Want to lose weight and plan to go on a juice diet? Here are some things you need to know about juice cleanses and some amazing recipes are found below too! Keep reading :)
Reasons for weight loss juicing
It’s safe.
It ensures your body is getting nutrition.
You aren’t deprived of foods you are use to eating.
It’s a great way to teach yourself to start eating healthier.
It keeps you full.
Two common ways to reduce your weight with juicing
1. Juice fasting
2. Juicing to replace one or more meals a day
Juice Fast
Studies shown that juicing and fasting are the safest and best way to reduce weight. A safe weight loss method should not only be able to take inches and pounds off, but also be able to supply the body with the necessary nutrients to keep in good health during and after. Juicing fills this requirement.
Juice fasting is the safest way to reduce weight. On average, you lose one pound a day. A 14 day fast would take off about 14 pounds if you follow some general guidelines on juice fasting. One popular and possibly easier way to shed a few pounds using fresh juice is to replace a solid meal each day with a glass of juice.
Replacing meals with juices gives you the nutrition you need, keeps you full, is not over-caloric, and is cleansing. Drinking fresh juices are much better than drinking canned juices that may have processed sugar added into them.
When trying to lose weight, we want to consume as little sugar as possible. Hence, it is best to drink vegetable juices instead of fruit juices as fruits are high in sugar.
Here are some vegetable juice recipes you can try:
1.Carrot Tomato Celery Juice
- 3 Carrots
- 2 Tomatoes
- 2-3 Celery Ribs
Juice the carrots, tomatos and celery together. Serve immediately.
A classic vegetable juice recipe.
2. Tomato Juice
- 4 Tomatoes (Roma are firmer and work the best)
Cut the tomatoes into wedges and feed through your juicer. Serve.
Use tomato juice to make your own tomato soup. Mixing in some celery and a little carrot and parsley make a great tomato cocktail.
3. Carrot Juice
Carrot Juice is suprisingly sweet, has lots of vitamin A. Its great for your eyes and skin and you can add it to almost any of your own vegetable juice recipes, as it is extremely versatile.
4. Sweet Kale Asparagus
- 2 Oranges
- 3 Kale leaves
- 1/2 cup Spinach
- 4 stalks of Asparagus
Peel the oranges and juice them with the kale, spinach and asparagus. Serve immediately.
Like all leafy greens kale has an amazing amount of chlorophyll, vitamin A and C. Asparagus has a lot of vitamin E (along with others, of course), and spinach has calcium and vitamin E. Needless to say, this will be good for your skin as well as getting in a good dose of nutrients for the day.
5. Broccoli Cabbage Cauliflower
- 1 Stalk of Broccoli
- Quarter head of Cabbage
- Quarter head of Cauliflower
- 2 Kale leaves
- 1/2 Lemon, peel ok
- 2 Apples
Core the apples and cut a lemon in half. Prepare the cabbage and cauliflower. Juice the broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale lemon and apples together. Serve.
Cruciferous vegetables are rich in endoles, the cancer preventative chemicals.
6. Spinach Watercress Juice
- 3 sprigs of Parsley
- 1 handful of Spinach
- 1 handful of Watercress
- 3 apples
Core the apples. Juice the apples plus all the greens together and serve.
This is a great blood cleanser!
7. Spinach Carrot Combo
- 1 handful of Spinach
- 6 Carrots
Cut tops of of the carrots if necessary. Juice the spinach and carrots together. Serve.
This is an alkalizing digestive juice.
8. Carrot Beet Juice
Juice the carrots with the beets and serve.
9. Pineapple Celery Juice
- 2 Pineapple rounds
- 4 stalks of celery
Core a pineapple and remove the rind. Cut the celery into 3 inch pieces Take two 1 inch rounds of the pineapple and juice it with the celery. Serve.
10. Cucumber Tomato Juice
- 1 cucumber
- 1 tomato
- 1 garlic clove, peeled
Cut the cucumber in fours. Cut the tomato in half. Peel the garlic. Juice together and serve immediately.
Alternatively, rather than a juice fast, eating healthily is another alternative! Find out some
good places to eat here!
