Global Juice Feast 2008 (was Comparing Time it Takes to Juice)

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Good for you! Yes! Global Juice Feast 2008 starts March 1st!!!

http://JuiceFeasting.com

I highly recommend visiting that website and listening to this MP3

http://tinyurl.com/2yyfd7

for those interested

 

Well, I would call my own experience a modified juice fast since I

have been sneaking in some raw food toward the end. Unexpectedly, I

ran into some serious issues which made it difficult at times to go

completely soley juicey 100% of the time. But I've always maintained

making and consuming the juice, even taking my Vitamix to work with me

on my bike daily, which is a really amazing achievement for me.

 

I've been careful not to do bad food combining and try to let the

juice go through my system without conflicts with any small raw

snacking. You need to make it clear to yourself in the beginning what

you expect of yourself.

 

My juice feasting consultant, Yashpal, recommended I modify the juice

feast in the beginning and do a true juice fast (no oils or

concentrated proteins) for the first 7 days and that was really

intense. I never lost so much weight so fast. It was amazing to see

well-defined abs without a ton of directed exercise, that was a

surprise. Actually I was very concerned and my friends and family were

also scared a bit. Be prepared for that. I was fortunate enough to

have time off from work because I did not have much reserve energy.

But a true juice fast really isn't formally part of the

JuiceFeasting.com regiment. Its up to you want you are willing to do.

 

The colonic and enema regiments by themselves are a total trip and I

won't go into that here. Its safe to say that you will learn to become

way more comfortable with all aspects of your body and I think you

will really blow your mind on how amazing it can be to be a soul

living with directed intention on creating a new body for yourself,

and the resulting feedback coming back at you from what your new body

can do for you on a very spiritual level. Wow.

 

After introducing limited foods and select supplements (as part of the

Juice Feasting regiment) I got most of my energy back and at times I

felt like I was on an energy high. The surreal part was also that just

doing this regiment has seemed to really affect other people around

me. There were times when my work associates were tripping out on my

energy levels. In fact, several of my workmates decided to start doing

green smoothie and juice regiments of their own. And one of these was

a stubborn and cynical Rush Limbaugh type who has quite a big belly.

Total shocker! I would have never have guessed! Additionally, my mom

got a Vitamix and she is now starting on green smoothies with my

stepfather. She is such a diehard SAD diet person, I was totally

surprised! She raised me on Flintstones vitamins, meat & potatos

nightmare food combinations, cooked buttery vegetables and dairy. Her

whole world view is being shaken to the core with what she is learning

about food and the lies our culture throws upon us about what we

should be eating. (I just wish I could get her to shake the milk

habit. So many people are completely convinced they need dairy to get

calcium, its bizarre)

 

As far as the results:

 

*Juice Fasting has got to be the easiest way to lose weight AND

sticking to raw food. Re: weight, I didn't think I had much to lose, I

must have had some junk somewhere. That really surprised me. I never

seemed to lose any muscle, I was worried about that. In fact my

muscles became more defined and I haven't even been doing the

resistance training like I should be. Although I do work outside and

bike to work.

*Great way to really go deep in learning about raw food. The

JuiceFeasting.com site is totally amazing, the amount of material to

learn each day is pretty overwhelming. I really wish I could have

better access to the info there.

*Juice Fasting was the best way for me to really stick to being raw.

I'm just about to reach day 92, and I want to go to 100.

*The more raw I have gone the more mellow I seem to have gone in my

life. I think my testosterone levels have dropped as well the deeper I

have gone raw. This is not something I totally understand yet.

*I would not recommend starting this in the winter due to seasonal

availability of food around here. March is probably a great time to

start.

*I'm wondering if when I'm done with this I will remember much about

making non-Vitamix food. Juicing three+ times a day really makes it

seem so normal/natural. Its kinda weird.

*Definitely check out other people's juice feasting blogs for

inspiration. I have my own but its not much of anything:

http://people.tribe.net/Monkey_bucket

*A lot of food addiction issues came to the surface. Be ready for deal

with that.

*Beyond that, I really don't know what additional results I achieved.

I keep learning about things as they sneak up on me. I've got a

followup appt with Yashpal, we'll see.

*I may do another juice feasting, perhaps starting in late July of

2009. I think I can go deeper now that I have the first juice feast

mostly behind me.

*I feel so much more connected to so many of the raw food

organizations, health consultants and local groups. We are so lucky to

live in the Greater Seattle Area!

*I feel something is going on with my intuition and food. I haven't

quite put my finger on it yet.

*For some reason I want to get everybody to go raw and I feel totally

consumed with a passion to help people out. Perhaps this is just part

of my obsessive compulsive personality, but I think when you have

something special that has really transformed your life you want to

share it with others. I actually am in a state now where I feel

profoundly disturbed that others aren't doing green smoothies, raw

power drinks and doing juice feasts. I'm not kidding.

 

Recommendations:

 

*Make sure you read all of the JuiceFeasting.com guidelines and try to

educate yourself. There is so much to learn.

*I would definitely recommend getting a consultant during your fast. I

would go locally with Yashpal and/or Regan Golob. Actually, I like

both. Tom & Susan at Raw Vegan Source are also very good resources as

well as they have done quite a bit of fasting.

*Make sure you understand and practice good food combining.

*Tell people you know what you are going to do, its good to let the

universe know what your intentions are.

*Yashpal http://yashpal.com is scheduling a liver/gallbladder cleanse

I think sometime soon. You might want to check that out as part of

your program.

*Get enough sleep! Pamper yourself. Your body needs to spend a lot of

time and energy healing and rebuidling. I think I messed that part up.

*As far as supplements, I highly recommend the Vitamineral Green,

Waiora Natural Cellular Defense (zeolite), Marine Phytoplankton,

Vitamineral Earth, Intestinal Draw Formula, Nettles, Parazyme,

Chlorella, Wheat Grass juice, Essentially Oil, Extra Virgin Coconut

Oil, cayenne.

 

Hope this helps! Let me know if I can help with anything! Juice

Feasters unite!

 

Dano

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Thanks for the detailed reply, Daniel. It is quite something that

several people decided to begin their own green smoothie/juicing

regimen from seeing your own results. I would have considered that

other raw preparations would be more enticing than green & veggie

juices, for most people. Maybe when I've finished mine, others will

be likewise inspired. : ) Anyway I'm looking forward to some positive

results.

 

I read through everything that is on the JuiceFeasting website before

I decided to try it. I have been reading through the blogs and have

been enjoying reading those, as well, including what David and Katrina

post. I might do this feast again another year, but later in the

summer when there is so much more produce in season and cheaper.

 

BTW, Yashpal's website hasn't been updated since 2006, so it doesn't

provide info on his upcoming cleanses.

 

 

Blanc