Juice Feasting in Winter? Bad idea?

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Permalink Reply by BADASH climber on November 30, 2008 at 11:04am

Personally, I think you would freeze your butt off if you did a juice feast in the winter...

Why don't you jumpstart by doing a SMOOTHIE feast? maybe a green smoothie feast?!

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Permalink Reply by nycgrrl on November 30, 2008 at 11:15am

in terms of the coldness factor, how would this differ? by adding ginger etc to the smoothies? thanks. I think it might be easier to do a smoothie feast myself, as I have a Vitamix and make smoothies a lot anyways.

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Permalink Reply by BADASH climber on November 30, 2008 at 11:53am

...because you are getting more fiber and more SUBSTANCE to your meals. When you are JUICE feasting, its just really liquids... but smoothies are more like MEALS, you know?

Raw in the winter is going to be cold no matter what, especially in NYC! But I would definitely say that smoothie feasting would be more optimal than juice feasting... and it would still jumpstart you back into raw! =)

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Permalink Reply by Amanda on November 30, 2008 at 11:11am

I don't think the winter is a time to fast, it's not in aligment with your natural cycle living in the city which is very cold, it would probably decrease the actual purpose of a fast, which is to heal and rest. I would wait until winter is over

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Permalink Reply by nycgrrl on November 30, 2008 at 11:15am

thanks. you might be right. maybe do a liquid feast, so i can have some warming raw soups.

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Permalink Reply by Gil on November 30, 2008 at 12:02pm

thanks for posting. i was actually wondering the same thing this week. I feel like I need to do something to jumpstart the long nyc winter.

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Permalink Reply by LOVEBUG on November 30, 2008 at 11:15am

i live in new york and was thinking of doing one in january. (i'd incorporate green juice, green smoothies, and tea)...but if i do it, it will be the week i am on vacation and have plenty of time to rest (under the covers!)

i can see how juice alone might not be such a great idea in the winter. i'm glad this was brought to my attention! :)

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Permalink Reply by VOID on November 30, 2008 at 11:28am

Hey,

Well, firstly good to hear from you, havent seen you around for a while. Its nice to have you back. Secondly, I wouldnt really recommend a juice feast at all. I mean, what would be your desired intention? To increase detoxification?

Juices contain no fibre, and since all fruits and vegetables are high in fructose, a kind of sugar, this is significant. Fructose in the absence of fibre, is not properly recognised or processed by the body, so it gets sent to the liver to be eliminated. In the liver, it is treated like alcohol, and cannot be properly dealt with or eliminated, so it gets stored as fat in the liver. Juices, even carrot and beetroot juices, have been shown to contribute to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and cirrhosis, which is irreversible damage. I do not recommend juicing full stop, especially not in a juice feasting sense. This is like being an alcoholic for 2 months, but without the buzz.

I would agree with BADASH that green smoothies would be the better option for you. Much healthier, and would make it easier for warmth too. There is no reason that you should be colder than normal if eating high raw. The only reason you are likely to feel colder is if you are not exercising, and/or not eating enough calories. I know from talking to you previously that you have often significantly undereaten on calories. Perhaps this is still the case? Are you still exercising as much as you were? Its glucose that will help us maintain our body temperature, so as long as youre getting enough you should be fine. This will be much easier when eating smoothies than drinking juice too.

Plus, like Amanda says, this is not the time to be doing fasting type activities. When you do a fast, your body temperature actually decreases below the normal level, so if youre cold, this will only make you colder. My advice would be to eat enough calories and to live in ways that dont require 'fasting/feasting' activities. People invariably, despite their best intentions, go back to eating the way they did before the fast/feast rather than adopting new habits. Take up new healthy habits and you wont need to do a feast. MSoothie feasting in this sense will help you on this way also, since you can simply incorporate this as part of your new dietary practise.

Take care

Adam x

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Permalink Reply by mish on November 30, 2008 at 12:13pm

"I do not recommend juicing full stop, especially not in a juice feasting sense. This is like being an alcoholic for 2 months, but without the buzz."
REALLY? Green veggie juice... grapefruit + orange + dandelion + kale + spinach + celery + cucumber + cilantro + parsley ??? REALLY?

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Permalink Reply by lemoned on December 1, 2008 at 1:19pm

Wow, how come this sudden change? Just curious..any key event that made you back off from juicing suddenly?

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Permalink Reply by lemoned on December 1, 2008 at 6:43pm

Yeah I am reading those threads. But I also read a lot of positive JF stories.

From what I gathered before, David Rainoshek has studied [the effects of] juice feasting partially with Cousens' assistance and I would think that these topics (liver damage through fiberless, sweet juices) would have come up.

There seems to be one theory versus the other. I'd like to see what David Rainoshek says about this, it seems it never really came up in the global juicefeast forum.

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Permalink Reply by lemoned on December 1, 2008 at 7:01pm

Well I never had any weightloss/gain goals, so this part I did not really consider much. I lost abt 10 lbs during the 90 days and yeah, they came back and were welcome...but nothing out of the norm. Same weight now. I don't know about others, though...

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