FertilehealthyAiming for success, not perfection…

I love juice feasting!  It is transforming my life from the inside out.  I would like to see every person on the planet Juice Feasting, healing their bodies and wounded spirits, stabilizing their weight and experiencing the abundant energy and vitality that juice feasting brings.

Yet, I have been hesitant to encourage people to juice feast.  My reasons are two-fold.  I want to “protect” the concept of juice feasting, and I want to protect the individual.

Juice feasting is not a diet.  It’s an aspect of a philosophy about health and nutrition.  In order for you to get value out of juice feasting, you need to understand, and embrace the following truths:

• animal flesh is bad for your health and you don’t need it
• dairy is bad for your health and you don’t need it
• sugar is a drug and bad for your health
• caffeine, in all its forms, is a drug and bad for your health
• alcohol and nicotine are drugs and bad for your health
• food additives are bad for your health
• articial sweeteners are bad for your health 
• processed, refined food is bad for your health
• your body is designed to function on a wide variety of raw, unprocessed plant foods
• the key to weight loss is not counting calories, but balancing the endocrine system which controls all bodily functions
• when fed optimally, the body is able to heal itself from any just about anything – degenerative diseases, auto-immune diseases, obesity, niggly complaints, etc
• medicine, prescription or OTC, cause problems in your body and cannot heal you – they only suppress symptoms 

You need to ”take the red pill” (it’s all natural!) and realize that food manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, the medical profession, the fast food industry, the diet industry, and the media do not have your best interest at heart – it’s all about making money!   They want to keep you sick and alive.  That’s when they make money out of you.  Not when you’re healthy and not when you’re dead. 

Unless you are clear about the above, I believe that juice feasting is not for you.  If all you want to accomplish out of juice feasting is shedding a large amount of weight in a short period of time, I urge you not to do it.  Yes you will lose weight!  Yes, you will detoxify!  But unless you live the above principles after your juice feast, the pounds will pile back on, and they’ll bring a whole lot of new friends with them.  Eating unhealthy food after a juice feast is like throwing mud at a bride dressed in virginal white silk.

Juice feasting takes commitment.  If you work, you have to get up about 90 minutes earlier in the morning to make all your juice for the day, skin brush, have an enema, etc.  You will be criticized.  You will go through periods of very low energy levels and phycisal discomfort.  You may have intense emotional issues that you will have to deal with because you cannot medicate them with food, drugs or alcohol. 

Juice Feasting is about removing toxins from the body and healing.  I’ll say it again:  IT IS NOT A DIET!  I would hate for people to try it, give up and add it to a list of The 20 Craziest Diets In The World, alongside KimKims, and ingesting parasites!  This just creates more problems for the serious Juice Feasters, who then have to defend themselves against their well-meaning and concerned friends, family and colleagues.  Furthermore, I’m afraid that your self-respect will take another knock if you “fail” at juice feasting.  Unless you buy into the concept completely, failure is unfortunately the likely outcome.

Of course, I’m the first one to admit that Juice Feasting is a life changing experience and you will learn a lot.  Your attitude to food will change.  It is not about deprivation, it’s about nature’s abundance, connecting to the earth and your body.

In an upcoming post, I will give you some tips on preparing for a juice feast, should you still be interested in doing one, point you at some resources, and share some other ways of implementing healthier food into your life (i.e. green smoothies, etc).