My Juice Fast - 56 Day Journey to Health

It Appears A 100% RAW FOOD DIET Is NOT The Way To Go!

2011-09-30T17:21:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, This video is about my findings about a 100% raw food diet and how I am now questioning that is the way to go. It appears it's not the best approach. Watch the video and let me know what you think!

You can watch a high definition version of this Raw Food Diet video here if you wish.

My Raw Food Diet Starts Today

2011-09-28T17:42:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, this video talks about some more weight loss and how I have decided to go for a raw food diet and see how I go. Hope this video helps you if you are looking to do this type of lifestyle.

You can watch a high definition version of this Raw Food Diet video here if you wish.

Healthy Vegetarian Recipes Are Quite Delicious!

2011-09-26T17:28:00.001-07:00

Hi all, another day another video. This one I am giving an update of my weight loss as well as what I am eating and also the juice fasting ebook gets a mention. Enjoy!

You can watch a high definition version of this Healthy Vegetarian Recipes video here if you wish.

Is A Smoothie Diet Really Good?

2011-09-22T17:53:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, finally I have had a chance to put together a new video for you guys with some real "meat" ha ha, pun intended (you know me being vegan and all). Have a look and see what you think.

I am feeling so good these days so I really want to pass this onto you guys that there are so many benefits to juicing fasting, eat raw, going vegan (name your poison). Personally I am so glad I have done it and want you to experience what I have now...

Enjoy the video!

You can watch a high definition version of this Smoothie Diet video here if you wish.

Free Juice Fasting Ebook

2011-09-21T17:11:00.001-07:00

Hi guys, please fill out the survey by clicking the link below. The video below discusses why I need this done.

It will all go to what should be a really really comprehensive juicing fasting ebook that will give you everything you need to succeed with juice fasting.

Tim's Weight Loss Survey

And of course the price is right, it's free! Thanks

You can watch a high definition version of this Juice Fasting video here if you wish.

The Summary Of My Low Carb Vegetarian Phuket Adventure

2011-09-20T17:45:00.000-07:00

Hi guys! Back home and well rested from our holiday. Here is a very short video I did using the iMovie 11 package on my Mac which I think came out really well - Let me know what you think.

You can watch a high definition version of this Low Carb Vegetarian video here if you wish.

Whole Food Diet - Worth The Fuss?

2011-09-17T17:38:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, this video is a mixed bag, sorry about the low quality audio,but it does serve to give you a little view of Phuket. Hope you enjoy it.

You can watch a high definition version of this Whole Food Diet video here if you wish.

Best Raw Food Diet For Weight Loss

2011-09-15T18:19:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

Tim here with another Phuket raw food diet video.

Today I want to talk to you a little bit about my experiences with easy vegetarian meals. And I'll show my ugly mutt in a minute, my ugly face. I thought I'd just show you some of the views of Phuket. This is on the shoreline of the private beach where I am staying.

You can see Phuket there in the background. There's a little island that goes right around, and there's the water that surrounds that. And there's the jetty. It's all part of the resort that we're staying at. It's absolutely wonderful.

I'll turn the video around there.

Anyway, how are you? Just a quick video today to give you a bit of an update. I wanted to talk to you a little bit today about some of my experiences. I'll just turn here so you can see the background while I'm talking. You can hopefully hear the sea.

Everything is going quite well in my weight loss.

Yesterday we had a cooking class. Myself and Louise had a cooking class in Thai. It was quite interesting because there was a lot of food that was cooked using some vegetarian dinner recipes. And I ate! Too much. Very interesting. I went back into my old habits and just kept eating, kept eating, kept eating. And I felt a little bit sick for about two or three hours afterward.

It got me thinking that you really need to be on your guard. Now I have transitioned from a juice fast, and I have been so long without eating bad foods. But it is still possible to gain weight eating good foods. Eating too much.

So I actually made some very nice food. Very natural. But I did notice that the Thai's cook with sugar. And I actually had a headache as well. And I am wondering whether that was relating to why I wasn't feeling well. But I certainly ate a lot of the food as well.

So it got me thinking that these habits that caused me to be overweight for so long - I need to be very mindful of those now. And just making sure that this doesn't happen again, that I dont' fall into old habits of eating too much as I did before.

So consequently it's going to be a quiet day today. I'm not going to try and indulge in too much in the way of food. I'll just try and have a few quiet days to catch up a little bit. And make sure that I am OK basically.

Basically there's not a lot else to say other than that. It was an interesting experience to feel that feeling that I haven't felt for probably close to two months now, of eating too much. Being full and feeling quite bloated, I just to feel quite often when I wasn't eating healthy. So I am very mindful of that, and it is interesting how uncomfortable that feeling was. And it's going to spur me on to make sure that I don't eat like that anymore.

Alright, I'm just going to give you a few more panoramic views of Phuket now. And I am going to leave the video there. And I will be back tomorrow with another one.

So keep those comments coming. Thank you for watching these videos. And I hope you're getting something out of them. And I will be back tomorrow. Bye for now.

[Shows more views]

Good morning! [To a passer-by]

You can watch a high definition version of this Raw Food Diet video here if you wish.

A Vegetarian Meal Plan That Is Delicious!

2011-09-14T17:32:00.000-07:00

Hello, Tim here from Phuket with yet another low carb vegetarian video.

How are we today?

We're doing, both Louise and myself are doing fine, having a great time over here. Weather is not too bad. Yesterday ended up being quite hot. Not overcast at all. Sun was out. And man, the sun had a bit of power! Very, very strong.

Today is still looking good. A bit more overcast. It is going to be a bit cooler. But we are still going to go down into the pool. We checked it out before actually, and the water is warm. So looking forward to that.

Maybe you can hear the waves in the background. Quite beautiful and relaxing watching that. Good waking up to it as well, waking up to the sound of the waves.

I have got a few more pictures to include, which I took last night. I will show you shortly in this video. Just talking about the food I had yesterday and so forth. So I will pause this now and we'll have a look at what I ate yesterday. At least some of the meals anyway.

OK, so here is some of the food I actually had yesterday. Very, very healthy, as you can see. And this is my breakfast. And no, the toast wasn't mine. That was actually Louise's toast. And here is my huge serving of fruits and nuts. I had a big serving so I didn't eat it all.

And this is what I had in the evening. Very, very healthy. Sorry about the bad quality picture.

OK, so there you go. That's some of the food I ate yesterday. All healthy. Good variety I thought there. Trying not to have too much rice. I think if you are looking to do this, eat like this, it would probably be wise not to have too much rice. I would suggest probably about an 80% vegetable to rice mix. Because rice is actually a carbohydrate, so it is actually quite strong, quite fattening in large quantities. So I am trying to do that. Because my vegetables are very healthy, and very good for you. You can almost eat an unlimited supply of those. Less, in terms of fruit. Fruit being very sweet of course, you don't want to have too much of that. But you can certainly have quite a bit.

I am tending to put too much on my plate and not finishing it. This morning at breakfast the fruit that I showed you earlier, I didn't get to finish that. I probably loaded it up a bit too high. So I have got to keep that in mind, not to load it up too high, with too much food basically. I don't want to get into that habit of overeating, even if it is the healthy stuff.

But yeah. Still feeling good. Still feeling fantastic.

