Diet on fresh juices: pros and cons, recipes
The freshly squeezed juice diet is a modern weight loss technique that has a huge following around the world.
In addition to the fact that the juice diet allows you to quickly lose weight, it is also very tasty. On a juice diet, you can lose one kilogram of excess weight per day.
Diet on fresh juices is regularly adhered to by eminent stars, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Salma Hayek, Gwyneth Peltrow, Blake Lively. Jennifer Aniston uses a cocktail to cleanse the body, which consists of freshly squeezed cucumber, cabbage, beetroot, ginger, garlic, carrot and celery juices. Juice is a drink that is perfectly absorbed by the body and does not lead to weight gain, which allows not only to cleanse the intestines, but also to lose weight. If you use seasonal fruits and vegetables to make juice, you can fill your body with useful vitamins, antioxidants and trace elements.
Naturopath Cheri Kalbom is the "progenitor" of the juice diet. She is confident that these drinks have healing properties. Cherie has developed a juice diet that not only helps to lose weight, but also to put the skin in order. It is good to use it if the dermis has become flabby, began to fade. A juice diet allows you to cope with this problem.
Freshly squeezed juice contains enough fiber to maintain normal functioning of the digestive tract. It does not dissolve in the intestines, retains water and, like a sponge, absorbs all harmful toxins, leading them out. Such cleansing of the body allows you to bring metabolic processes back to normal, accelerating them to the maximum.
Content:
- The basic rules of the diet on fresh juices
- Preparing for a fresh juice diet
- Fresh juice diet options
- Menu for 7 days of strict juice diet
- Juice recipes
- Exiting the diet
- Useful properties of some juices
- Pros and cons of a fresh juice diet
- Contraindications
- Reviews
The basic rules of the diet on fresh juices
The basic rules of a fresh juice diet:
- Juices in bags cannot be used for diet.
- The juice should be drunk through a straw.
- Before starting a juice diet, you need to consult a doctor.
- Before drinking, the juice should be diluted with water in a ratio of 1 to 1. The water should not be carbonated or sweet.
- The diet requires preliminary preparation of the body.
- In addition to the specified amount of juice, you need to drink 1.5 liters of water every day. It can also be green tea, herbal tea.
- After preparation, the juice should be consumed within 15 minutes. Do not store it longer.
- To prepare juice, you need to take only fresh vegetables that have not previously been frozen or preserved.
- Early vegetables often contain high amounts of nitrates and are therefore not recommended for juicing.
- The juice should contain pulp, so it should not be strained or clarified.
- Alcoholic drinks during the diet are absolutely prohibited. Alcohol provokes an increase in the feeling of hunger, which negatively affects a person's well-being and can lead to a breakdown.
Preparing for a fresh juice diet
To properly prepare for a fresh juice diet, the following principles must be followed:
- The diet must be cut back a few days before starting the diet. That is, the person will eat as before, but the portions should be made smaller.
- The menu excludes confectionery, pastries, sweets, smoked dishes, spicy and fried foods.
- There should be more fresh vegetables and fruits in the diet.
- Mayonnaise and sugar should not be eaten.
Fresh juice diet options
Cheri Kalbom offers her followers two types of fresh juice diet. One of them is designed for 5 days, and the other for 14 days. In turn, the menu for 14 days also has three options, all of which differ in severity.
In addition, you can arrange fasting days for yourself when they drink exclusively juice throughout the day.
One day juice diet
The one day juice diet is a preparatory option before starting a longer weight loss routine. It can also be used as a fasting day when only vegetable juice and vegetable broth are allowed. You should also drink clean still water and herbal tea.
You need to prepare the juice yourself. To do this, you can use the following vegetables: tomatoes, carrots, beets, bell peppers, herbs and parsley roots, celery. It is allowed to use juices both separately and mix them.
One-day juice diet menu:
- First meal: tea (herbal or green with lemon juice), or water with lemon juice and a glass of juice.
- Snack: herbal tea, vegetable juice, a glass of water with lemon.
- Main meal: mix of 8 different juices, or vegetable juice.
- Snack: heated vegetable broth, a glass of water with lemon, vegetable juice.
- Dinner: an avocado and carrot cocktail, or a glass of vegetable juice, or a cucumber and avocado cocktail.
Juice diet for 5 days
You need to eat on a five-day juice diet 5 times a day.
The menu is standard and does not change throughout the entire time:
- Morning (08:00) - a glass of apple juice and a glass of green tea.
- First snack (10:00 - 12:00) - mix of juices: lemon + orange + pineapple.
- Afternoon (13:00) - fruit and vegetable smoothie (apple, celery, carrot, beet).
- Second snack (15:00) - any juice, 1 glass.
- Evening (18:00) - 100 g of pineapple and a glass of pineapple juice.
- Before bed (21:00) - vegetable juice from tomatoes and carrots. It is permissible to prepare a mix of these juices.
When hunger begins to torment between the main approaches to the table, you can quench it with a glass of usually water or unsweetened green tea.
14-day juice diet
The 14-day diet is great not only for losing weight, but also for cleansing and rejuvenating the body. The main product is juice, in addition, you need to drink at least 8 glasses of plain water per day.
