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

Vegan Recipe - Zucchini Pad Thai With Citrus Ginger Dressing

In this vegan recipe video, Megan Elizabeth shows us how to make zucchini pad thai with citrus ginger dressing. OMG! Delish. Megan recommends the Paderno World Cuisine tri-blade plastic spiral vegetable slicer to make those pasta like zucchini sprirals. So what are the ingredients? Don't worry... they are very simple.... we have the beautiful Megan Elizabeth to the quick rescue!!!!

Megan Elizabeth: This recipe is fancy, fun and delicious! I've experimented and created the perfect dressing of fresh herbs and citrus to top tender zucchini noodles and carrots. HEALTHY raw food does not have to lack in flavor. (YouTube recipe link)

Ingredients (then go here for HOW TO MAKE THIS video)

Dressing:
1/2 cup of fresh OJ
1/3 cup fresh coconut meat
1/2 cup cilantro
1/3 cup chopped scallions
2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 Tbsp raw tahini
2-3 leaves of fresh sage
1 quarter sized slice of ginger

Noodles:
4 cup spiral zucchini
1/2 cup spiraled or shredded carrot
1/3 red pepper sliced very thin

Place on a bed of green and garnish with sprouts (Source)

 Zucchini Pad Thai Recipe Video Instructions with Megan!