Can Anyone Actually Lose Weight In Only A Week?

     Countless people are desiring to lose body fat and do it in as little time as possible. Perhaps it's for a wedding or a high school reunion, or perhaps it's simply because they ate too much calories over the winter and now want to visit the beach and not look like a sausage in a two piece.

When time is running out, we hunt for a quick way to get rid of the fat so we can look great. But is it actually feasible to lose weight in only a week, and if yes, is it safe? Well, that all depends on how you attempt to lose the weight.

Enter a Juice Fast

A juice cleanse is a powerful way to shed extra pounds. But unlike other weight loss plans you possibly have tried before, juice detoxing has a myriad of benefits that are life transforming.

One fantastic benefit of a juice detox is that by drinking freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices only, you are giving your body a very needed break from the act of digestion. Care to take a guess on how much energy it takes to digest all of your food? It's staggering, really. This is why on a juice diet you might notice that the body's energy greatly increases. The energy you normally use for digestion can now be used for other things, such as detoxifying the body's cells, healing other organs of disease and getting rid of dangerous inflammation. You simply won't get these benefits on an Atkins diet, I guarantee.

What Amount of Weight Can You Realistically Lose on a Juice Fast?

To answer this question we have to figure out how long of a juice diet you and I are talking about. A person can do a 1 day juice diet, a 3 day, 5 day, 10 day and even 30 day detox. It goes without saying the length of fast will determine how much weight loss is realistic.

Let's take a look at a 10 day juice cleanse, as that is an optimum time frame. That is to say most adults, even newcomers to juice diets, have the will to do a 10 day detox and 10 days is also the perfect amount of time to really see and feel a dramatic transformation.

As a result of a 10 day juice detox, an individual's body will lose weight in 3 unique ways: water, waste and fat. Any shorter than 10 days and your body will mostly lose weight from water and waste loss only.

Water Loss

A lot of individuals scoff at water loss as anything significant because they think it's not as good as fat loss. But let me tell you from personal experience - much of what makes an individual fat is not fat, it's bloat, without question. You'd be shocked at how better you look, and how much better your clothes fit simply by losing 5 pounds of water weight.

Loss of Fecal Matter

A Person would be awed at how the body gets rid of old waste. Many days will have passed without an individual eating any solid foods, but the body will keep evacuating solid waste. Not only will this weight loss make the stomach flatter, but all of those toxins are being released which will makes a person healthier.

Losing Body Fat

The fat loss will begin around days 7 - 10. At this point your body will need to turn to stored energy to fuel itself. It goes without saying that you will have a great amount of new energy as well, so exercise will be easier. The more you move, the more you will burn.

It's safe and fair to say that during a 10 day diet, a man or woman can expect to lose anywhere between 8 to 12 pounds, give or take. Okay, I confess, 10 days is obviously more than a 7 day week, but I think those 3 added days are very worth it!

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