Sparing option. On the sparing version, it is necessary to replace only one main meal with juice. The rest of the time, a person follows his usual menu. You will not be able to quickly get rid of extra pounds on such a diet. Therefore, it is recommended to those people who want to fix the already achieved result, and not lose weight. Such a diet is allowed to be adhered to for a long period of time, because it does not provoke a metabolic malfunction and is not dangerous to health.
If you want to simultaneously lose weight, then each portion can be cut to 250 g. It is also advisable to exclude fatty and fried foods, sweets, sugar and salt from the menu, or limit their consumption.
Moderate option. If you stick to a moderate diet, then juice will need to replace two main meals: breakfast and dinner. During your lunch break, you should refuse meat dishes. If it is difficult to endure a vegetarian menu, then meat is allowed, but in limited quantities. Moreover, you can eat as many vegetables for lunch as you want.
Such a diet can last from 5 days to a week, but no more than 2 weeks. In 14 days, you will be able to get rid of 7 kg of excess weight.
Strict option. A strict version of the diet involves eating exclusively with freshly pressed juices. Drink only vegetable and fruit juices that contain pulp. They are not sweetened or salted.
The juice can be replaced with tea, rosehip decoction, non-carbonated mineral water. They also do not add sugar. Drink at least 2 liters of fluids per day.
This diet option is only suitable for those people who have good exposure. For each day of the diet, 1 kg of weight will go away.
Menu for 7 days of strict juice diet
For all 7 days, the menu should not include flour products, alcoholic beverages, coffee, sugar and confectionery.
| Day of week | Menu |
| Monday | Two liters of juice: carrot, apple and pineapple. They can be mixed or consumed neat. You need to drink 2 liters of juice throughout the day. If hunger is very strong, then it is allowed to eat one carrot or one apple. |
| Tuesday | Drink grape juice throughout the day. It can be red grape juice or a mix of different varieties of grape juices. You can also eat a handful of grapes, but only red. |
| Wednesday | Throughout the day, they drink multifruit juice: plum, cherry, apricot, apple, pear. If desired, you can add other fruits or vegetables. |
| Thursday | Juice on this day is prepared from different vegetables and fruits to choose from. |
| Friday | Monday menu. |
| Saturday | Tuesday menu. |
| Sunday | Thursday or Wednesday menu. |
Juice recipes
Carrot juice with cream
To prepare the dish, you will need the following ingredients:
- 0.4 kg of carrots;
- 40 ml low-fat cream;
- A sprig of mint.
Juice is squeezed out of carrots, cream is added to it, poured into glasses and decorated with mint.
Detox juice
To prepare it, you will need the following products:
- 2 beets and 2 carrots;
- Apple;
- 2 branches of celery.
Squeeze juice from vegetables and fruits, mix, pour into glasses and drink. This drink cannot be stored.
Vegetable juice
To prepare it, you will need the following products:
- A handful of spinach;
- 3 cabbage leaves and 3 romaine lettuce leaves;
- 2 stalks of celery;
- Half a bunch of parsley;
- Half a lime and a lemon;
- Small ginger;
- Two cucumbers.
Juice is squeezed out of all the listed products, put in the refrigerator for half an hour, and then served to the table.
Fruit and vegetable juice
To prepare it, you will need the following products:
- One pineapple and one pear;
- 2 carrots and two beets;
- One orange and one lemon;
- 2 cm of ginger root;
- Half a glass of pomegranate juice.
Vegetables are peeled, cut and passed through a blender, pomegranate juice is added to the resulting mass. Beat until it acquires a uniform consistency. Strain the juice through a sieve and serve.
Apple and celery juice
To prepare it, you will need the following products:
- Two green apples and two celery stalks.
- 30 g of ginger root.
Juice is squeezed out of the products, mixed and served.
Spicy Tomato Juice
To prepare it, you will need the following products:
- A liter of tomato juice.
- A handful of basil leaves.
- Two teaspoons of black pepper.
- To give the juice an attractive appearance, take celery.
Basil is passed through a blender, mixed with tomato juice and pepper, and decorated with celery leaves before serving.
Exiting the diet
To get out of the diet properly, you need to smoothly switch to solid foods.
Immediately after completing the method of losing weight, semi-liquid foods are introduced into the menu and only then they switch to solid foods:
- The menu of the first day of exiting the diet, in addition to juices, should be supplemented with a glass of low-fat yogurt or kefir.
- The next day, they eat boiled oatmeal. Porridge should be cooked in water, without sugar and salt.
- The next day, you can indulge in mashed vegetable soup.
Then vegetables are eaten stewed, in the form of a sote or stew. After 7 days, the diet is supplemented with seafood and fish fillets. A week later, meat is introduced.
Useful properties of some juices
Useful properties of juices:
- Parsley juice: treatment of genitourinary diseases, you should not drink more than 1 tablespoon of pure juice at a time. If you dilute it with carrot juice in 1 to 3 portions, you can relieve eye fatigue.
- Melon juice allows you to cleanse the body, remove toxins from it. It can be drunk with kidney disease, with a tendency to constipation, with dermatological diseases.
