King of the Juice: Results

Just finished my juice fast and I’d say it was a pretty big success. I lost a decent amount of weight, felt great almost the whole time, and hunger was never a factor. Cleaning the juicer is a bit of PITA, but I’ll have more on that later.

Let’s look at the numbers…

Juicer: Hamilton Beach BigMouth Juicer 67601

Cost: $87.29 (with 2 year replacement deal from Sears)

 

Total Produce Cost for 10 days: $103.08 or $10.31 per day**

 

Total Cost: $190.37  or $19.04 Per Day (including the purchase of the juicer).

 

Total Number of Juices: 28

 

Total Cost per Juice: $3.68

 

Total Cost per Juice incl. Juicer Purchase: $6.80

 

Starting Weight / Body Fat %: 178.3lbs / 14.3%*

 

Ending Weight / Body Fat %: 163.8 / 9.37%*

 

Total Weight Lost: 14.5 lbs

 

Total Body Fat Lost: 4.93%

 

$/Pound Lost: $7.10

 

$/BF%: $11.00

 

I’ll post some hints and tips that I learned along the way later.

If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments.

*bodyfat % is a crapshoot. I don’t know how accurate those numbers are outside of relative to eachother. I used a BioImpedance Handheld device. Details forthcoming.

**Edited. I suck at math, apparently. Thanks Reddit user dcpeon.

 

 

 

 

Homemade V8??

Yikes. Don’t drink this:

  • 3 – Small Tomatoes
  • 2 Cloves – Garlic
  • 15-20 – Basil Leaves
  • 1 – Unblemished Red Chili
  • 1 Cup – Spinach

I just tried the “homemade V8” recipe from JuiceFastRecipes.net and holy crap. First off, it made like .2 ounces of juice and those few ounces were 98% garlic.  I finished the juice 30 minutes ago and all I can taste is garlic. Horrid. Garlic to the point of spiciness. I figured ‘add lemon’ since Lemon-garlic is a thing, right? Nah.. didn’t really help. I ended up saving it with the grace of a few apples and a lime.

You’re on notice, JuiceFastRecipes.net

There is a positive side to this however. Since the juice was pretty gross, I pounded it, which filled me up.  Turns out that: belly full of veggie juice + garlic taste in mouth = You feel like you just ate a huge meal. I seriously have ‘itis right now.  Going to take a nap.

Lesson Learned? Juiced Garlic is as good as it sounds.

Later.

 

Juice Fast – First Full Day

This is not me.

8:50 – First Juice. Basically the Mean Green from FS&AD, with some carrots because they were going to go bad.

Energy Level – Decent

Mood – Pretty Good

Learning a bit about the process of juicing. That shit is messy. And wasteful. I’m putting together some tips on using a juicer, as there’s a bit of a curve. Well, maybe all this is explained in the instructions, but who reads those.

 

King of the Juice – Test Juice

So some friends and I are having a juice competition. As it stands, it’s going to be a ‘who can only drink juice for the longest time’, but it might be ‘who can lose the most weight’ or ‘who can lose the most body fat percentage’. Either way, Im going to be drinking a lot of juice so I figured I’d do a test run.