The Juice Detox Diet 3-Book Collection. Jason Vale

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СКАЧАТЬ Dangers … but Not on This Program

      The danger with the “I want to see my stomach muscles before tomorrow morning” type of approach to weight loss and looking good is that it usually involves a drastic unhealthy system that will, in the long run, cause the body’s metabolism to slow down so much that it will inevitably cause you to gain more weight when you eventually start eating normally again.

      In 1983, diet “guru” Geoffrey Cannon wrote a book titled Dieting Makes You Fat. This is based on the theory that when your body is starved of all food and nutrients it goes into famine mode. And when the body is in famine mode, guess what it needs to hang on to most of all for its source of energy? Yep—FAT! Not only that but he also stated that the more that people go on a strict “where’s my food gone” type of diet, the more their bodies will protect the stores of fat, thus making it more difficult to lose weight the next time. In 1986, a study carried out on a group of rats showed that by the time they had gone through their second diet, the weight loss was half what it had been the first time—and the weight was put back on three times as fast!

      This is why I’m very excited to bring you this program and why it’s been so, so successful and why it continues to be. Not only has it been carefully designed to nourish your body completely on a cellular level—meaning you will not be starving yourself—but I have also added the right psychology for success and a plan for the following weeks. This is to make sure you introduce the right foods gradually, so as not to shock your system, and I have also included a “guideline for life” plan that will allow your body to continue to lose weight (if required) and, more importantly, not put it back on.

       No Brainer

      This is where most “lose a few pounds” programs fall flat on their faces. They usually consist of a 7-, 14-, or 21-day super plan that is based on an unsound nutritional program, no mental preparation whatsoever (which I feel is the key above all else), and nowhere to go afterward. It tends to be a case of “You’ve done your seven days [or whatever], now go back to eating the same crap as you were before,” which makes very little sense. It is this approach that creates the whole diet merry-go-round.

      The problem is not so much that people start to eat normally again after a detox/slim/health program, but more the problem lies in what their idea of “normal” is!

      This is what bugs me about some dieticians and doctors. They group all “diets” together as one and say, “Once a person starts eating normally again after a ‘crash diet’ they will regain the weight they’ve lost—and much more on top.” But surely the problem arises with the use of the word “normally.” Wasn’t it their “normal” diet that made people who go on diets fat to start with? Surely that means that unless these people change their idea of what “normal” is they will always gain weight again—not because of the “diet” but because they go back to their “normal” amount and “normal” kind of food.

      I have received thousands of e-mails from people from all over the world who have not only lost the initial 7 lbs but, because the book and the program in it helped change their mind-set, have gone on to lose all of their excess weight because the program became a lifestyle for them. In other words, they managed to change what their idea of “normal” was. Because they read the book, understood the message, and did the entire plan, they now eat “normally” all the time. When you do that, you keep the weight off. It’s only when you eat abnormally that you will become obese.

      It will come as no surprise that I’m not into the “get slim quick” approach, and anyone who has read my first book, Slim For Life: Freedom from the Food Trap, or the best-selling The Juice Master: Turbo-Charge Your Life in 14 Days will know this already. I’m into lifestyle change, mind change, a change that lasts—no quick fixes to the detriment of future weight and health.

      However, I’m also aware that people want to see results … FAST! And I’m also aware that sometimes quick results can create unbelievable momentum for people—momentum that can lead to amazing future success on the health and fitness front.

      The Price Is Right

      In 2005 I was asked if I would put together a nutrition plan for a very famous model in the UK, Katie Price. She is otherwise widely known as “Jordan,“ and in the US this could get confusing because Jordan here is a basketball legend, not a glamour model! Katie had never been near a juice extractor in her life and was living on a diet consisting of nothing but takeout and fast food such as pizza and McDonald’s. Katie had been pretty lucky on the weight front most of her life. Despite her awful diet and no exercise, her system managed to keep her slim—even springing back to its flat-stomach self immediately after the birth of her first child, Harvey.

      However, despite what people may think, Katie wasn’t so fortunate after her second child. She needed a cesarean and even after the baby was born she still had 28 lbs (13 kg) to lose! Contrary to popular rumor, Katie did not have a tummy tuck, and from what I now know of her she never would.

      Like most women who have recently given birth she had weight to lose, and like most she wanted to lose it in super-fast time. Her main reason for wanting to lose the weight fast—in addition to her work as a model—was her impending wedding. Katie, like most brides to be, wanted to look amazing for her wedding day, and even though she had 3 months to lose the weight she wanted some results fast.

      I devised a specific 6-week juicing/eating plan and explained that as it was new to her it would take a short time to get used to juicing. I also explained that it would take time to lose the weight but asked her to be patient and her body would do what it needed to do.

      Asking Katie to be patient is like asking Jim Carrey to keep still! She is a woman who wants results in the fastest possible time and the initial plan wasn’t producing changes quick enough for her. At this stage people often do one of two things. They either go back to what they were eating before—which clearly doesn’t help their cause—or they do something incredibly drastic like living on nothing but water and doing 4 hours of exercise a day, which is again far from good and far from being in the same ballpark as healthy.

      This is when I suggested she go on nothing but specially designed juices and smoothies for 7 days. I explained that the average person loses 7 lbs on the program, that it is extremely healthy, but that it requires a great deal of preparation and a certain mind-set in order to achieve it. But I didn’t realize at the time who I was dealing with. Katie is perhaps the most determined person I have ever met and if she says she’s going to do something she will do it whatever it takes to make sure it gets done.

      I would say Katie kept to the program 90–95% of the time and saw some great results at the end of that week. More importantly, she then knew that there was indeed something to this juicing lark as she wasn’t anywhere near as hungry as she thought she would be and often not hungry at all. This, along with the dramatic weight loss, gave her the momentum to continue to Phases 2 and 3 of the program. (These phases are included in this program to make sure the change sticks.)

      Katie not only lost the weight she wanted to lose but, much more than that, she has kept it off. At the time of writing this book, some 7 months after she finished her juice plan with me, Katie is weighing in at an average of 112 lbs (51 kg). This would be way too thin for some, but for Katie’s height and frame it’s a perfectly healthy weight.

      The point I want to make is that having juice as part of her daily diet is not a diet to her; it is now a lifestyle, and without it the chances СКАЧАТЬ