My Juice Fast - 56 Day Journey To Health Section 3

Hello everyone.

Here it is! Day 13. Tim again with my daily update. Yes, I have been doing this now for 13 days. 13 updates. So I have actually been 12 days on this juice fast and I am still doing well.

Overnight I lost .7 of a kilogram, which is 1.5 pounds. And that brings me to a total of 8 kg (17.6 pounds) total weight that I have lost since starting this.

What is really exciting for me is that in just those 12 days I am now 25% exactly towards my goal I set myself: a goal of 32 kg to lose in 56 days. And here we are on day 12, at the start of day 13, and I have already lost 8 kg. So I am basically already 25% of the way there. So needless to say I am very excited and happy the way things are progressing.

I haven't got a lot to report other than that I am feeling a little bit shaky today because yesterday I actually helped a lady friend of ours move one of Louise's - well, Louise's best friend actually, and that was quite a long day. So we actually hired a truck and went up there and I filled the truck up. And I obviously had to drive it to her new house and then empty it. So it was quite a long day!

Interesting enough it was the first day without being at home. So I had to take some juice with me, but I survived that day quite well, there weren't any real incidents there. There weren't any thoughts that I wanted to go off track or anything like that which is great. I felt really fantastic about that. And obviously to come off with a .7 kg of weight loss for that day was fantastic as well.

Tonight actually in about five hours from now we are going up to Louise's brother's and sister in-law's place, because it is their daughter's 18th and there is going to be a huge food - well, it's the first real family get together since I started this juice fast.

And the vast majority, pretty well all of them other than Louise's mother, aren't aware that I am doing this juice fast so that is going to be interesting as to how I go with that tonight.

There's going to be plenty of food, lots of laughter and so forth. So I will have to take my juice, which I am planning to already, juice and plenty of water, and get through that. The reality is when you are doing this type of juice fast that you do need to at some point socialize. You can't really lock yourself away the 70 days or 60 days or however long you are doing it for. Well I guess you could but I would rather, thinking about it now, I would rather, now that I have actually got some results, on the board. I am all confident that I will be able to do this.

I think if I had have done this on the first day that I was starting I would have been a bit reluctant. Because there might have been people saying, What are you doing that for? Don't worry about it! or, Just have one of these, or, you know, not realizing that they're not really being supportive. Because I guess people don't really understand what juice fast is, the feeling that you go through, and obviously at the early stages of this how hard it is. But now that I am feeling much more in control I don't think there's going to be any way that I will break the fast, no matter what is presented to me. Even if somebody puts pavlova, which is one of my favorites, right under my face and says, Here, have some, I don't think I'm going to be tempted.

That's how I'm feeling at this stage but I will certainly report to you and tell you how I went tomorrow. At this stage I'm looking forward to it.

Let's face it. Juice is really the healthiest drinks that you can get, aren't they. Juice and vegetable juice. They are so healthy for you. what I am looking for is an easy way of juicing celery. When I say an easy way I mean a way that actually tastes nice. Because I haven't been able to find that at this stage. And I haven't been using celery. I have been doing a bit of research and celery seems to be quite good for you, but at this stage I'm not really there.

Now apple juice recipes? No problem, because apple seems to mix in with a lot of things. But celery to me anyway has got such an overpowering taste. And from what I have heard people either love or hate celery. So if you have got a good recipe for celery, please let me know. I am open to trying it again.

All right, I'm going to leave it there for now.

I will see you tomorrow on day 14.

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Healthiest Drinks Video here if you wish.

Hi,

Tim, here again with Day 14, my Day 14 update.

I am still going on with this juice fasting plan. I am still managing to keep on track.

And I had a bit of temptation yesterday: drumroll, look away, look away now! Look at this picture if you dare.

This is what was in front of my eyes last night, this picture. And I was able to resist that. I had a feeling that there was going to be lots of nice - well, I say nice but it's actually not nice because it is very unhealthy for you, not healthy at all. This type of food was there and I was quite happy to take my drink and successfully managed to avoid any food whatsoever. And I wasn't really tempted, I have to say, even though that food would have in the past been something that I wanted a lot of. I was quite happy to go without.

So there you go. Goes to show you the power of this diet, being able to really resist. It's a fasting plan, a juice fasting plan is what I am saying. It is really working well and I am just not getting those urges for that type of food any more, which is fantastic.

Overnight my weight since yesterday has changed by .3 kg. I lost .3 which is .66 of the pound. Overall I have now lost 8.3 kg in 13 full days which is 18.3 pounds.

Earlier today when I weighed myself - shock, horror! The weight loss was zero. I had not gone up nor gone down. But then I did weigh myself after my walk again and I had lost .3kg. So I will take my weight loss however I can get it, even if I had to weigh myself more than once!

What I do do is, I am not silly about it, is I don't weigh myself at different times in the day or anything. I would always be within an hour or so in the morning, which is the time that I actually do it. I would not suggest that you start weighing yourself in the morning and then in the afternoon and then take the best results, or anything like that. I normally do it just in the morning.

