I have started a 7 day juice diet today

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I will let you know how I get on

"whay is it bad to eat fresh fruit and veg? is it worse than choc? wine? coffee?"

I don't think anyone is suggesting you try to eat just chocolate, or just wine or coffee, are they? I don't quite get what you mean?

I think it's a mistake to limit your food intake so severely because this is going to be a low calorie way of eating, and contain not enough protein, complex carbs or fibre.

Fruit and veg is wonderful for you - as part of a diet containing other foods. Why would you want to limit your diet so severely?

I think you are doing realy well. Well done you. I once invented a diet...it was called the swiss roll diet. I only ate one large swiss roll throughout the day. Honestly, over about 2 weeks I lost near on a stone. Great but extremely unhealthy!!

PMSL at the "Swiss Roll Diet"

WHY????

New to this site...what's PMSL?

Pissing My Self Laughing

I used it figuratively on this occasion

(it means someone found your post very funny )

Are you serious about the swiss roll diet?

Did it matter if it was chocolate/vanilla or Strawberry/vanilla

Phew! thought it was going to be a telling off. It did really work though. I later tried it with a large victoria sponge but i obviously wasn't in the zone 'cos it didn't work then

I used strawberry but I guess choc would work

"I later tried it with a large victoria sponge but i obviously wasn't in the zone 'cos it didn't work then"

that is the official MN acronym for an amused splutter, btw

(welcome to the site; there's lots of other terms used on MN and elsewhere on the internet, if you click up the top where it says "acronym list")

I really do swear that this is true. My swiss roll diet really works. I could market it but the book would be very thin.
Page one: eat a large swiss roll every day and nothing else
Page two: drink as much water as you can
the end
I promise you i lost a stone in two weeks. It was a long time ago though (pre babies)

Was it an iceland swiss roll? I've noticed they do very big ones.....

wouldn't like to have to survive on a skimpy Sainsburys one!!

Perhaps we could divide into two teams and see who looses the most weight

The Swiss Roly-Polys and... the Juicy-Loosies (not a reference to your bowel post FioFio)

Tee hee! Would be very happy to take part in this trial. I would also like to add that I do not subscribe to the Gillian Mckeith school of thought. I am not what I eat. I am not and have never looked like a swiss roll nor indeed have I ever looked like a half bottle of rose and a couple of mini cheddars

franny I just don't understand how it can be bad for you to eat a week of fruit adn veg and exercise.

I just think it is an excuse by people not to try it.

My energylevels increase, my nails are stronger - I feel so much better.

Funny though, I kinda resemble a bottle of baileys.

Sometimes.

On a more serious note though - why juice the fruit and veg? Lots of the fibre is lost that way - why not just eat it as it is - maybe lightly steamed - for the veg.

"franny I just don't understand how it can be bad for you to eat a week of fruit adn veg and exercise."

Because your body needs energy, protein, fat and fibre - more than fruit and veg can give you. For a start, during this week your body is going to be using your stores of fat, but mainly your stores of muscle, to get enough energy to survive. This will interfere with your metabolic rate and when you stop the fruit diet and start eating normally your body will conserve more energy as fat than it did previously.

"I just think it is an excuse by people not to try it."

do you really? That's an extraordinary thing to say.

What are you trying to achieve by this diet? Are you trying to lose weight? To get rid of some toxins you feel you have in your body? To improve your general health? Changing your eating patterns permanently to eat healthy and unprocessed food every day will do all these things for you, and won't risk your health as faddy, crash detox diets will.

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Frances is (as usual) speaking sense. Crash diets are bad for you, in many different ways. Better to have a healthy sustainable diet.

(There's a lovely diet somewhere in a book I have. I think you have to go to a lot of gigs, smoke a lot, and possibly get dumped? Great for weight loss, anyway.)

i don't need ot argue about how I eat - I am healthy and slim.

and old enough and bright enough to know that I am doing the right thing for my body.

Yawn

oh god but wouldn't you just love a big fat piece of cake though?! or a lovely mug of tea and a few chocolate hob nobs..

I did today but for a week I didn't - not a real hardship

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