And I tried a few alcoholic drinks since I have been here actually. A few cocktails. I haven't liked it. Did you know that alcohol has got ethanol in it. Ethanol the actual fuel they use for cars and stuff. A byproduct of that is actually in alcohol. I found that quite interesting. And apparently it is only the liver than can try and process that component of alcohol. Which is why, if you drink too much of it, you get liver damage. Because the liver can't handle it all. So, interesting.

Anyway, my point is I didn't really enjoy that cocktail. Maybe it is because I haven't had a drink for two or three months now. I am probably not going to indulge in that anymore. I am going to go back on that sort of stuff. The other thing I noticed... one of the cocktails that I ordered was supposedly fresh juice. And it was really interesting. I tasted it as soon as it came out, and I knew straight away that it was out of a can. Big difference between all natural juice that has just come out, or has just been juiced; as opposed to juice coming out of a can. So I knew straight away obviously, and I didn't finish that. It was just sickly sweet, and just tasted nowhere near as good as the fresh stuff.

Not a lot else to report. Everything is still going fine in my new vegan diet plan and my weight loss. And if you are on a juice fast, keep at it. Keep up the good work. If you have got any questions about that as well as the vegetarian meal plan, by all means let me know and I will try and answer them. For now I am going to go and have a swim.

Thanks for watching. I will talk to you tomorrow.

Talk to you then. Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Vegetarian Meal Plan video here if you wish.

Easy Vegetarian Meals In Phuket

2011-09-13T18:18:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone.
It is Tim here from Phuket, Thailand, with another weight loss video update.

How are we all today? We're feeling fantastic. We just had our breakfast. It is about 9:30am in the morning, or thereabouts. Maybe getting closer to ten o'clock. The weather is fine today. Actually the sun is shining, so it is going to be a very nice day.

But, getting back on track, talking about eating. I ate very well yesterday. All healthy vegetarian recipes and vegetarian meals. For those of you who don't know, since finishing my juice fast, 56 days of a juice fast, and I lost about 22 kilos, which is around about 51 pounds, since then, I have decided - because I didn't have any meat or dairy for that period of time, that I would actually go off them. And go the full hog and go to a total vegan diet plan lifestyle. Now, vegan, for those of you who don't know, is a vegetarian lifestyle. So, no meat products. But it is taking the next step - there are no animal products at all. So no eggs, meat obviously, no dairy. And instead of doing that basically it's vegetables and fruits, and also things like nuts which are essential, or, have essential vitamins and minerals. Nuts, legumes, seeds and so on.

And I have got some goodies I want to show you now actually, which I will I do. I actually took a picture of what I ate for breakfast, and lunch and evening meals. I want you to have a look at those now. We'll start off by having a look at the breakfast. Now you can see that even though it was a bit bit bizarre for me, having a lot of vegetables for breakfast. I had some rice there on the plate. There's some corn there. There's also some various vegetables. There's tomato, it's a tomato dish. There's also red curry. Beautiful! Absolutely very nice. And a few other vegetables as well. Broccoli as well I believe.

I'm doing this today. Even though I'm putting these pictures on the screen, I'm actually doing this from memory. So hopefully I am getting it all.

And then after that, again this is for breakfast, I also had some fruit. You can see various fruits now on the screen. And they were really quite nice as well. Very tasty and very filling. And very very healthy of course. And just some water to wash it all down.

Then at lunch time you can see that I found a place in, Junshalun - I think that's how you pronounce it. And they actually made for me a nice juice. And the juice was carrot, orange, and I can't remember the other ingredient now. Tomato I think it was. Very nice. And also with that I also had like a stir fry vegetable. Stir fry which you can see there, and also some rice.

Rice is very, very cheap here. It's about 1/10th the price of that stirfry. From memory the stirfry was about 200 bhat. Now to work it out to Australian dollars, or US dollars, given that they are very close, divide that by about 30. So we paid 200 bhat, I think it was thereabouts for the stirfry. Divide by 30. It's about $6.50 or something for that stirfry. But the actual rice was 20 bhat. So, I mean, that's less than a dollar. So, very cheap. And I think the drink was about 160 bhat, about $5. So a very cheap and inexpensive meal.

And for evening meal we went to - there was actually a BBQ night on at the hotel. And Louise had BBQ - she is laughing in the background. They made a nice BBQ mix. You had to choose what meat you wanted, and they cooked it and brought it to you on the table. And I threw them into a bit of a fit, the chef actually, because of course I'm not eating meat. No meat. Oh! No meat! Seafood? He was wondering whether I had seafood. Of course, no animal products, vegan, so fish is out as well. And so he had to go and get the head chef, and he followed me around. Because this is like the buffet. I mean I was quite happy because there was lots of various vegetables. You can see what I'm eating anyway, on screen. You can see there was a good selection there, corn, broccoli, almond butter which was very nice (almond butter being natural, so I was quite happy to try that. Not traditional dairy). The food was quite nice, but they wanted to cook me something else. And they followed me around and basically went through every dish to make sure I had enough. And they were quite happy to, you know, they were going to cook me something.

And that is something I want to say about the lifestyle of the Thai people here. Lots of selling, as you walk down the street there are lots of people trying to sell you something. They actually say, we're not selling you something. Here, take this brochure. But it's actually trying to get you into a timeshare apartments or something like that. But of course the presentation is free. So you know they are selling something, and after the first couple we - you just put up your hand and say no.

Another good sales technique they use is try and shake your hand. Because by putting your hand out it's human nature, you want to shake that hand. Because it's good manners to do that. And of course that's the way they rope you into taking, to try and sell you something basically. So of course my tactic there is not to shake their hand. Just to keep my hands down. I did feel a little bit mean, and Louise felt a little bit mean as well because these people are obviously trying to make a living. But we're here for a holiday, we're not here to be "sold to" I guess.

But there were lots other little stalls and so forth which were really good. But the food here was absolutely phenomenal. Really, really nice food. And the other thing was there was these little roadside portable food booths, you would probably call them. They were little carts that they push, and they have got two wheels, and fruits and so forth. And they will make you a little meal. So I am going to try one of those today or tomorrow I think. And they look absolutely superb. So that's apart from going to restaurants and all those other places. There are just so many little places where you can actually eat.

And people look so happy here. Even the taxis. There are taxis in every street and they are always trying to get you to use their taxi. And when you say, No, we're just walking, or something, they're always smiling and happy. I have to say the Thai people are very happy and friendly people and they have made us feel quite welcome.

But yeah, getting back to the vegan lifestyle. Even having breakfast today I was speaking to Louise and it is just a spinout now that I am eating vegetables, and really enjoying the taste of vegetables. Let alone having them for breakfast! I mean, I can eat them at breakfast and thoroughly enjoy them! It was a beautiful meal. All the meals I have been having, including breakfast, have been absolutely, really nice.

And my sister has actually started a juice fast, Michelle. Well done. And actually Jenny my other sister has started a juice fast. Michelle is on Day 3 and she has been messaging on Facebook an update, and she says, I have lost weight. No surprises there guys, if you are starting the juice fast, you will lose weight. And it was interesting because the comment was, I'm not going to be giving up meat. I love meat too much. I couldn't give that up. It's very, very standard to be thinking that early on.

I was much the same. I was thinking I'm not going to give up dairy and meat. Give up icecream?! Give up chocolate?! I don't think so! There's no way I can give it up. So I was looking for a way around it. A way to - this is when I started the juice fast - my way was, I am going to finish the juice fast, lose the weight, and then go back to this type of living.