Overall losing again .3 kg - and that is every single day of this diet so far (well I am saying 'diet' - wrong word!) I have actually managed to lose weight, which is fantastic.

In terms of my measurements, my waist is now down to 106 cm, which is 41.7 inches. Now that is still probably on the larger side. But, look, just two weeks ago it was 120 cm, which is 47.25 inches. So that's how much I have lost around the waist just from being on this juice fast in the last 13 days. Pretty amazing.

One thing I did do was I ate more fruits and vegetables yesterday. I am just wondering how much vegetable you actually need on this. I am conscious of the amount of sugar that is in these vegetables, ah, sorry in these fruits. Some fruits have got lots of sugar. But I guess the other thing that balances this is that it's all natural. It's not as if it's a man-made food. It hasn't been processed. So I am just wondering whether it would be an issue to eat, or drink, to blend more fruits than vegetables and just to have the fruit. So I am probably not at the stage where I want to risk that yet because I certainly don't want to risk going something going topsy-turvy and not losing the weight. But what I will do is to the bit more research on that and just see whether there is that scenario.

Because quite frankly I like fruits a lot more than vegetables. Even though I am... tolerating, I guess is the word... fruits and vegetables, I would much rather be having fruits, if I had the chance, and only fruits. So maybe I can cut down and have two juices per day, just fruit juice, and then the third (the main one) in the evening: that can be more vegetable maybe.

So, I will look into that and see how I go.

And just a word on goals. If you are actually looking to follow this, or if you are following this, I think it is important for you to have a goal. So is your goal: you are just trying to lose weight? Or do you have a specific amount?

If you recall when I started with this on Day One I actually had a clear goal, which was to lose 32 kg around 70 pounds in 56 days. And that has remained my constant goal every day. And in actual fact yesterday I was able to say that I have met, or had got to 25% of my goals. So I am at the point of saying that I am 25% of the way there.

So, if you're doing this, have you got a goal? If not I suggest you do have a goal. And really the goal is is not to lose weight, but it is to become healthy and thin, isn't it. So I am focusing on the positive things. This is the way I suggest you do it, looking at what you want to be when you get to the end of your goal. When you reach your goal you are going to be thin, you are going to be fit, you are going to feel vibrant and happy and so forth. So that should be your goal coupled with the amount of weight. Obviously that you want to lose as well.

I think that is important because I do see a lot around the traps people saying 'I am sick of being overweight'. And I think their focus is more on being overweight. So, you know, interesting.

Not a lot else to report today. I am still trying to figure out about juicing beets. Interesting enough in Australia we call them beetroot. I am just wondering whether beetroot and beets are the same thing. I'll have to actually find that because there's a ton of information on beets, as they call them in the US I think, but not a lot on beetroot. So if you happen to know that please leave me a comment and confirm it.

I do love to hear all your comments and I try and enter all of them. So if you are looking at this video please feel free to comment. Any questions and comments, encouragements, motivation, criticism whatever. By all means leave a comment. And I will personally answer all of them because I am very much pumped in my journey and if I can help other people on the way, so much the better.

And just in relation to beets: if anyone knows anything about beets use side-effects, I would also be interested to know as well.

The other interesting thing that I saw on the Internet, and I haven't actually found the link for it, is people looking for a substitute for apple juice. And I found that quite surprising for people doing this fasting plan because apple is for me: apple juice is the main part of the plan. So it's something where I don't know if that would be possible. Because apple and lemon are the two things that I really use to defuse a lot of bad taste. So if you have got any information on substitutes for apple juice, by all means, let me know.

Okay. With that said I think I will get out of here for another day. Tomorrow will be Day 15 which will give me my complete two week score. Because I will have been on this plan for 14 days as of tomorrow, 14 full days of being on it. So if that's the case I am going to be 25% of the way along in terms of time and as you previously know I am already 25% there in terms of how much weight I have lost.

So, still feeling pretty good, and I look forward to catching up with you tomorrow.

Thanks for watching,

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Fasting Plan Video here if you wish.

Hi, Tim here with my quick day 15 update.

It is only going to be a quick one today because I have got a busy day planned doing lots of things.

Just to let you know that I have lost a huge amount of weight! You are not going to believe just how much weight I have lost. Are you ready for it?

Point one of a kilogram, which is about 1/5 of the pound!

That's right, I am just nudging over the scale but I thought I wasn't going to make it. I thought this was going to be the first day that there was going to be no weight loss. And I am obviously hoping that that is not going to happen in the 56 days. But I did manage to lose point one of a kilo. And I think it was only picked up because the Wii Fit Plus has obviously got a fairly accurate scale. If I had put it on normal scales it probably would not have registered a change.

