I would never have thought in a million years that I would have the guts to try something like juice fasting. Yet here I am, having survived three days on the fast and feeling even more full of life than before. I must tell you, that I couldn’t make it to a week but am proud that I have made it THREE days without eating solid food, surviving purely on juice. To experts, it’s amateur I know, but not bad for an amateur! haha. I’m proud and am looking forward to doing juice fasting again whenever my body tells me it’s ready for another round (possibly in a month or two).
The thought of quitting already popped in my head during the third day of the fast. The constant headache and hunger really got to me. I think I would have been able to continue for longer if not someone saying that I looked like a skeleton, meaning I’ve lost too much weight. Surely enough when I checked the scale, I have lost approx. 6 lbs within 3 days! This is not healthy at all! So that’s when I decided that starting tomorrow I will slowly start to eat again. I may have lost so much because I did not drink enough juice…I did not have the energy to make them and since the juices were not as tasty as food, I felt less motivated to actually get up and make the effort to think of a recipe, prepare, and make the juice. Juice fasting requires for the juice to be made from fresh fruits and vegetables, the preparation/clean up can be quite tedious, averaging out to 30 minutes per juice.
If you are a person who is always on the go or has a very hectic lifestyle, it may be difficult to do a juice fast although still feasible. Since I was lucky enough to be home alone for the week, I did not have the extra challenge of having someone else eating real food in the house. I did not discover any hidden consequences of juice fasting. Everything that occurred to me I had, more or less, expected thanks to the vast information about juice fasting on the internet. So I highly suggest to those that are thinking of juice fasting to get yourself informed first, to know how your body will react so you can prepare yourself in advance. If possible, I would even suggest talking to a doctor before and after, just to make sure if juice fasting is something for you 
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I have no regrets with doing this challenge as I feel that I have at least tried something new while gaining valuable experience. I will recommend juice fasting to anyone that is trying to cleanse, lose weight, and improve self discipline or to someone that’s just looking for a great challenge. I did not get the heightened spiritual awareness I was aiming for, but I do have a newfound appreciation and awareness of what a powerful tool the mind really is. If you are determined, and put your mind to it, you are sure to succeed.