But what happens, along your journey (depending on how long you're doing the juice fast for) your body starts changing. And consequently now I have got no interest in those foods. About the biggest thing I actually had was there was some, a few pieces of banana in syrup. And I tasted it and I thought, wow, how sweet is that! And I didn't want any more.

The other thing I think I had this morning was broccoli and cheese. I actually put some on my plate before realising what it was. Because again, cheese being the dairy. So I decided not to eat it. Well, I had the two pieces that I had on there. But again, the point I am making here is you are really conscious of what you are eating. And you are not wanting to try all those other yucky foods. Yucky in the sense of all the harm I have caused my body over the years.

So, I'm certainly not saying anyone else needs to be like that. But what I'm finding from the juice fast, and I think you'll find the same, is that once you have done it for a while, you don't want to go back to your old habits. So, getting back to my sister Michelle - I haven't said this to her yet, because I have got to go and message her later - but she will find if she does stick to the juice fast long enough, she won't want meat anymore!

Or it's likely she won't want meat anymore, or any of these other things that aren't actually good for the body. She may, of course there's a chance that she may. And Louise is laughing in the background. I'm waffling on, aren't I!

Ah, she's blowing me a kiss. So that's nice, isn't it. Anyway the point is your eating habits are changing. Now, whether it is meat, or whatever it is, they have changed dramatically for me. Look, I was the biggest sweet tooth in the world. Or close to it!

The reason I had stacked on all this weight, was because of icecream, chocolate, ... if you look at my Day 1 video I go through all the reasons why. I'm not eating that stuff anymore and I'm not missing it at all. And I'm just loving the vegetables and the fruits, and getting all the sweetness and nutrition. And I just notice with every mouthful that I'm having, that it is all healthy food.

So I am feeling fabulous guys. I just want to pump you up if you are at a difficult place now, and you are wondering whether it is worthwhile persevering. I just want to show you that it's testimony to the fact that it is what it says - it is absolutely worth it, and the benefits are going to be there for a lifetime, just with your eating habits, and the way you are feeling.

Just briefly the other thing I'll mention is that I spent quite a bit of time, probably 3 hours in total, in the pool yesterday afternoon. I swam a little bit, then got out, then swam back a little bit. I would never have done that. Now, I'm not saying that I am the perfect weight yet. I still have got some weight to lose. But the point is I'm very comfortable now with my body. And I was able to, I was quite happy, and I felt quite good. Whereas in the past I would have felt awkward with a lot of people being around there. I wouldn't have been very comfortable being in the water.

So I'm sure if you're overweight now you feel, or you probably know what I'm talking about. You've probably been there as well. That feeling that people are looking at you, even though they probably are not, in most cases. But you get that very self conscious feeling. And that has largely gone away for me now. Yes, I've still got some weight to lose. But that weight will come off slowly over time now. So I'm not too fussed about it now. Because I know that eating right, eating vegetables and fruits, and exercising, the weight is just going to come off. There's no doubt about that.

So I will be at my goal weight, which is just under 80 kilos, about 170 pounds, or thereabouts, probably in a few months time just with the whole food diet I'm eating now. Which is fantastic!

So, hang in there. That's the point I want to make if you're watching this and need some motivation. I am hoping this is giving you some motivation today that you can succeed with this. All you need to do is persevere and keep at it. The only way you're going to fail is if you give up. And just think of the benefits. I know it's easy sometimes to think of what you'll get if you give up the smoothie diet. In other words, go back to your old eating. Because you've, over time, thought that was the right thing to eat.

But think of the benefit. Think of the new you, in terms of the weight. How much more confidence you will have. How much healthier you'll be. How much happier you will be, once you have got down to your weight. And just try and do it a day at a time. No need to think 56 days. (Depending on how long your juice fasting is). Do it a day at a time. Every day is going to be its own little reward for you, your own little success. And just chain those successes together over time. And before you know it, 56 days are up, or you are at the end of your juice fast, or your new eating lifestyle has become the norm.

So, that's all I can say for now. I am going to leave you for now and go back to enjoying the Phuket sun. And I will be back tomorrow with another video

Until then, enjoy yourself. Thanks for watching. And I will talk to you then. Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Vegetarian Meals video here if you wish.

You Can Succeed With A Vegan Diet Plan!

2011-09-12T17:57:00.000-07:00

Hi guys!

Tim here from Puket - Phuket I should say, not puke-et, as in spew!

We're having a lovely time here. This is our first day here. We arrived late last night and obviously didn't get a chance to do a video. I just wanted to show you the view behind me. We have got a fantastic suite right on the ocean. Absolutely amazing. Weather is fantastic. Even though it is overcast the temperature is really quite warm. It's almost muggy, but it is beautiful. Absolutely loving it.

We've got a busy day today. We've got lots of plans. Mainly exploring.

We couldn't believe the number of motorbikes on the road. It was quite entertaining when we were [arriving] from the airport. All the motorbikes ducking in and out. Some people were actually holding umbrellas while they were riding motorbikes.

Louise: Three on a bike!

Tim: Yes, three on a bike, and no...

Louise: No helmet!

Tim: ... helmet. Daredevils. It was pouring with rain and it was quite an experience watching it. But there were no accidents. Everyone seemed to be doing well.

Just in relation to your comments, there are lots of comments waiting on the videos I've done in the past, and there probably will be on this one as well.

I'm not going to get a chance to get to every comment. I've got an iPad here that I'm filming on, but I can't seem to get comments to stick. So I will probably have to wait until I get back. But please do keep them in, and know that I am reading them at least. I will get back to you with any answers when I get back on Sunday or next Monday when I get back.

But just a quick video for today. I hope to show you some sights tomorrow. We'll take some video, photos and videos of the surrounding areas and so forth. You know, market places and so forth. And I will try to show you tomorrow videos when I have got a bit more time. The other thing is we are just about out of battery with this iPad. I have to go and get an adapter, so I can plug my Australian adaptor into the power here.

Alright, I'll leave it there for now. Thanks for watching. And I will get back to you tomorrow!

Cheers for now

You can watch a high definition version of this Vegan Diet Plan video here if you wish.

Best Weight Loss Practice And Eating Properly

2011-09-10T16:55:00.000-07:00

Hi. Tim here with another transition to food / weight loss / eat healthy video.

Just a quick one today, because this is actually take 2! I did my first video, and when I finished recording it, I went into my video editor, and there was nothing recorded. I don't know what went wrong. But it seems to be working now. I did a couple of little test ones, and it is now working.

OK, not a lot to report today, other than that you will not be getting a video from me tomorrow. That is because I am on holidays tomorrow, and I am actually flying to Phuket. So consequently I will be in the air, and by the time I get into Phuket it is going to be late, and I will have to clear customs and so forth. So I won't get a chance to do a video.

However I will be doing a video every day after that, while I am away, just showing you some of the sights of Phuket, and talking about the food, and talking about food experiences and so forth.

Just a couple of brief bits of information about food.