But, with that said, I am still feeling happy. I still have lots of energy. Still feeling good. And I'm certainly not going to let that dampen my spirits at all. I'm going to be rocking on.

All up I have lost 8.4 kg now which is about 18.5 pounds which is still pretty good.

So am I sitting here juicing celery? Ah, no, I'm not actually. I still can't get into celery. I know that people are telling me that there are lots of good benefits to celery but I just can't get into it at this stage. So I am probably going to try it. There is going to be a period of time where I'm going to try it. Well, I have tried it, I tried it early on but I just wasn't fully into it.

So I'm still feeling good. I'm still feeling happy and still feeling quite under control. I am not feeling like there's any need to be worried about trusting myself in front of food. Louise was making herself a tea last night. She very rarely drinks a cup of tea. She might have one or two a month. And she got the biscuits out.

And I said Oh, bring them over here. I wanted to test myself! And I purposefully had a smell of the biscuits, and%u2026 Nothing! There was no, Oh, I have got to have one of those. There was just nothing there. And I just feel fantastic about that, because my biggest problem in the past I think has been that, just getting a smell of something, "nice food" (which isn't actually nice), you know, like a biscuit, or a piece of pie or something that I just actually want some. But now I just got nothing last night with those biscuits at all which I think is fantastic!

A few questions for people who are interested in answering: I am looking for the best detox juices. As far as I know the best juice cleanse probably involves lemon and grapefruit. I am assuming that lemon and grapefruit are obviously, and lime for that matter, are very good from a detox point of view as well. But if anyone else has got any information on that.

I am cutting back a little bit on my lemon. I actually have found, and I think I talked about this in earlier videos, that lemon was really, really strong and I am cutting down on it. Well I had a discussion with my brother yesterday, he did the juice fasting plan for a few days but he hasn't got anywhere near the amount of weight loss that I've got to lose. So it's not really an issue for him.

And he mentioned that you shouldn't be, well you should be, when they, a recipe talks about using half a lemon, they aren't talking about the skin as well. Well I have always thrown in the skin as well. So consequently when I'm tasting it, it is far far far more lemony bitter then I would think is nice basically. So what he does is when he sees half a lemon, he doesn't include the skin. So I think that's going to make a huge difference and I'm going to try that with my lunch and evening juices just to see what it's like. Putting in a lot more lemon but without the skin and I will let you know how that goes tomorrow.

I don't think there's a lot else to report. I did my exercise today. I actually managed to walk further. I can actually tell you how far I walked. I'll get the trusty iPhone out. And I will put the stats up. I haven't got the stats in front of me as to how much this will be in miles but I'll put that on the video, once I edit it.

I actually walked for over one hour and one-minute, and did 5.6 km. So that's an average speed of 5.4 km. You can see the miles on the screen there now (3.5 miles). That's pretty good and I felt that I was walking a lot faster. The last couple of days I felt that I wanted to pick up the speed and I actually did a bit of jogging as well, believe it or not. So I did three or four stages in that hour of just probably only a minute tops of a jog. But it felt good. It felt good. I'm really starting to want to wind it up and go on a little bit faster. So this is all the juices kicking in there and helping me. So I think it's fantastic.

All right, I think I am rambling on so it is time to end it there for today.

Thanks for watching. I'll see you tomorrow.

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juicing Celery Video here if you wish.

Hello Tim here with my day 16 update.

Yes, I am still on my juice fast plan. Juicing vegetables and having a good time on this juice diet. Whoops, it's not a juice diet, it's actually a juice plan. I don't like using the word diet because I've got negative perceptions - to me, dieting is a negative thing. I guess because I have been on multiple diets, many diets over the years and failed. I don't want this to be at diet. So I am calling this my juice fast plan. And so far it is working quite well.

Overnight, or since the last time I weighed yesterday, I have lost .5 of a kilo, which is about 1.1 pounds. And overall now that is 8.9 kg, which is just under 20 pounds, about 19.6 pounds that I have lost since starting this.

And incidentally my original goal was to lose 32 kg which is around 70 pounds. And so I have still got just over 23 kg to go, which is about 51 pounds. So over all I would have to say I am pretty pleased with the way things are going. As you know, the weight is coming off. I would like it perhaps to be coming off a bit faster, but yesterday I think was the smallest ever weight loss. It was only point one of a kilo, which is about 1/5 of one pound. Very small amount of weight loss. But it was still weight loss.

So today it is kicking back in at half a kilogram off, so 1.1 pounds. I am happy with that. So I will just keep working away and see how I go. This process of juicing is not particularly hard. You don't need any sort of high industrial strength juice or anything like that. A basic juicer that you can get from your supermarket is all you will actually need. I use the Breville Fountain. I think it's called the Fountain Plus in America. It is a very basic juicer. And what I am doing is just vegetables and fruits.

