Juice fasting
If you don’t feel ready to try out water fasting, then juice fasting is a great place to start. Otherwise known as a “juice diet”, it involves the elimination of solid food from your daily consumption. In other words, instead of eating and drinking, you only drink. Beyond this single restriction, the possibilities of how to juice-fast are virtually endless. Fundamentally, though, there are two basic categories: juices based on fruits or those based on vegetables. If you’ve never tried a juice fast before, you’ll probably find it easier to begin with fruit juices, given that the high sugar content will provide your body with plenty of calories to get through the day. In fact, you may well find that you have more energy than usual! Consequently, it’s no problem to live on a fruit diet while continuing your usual life and work. The only complaint about fruit-juice fasts tends to be that people sometimes find it too acidic on the stomach. Often, though, this occurs because the stomach itself is chronically over-stressed through eating …