Firstly, for those people asking, yes, I am producing that ebook. I am working on an ebook now primarily targeted to juice fasting people. And it is going to be talking about my experiences on my 56 day fast. But also I am going to put together the best recipes I found, juice recipes, talk about how much juice I have each day in each amount of juice, how much I am having whether 500, 600 mls, 15 to 20 ounces, and so forth. The ratio of fruit to vegetables that I found for the best results for weight loss. All those types of things. Basically everything I can get together about the subject. And even including things like protein.

That's another really common question people were asking me was: what are you doing for protein while you're having your juice fast. Well, the thing is, did you know, that pound for pound, vegetables have a lot more protein that meat (some vegetables have more protein than others). So consequently if you are having vegetables in your juice fast, you don't need to look for protein anywhere else (and vegetables have a lot more good stuff in them as well!). You're getting enough protein in these fruits and vegetables.

Really I am trying to put together is not really an encyclopedia, but as much information as I can together, so that someone wanting to take a juice fast can get this ebook, and look at it and go, right, that's everything I need to get. Because I had to do a lot of research to get all the information I needed. Some of it I didn't actually know when I started. So that's why, my advice at the moment, where do I get all this information, is to say just start and you'll learn along the way. But I realize for some people who like to have all their information up front, you really need this sort of ebook.

So stay tuned for that. It is still realistically going to be a couple of weeks away. Because I am away on holidays I won't get a chance to look at that, and when I get back it will take me a while to finish it. So, probably in 2 weeks time I will have something to show you guys, and you can come back to me with any comments and see what you think.

So there's that.

Not a lot else to talk about other than that. I mentioned there was going to be no video tomorrow. But I will be back on track after that.

And today at lunch time, or, after lunch time, I felt that I was still hungry. It is about quarter to 3 in the afternoon here. So I left it for about an hour, and then I decided to snack. What did Tim have to snack? Well, nothing really exciting. I had an apple, some nuts and seeds, and a few dates. That was my snack. So, interesting that even though I felt hungry, it didn't even enter the equation that I was going to eat something "bad", you know, processed foods or junk foods. It was just a matter of what healthy options I had.

So I think I am following my, trying to listen to my body. My body said I was hungry, so I said, OK, I'm going to give you something. It was interesting because I had a much lighter breakfast, and I am wondering whether that was related to it. In the days prior to that since the juice fast ended I had been having smoothies. And this morning I only had a couple of pieces of fruit. So I am just wondering whether I need a bit more at breakfast time to carry me over so that I am feeling a bit fuller and not wanting to snack after lunch.

I will probably go back - because I am going to be away, I am probably going to be having bigger breakfasts than I would normally have here anyway. So it is going to be interesting to see how that pans out over the next few days.

What else. I think that's all for now, other than to say thank you very much for watching my videos. I do appreciate your support. And I will be back with another video in 2 days time.

Until then, take it easy. Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Weight Loss video here if you wish.

Life After My Juice Fast Continues

2011-09-09T17:41:00.000-07:00

Hi,

Tim here with a 'life after juice fasting' update for you today.

It is Friday over here, Friday 9th September here in Australia. And I just wanted to do a quick update to let you know that things are going well. This is the start of my fourth day after my 56 day juice fast. If you haven't seen my YouTube videos, go and take a look at those. Because I have got a video for every single day on my 56 day juice fast. I updated every day with how much weight I lost, progress, how I felt, what sort of juices I was having, and so on and so forth. So there's lots of information about that.

And in yesterday's video I asked the question whether people would be interested in an e-book, giving a bit of an overview of my journey but also giving things like recipes and shortcuts and tips. Lots of people said yes, so, good news! I am going to actually create that e-book. It is going to take me a little while to compile that information. What I am going to do is get the information out of the videos and put that into a booklet type form, an ebook. And then I'm going to give you the mechanism to download it. It's going to have as much information as possible. I will put all the juices I used, the recipes, how I felt, things to watch out for, how to get out of those difficult tough spots when you're really wanting to eat and so forth. And what I did to basically succeed in my 56 day juice fast.

I am going to get that for you and actually get a copy of it. As soon as I have got it down I am going to let you know and make that available for download. Yes, it will be free. No problems there. I am going to give as much information about it as I can anyway.

Today I gained about 0.3 of a kilo, which is about 0.6 pounds. Which means, since my juice fast completed, which again, this is the start of Day 4, after it, I have gained just under 1 pound. Now, for those who are wondering, you know, why is he gaining weight? Research I did before I started said that often people did gain weight after a juice fast. And that is because when you are on a juice fast, what happens is you are just having the juices, you're not having any fibre. And the body is absorbing most of that nutrition very very quickly. Consequently you are not getting much in your body. There's not a lot of waste in your intestines waiting to be excreted out of your body. As opposed to eating of course, when you have got a lot of waste that is permanently - well, I shouldn't say waste, but a lot of food that is in the stages of digestion, going through your intestines and so forth. And some people have a gain of 3 or 4 pounds, you know, 2 or 3 kilos or more. So I don't mind having gained 0.4 [sic] of a kilo overall, which is about, under 1 pound. I know that weight is going to come off.

And that is the other overwhelming thing as well. If you keep on track, keep eating the the right raw food and the right things, after your juice fast, that weight will come off. So the last thing that I should do now is think, Oh, my weight is going up, I may as well give up and go back to the way I was eating before. No! Keep on it! So, in this case I am going to keep on eating my foods, my healthy foods, and I know this weight will come off. Because I am continuing to exercise, and it is just a matter of time before it comes off.

But I think we're at a point now, where I would expect from now on, days moving forward, that my weight is going to start going down. And I will keep you updated. Because I have got a few more days to go before my holiday, or vacation as you say in the US, starts. So I will be able to weigh myself tomorrow, and the day after. I will keep you updated with that.

Obviously while I am away, I will be on holiday for 6 nights. I won't be able to weighing myself over there. I will keep you up to date.

In terms of what I am eating, I am eating good foods completely. I am off dairy completely. At this stage I haven't had any meat. So I have had no meat, no dairy, basically since I started my juice fast actually. And what I am having is lots of vegetables, nuts, legumes, seeds, those types of things. To give you a bit of a rundown on yesterday's evening meal, I had basically a fruit platter with seeds as well. A mixture of fruits and nuts. I had a few dates. Some apples, some orange. A bit of banana, and a few strawberries. All together on a plate. Absolutely beautiful! And really, really healthy for you.

And for lunch yesterday I had my vegan vegetable stew. I talked about that in my previous video. I actually made a stew from about 12 different vegetables, mixed it all together in a pot, put some carrots in there. It's all based on the Eat To Health book, by Dr. Joel Fuhrmann. I told you in another video what the page was for that particular recipe. Quite nice!

I don't know if you can hear that outside, it is pouring with rain outside, over here in Australia. But I digress.

Anyway, I am going to leave it there for now. Everything is still on track. I am still quite happy with my progress. Still feeling good. Still feeling energised and vibrant. And I know that I am doing the right thing. And I am not getting at all worried about the fact, again, that I have gained more weight. Ideally I would have preferred not to have gained any weight. But the fact that I have only gained that small amount of weight in the period of time since finishing my juice fast is apparently quite normal.

And if you think about it logically it does make sense. Because you are going to be heavier, because you are ingesting the full food instead of just drinking the juice. So I guess, to be fair, I should have probably more expected to gain some. But the fact that I have only gained that little bit of weight I think is testament to the fact that I am still eating the right things and I am still exercising. And I think that if I had gone off track here, and started eating bad foods, or wasn't exercising, the weight gain would have been a lot higher. So I think that - you know - reining it back in, so to speak.