I am trying to mix them up. In the morning I tend to have the fruit only. So I will stick to something like, I like multiple combinations, so I will have: grapefruit; I will also have watermelon; rockmelon; apples; a few strawberries. I think that's about it. And that tastes very nice. Occasionally I will have some pear as well. That all mixed up together is very nice. I would normally have that for breakfast and sometimes I will have that for lunch as well, or I will try and add some vegetables to it.

So the vegetables that I have: this would be traditionally spinach, broccoli and sometimes beans, although I am finding beans, even though they are high in protein which is the reason that I have selected them, they don't tend to juice very well, in terms of... there's not a lot of juice, there's not much return on the amount you put in. So I find that you put the beans in and you only get a small amount of juice. So they are the two vegetables that I stick to, and also carrot.

So my midday meal, my juice fast drink, is not anywhere near as much variety of fruits. I tend to obviously go for the apples still, and try and do a lemony type taste, (or grapefruit), which will get rid of that taste of the vegetables that I don't like. And that seems to work quite well..

And then in the evening I try and do mostly vegetables. Just a little bit. You know a few basics, definitely apples and some lemon and grapefruit just to defuse that taste little bit.

And in terms of what I am drinking it's only three times a day. I find that I don't need to drink any more. There's lots of research will suggest that you need to drink a lot more than that. But I'm finding now that I am getting into a bit of a ritual here, that three a day is comfortable. The first at breakfast I often don't have that until 9:00 or 9:30 in the morning because by the time I've gone for a walk and then had a shower and so forth, time has kicked on and I am not feeling the hunger.

Then again I never felt hungry generally. That's a pretty common symptom if you are overweight. I am sure if you haven't started a juice fast and you are looking to do this and you are overweight you are probably not that hungry at breakfast time. That the majority of the research that I have found suggests that that is the case.

My biggest danger period was the mid afternoon, mid to late afternoon, evening that this that's when I would binge too much and eat too much of the junk food..

So anyway I am not that hungry at breakfast. So by lunchtime I am still not particularly hungry. I am not feeling that hunger. And it gets sometimes to 1:00 or 1:30 and I think okay I could have something to drink. I could have something to fill the stomach a little bit but I'm not particularly that fussed. So I will have a normal juice then.

Incidentally, I am drinking water throughout that period of time. I am drinking quite a lot of water. But nothing else. I know some people are talking about drinking green tea. Green tea has got caffeine, so I don't suggest you do that. That's my personal suggestion.

Obviously you need to research this yourself and come up with that decision. I have really gone cold turkey in the sense that I have gone off everything other than the juice and water. That's the only two things that I am drinking at the moment. No coffee, no milk anything like that. Although you could probably get away with it, to me is that is a little bit - if I'm going to go this radical, I may as well go the whole way and actually do it properly and get the maximum results. That's the way that I look at it.

So anyway. By 1:30 sometimes I am still not particularly hungry. But I will have my juice and I will feel quite full after that. And then at 6:30, sometimes even 7:00 I will have my juice in the evenings.

Very interesting about the hunger. It is a different type of hunger altogether. What I think it is is that cravings versus hunger. I definitely haven't got cravings for any type of food any more at all. The only thing I get now is just a "yes, you are hungry now, have something" as opposed to those really strong cravings that you have for junk food. It just goes to show you how much crap is in these junk foods for them to have that sort of pull over you. All the sugar and processed fats and processed whether, whatever else they are putting in these foods, are really quite unhealthy and just the fact that I have been off those for that period of time and that I have lost all those cravings. So it is a wonderful feeling.

And even after going from 6::30 in the evening until 9:30 the following morning before I've eaten. That's a long, long time for a fast in terms of breakfast - break fast. And I am still not particularly hungry. So is really quite interesting.

I think what is going to happen is over time, as time goes on, I am going to find that I'm going to be more hungry in the morning. Because that is the natural state. For example my nephew is five years old, a bit of a tearaway, and runs around and tears up the house when he is here (he does stay with us every now and again). One thing I have noticed, very interesting. And this is something you can do if you've got young children around: just assess how they get hungry. And in the morning, for example as soon as he gets up, in 10 min, he is hungry. He wants to eat something.

I think that is the norm, generally speaking, because you have gone all that period of time without anything, you need some food and your body should be telling you to eat up. So the fact that I'm not getting those signals yet tells me again that I need to keep going through this process. Because I haven't been totally flushed out and so forth. So actually I hope I am going to be waking up hungry because that is a good indication, or getting hungry soon after waking up, that would be a good indication that I am back on track in terms of my body, that my body has really sorted itself out from that hunger point of view.

So I really think that my addictions, largely, at this stage are cured! I know that's pretty early to be saying that only on day 16, but I don't think I have ever felt so in control of my appetite and my hunger and my cravings as any time in the last 30 years that I have been overweight. So I'm going to keep at it. Even though sometimes it is a trouble to think wow, I have got 40 days before this juice fast is finished, finishes. The fact that I have made so much progress... nearly 9 kg, nearly 20 pounds in the first 16 days. That is very inspiring to myself to keep going..

