I tried last summer and only lasted 2 days. But I did go raw for 6 weeks.

This time I am ready to go 30 days

I need a challenge in my life as things are rather too easy and boring right now.

30 days of juice fasting?

Not healthy at all.

There's a lot of calories in juice. A litre of pineapple juice is over 500 kcal. If you are going to have that many calories, you should probably take them in a more nourishing form.

I did a juice fast for 60 days last year to lose weight and help get me back on track for getting myself back onto a healthier lifestyle, as I simply ate too much and didn't exercise.

It was the best thing I ever did, and I felt great from it, but you do need a lot of will power as it's easy to give in to temptation.

The first few days for me were the worst, as my body was detoxing from all the crap I had been consuming over the years, once this had passed everything looked a lot brighter and I started to feel great.

The worst bit about the juice fast, is cleaning the juicer if you buy a high speed juicer, but you get used to it, and all the non believers who think they know better.
From doing this I managed to turn my life a round and now after shedding over 10 stone in weight I eat healthily and continue to juice regularly, and have kept my weight off.

It's not a diet you can keep on continuously, but juicing can be used to to kick start you onto a healthier lifestyle.

The best juices are vegetable juices, but at first they may taste a bit drab, but I used an apple to add a bit of sweetness to make the juices tastier, after a while you become adventurous and will start juicing all sorts of things.

Spinach, celery, cucumber and apple was my favourite, as this gave me super energy, which kept you going all day unlike the false energy you get from coffee.

You could also end up with too much acid in your stomach - an ulcer would probably mean a new challenge, but I doubt you're looking for that kind of change?

How about 2 days a week, as in 2:5 method? Even then, I think you will need to watch acid levels, depending on the juice being used.

If you are determined to go 30 days, I recommend having a chat with your GP first.

Two days a week on just water would be healthier - e.g. say a Monday and a Thursday.

I don't have the willpower. I can barely hack an ordinary diet. As soon as I get hungry I feel nauseous and want to kill somebody.

It's not something I would consider. Aside from giving yourself some sort of psychological edge, I don't see the point in such a grueling regimen.

And the idea that we can detox our bodies through pills or diets or colonic irrigations is an idea that was abandoned by the medical community in the 1930s. There's no scientific evidence for it whatsoever.

Detoxification refers to a host of interventions that supposedly rid your body of harmful toxins. This type of woo usually falls into a few specific categories, but since it isn’t guided by science, there are wide variations. The only common thread is that none of these ideas are based on any real understanding of biochemistry, and none have been successfully tested and shown to be effective. http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/20...e-pinnacle-of/

There is no such thing as a detox in the context you are describing. Educate yourself and read this:
http://www.livescience.com/34845-det...fallacies.html

Specifically
What is clear, however, is that detox schemes — such as fasting or extreme juicing or herbal cleaning solutions — do not seem to make any difference in removing toxins.

I recently did a 3 day juice detox and managed just fine on it. Not sure about long juice diets, I've read that they are not advisable for long periods without medical supervision and I can appreciate why.

It would also get very dull very quickly and can't be good for your teeth. It'd also get very expensive and yes, cleaning the juicer is a real chore.

There are better, more healthy challenges out there

Maybe detox was an incorrect word to use, but yes I did educate myself by learning of the benefits of juicing. I tried many different diets and none of them worked but juicing did for me, and I will continue to do it and promote the benefits to others.

There is no benefit to it-that's the point of the article I linked to.

there's me thinking of just drinking cartons of juice...But i get it now lol( seen them on QVC and such channels )

It's not something I would ever contemplate. I don't see the point.

I beg to differ as I speak from personal experience.

Are you? or are you just linking to articles without any actual experience?

Hunger makes me dizzy. I am on daily soups.

What seems to work for others is to eat well before bedtime.

Oh sorry, I didn't realise we were supposed to rely on one persons testimony over proven medical evidence. Let me re-iterate, there is NO medical evidence that supports your contention that a juice fast will aid a detox. It is wrong, plain and simple.

Why juice? What's wrong with eating a piece or two of fruit?

30 days seems a bit extreme to me.

As another poster said, maybe 5:2 or replace 2 meals a day with juice and the other with a protein and complex carb rich meal?

Also just juice isn't great for you, you need fibre so unless u invest in an expensive bit of juicing kit you will throwing some of the most important stuff in the bin. Also it should be higher in veg juice than fruit juice otherwise you may as well just eat sugar.

Also... from personal experience... be prepared NOT to be far away from the loo for about a week as your bowels get used to it as you will be having a lot of fluids and very little fibre so your loo will be your friend.

I'm sure abstention works; as in, stop taking more poisons into your body while your body flushes the previous poisons naturally. That's one of the benefits of a pure fast, or a water-only fast. You'll also get that effect from a juice fast (as long as you don't consider beer and wine to be "juice"). What I think Darcy_ is questioning is whether a juice fast has additional medical benefits beyond abstinence.

It may not matter; if psychologically you can manage a juice diet when you couldn't manage a water-only diet, then that's fine. Different diets work for different people for reasons that need not be medical.

Your anecdotal experiences are worthless, I'm afraid. There's little evidence to support the benefits of the type of "detoxing" you describe.

There's no acid in fruit after digestion. Lemon's for example leave a totally alkaline 'ash' after digestion.

No point in chatting to a GP, they no nothing about fasting. Not in their training.