And I am looking forward to seeing how it goes over the next week, particularly when I get back from vacation. Because again, I am going to be very careful what I am eating over there. And I am sure that the weight is going to start going down. And I will keep you up to date on that.

Alright, thanks for watching. And I will be back tomorrow!

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juice Fast here if you wish.

Back To Solid Foods And Loving It

2011-09-08T17:00:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here!

How are you going today?

Today is my juice fasting update. Or, should I say, transitioning back to food update! Day 2. This is the start of Day 3, actually, from my, returning from juice fasting, going back to the normal solid foods with some healthy vegetarian recipes. Things are going fantastically well. For those who are asking, yes, I have gained a little bit of weight. The smallest amount of weight actually, since I have gone off juice fasting. Today is the start of the third day, mid morning here in Australia. I have gained 0.1 kilo, yes, 0.1 kilo!

Now that is about 1/5 of one pound. That is all I have gained since moving over, and I suspect that is going to come off pretty quickly, because I am still exercising and eating healthily.

What raw food diet did I eat yesterday? Very good question. I will answer it now. I ate for breakfast, I had a nice smoothie and some quick vegan treats. This is yesterday. Then for lunch I made a lovely vegetable stew, using that Eat For Health book, Dr. Joel Fuhrmann. I think it is called the Hearty Vegetable Stew. I think it contained about 12 different vegetables. Smelt absolutely magnificent when I was cooking it, and it tasted quite nice.

And of course I made too much, so I have that in the freezer now. And I am going to have that for lunch. For my evening vegitarian meals, I am only having quite a light meal. I just having a bit of fruit, a few nuts and seeds. That's it. Strawberries, a bit of apple, banana, and a bit of orange. And I didn't have too much. I wasn't too hungry. And in actual fact I haven't felt hungry the whole time. So it is pretty fantastic, as I'm sure you'll agree. Because I'm still feeling happy, still feeling confident.

And I've just gone back to this - because it was a bit of a concern of mine that once I got off the juice fast that I would be getting those old addiction type feelings back again. And trying to navigate towards those types of foods that I shouldn't be eating. That hasn't been the case. I haven't been eating meat, since I have gone off my juice fast, whatsoever. I have just stuck to vegan snack recipes such as vegetables, nuts, seeds, having smoothies or stew, and just a bit of light fruit in the evening. And it's doing really, really well.

Another thing that is a bit different about this video today is I'm doing a test video on my iPad. I'm going to edit this video, then upload directly from the iPad, so that I am all ready, once I get to Phuket (which is later this week) and I can start making - I want to make sure, basically, that I can make videos, edit them, and upload them etc., while I am over there. Because of course, I won't have a computer, I will only have an iPad.

The other good news of course, while I'm away, is that I have got baby-sitters for my house now. I've got four people staying here, which is fantastic as well. Because obviously I didn't want to leave the house here empty while I was away. So I have got some family moving in while I'm away, which is good.

And, what else have I got to report? Not a lot else. Is there any interest out there - send me a comment, or let me know - if I put together an e-book of my juice fast experiences. I am thinking of doing that, going right through. And it wouldn't just be like Day 1, to Day 56. But it would also include recipes, pitfalls, things that I found, things that I found hard, things that I found easy, shortcuts, those types of things. Is this something that interests you? Because if it is, let me know.

And of course the other thing I would do after the juice fast e-book, I would actually go through and chronicle my returning back to food after it as well. Because what I'm really trying to do here now with this YouTube channel, YouTube videos, is to make it the best juice fasting / transitioning back to food / getting healthy / eating correctly type channel on YouTube. And I want it to use myself as proof, for those people, who like myself before I started this, thought they couldn't succeed, and thought that it was going to be too hard. And I have just shown myself that I can succeed, that I can do this and lose a lot of weight. And I want show other people as well.

So, tell me what you think.

The other thing is I had a comment yesterday from someone which was interesting, suggesting, why aren't I getting more views on YouTube. Maybe I should be promoting these videos more. What do you think?

Is there any suggested ways that I can get message out there to more people, so that we can help as many people as possible. I am open to any ways to get these videos out there, and I am pumped about doing them, and continuing to do them each day.

Let me know your comments. I would love to hear them. And any other questions you've got in the meantime, send them through, and I will do my best to answer.

OK, that's it for now. Thanks for watching. And I will see you tomorrow!

Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Solid Foods here if you wish.

Smoothie Diet Time Now The Juice Fast Is Over?

2011-09-07T17:38:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with another 'Eat Healthy' / 'Juice Fast' / whatever you like to call it 'Eat Raw' / 'Get Fit' / 'Get Healthy' type video!

Today I am just going to talk briefly about my transition back to food with some smoothie diet in it. For those of you who don't know, yesterday marked the first day that I was back on to solid food after a juice fast lasting 56 days.

Now if you want to see what happened during those 56 days, do go back and check my videos. I have actually done a complete history. Every day I uploaded a video faithfully about my progress, how much weight I lost, etc. And I am going to be doing a similar thing with my transitioning back to solid foods.

So, what did I do yesterday?

Well, I focused the first two meals on smoothies. In actual fact, in yesterday's video I actually showed you the low carb smoothie that I had for breakfast. I had a different smoothie for lunch, which was also some spinach, but there were also some dates. And it was a little less creamy than the other one, a bit thicker. And that was quite nice as well, and quite filling.

And for the evening I thought, I wasn't particularly hungry, so I thought I might try a few - oh, mango was the other thing I had in the drink, the smoothie for lunch yesterday.

In the evening meal, as I said, I decided to go for some dates. I had an orange. What else did I have? I had a few nuts. And I think I had an apple. I can't really recall right now. But that was really it. Just a fairly light on meal, just to make sure that I was OK with solids, eating them instead of consuming them in a smoothie.

No problems at all, and I was full quite quickly. So that was enough. I only had a little bit. I couldn't resist. I had to weigh myself, because I have actually weighed myself for the last 56 days of my juice fast. But I decided I would weigh today, because lots of people have said, Oh, be careful when you get back to solid food. You are going to start gaining weight. Well, I am happy to say that I still lost some weight. Now it was only a small amount. It was only 0.1 kilo, which is about 1/5 of one pound. But I didn't gain weight. So there you go.

Now, I am continuing my exercise program as well. I am still walking at least an hour every day. And I am also doing some of the yoga and some of the muscle exercises, etc. And the balancing type exercises on the Wii Fit as well. So consequently I still managed to lose weight as well, which I thought was quite amazing.

So, I will keep you updated. Today my plan is for lunch I am going to make a vegetable stew. And that is just a lot of different vegetables with seasoning and so forth. And for the evening meal I am probably going to do the same. I am probably going to have a light meal - a bit of fruit and probably some of those dates, which were quite nice. I had a couple of prunes as well last night, which weren't quite as nice.

I have to say, the dates tasted unbelievably well, that I had yesterday. Whether it was because it was the first bite of something I had in 56 days or not, I don't know.

And the other thing is I am going to put, make myself some guacamole. I have got all the ingredients. I have to go out and buy them shortly. I am going to make that and I am going to steam some vegetables. Maybe a bit of pumpkin maybe, maybe a bit of broccoli, and maybe a few other bits and pieces. And I am going to dip them in that home made guacamole as well, and see what that tastes like. And that is going to be it.

