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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
Losing fat is having a 3500 calorie deficit for a pound of fat. It's pretty simple. Juicing doesn't doesn't change that. If you are losing "massive" amounts of fat, that has nothing to do with the fact that you are juicing; it just means you are in a very significant calorie deficit.
This has nothing to do with juicing. It isn't a magical potion that makes calories disappear. If anything, it means that you have replaced eating something else with a less caloric option (namely juice). Simple substitutions can be done without juicing.
What makes fruit and vegetables "medicinal" in juice form but not in non-juice form? Shouldn't the fact that you've removed a key part of the fruit and vegetable (namely the fiber) make it less medicinal?
I'm not saying that juicing isn't something that can't be part of a healthy diet. It can be. It just isn't a magic fix any more than any other reduced calorie diet.
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Yep I refrenced the Bernstein diet in my very similar post, as it made its rounds at my company... Plenty of my coworkers lost an insane amount of weight over a short period of time, purchased their new wardrobes, and then gained back every pound and more.
And while I don't really believe excessively low calorie diets lead to "metabolic damage" like bro science seems to claim, there is something to be said about the psychological issues that a severely low calorie diet can cause and the unhealthy relationship with food a person can develop. If your diet causes you to idolize and obsess over certain unhealthy foods, which often seems to happen, I would suggest you have taken things too far. Very low calorie diets often lead to binging, followed by a huge amount of guilt and a period of "make up" time where one restricts their calories even more.