Now I have a friend who is a health freak.  I say not nut, but freak.  She worked at a local health food store for a couple years, getting paid minimum wage and still doing it in college, because she got a 5% discount.  That’s a rip off!  I got better discounts at a cheap clothing store for heaven sake.  But anyway, she was really into juicing for a while.  It wasn’t just for weight loss or cleansing, she just liked the idea of maintaining better health by buying a juicer that literally would’ve cost her $800. It seems a bit ridiculous to me to say the least.  Granted, basically speaking it’s a good idea. 

You make your own real juice and sometimes smoothies, and you know exactly what’s going into it.  Hopefully you’re not adding more sugar, you’re getting vitamins and minerals, and well it’s all around a good thing.  You can even combine certain fruits and vegetables to get more specialized results.  This being said, using it for a cleanse is not a bad thing.  You can definitely use a good cup of juice per day and use it for cleansing all the time for about a week.  But she went to the extreme of only drinking juice on a long term basis to lose weight.  It wasn’t healthy, and it really didn’t last, it wasn’t sustainable at all.  We all tried to tell her this.  But the fact that she was losing pounds and inches made her keep going.  But gaining it back later was the hard part when we didn’t really have the vindictiveness to tell her I told you so.