Now your comments and suggestions and hints and tricks are also really, really - I love them, thank you, I really appreciate them is what I am trying to say. Please do take the time to leave any comments, and questions, criticisms anything along those lines. Because that helps me function and really helps me want to power through.

One of the reasons that I did this actually, the videos every day, was that I wanted to hold myself accountable, so that there wasn't any way that I could back out. So the more people that I am interacting with every day, by entering your comments, and replying etc, the less likely it is that I'm going to quit.

And I would like to think that there are people there who are starting this, perhaps only just started this juice fast, or you are thinking of doing it. I'm hoping that the videos that I am putting out each day are going to be inspiring for you, so that when you decide to make the decision to do this, if you do decide to, you can see that here is someone who has sort of, the whole step along the way, the whole process along the way, how he's feeling each day, what was happening, how much weight he lost, so that you can get an idea what sort of results you're going to get. and also you are going to know how you are going to feel uncertain days, and any roadblocks and how to get around them and so forth. So that is what I am doing them for.

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So please keep those comments coming. I notice they are starting to build up now. I have got a small stream of people who are looking and I obviously want to expand that. I want hundreds of thousands of people to be following this! Let's get the message out there that juice fast can actually be the final 'diet' (I am using a bad word, but...) final way for you to get down to your goal weight. You won't have to go anywhere else. You won't have to do any other diet plan or anything. This is a totally natural way for you to heal your body. And it is a fantastic feeling and I want lots of people to know about it! So if you know anyone who is looking to do something like this, or should be doing something like this, if you feel that they are overweight, please send them to my videos and I hope that I can help them as well.

Okay, I'm going to leave it there for now. I will see you tomorrow for day 17!

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juice Fast Plan Video here if you wish.

Hello, it's Tim here with my Day 17 update.

I am still on my juice fast and I have lost point one of the kilogram, which is only 1/5 of one pound. That brings my total weight loss so far to 9 kg which is just a fraction under 20 pounds.

So, still going quite good, and all on track.

What I wanted to do in today's video is just talk about, a little bit about juice fasting in general, because it seems from the comments that I am reading in my previous videos, there is a bit of misunderstanding on what juice fasting is.

I will start off by saying that juice fasting is actually something that has been done by people, you know, various religions and so forth, for thousands of years.

So this is not a new, 2011 type scenario. It is something that has been done for thousands of years. And it is actually healthy for you. Now some people leaving comments are suggesting that there are healthier options. If you take a step back and think about it, is there actually a healthier option then for you to consume 100% natural fruit and vegetables? And no preservatives, no chemicals, and goodness knows what else that companies are putting into our foods these days. You are avoiding all of that, and the reality is that people are actually getting cured from medical problems and complaints just by juice fasting. So please don't think that this is unhealthy or be worried about me being unhealthy and not doing things the right way.

There is an argument to say that it is extreme. Yes, it is certainly extreme. I'm quite happy to say that, yes it is very, very extreme and perhaps it is not for everyone. Certainly the 56 days is not for everyone. But, you know, even the short term past, half a day or the day, one or two days, what I am saying is one meal a day consuming juice could start actually helping you.

As I have said there is lots and lots of benefits to juice fasting. And it will actually help you to get healthier. There are people who have actually had medical conditions and they go right through and at the end of their juice fast their medical condition has been cured by the body. Because the body has got a natural inbuilt power to heal. So the fact that you are giving yourself fruit and vegetables is you are giving your body every chance it has to work on healing you and fixing any conditions you have got.

So if you're talking diabetes, all sorts of problems along those lines, that people as a byproduct to juice fast - they are actually getting healed by that.

So you might be asking why are they getting healed? Well, the main reason is that you are giving your body fantastic nutrients. All the nutrients it needs, if you are having the right mix of fruit and vegetables, and because it is in the juice form the body doesn't have to expend a lot of energy digesting it.

Because one of the areas that your body does invest a lot of energy in doing is digesting your food. Particularly processed foods, unhealthy foods, fast food, those types of foods. But even things like a piece of steak take hours for a body to go through and digest and that takes energy. So your body is actively working on that. And if you think about that alone, just the fact that you are going to be on the juice fast is going to help your energy.

But the other thing of course in lots of food these days it's becoming increasingly proven that there are lots of toxins. For example in some of the processed foods that you can buy in some of the oils and so forth trans fats and so forth are very, very unhealthy and not really good for your body.

Now what does your body do if it can't get rid of those toxins?

It actually wrapped up in layers of fat. So when you are overweight you have actually got a massive amount of toxins in your body that your body is protecting, so that is not doing you any dramatic and injury or dramatic harm to you by wrapping it up in that. So, as you are losing your weight (any form of weight loss not just juice fasting, but in particular I am talking about juice fasting) you are getting rid of all these toxins.