I am going to try and aim to have a light evening meal. I know that traditionally that's been one of my heaviest meals in the past, in my old eating style. But I figure that now that I have changed my whole eating completely it would be a good time to try and revise that. Because it would be better to have a larger type meal, if you are going to have one, during the day, so that you have got more time to burn off. And then just have a lighter meal in the evening.

Certainly that was all I needed last night, so I will see how I go again tonight. I am focusing on the health, and feeling absolutely wonderful, I have to say.

I have to say, I am pleased with myself, with the journey that I have made. And now I have finished the juice fast, it is definitely very important for me not to slip back into old habits. Because I don't want to have to find myself in that situation where I am sick again and overweight etc. Even though I still have some pounds to lose now, but I am not as overweight as I was before. Morbidly obese, effectively, I was. I don't want to be in that situation again. And to do that I have to eat healthy. And I want to eat healthy. I know, my body wants to eat healthy food. And I am absolutely going to do that. So I am going to nail that by making sure I am on track, and watching what I am eating, and taking care to make sure that I am not picking foods that have got too much sugar in them, or too much sodium, etc. I am really just focusing on health.

And I think if I do that, eventually it is going to become absolutely an every day part of my life, and it is going to be quite easy to do it. And I am going to gravitate towards those types of foods naturally. Which, again, is very empowering for me.

So, everything is still on track. I am still doing well, and I am absolutely pleased that I haven't gained any weight and in fact lost a little bit after transitioning back to solid foods. So that is a good - something for you guys to keep in mind if you are worried about gaining weight. It may not necessarily happen. But if it does, well it's going to only be a temporary thing anyway. The way I look at it now is I am going to be having more and more solid type foods, because of course the smoothies were already juiced down. (Or blended down, I should say). So when I try my stew for lunch and so forth, that is going to be a bit more filling and a bit more fibre and so forth. So I am not expecting to gain much weight at all, to be honest. If I gain a little bit here and there, I am going to be losing it with the exercise and of course with the overall healthy nature of my diet anyway is going to be pointing me down in terms of weight loss, which is fantastic.

Alright, I will leave it there for now, and I will be back with another video tomorrow!

Thanks for watching. Talk to you then. Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Smoothie Diet here if you wish.

Day 57 - Juice Fasting Results Are In!

2011-09-06T16:56:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with the last day of my Juice Fast update.

If you watched yesterday you know that yesterday was my last juice fasting day. So I decided to do a video today just talking about my final weight. So I lost 0.3 kg overnight. So that brings my total weight loss now of, about, 0.3 is about 0.6 pounds, so, just a bit over half a pound.

Total weight loss over Day 1 to Day 56 inclusive, was 23.2 kilograms, which is just over 51 pounds, all up, which is fantastic.

And my current weight is 88.2 kilograms, which is 194 1/2 pounds.

So I have actually made it. I am off my juice fast and fasting plan now. And before I go too much further, here is my smoothie! I am going to drink my smoothie, and I will tell you what is in it shortly. But I am going to enjoy it first.

Mmm, quite nice!

I'll tell you what's in it shortly. I said that didn't I!

Oh wow. That's nice.

Not quite as green as I like it to come out.

But, wow! That tastes nice!

Excuse me for spilling it a little bit. I'm not used to virtually eating as I'm doing this.

That was the Dr. Fuhrmann's "Eat Your Green Fruit" low carb fruits smoothie. Organic baby spinach, unsweetened fruit juice (so I just juiced two oranges), ground flax seeds, half a cup of soy milk, a cup of frozen fresh blueberries, and a medium banana. And it tasted very nice!

I'll have to have another sip I think.

So this is my first time off the juice fast or liquid diet. So this of course has now got the fiber and everything, as opposed to just the juice.

Interesting, I woke up and after about 20 minutes I was feeling hungry. And I haven't been feeling hungry at all. It's almost like my body knew that I was off the juice fast and was sort of saying, well, bring on some food.

I'm going to ease into it. I am probably going to have three smoothies today. Maybe two or three. For lunch I might just try and apple and banana possibly. But I will see how I go. I will play it by ear. I'm going to do that for at least one day, probably two days. And then I'm going to start getting back into the "regular" food.

And I'm going to talk about the transitioning.

And my, that smoothie was really nice. Very filling. But a different experience I have to say, than juice.

Still feeling pumped. And a lot of people have said that after you go off a juice fast you can expect to gain some weight. Anything up to a kilo or even more, which is two, three, four pounds. And of course the reason is with juicing, when you drink the juice, basically the body doesn't have much to do, and it goes through the juice basically straight away. But of course with food that can actually go through your body, and it is in your intestines and so forth, and it is in the process of being absorbed or excreted out of your body, it can be a number of days. So, consequently, because you've got that extra food in you, you can expect to be weighing a little bit more.

But I don't necessarily believe it is always the case. And it does of course depend on what you eat. So the healthier type food you eat, that's easier for the body to break down, so, the less that food is actually going to be within your body.

So there you go, my total weight loss all up, is, I've given you those stats now. That's my juice fast over! Day 1 to Day 56. Today is my first day of transition.

I'm going to keep talking every day about transitioning, and how I am feeling, and just generally give you an update. I'm not going to weigh myself every day, because I am not going to get into that habit now. Because I really wanted to weigh myself every day for the juice fast, but I am probably only going to weigh myself about once a week, particularly during the first week of transitioning. So if there is any weight gain, because of the food, for reasons I have just outlined, it is not something I am going to be worried about.

I would think by the time a week comes around I would be well and truly back to how I was before. Any weight that I have gained I am saying I would have lost, because I am going to be eating very, very healthily.

So! There you go. One juice fast over. But stay tuned for more transitioning videos, where I will talk more about good healthy foods and recipes and so forth. And look, I have got plans to actually show you some cooking, if you guys are interested (let me know). Go healthy cooking and trying to just transition back to really healthy stuff. So keep that in mind, that there are going to be more of these videos coming. I'm aiming to release a video each day for that, for the ongoing future. Because look, this has just been such a fantastic journey for me and I just want to share it with everyone, and help other people who are doing a similar thing.

So, with that said I am going to say goodbye, and I am going to have another drink!

And I will talk to you soon. Cheers for now.

[Takes another drink]

Cheers!

You can watch a high definition version of this Juice Fasting here if you wish.

Day 56 - Juice Fast Journey Nearing Its End

2011-09-05T20:39:00.000-07:00

Hello, Tim here with my Day 56 juice fasting update.

This is my final day of juice fasting. After today I am going back to solid food again. By the way, 56 days, in case you're wondering why it wasn't 60 days or 90 days, or 100. 56 days is exactly 8 weeks. Eight sevens are 56. That's the reason chose 56. Just to be a little bit different.

And I am pretty pleased that I am here now! Again, it still hasn't been a struggle I have to say, mostly. It has been quite straight forward, and I am pleased to have made it to my last day. So, feeling pretty pumped about that. I am going to talk about the actual diet, fruit juice diet, veggie juice diet or, not diet, but eating plan I should say. A book I think you need to read - I am going to talk about shortly and show you.

