New to Juicing/Help Making the Diet

[NullARC5]

Hey guys,

So as the title says, I'm new to juicing and all. I recently got a juicer because I've been hearing about all the health benefits. I plan on going on an all juice diet (something several friends of mine have done to a great degree of success) in order to lose weight and improve overall health. I've done some juicing in the sense that I've juiced apples, carrots, broccoli, and celery.

However, the issue that I'm having is fitting in the juicing on a daily basis across the entire day. In the morning I might juice some
carrots and maybe an apple. I've also done broccoli and celery around lunch time, but this is generally where the problem comes in. I've
spent all my life on the breakfast, lunch, and dinner routine that I'm not entirely sure how to go about it with juicing.

Should I be drinking juices every 2-3 hours? And what kind of fruits and vegetables should I be juicing? So far I might drink carrots and apples around breakfast time, but is it alright to keep drinking that combo throughout the day? Would I reach some kind of nutritional
limit after which I'd just be wasting the carrots and apples? If so, what are the fruits and vegetables I should be juicing, how much of my daily intake would these particular fruits/vegetables take up, and what times should I be doing different fruits/vegetables?

Like I said, I'm very new at this but any advice from experienced juicers are deeply appreciated. :)

[Living Food]

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthrea...cing+lifestyle

[NullARC5]

Awesome thread with plenty of advice, thanks!
Only thing left unanswered is: Is it possible to have too much of one fruit or vegetable?

[Living Food]

Yes. Always juicing carrots or apples might result in more of certain nutrients then you need (such as carotenoids), which just tax the body by forcing it to eliminate the excess. You will also be missing out on other nutrients that aren't in those foods (chlorophyll, for example). Generally it's better to have a larger variety of food in one day, although I prefer to only juice one or two different foods at a time - so make each juice different.

Sometimes juicing lots of one fruit or vegetable fro a long time will result in the buildup of alkaloids that can become toxic in excess, although you really need to juice/eat a lot of a particular food to have that happen. Best to be careful though.

Remember to drink lots of green juices, greens are very important and tend to be better for you then fruit juices even if they don't always taste very good.

Growing your own sprouts + microgreens and juicing them leads to the most nutritious juices you could possibly have, I'll talk more about that a little latter. You can read this thread to learn more about sprouting. Very long, but very informative. It's the green sprouts that you would be interested in juicing.

Good luck!