Now by getting rid of all these toxins your body is then freed up. It doesn't have to work on getting rid of these toxins and digesting lots of really bad food for you and trying to deal with all this stuff, all this damage that you are basically causing your body by keeping these types of foods. It is just getting nutrition in a juice format which is ready to be immediately - there is still some digestion that is involved, but it's very minor compared to fast food or a piece of steak or something of that nature. So because of that, the actual nutrition gets into your bloodstream quicker and then your body is freed up. It has got other things to do it can use its time and energy in other areas. For example getting rid of the toxins and so forth.

And over time that is what you are doing. Not only are you losing weight. Losing weight is just one benefit, one side-effect if you will, from the whole process. But you are actually detoxifying your whole body. You are splashing out all the toxins and all the bad stuff making you healthier and at that point of course you are going to be healthier as well.

To give you an example, I am an asthmatic. And when I started this on day one I had a little Ventolin spray - I will show you what I am talking about - I have got one of these things, which are probably seen before and I also use one of these. This is a Ventolin or Asmol is called. And this one is Flixotide.

Now, what they are is they are basically drugs for asthma. And since starting this, since about day eight, I haven't had to use those any more. Prior to that I would not say that I was using it every day but I was a regular user of those drugs. Now what I used to do was when I felt like I had asthma I actually had to take it. I actually had that and then I felt better. My lungs weren't were restricted and I had to do it. But since about day eight I haven't had to have that virtually at all. And the reason is, yes some of that has got to do with the weight loss, but I am putting less stress on my body. There is less stress on my body now because there's less weight. There's less wasted energy in looking after trying to process all this unhealthy food.

And because I am just eating raw fruits and vegetable juice, which is extremely healthy, the body has just got more time to deal with other things, and you can start healing. And so consequently my asthma is going. So it's only on day 17 and I am already feeling a lot better from an asthma point of view, let alone the other facts that I have got a lot more energy and I'm feeling better about life. So these are the benefits the juice fasting can give you.

But look don't just believe me, do the research for yourself, and you will find that there are tons of people who actually agree. And there is lots of evidence that you can find yourself of people who have been through this. I am certainly not the first person to do this. And people have completely cured problems with their bodies. Just by juice fast.

Now you don't get all these benefits by doing a traditional weight loss.

Another question I saw there was people suggesting that a better way to lose weight might be just to keep good for five or six days, then on the seventh day eat what you like.

Now, I used to be a big believer in that. I used to be a believer that you could sort of get away with that. And, yes I was overweight, and I stayed overweight for the whole time because that was my belief. I'm changing my thought patterns now and I am starting to think that, no, that is not possible. Because the food that you like, I am assuming from the comments, from that comment, that he's talking about junk foods. You know KFC or McDonald's or those types of foods that are unhealthy for you. The foods that you like have got toxins for you and are unhealthy for you. So yes one day a week you could be doing that. But let's take a step back here do you really want to be doing that? Do you really want to be putting unhealthy food in your body. I think it's time for us all to really take a step back and really just have a look at the food that we're putting into our body.

I am certainly doing this and I am thinking well look I don't want to go back on these habits. I don't want to go on this juice fast and then at the end 56 days just decide well I'm going to go back to where I was before and then maybe in a year or two years I will have gained all the weight again. This is a life change. And I think this is what people have to realise now. If they really want to take yourself to the next level and say look I am sick of how I am. Now if you're overweight like I was I decided that I had had enough. I didn't want to be the person I was any more, in terms of my weight. I was unhappy. I had tried lots of diets in the past and they hadn't worked

Yes, I will admit, I had an addiction to lots of different types of foods. So the ice creams, the chocolates, the other types of fast food that I have mentioned before. But that's a bad thing. So I think it is a fact now that we have to start saying I'm not going to go back to my old habits. And to juice fast of course is a great way of doing that. Because you are totally eliminating that from your body for a period of time. So, in my opinion, if you are looking to diet, and look, you can get some good results. I have lost weight before. But invariably I have gained it again. Or I have reached a point where I don't think to be able to lose any more.

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And that the old traditional diets where basically I've gone through and just tried to diet for a period of time, or tried to keep some of the foods that I like, again, that I "like" - in other words that I have got used to, food that I am addicted to, but not food that's good for you. So I have tried to keep those in my diet and over time I can do it for a period of time. But what invariably happens is it's like a slingshot. You know, slingshot effect. You can do it for the period of time, but eventually you have to let go of the rubber, and then and you are back to where you were before. And your weight has gone up.

The reason that people are gaining weight these days to a large degree is not as simple as calories in and calories out. Its the type of food that you are eating.

And the fact is, in today's modern society a lot of foods that we are eating are processed. It has got all sorts of things that we know, and even more stuff that we don't know that is bad for us that is in there, because companies are not interested in our health. They are interested in, basically, you coming back again and eating more of their stuff and buying more of their products. So do you think if they could find something that would make the food more addictive, they would put it in their products? Of course they would! And of course they do!

