Juicing has been one of the new popular diets that I’ve heard of lately, and no it has nothing to do with steroids or injecting yourself with anything.

To really dumb it down, you basically take a bunch of vegetables and put them in a juicer and drink the juice instead of a regular meal.  That’s it.

Where it gets a bit more complicated though is trying to find good combinations of foods that taste good.  Yes you can take a bunch of different fruits and veggies and throw them into the blender and drink it.  Will it taste good?  Maybe.  I’ve had about a 50/50 chance of making some stuff that I think actually tastes good when I put random stuff into it.  They have some recipes on the site.

I learned about this diet from a co-worker who watched a documentary called Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead.  (If you have Netflix you can catch it on the instant queue.)  After he told me about it I watched it and I was very intrigued.  Then I made my wife watch it, and we both decided we wanted to buy a juicer.  In case you are interested, we bought the Breville BJE200XL 700-Watt Compact Juice Fountain from Amazon.  Amazing juicer, highly recommend it.

In the documentary, the main guy as well as the secondary guy both went on a 60 day juice fast and lost amazing amounts of weight.  Anywhere from 100-200+ lbs each.  All they did this whole time was juice fruits and veggies and drink it.  No real eating or any solid foods.  Lots of water and juice.

So we tried it, and it’s both easy and at the same time insanely hard.  One thing that they do in the documentary is kind of isolate themselves for a few days while they get used to drinking just juice.  For my wife and me, this was simply not an option.  We both have full time jobs, we can’t just shut out the world to detox the “bad food”.

The first day we woke up and drank the juice and thought that this would be much easier than we thought.  Then around lunch time you naturally get hungry, and we drank our juice.  No problem.  For me, around lunch time at work people are starting to bring in some really yummy smelling food, and it starts to get to you a bit.  Day one though, I was focused and dedicated.  That night it was just us so we drank the juice without a problem.

Day two started the same way until we got to lunch.  By that time, we’re starting to go into “bad food” withdrawal as I called it.  The food people are bringing smells very good, and I want it bad.  When I leave for lunch it’s tantalizingly hard to not stop and pick up a burger at one of the many fast food restaurants taunting me to stop and order.

By the end of day two we ended up eating a meal.  It was a healthy meal, mind you, but it was still not in the fast program that they did in the documentary.  We broke on day two.

Not to mention that this diet is very expensive.  You wouldn’t think so since all you are buying is veggies, but you really have to buy a boat load of veggies and fruits to be able to make enough juice to drink all day.  In the documentary it estimates somewhere between $14 – $30 a day per person depending on what types you buy.  Organic is obviously much more expensive.  So this was $30 – $60 a day for my wife and me.

I could see how this diet might really work for someone.  It might work for me later on.  But a diet that I believe anyone can use to great success is The Diet Solution Program.  You should check it out if you’re looking for a real program instead of a diet.