The Joys of Juice Fasting

It induces an incredibly light, clean, pure feeling throughout the body: The body spends a large amount of time and energy digesting food, especially here in America where people often ingest too much. The first 3 days of a fast the body uses the food that's sitting in the intestines. After that it basically switches itself to cleanse and starts shoveling toxins into the bloodstream to find a way out of the body. It's shocking how much waste is stewing in the body.

It exercises will power on an outrageous level: Our entire lives have been filled with eating food, savoring its taste, and having the understanding that it is vital for survival. When you decide to go without it, it forces you to go against something deeply programed in your mind for reasons you have found on your own. It's a way to learn to be able to go without something you've lived with your entire life. It helps put things into perspective by assessing their importance in comparison with other things that the body doesn't need.

It invigorates the mind and stimulates deep focus: People generally eat several meals a day, whether it be from hunger or just the simple habit of it. Certain things especially stimulate hunger such as the smell of food, the sound of it cooking, hearing someone discuss it, seeing others eat, seeing it lying around, television commercials, certain times of the day, or even boredom and random cravings. Fasting teaches you how to divert your attention from such things and pour it over something else. It breaks those chains of the routine of eating and gives you a chance to fill your senses with something else, something more. It definitely frees up some time.

It recalibrates your palate: When you first break your fast, whatever it is that you're eating just explodes in your mouth and tickles every taste bud in your mouth. It's simply orgasmic. We take things for granted. No one pays attention to the juiciness of a peach or the bursting sweet flavor it holds inside of it. Not to mention your stomach will shrink so less will feel like more.