Now the reality is with these companies they are there to make a profit. They don't care about your health. There's no one out there that to a large degree - I am really getting fired up here, because I really want to get the message out.

What I am trying to say is that there's not a lot of people out there who are worried about your health. You need to take control of it. And I think the only way to do that is to go cold turkey.

Yes, it probably the hardest way to do it, but if you really want to get rid of your addictions once and for all and you really want to lose this weight you really need to take ownership of this problem and say look this is my problem. It's not my doctor's problem. It is not anyone else's problem. I have actually got this to solve this.

And that's why I have done this juice fast. Because literally detoxifying my whole body, getting rid of all my addictions. I have talked about this and previous days now I haven't got any feelings of addiction to these other types of food. And at this stage I have actually had chocolate put in front of me. I have actually tried myself. I have looked at biscuits. I have talked about that in a previous video.

Biscuits were something that I used to love with coffee. I had those put there in front of me and I had no inclination whatsoever to eat them. The fact is, I am removing that by this juice fast. And you just don't get those benefits in virtually any other form of diet.

And again, as I said earlier in this video, the juice fasting process has been around for thousands of years. It is something that has worked for thousands of years. And don't just think about it for weight loss. Think about it from the health benefits.

Okay, moving on Tim!

The other question I had was people were wondering, How do I get started? What I suggest you do is go to amazon.com and I'm going to put the link below the video in YouTube. So click on the information button and there will be a link there and it will take you straight to this book. Juice Fasting & Detoxification, by Stephen Meyerowitz.

Now, look there are a ton of different books on juice fasting and detoxification. This is a good one because it goes through the basics. It is only, it is under 200 pages, it is about 150 pages. Go to the link anyway. And when you go to Amazon and have a look at it you will find that there are a lot of other books that they also recommend. Read the reviews of the products. I always suggest you do that anyway. When you are buying a product, have a look at what other people have said about it.

But that book I have actually read, Juice Fasting & Detoxification, and it actually is a very good book. Have a read of it yourself, because it goes through the different types of fastings. Because, again, you don't have to go to the step that I am going, a very radical step that I am going. There are different ways that you can go into it. You can do it is like three or four days. You will get a benefit no matter how long you go with it.

The other thing I need to point out here though is you do need to get your doctors okay on this. You need to have a consult with your doctor and for them to be clear that what you're doing, you are understanding what you are doing. So that they are actually okay with the process as well.

Don't think that you can do this on your own. You need to at least get your GP on this, your general practitioner involved, so that they are aware of what you are doing. You are changing your life for the better, there are no doubts about it. And it does take some commitment. Particularly early on. Particularly early on in the first few days it is quite hard. I am not going to tell you it's a dream. It is not. And you will actually feel worse. So, believe it or not, when you start the juice fasting you will actually feel worse. Why? Because during those first few days a lot of the dramatic amount of toxins that are sitting there that haven't been fully processed and absorbed properly by the body are actually coming out. So they are actually coming straight back out. And they come back out of your body. They have to be processed in some way by your body. So you are feeling the effects of this. And so you will be getting headaches, you might be feeling a bit sick, you might be feeling tired, so again, think about that when you are starting your juice fast, Maybe I should be doing this on a weekend.

The types of juices you have also is very important.

But have a look at that Juice Fasting & Detoxification book. That's a great way to get started. And if you have got any other questions specifically on how to start, let me know, and I am quite happy to answer them because I am here to help. It is a two way process. I'm here to help myself, which I am doing by losing this weight and doing this juice fast, but secondly I am help here to help you guys. So if you haven't got a question and you are looking to start out or you are getting stuck let me know. And if I know the answer to it, if I had done some research and I know how to get around it, or I know what the answer is, I will get back to you and your follow-up in the future video and talk about that.

Let's see if we can make a difference. Take ownership of this problem, make a difference, and lose weight, and gain health. That's what I am all about!

Okay, my huge rant for the day is over, thanks very much for watching and I look forward to seeing you again in another video tomorrow.

Cheers for now.

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Hello, Tim here with my detox diet plan update!

This is Day 18, and I am still on track, doing quite well. I lost .5 of a kilogram since yesterday, which is about 1.1 pound. So, overall my weight loss is 9.5 kilograms, which is 21 pounds. And that is in 17 days, because today is the start of the 18th day as I am filming this.

I have to say vegetable drinks: I am starting to get into those a lot more now. I am finding that I think I need to do that. I think what has happened is that I have had a bit of a slow down in my weight loss in the last probably two or three days. I think that is caused by having too much fruit and not enough vegetables. So if you are on this juice fast, juice diet, I think you need to have more of a component of vegetables.

