to rest when needed.

8. I will relearn the art of taking care of myself, by practising my healing breath, doing visualizations and exploring my dreams.

9. Strengthening of my immune system.

10. At the end of it, I will be healthier than ever before in my life.

LET THE FEAST BEGIN!

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