Basically the movie is about a man who was overweight, sick and on the verge of dying (thus the name, lol). In this movie, "he trades in the junk food and hits the road with juicer and generator in tow, vowing only to drink fresh fruit and vegetable juice for the next 60 days." And when all is said and done, the results/transformation in his body was absurd. Something about this movie stuck with me and I decided New Years Eve weekend to buy the same juicer he had, a book on "Juicing" (not the steriod Juicing; fruits and vegetables Juicing) and all the ingredients I needed for the week to come.
At first Amanda was rolling her eyes, knowing that spending $200 on a juicer that she said I will use for a week was crazy, and that I should just eat right and run and not lift (her words). 
But soon she realized I was hooked. Every day I juiced at work (yes, I brought the damn juicer to work), trying different recipes, adding different things, basically I was experimenting with the whole "juice craze". And let me tell you, the first week of juicing, SUCKS! Each day I would take a picture of the juice I was drinking for the day and send it to Amanda as proof (more of a "HA, I am using that $200 juicer" - lol).
I know, you are asking, "what is Juicing, he didn't explain" so let me briefly tell you: (I modified the juicing diet from the movie) Basically, you cut out all foods and drinks (minus water and black coffee, but I will explain that) and just drink juice all day and night, day in, day out. I am not going to go through all the different juice recipes, cause as I found out, there are hundreds of them. What my juice of choice consisted of after experimenting the first week was: 3 stalks of Celery, a bunch of Kale, 2 Red Delicious Apples, 1 peeled Orange and 1/2 peeled Lemon. Again, this is what I drank; every one is different. I drank this for 30 straight days, allowing myself after the second week to have 1 cheat day per week.
"But Jason, why the cheat day?" - Remember how I told you I bought a book called: "The 4 Hour Body"?
Well hidden in this awesome book the author encourages to binge once a week, but only ONCE per week. Why does the author encourage this? Because it is very important to spike caloric intake once per week. This causes hormonal changes that actually improve fat loss. I basically ate whatever I wanted once a week (usually on Sundays) but still only drank water. But come Monday, I was back on juice only.
My starting weight on January 3rd, 2012: 317.8lbs >>> Weight on January 31st, 2012: 284.4. I lost over 30lbs on the juicing diet I was on and felt great for the first time in a long time! This included no gym/cardio what so ever! In the next few months I kept my diet clean, stopped jamming food into my gut to the point where it wanted to pop, cut out soda and iced tea and still juiced all day and only ate at night, but never after 9pm and started doing lots of cardio at the gym. Which leads us to now....
I have decided to reboot my diet again and this time, along with cardio and weight training, see where it takes me! Current weight: 268.6lbs. (yes, that means I am down: 49.2lbs; was 52lbs prior to Easter weekend, lol)
I have talked to many people including a friend of ours that owns a great fitness studio: http://www.littleblackdressfitness.com/ ,friends that are at the gym 24/7, friends that actually juice (the other way, lol), friends that eat whatever and don't gain a pound, etc.. All routines I post and talk about are MY ROUTINES made up mostly by ME. They work for MY BODY and MY GOALS. If I do mention something I read or heard I will gladly give credit where credit is due. Don't think cause these work for me they will work for you, every one is different with different goals. Just experiment and find out what works best for YOUR BODY.
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