But before I do that I'll just talk about my weight loss. I lost 0.2 kilograms, which is around about half a pound since yesterday. Total weight loss now is 22.9 kilograms, which I think is around about 50.5 pounds now. Current weight is now 88.5 kilograms, and that is around 195 pounds, give or take.

So, feeling pretty pleased. And I will do one final weigh-in tomorrow because that will cover today's weight loss. And if I do manage to lose weight tomorrow it will mean that for every single day of my juice fast, for all 56 days, I would have actually lost weight, which is quite amazing, I think. Never before have I had an eating plan where I have consistently lost weight every single day. Even stringing together three or four days of weight loss. I think I got in one of my previous diets up to 7 days where I lost weight in a row. And I thought that was fantastic.

But here we are and I have now lost weight 55 days in a row, and expecting to lose weight tomorrow for Day 56, the final day, for today's weight loss.

OK, let's talk about this book. Eat For Health, by Dr Joel Furhmann. This is a book I think you need to read. This is a book for transitioning off a juice fast. Now I bought this from Amazon. I got this shipped over to Australia. It is actually two books. I don't think I have got the other book here actually. It is part of a two book series. This one here - I'm just looking for it, no, I can't see it.

This is book two. You can see it there, it says Book Two, the Body Makeover. The first one is more the scientific reasons, the research and so forth as to why conventional foods is bad for you, why dairy is bad for you, and what your staple diet should be.

I will go through a couple of recipes, just quickly. I won't bore you too much. But I'm going to talk about what I'm going to be having tomorrow. He has got some really good recipes here for smoothies. Now the one that I like is this one here on page 107.

Now, let me just read out the ingredients. This is a smoothie. Now, for those people who don't know, to make a smoothie you use a blender instead of a juicer. And you put these ingreidents in and then you drink it. And the difference between that and a regular juice is of course that with a smoothie you have got everything. It is basically all the ingredients that are mixed up and you are drinking it, as opposed to a juicer, where you are only getting the actual juice. So with the smoothie you are getting the fiber as well.

So, the ingredients: 5 ounces baby spinach; 1 medium banana; 1 cup frozen fresh blueberries; half a cup soy milk; half a cup pommegranate juice (or other unsweetened fruit juice); and 1 tablespoon of flax seeds.

Now that serves two. Preparation time is about 3 minutes because you just put it all in a blender, mix it up, and then drink it.

Calories, about 196 calories. Protein is about 6.5 grams. It has got some really healthy stuff basically. And that is just an example of a recipe.

He has also got some recipes for salads, dressings, dips, and actual full meals. There's another one that I actually like here, and I am not going to read out the ingredients, because it is not too much, but vegetable stew. And it has got lots of ingredients. I will just read out a couple. Carrots, split peas, lentils, beans, some kale, coloured greens, broccoli etc. And it makes a beautiful and nutritious sounding vegetable stew. Very, very good for your body, and there are no meats.

That's the other thing that he is pushing, is, limit meats to either not at all, or once or twice a week, only.

Remember that the main reason you probably want to have meat, unless you want to use a substitute, is for vitamin B12. Because you can't get vitamin B12 in virtually any vegetable or fruit. Apparently you can get it in seaweed, but I am not convinced of that. I have read a little bit of that.

I would highly recommend this book if you are getting off a juice fast. I will put the link in these video notes. So click on the Show More button in YouTube, or go straight to Amazon and have a look. I suggest you buy this book. Book 1 is good also because it talks about the scientific side, the research side, but also getting your mind right. And the other thing he has got in there which I really like is he has got an index of all vegetables and fruits and how high they are, in terms of protein, and some of the other things, and how good they are for you. So you know how these foods are put together. And each of these recipes - and look, there's pages and pages of recipes - are extremely healthy, using all the good stuff. You're not using any processed foods, you're not using any dairy products. You are using soy milk, but that is obviously not traditional dairy stuff.

And no meat or anything like that. Or - I think he may have a couple of dishes that have got meat in there which are optional. But you can obviously do them without.

So, you are probably wondering why I am going to a smoothie, from day one? Well, the thing is, getting off a juice fast, if you have been on one for a long period of time, the lining in your stomach, in terms of the 'juices' for want of a better word, that help to go and digest your food, are basically non-existent, or have been basically been reduced since your juice fast. And the reason for that is of course your body hasn't had to do much digestion for the period of time that you have been juice fasting.

So what you need to do is gradually go back to eating proper foods that are minimizing the amount of digestion your body needs to do, because it hasn't got all the 'ingredients' it needs to do the digestion. I read stories online from people who have just gone off a juice fast and just started eating normally, and have been in horrendous pain. Because basically there should be a lining in their stomach with these juices, and they're not there. So the food you're ingesting is hitting that spot in your stomach where it shouldn't be. And consequently it's a very painful process.

I don't think it's life-threatening or anything like that, as far as I know. Bear in mind I am not a doctor. But, it's not worth risking.

So, what I am doing is starting off with smoothies, and maybe a bit of fruit, so that the body has minimal work to do. And again, we're making it as easy as possible, because it's all smoothed up. There's not a lot of processing it needs to do to process that food. It still needs to do more work than it has done with the juicing. But by doing that over the first couple of days, which is my plan, primarily smoothies, and perhaps the odd bit of fruit, the body is going to get back to work and start producing those juices, or enzymes, whatever that technical word for that is. And I will swing back into it.

So by the end of Sunday, when I get to Sunday I will be in Phuket. I will be ready to go. I will be ready to eat the foods over there. I am still going to be very careful. I have already done some research into the foods, some of the things I will be trying and not trying. But I will be talking more and showing you some of the foods that I am eating while I am over there. Because obviously they're very spicy, which is good, I like spice. And very healthy as a rule, but I will actually show you those in some of my videos that I am going to be doing over there, what I am going to be eating. Because that is obviously going to be part of the transitioning as well.

But, whatever you do, at least have a read of this book. Even if you're doing a juice fast, what I did, was I read this book, the two book series, I read these books while I was on my juice fast, because I wanted to be prepared. I didn't want to go back to old habits. I am refusing, point blank, to go back to my old habits. So for me it is going to basically be fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, you know, beans, those types of things, seeds. That's going to give me every single thing I need for my body, other than vitamin B12. And for that I am going to eat that, once or twice a week I am going to have some chicken or something of that nature that has got vitamin B12, or I am going to take a supplement.

At the moment I am taking a supplement for vitamin B12, because obviously on a juice fast I need to do that, because I am not having meat. But I will make that decision, and it may well be that I won't have meat at all, or it will be very very rare occasions that I will have it.

Alright. I am going to leave the video there for now. That's Day 56 of my juice fasting plan. I will be back tomorrow with my final weight loss update for my juice fast. But again, bear in mind I am still going to be continuing these videos, talking about my transitioning. And if I get the chance tomorrow I might even show you my blend, show you taking my first sip of my new blended smoothie!

Talk to you then. Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juice Fast here if you wish.

Day 55 - Juice Diets Are Truly Effective!

2011-09-04T17:03:00.000-07:00

Good morning, good evening, and goodnight! as Jim Carrey would say.

Tim here with my Juice Fasting progress report update for Day 55.

Only one more day to go after my juice diets today. So tomorrow is going to be my last liquid diet weight loss, juice diet weight loss day and juice fasting. Looking forward to that actually! I am starting to think obviously I have been doing this for quite a number of days now, transitioning. Fruit and green smoothies is probably going to be what I am starting with. That will be on Tuesday, because it is Sunday over here in Australia.