So, yes, I have taken the plunge everybody, you will be pleased to know, and I am using celery! I actually used celery this morning in my drink. I am using a lot more spinach. I am using broccoli as well. But this morning I just had spinach and celery with my fruit drink. And I am cutting down on fruits like watermelon and I am actually going more to grapefruit, which I know is really good for you. Also lemon, I am using more lemon, and I am also using lime. So all of those alkalis - the body - and they are actually quite good forou. So I am using more of those.

I am still using apples and pears, but to a lesser degree.

So I think by, what I've done, I actually did that yesterday, I cut down dramatically on the amount of fruit, and I don't think it is a surprise that I lost half a kilo. So it will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow. If I lose the same amount of weight, I will know that I am on to something here.

So, I am getting used to the vegetable drink. It's hard to get used to for me because I like the sweetness of the fruit. But I am thinking that it is more important to do that, and obviously if it is going to to help me lose weight, it would be silly of me not to do it.

I have to say that the drink that I had this morning - which was grapefruit, lemon, celery as I said, spinach, and I had a few strawberries in there as well, and I am just trying to think what else was in there as well, apple and pear - was quite nice! And what I am also doing with that, I am also putting some ice in there after I have blended it and drinking it like that, so that it is really cold. And I am finding that is quite nice. And I have to say that the taste was quite good.

So I will keep you up-to-date. If I come up with a vegetable juice recipe that I think really works, I will certainly let you know. I am also using carrot because I am aware that carrot juice benefits are pretty well undisputed and they are a really great source of healthiness for you. So you should be using carrots. I am also using those, but not in my breakfast meal.

So, other than that, I have not got a lot else to report. I am still going well. Weight is still coming off which is making me feel fantastic. I can hardly believe that I have lost 9.5 kg, which is 21 pounds. It is just amazing, and it makes me quite happy, and I am looking forward to losing more.

So this is going to be an interesting test tomorrow to see how much weight I have lost, now that I am focusing more on vegetables. So I look forward to presenting that update to you tomorrow.

Thanks for watching, and I will talk to you then.

See you.

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Hi,

Tim here, with my juice fasting plan update for Day 19.

Everything is still going on track, going well. I have lost .4 kg since last time, since yesterday, which is just under one pound. So that brings me to a total of 9.9 kg, or just under 22 pounds total amount that I have lost since I started the juice fast.

So I am still actually working away, and I am still on the juice fast. I am actually having a more vegetables. I talked about that more yesterday, the fact that I think to accelerate the weight loss I think you need to have an increase in vegetables. And I am certainly trying to do that. In each meal I am trying to have a lot more vegetable. When I say each meal, I mean each drink.

Basically spinach and celery are the two major ones that I am having. And I am also having good fruits that are really good for you, grapefruit, lime, and lemon. They are really, really quite good for your body because they aren't acidic. They are the opposite to what your body is, because your body is obviously very acidic. So by giving yourself these types of fruits, they are really good to counter that, to really make you feel great and fantastic. And it's actually red grapefruit that I have researched, that is actually better.

Sorry about that, the computer actually crashed in the middle of a sentence. So I had to restart this, and patch the two videos together.

Juicing benefits are still really kicking in. I am finding this is a really easy diet plan to stick to, quite frankly. Like I said before, the three fruits, grapefruit, lemon, and the limes are really good for your body. They are alkaline type of fruit, as opposed to acidic fruit like an apple is a more acidic. Your body is actually naturally acidic so the fact that you are putting in stuff like grapefruit lemon and lime which are really good from an alkaline point of view, that really helps as well. So I am trying to make sure I have got a steady amount of that going into my body as well. So it's just making me feel fantastic basically.

Other than that there is not a lot else to report. I am nearly at the 10 kilo mark - 9.9 kg of total weight loss - which I am very happy about. And I am looking forward to tomorrow to clock over to the double figures so to speak, in terms of kilograms.

And I am well on track for my 56 days. So I have still got no real thoughts to stop early. Occasionally I still have those thoughts where I think it would be nice to eat something, but look they are very fleeting thoughts. And the biggest thing is I just feel completely in control of those thoughts. In the past I often felt that with my addiction to foods it wasn't something that I could control. It was something that I felt I had to eat now, or I had to eat the wrong thing, or I felt compelled to eat unhealthy. These days I can get a brief smell of something and think that would be - you know, it just brings back the old memories. The initial thought is, yes, that would be nice, but then I start kicking in with the reality of, Well, no, it's not nice. It's not good for you. Why would you want to go off this? And I've got the willpower, if that is what the word is, to control that. And I think that's all got to do with the nutrition that is going into my body. It is is just so much better than it has ever had in my whole life.

My poor body, I have really abused it for 30 years I have been overweight! And I can feel, literally, when I am drinking these juices, all the goodness coming back into my body. And I think my body is starting to say well, maybe you are serious about this. And it is starting to really be getting to the stage where it's being healed, which is fantastic. And obviously the weight is coming off.

So, anyway. Everything is going well. I am going to keep on to this. And I will see you tomorrow with another update for day 20.

Bye for now.

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