- Watermelon juice helps to eliminate edema, which were provoked by diseases of the heart and blood vessels, or kidney pathologies.
- Beetroot juice - stimulates the formation of red blood cells. They do not drink it in its pure form; it can be diluted with carrot juice.
- Grape juice helps to lower blood cholesterol levels, increases sweating and has a diuretic effect. It is good to drink it to improve mood, to increase efficiency, to get rid of stress as soon as possible.
- Cherry juice has an antiseptic effect, destroys staphylococci and streptococci.
- Pomegranate juice increases hemoglobin.
- Grapefruit juice is useful for high blood pressure, fatigue and osteosclerosis. Grapefruit juice normalizes sleep.
- Pear juice helps to destroy microbes and has a diuretic effect.
- Rowan juice fights against Staphylococcus aureus, it can be drunk with gastritis and hemorrhoids.
- Chokeberry juice helps to reduce blood pressure, reduces the intensity of toxicosis during pregnancy, fights viruses, and increases immune forces.
- Currant juice has a tonic effect.
- Apple juice helps to strengthen the heart and blood vessels, remove salts from the body, and increase mental performance. This juice normalizes the intestines, allows you to remove toxins from the body. It is good to drink it for constipation.
- Cabbage juice is drunk for diseases of the intestines and stomach, for pathologies of the liver and spleen.
- Celery juice is good for people with diabetes and osteoporosis. It is used for pathologies of the urinary system.
- Carrot juice helps to increase the body's own defenses, has a beneficial effect on the nervous system, improves digestion, and strengthens tooth enamel. It should be drunk by people with vision problems.
Pros and cons of a fresh juice diet
Pros of the juice diet:
- It is possible to cleanse the intestines from toxins.
- The body is rejuvenated and healed as a whole, metabolic processes at the cellular level are improved.
- The complexion becomes better, nails and hair are strengthened.
- Immunity rises.
- Symptoms of any disease become less intense.
- Metabolism returns to normal.
- A person loses weight without harm to health.
- The diet can be followed almost all year round.
- The juice is prepared very quickly.
- Diets are convenient for people who spend all day at work.
- The diet does not provoke a strong feeling of hunger.
- The calorie content of juices is not high, a person does not receive solid food, therefore his stomach decreases in size.
Cons of the juice diet:
- You will need to rinse your mouth thoroughly after each juice intake. The acid contained in them corrodes the enamel and can provoke the development of caries.
- You won't be able to stick to your diet if you don't have a juicer in your home.
- A strict diet is difficult to sustain.
- You should not practice a diet against the background of allergies, gastritis and stomach ulcers.
- Fruit and vegetable juices contain a lot of sugar, so they quickly saturate, but after a short time, the feeling of satiety is replaced by the feeling of hunger. This can be accompanied by dizziness and headaches.
- Drinking sour juices can cause ulcers or gastritis.
- An increase in blood cholesterol levels is possible.
- A juice diet can cause constipation.
- The juice diet is not balanced, a person does not receive proteins and fats, calcium and vitamin D.
- Dryness of the skin and the appearance of early wrinkles are possible.
- There is a risk of developing diabetes.
- Hair may start to fall out after the diet.
Contraindications
You can not adhere to a juice diet:
- Pancreatitis and diabetes mellitus are absolute contraindications!
- Children, lactating and pregnant women.
- Patients with cancer, epilepsy, hypotension and low blood sugar.
- Patients with anorexia and bulimia.
- Before preparing for surgery and during the rehabilitation period after surgery.
- During the treatment of any diseases, while taking medications.
Reviews
Dasha: I follow a juice diet three times a year, which allows me to cleanse my body. It is easy for me to carry it, the juices taste great. I really like to mix different types of juices. I squeeze them out on a juicer. I can't drink juice on an empty stomach, so I always eat light foods in the morning. You need to be careful with beet juice, it should be diluted. For 5 days it takes me about 2-3 kg."
Ksyusha: “I decided to lose weight with the juice diet before the vacation. It was hard for me, but in 5 days I managed to lose 6 kg of excess weight. I try to keep myself in shape and since then I have succeeded”.
Alexandra Nikolaevna: “This is not the first time I have followed a juice diet. When I tried it for the first time, my stomach started to ache. The next time I ruled out orange and grapefruit juice and the pain did not occur anymore. I do not advise you to sit on this diet for a long time, so as not to harm your digestive tract. But fasting days on a juice diet are very useful. They can be arranged several times a week."
Anna: “I am categorically against this diet and will not recommend it to anyone. I was losing weight on citrus juices, when suddenly I had severe stomach pains. I had to call an ambulance, it turned out that I had pancreatitis. From that moment on, I can't even look at orange juice."
Larisa: “After the juice diet my teeth began to crumble. The dentist began to figure out my diet. When I told her that I only drink juices and eat cereals, she strictly forbade me to eat like that. But in just 7 days I lost 4 kg"
The author of the article: Kuzmina Vera Valerievna | Endocrinologist, nutritionist
Education: Diploma of the Russian State Medical University named after NI Pirogov with a degree in General Medicine (2004). Residency at Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, diploma in Endocrinology (2006).
