Before and After Weight Loss With Juicing

Meet Emma Tolliday, a 37-year-old woman who finally achieved weight loss success with a juicing diet after over 20 years of yo-yo dieting. Emma, weighing at 294 pounds finally had enough and checked into a 7 day detox retreat. 

When Emma was 13 she began dieting after a school crush called her fat, but no fad diet ever kept the weight off permanently. Struggling with pre-diabetes and anxiety, Emma went to Spain in July 2012 with a friend to start her juice detox. Once there Tolliday made the transition from McDonalds, pizza, chocolate to juice and lost 14 pounds in that first week. In the next nine months she cut out dairy, caffeine, and sugar. She incorporated dinner meals such as steamed chicken and vegetables but stuck to the 2 juices a day habit. In total, Emma lost 126 pounds and loves her new lifestyle.

Emma revealed: "I had all this energy and felt better than I had in years. And the best bit was the juices were so filling I wasn’t hungry at all. When I lost a whole stone (14lbs) by the end of the week I knew that it actually worked. I got home and threw out all the junk food around the house and stocked my fridge full of fruit and veg. I bought a juicer and started juicing for meals."

Emma went from a size 26 to a size 12 and lost 126lbs.

Emma's Before Diet

Breakfast: banana and toast

Lunch: McDonalds veggie burger and chips

Snack: crisps

Dinner: pizza

Snack: chocolate

Emma's After Diet

Breakfast: super juice (apples, pineapple, celery, cucumber, spinach, wheatgrass)

Lunch: turbo juice (apples, pineapple, greens, broccoli, lime, carrots)

Dinner: detox juice (including apples, carrots, broccoli, spinach, beets, cucumber) OR steamed chicken and vegetables

Bringing Sexy Back To Fruits & Veggies

I always need constant motivation and with Dan McDonald's juicing videos, I get inspired to make better food choices more consistently. For example, if you buy a bunch of bananas at the market and then end up letting them sit on the kitchen table to rot, while you munch on canned foods from the pantry -- you need to step it up and eat the living foods readily available to you on a daily basis.

Making that small adjustment today will lead you to the path of true health and happiness.

 

Be thankful. Be grateful.

(Dan the Man - The Life Regenerator)

Another excellent how to juice video:  Real V8 Juice - Living For Health Style

100% Carrot - Protein Vanilla Chai Tea

I just poured myself a nice big glass of 100% carrot juice by Bolthouse Farms. At the moment, buying these supermarket juices is steering me into the daily home juicing habit. According to the 32 fl. oz (1 qt) bottle there's 24 1/2 carrots equating to 8 servings of vegetables per bottle. The ingredients is simply listed as carrot juice.

 

 

Bolthhouse Farms 100% Carrot 

Calories per 8 oz serving: 70

• total fat  0g
• sodium 170 mg
• potassium 540mg
• total carbohydrate 14g
• dietary fiber 1g
• sugars 13g
• protein 1g

Carrot Juice: Vitamin A for eyes and skin & Potassium for proper cell function

I really also like their Vanilla Chai Tea protein tea & soy drink -- 9 grams of protein per 8 fl. oz serving.  It contains  30 per cent daily value of calcium, vitamin C, iron, Vitamin B6, vitamin B12, zinc, and magnesium What I have been doing to my hot teas lately is putting a little bit of this vanilla protein chai tea in with a large cup of spiced chai tea. It's an awesome way to keep your sugar down and great for a boost in energy with the power of tea!

 

Bolthhouse Farms Vanilla Chai Tea 

Calories per 8 oz serving: 180

• total fat  4g
• sodium 70 mg
• potassium 15mg
• total carbohydrate 27g
• dietary fiber 1g
• sugars 26g
• protein 9g

Juice / Protein Drink Line Up

I will make future posts on Amazing Mango, Green Goodness, Chocolate Protein Plus and Sambazon Acai..

Regenerate Your Life Today

If you haven't heard of Dan McDonald aka liferegenerator on YouTube, get comfortable with a smoothie, juice or salad and enter the world of self-healing NOW. (Click here to go to his channel)

In this video posted 4 years ago Dan made a delicious healthy juice out of fresh vegetables and fruits -- shirtless and outside his RV in the beauty and abundance of nature.  Dan juiced celery, pears, cucumber, cilantro, and coconut to make a LIVING GREEN DRINK. YES!!! Fruits and vegetables are fun!!! And the oxygen boosts the blood and gives color to the skin... natural makeup from within people!!! If you're a man or woman -- doesn't matter -- we all want to look/feel our best and radiaite a glow from within. This is the ticket!!!!

Make Me Beautiful with Fruits and Vegetables

This is the man that inspired me to start juicing. (Dan McDonald)

Now a few years later Dan the Man continues to spread the message of eating fresh fruits & vegetables with juicing, salads, and  raw meals.en route for the ultimate happy/healthy life.

And now in mid January 2014 the Life Regenerator is still at it! Fruits are still fun!!!!

Prevention, Living Foods, and Getting Back To Shape

So here I am thumbing over the January 2013 issue of Prevention magazine, recalling all the times I seen this small sized health mag piled up at my mom's house. At the time, I didn't think much of it except that I was too young. Well, health has taken a front seat in my priority boat. It isn't about being skinny anymore, it's about being healthy and happy. And what makes our bodies happy is simple, but not so simple for most.


So are we ready for bunny food? LOL Na, just kidding.  Welcome to my journey.........

(Picture: Daily Mail)