Tipping the Balance

So, at just about the halfway point I am devouring green and red juices like there's no tomorrow and am becoming expert in cleaning the juicer, which continues to annoy me on a daily basis.

And I hope that some of you at least are enjoying the blog and that some have also been inspired to try it out for yourselves. I know an old friend of mine has and I had a long chat with her tonight about the programme itself.  So with this is mind, I thought I'd share some tips for anyone interested.

1 - Make sure the juicer is man enough for the job!  One for around £100 - £140 should be fine.  Phillips are a good range recommended by another juicing guru, Jason Vale, while the reboot king Joe Cross always uses ones made by Breville, but these are in the £400 category and probably too much.  A couple of weeks ago on holiday we went to a Food Festival and there was a mobile juice shack and they used the Phillips ones which they swore by and had never let them down.  Don't be tempted by cheap juicers; they burn out quickly and don't get enough juice out of the fruit and vegetables.

2 - Fruit will overpower the flavour of vegetables every time.  Therefore, a juice containing vegetables like spinach and kale won't taste of them if you add fruit like pears or oranges.

3 - When on a detox or juice fast, you don't need to take additional supplements as you will be getting probably more nutrients than you have ever had before.

4 - On a juice fast, drinking more green juices and water will increase weight loss.

5 - Joe Cross recommends "drinking a rainbow" every day, so make sure there are some red, yellow and green juices.  The most nutrients and healthy stuff are in the green juices.

6 - When buying fruit and veg, check with local greengrocers or in the "Reduced" sections of supermarkets as they will often have nearly out of date stuff very cheap. It doesn't matter what it looks like don't forget.

7 - Shop for a day or two at a time as you seriously will not have enough room to store any more.

At the end of this fast, I am undecided what to do.  I may do another 10 days or I may go to 2 juices a day plus a meal.  We'll see.  But as there are only so many juice pictures I can post, here are a couple of pictures of me now, as the weight loss now stands at 1 st 4 lbs.  Please ignore the coat hanger which looks like it is coming out of my head.