Juice It to Lose It: Lose Weight and Feel Great in Just 5 Days by Joe Cross
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Publisher: Reboot Press
Genre: Food & Drink, Health
ISBN: 978-0990937210
Source: Received From Publisher
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Juice It to Lose It! is the all-new, easy juice diet from TheNew York Times best-selling author and creator of the documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. Joe Cross has done all the hard work already—all you have to do is commit to five short days! In that time, this simple, foolproof plan—complete with recipes—will jump-start a change in your life, health, and waistline.
Our bodies are built to feel and look energized, vibrant, happy, and healthy. But if we eat too many processed foods, we begin to feel and look sluggish. When that happens, our bodies are often slow to reset themselves the way they should. Joe’s juice kick-start will help you get back to the way you’re supposed to feel by knocking out all the junk that’s clogging your system.
The shopping lists, meal plans, and encouragement from Joe in Juice It to Lose It! will make it simple and fun for you to fill up on the nutrient-dense, sunlight-nourished foods that will help restore your body’s balance. Whether you’re a long-time follower of Joe’s juicing diets or looking for a brand new way to turn your health around, Juice It to Lose It! is here to help with a fresh look at juicing. Give it five days, and you will see and feel the power of juicing!
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Juice It to Lose It: Lose Weight and Feel Great in Just 5 Days is the latest work from Joe Cross, which released last month just in time for summer. This begins like his other books as he shares his own wake up call moment which changed his life for the better.
What’s great about what comes next is Joe breaks down the excuses we give for ourselves, the waiting game we play with ourselves while we end up gaining more weight instead of losing it. He tells us why these excuses are invalid before telling us the benefits of the 5 day reboot that’s ahead in the book.
Once you get on board, I like that he lays out a plan for a 5 day reboot where you only consume fruits and vegetables as juices all day, each day and a modified version where you consume fruit and vegetables as juices for breakfast and lunch while eating a plant based dinner.
He also lays out the difference between blending and juicing (I’m more of a blender myself though that’s only because I don’t currently have a juicer), bottled juice and fresh juice, buying cost effective fruits and vegetables for the reboot, customizing your reboot for health conditions (diabetes, thyroid conditions, allergies), and what to expect from your body which I think a lot of people will especially appreciate.
What I really loved was the prep work for before the reboot…transitioning into the reboot by (one example) refraining from junk food, white flour, sugar, desserts and fried food during the week before the reboot. So it’s not like on the day before the reboot, you’re stuffing yourself with as much fast food as possible because you think you can never have it again. It’s a transition and it’s not going to be easy at first but it will be worth it and we are all worth it even when we do go off course. The key is not to stay off course.
So here comes the reboot! First, there’s the ingredients list. It looks daunting but having done a different cleanse myself to reboot my system (a 10 day smoothie cleanse) I can say that shopping for the reboot is so much fun. Then comes a an intro for each day, the recipes you, and a very timely tip for each day (yay! I love tips!).
Once this very important bulk is set, there’s life after the reboot which is not going back in full force to what you just rebooted yourself out of. You will transition into the reboot, but that’s just the beginning of the transition of your health, so Joe provides healthy eating tips for life after the reboot, encouragement on maintaining those habits, transition recipes (juices, salads, soups, and more), and finally, a handy dandy FAQ to close out the guide.
So all in all, this is a really great book for anyone looking for a reboot. That said, if you’ve read The Reboot With Joe Cross Juice Diet, there’s no need to read this book. His first book covers a 30 day reboot while this book is more concise with a 5 day reboot but since it covers life after the reboot and more recipes, I’d say this book alone is just fine. Short, simple, and to the point. I’d go so far as to say that this is the book from Joe that I’ve been waiting for. I’m more of a blender myself but when I’m ready to juice, I know which of Joe’s books I’ll be re-reading!
Juice It to Lose It: Lose Weight and Feel Great in Just 5 Days by Joe Cross is available today.