Juicing For Weight Loss:A Guide

It often seems as if it is easier to win an Olympic gold medal than to achieve real and permanent weight reduction. But these juicing recipies for weight loss will help you shed pounds while enjoying the four benefits of juicing.

Drink one or two glasses of juice daily. In this quantity, you will consume the nutrients of about the amount of veggies and fruit that everyone has always recommended. The real advantages of juicing are the convenience and the increased nutrient value; even the very same juice bottled commercially will have lost many of the most volatile nutrients to oxidation and heat. Those are three of four of the juicing benefits -- freshness, maximum nutrition, and convenience.

The following recipes introduce you to the fourth juicing benefit: the unending variety available in juices you make yourself. Begin with this one from the Wonderful Juicing book:

Pineapple-Orange Rapture

four oranges

2 cups pineapple

1 sweet potato

Process in juicer. Stir. This is very high in vitamins A and C -- a great morning drink. Kids love the taste -- just don't mention all the ingredients. This juice by itself is pretty sweet, so employ it mostly for flavoring other juices with a high vegetable content.

You need to show some moderation with a juicing diet. Trying to lose more than 1/2 pound per week is probably harmful. That comprises of a diet of just juiced vegatables and fruits.

A juice fast of 1-2 days may be good for cleaning out your system and may help you jump-start a juicing diet for weight loss, but for the longer term, you must have adequate protein and fats, as well as the carbohydrates that juices do not give. And do not juice all the veggies you eat. You require lots of fiber to keep your intestines working.

Drinking the 1-2 glasses of juice daily will provide you not only with many basic nutrients, but it can give you a great deal of sugar. Juicing fruit or carrots will give you concentrated sugars. Diabetics or pre-diabetics need to be careful with these ingredients. Sticking more to the vegetables is a good idea for any weight loss plan. Vegetables, except carrots and sweet potatoes, are generally low in calories. Use the sweet ones sparingly to jazz up the vegetables. Here is another recipe:

Red-colored Wonder Juice

three carrots

one apple, cored

1 cucumber

1 beet

1 stalk of celery

Juice. Include some fresh ginger if you think this juice demands a bit of a zing.

Starting from this recipe, try including more veggies and less of the sweet stuff to lessen the calories and the effects on your blood sugar.

You will win a gold medal when you apply your own program of juicing for weight-loss. No matter how you do it, you will have weight loss along with all the juicing benefits of convenience, nutrition, freshness, and variety. Please mount the award stand now!