It is actually Father's Day today. So I am going to take it quite easy today. I'm not going to do a lot. I have a couple of adult children, and Louise has got a couple of younger children who are nearly adult (17 and 15). So I hope to catch up with all of those today.

In terms of weight loss, I lost 0.2 kilograms which is around half a pound. My total weight loss now is 22.7 kilograms, which is pretty well exactly 50 pounds now since I started the juice fast 55 days ago.

My current weight now is 88.7 kilograms, which is around 195 pounds. So everything is on track. Now I have got less than 20 pounds to lose. Looking quite good.

Not a lot else to report, as I said. Still feeling the same. Not feeling hungry.

In the last three or four days I have gone without a breakfast juice, because I haven't felt I needed it. Today I felt a little bit hungry, so I felt I would have it. And I had a nice juice. Basically, yeah, everything is going well. I am feeling happy, feeling excited.

The other thing I am starting now is to really think about what do I want to do? Because I am finding that I am quite bored in the regular activities. And I think I may have talked about - well, regular day-to-day activities I should say, that I normally do. And what I used to do, looking back now at when I was eating badly, was I used to - eating was actually a pastime for me. It wasn't just something to fulfil hunger. It was something to relieve boredom. So I would go into the fridge, typically at 3 - 4 in the afternoon, and find something to eat, and sit down and maybe watch a bit of TV. So the association was with food and with TV. And then obviously in the evening as well. So what I am finding now is I'm needing to find some sort of passion, or something else to do, in those times.

So I am actually thinking of taking up martial arts. That's my latest thing. For a couple of reasons. Firstly for a bit of self defence. But secondly to fulfil a bit of interest in terms of doing something outside of what a lot of people wouldn't do. Because I certainly haven't done martial arts before. And a third thing that will help is the fitness side of things.

So I am looking at that, trying to pick out a couple of martial arts. Pick out one that is going to be suitable for me. So I am looking quite carefully at that. But yeah, everything else is fine. So I am not going to waffle on too much longer, other than to say, have a good day! For any of you fathers out there, Happy Fathers' Day, today or tomorrow, depending on where you are in this part of the world. Because I believe it is tomorrow over in the US. Certainly over here anyway. And I will be talking to you tomorrow for my last juice fasting update, Day 56 tomorrow.

But bear in mind that after that I am still going to be talking about the transitioning and still doing videos about that. So it is not as if I'm stopping videos, or anything like that. So do stay tuned and keep subscribing. I love those subscribers signing up. And we'll talk more tomorrow.

Or, I will, anyway!

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juice Diets here if you wish.

Day 54 - Juide Diet Plan Update!

2011-09-03T17:19:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 54 juice fasting update.

Just two days to go, after today, and I am done with my juice fasting!

I talked about, in earlier videos that I wasn't sure whether I was going to continue the juice diet plan. I have decided to definitely stop it. So my last day - [right now] it is actually Saturday. It's about 11:40 in the morning, on Saturday, in Australia. And the end of Monday will be my last day. So I will do another video on the Tuesday morning. That will be my final sort of daily 'weigh-in' if you will. And then I am going to switch over to a diet of mainly fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and seeds. Because I think that's the way to go.

I'm going to ease slowly into that. I'm going to start off with some green smoothies and a bit of low carb fruits in the first couple of days, and then build it up from there, slowly.

Exercising is going well. Still walking every day. And I'm also doing some more on the Wii Fit Plus. Really quite an interesting little software package. If you have got a Nintendo Wii console, gaming console, consider getting the Wii Fit Plus. Because it has got all this stuff built into it. It has got yoga built in. It teaches you how to do yoga. And it is really quite good for balancing, and obviously for weighing as well. But it has got lots of good balance type games. It has got muscle workouts.

One day I did biking. Now you have to just walk up and down on the spot as if you are pedalling a bike. And you use the little console controller. You hold that like you are riding a bike. And that is actually a lot of fun, and I felt quite puffed after it. So consider that. Consider having a look at the Wii Fit Plus software. Very cheap, and very good for doing a bit of exercise.

But, moving on. Weight loss. Since yesterday I lost 0.3 of a kilo, which is about 0.6 pounds. My weight loss now is 22.5 kilograms. And that is a total of 49.6 pounds all up. By the way I think I made a mistake with that in yesterday's video. I think I said I had already lost more than that.

My current weight now is 88.9 kilograms. And that is just a fraction under 196 pounds. So yeah, everything is going quite well.

Interesting, yesterday I had Louise come up to me and told me that my demeanor, the way I approach things, has changed. And I think that this has got something to do with the weight I have lost, and the juice fasting. She said I'm a much more calm person now. Much more peaceful and happier in general. And I thought, well that's a bit of a complement. That's not something, I have to say, I have noticed to a large degree. But, thinking about it I can see how that would make sense. Being overweight, for me, and I'm assuming for lots of other people, is quite a stressful endeavor. Not only the actual physical stress that you're putting on your body, you know, your heart is working harder and everything is under strain in your body because you are putting more of a load on it. But also the emotional stress from being overweight and having that cynical public eye on you. You know, other members of the public, especially those people who aren't overweight, giving you that sort of look of distaste, which I have had all my adult life.

It has been on and off. And I'm not saying everyone has done that. But I have been conscious of that. And perhaps when you are overweight as I was, (and I am still overweight now, but getting to the stage of going to get to my goal of not being overweight anymore, but I'm talking more about when I was very overweight, obese), I felt people were looking at me all the time, and judging me, because of who I was and because of my weight.

That could be something that was just in my mind. But obviously there was, from time to time, there are certainly some people who think like that, because I used to get those sort of comments. You know, "why don't you lose some weight?" All those types of comments.

Anyway. The point I am trying to make about all this, I'm not trying to be negative. I'm trying to be positive. I don't have to worry about that anymore. I'm much more socially accepted. Well, I'm feeling that I'm more socially accepted. Whether anything has changed external to me, I don't know. But I'm certainly feeling that. And so, the by product of all that of course is that I am less stressed with my veggie juice diet. I am happier. And I just found that was quite an interesting comment, that I am more peaceful with the juicing benefits. And she is actually finding it is like she is living with a new person almost, now.

So that's another benefit about juice fasting that I had not thought about too much. I guess weight loss in general, to be fair. But I have got no doubts that the nutrients that I am having are actually helping with this becuase they are actually fixing and healing my body anyway. And what is to say I am not healing the mind as well? The body is getting all the right nutrition that it needs to operate the brain at peak efficiency. So maybe it is now working better and it has freed up from having to worry about keeping me alive, basically, in terms of what I used to do in my body. And focusing more on other things, like, what I want to do in the future, whether I am happy, more peaceful thoughts, etc.

Very interesting to think about that, along those lines. And that is something I'm sure not a lot of people talk about. I guess there is some talk about the spiritual side of things. And yes, I'm feeling that as well. But I'm just talking more generally about generally being a more optimistic, happy and peaceful type person. Which is certainly me at the moment.

Well, alright, that's Day 54 for you. Everything is still on track, as I said. Two more days to go after today and then I'm finished. Don't worry though, for those people who are still sending me lots of messages in my inbox, my YouTube inbox. I am still going to be doing the videos. I am going to be doing the videos all next week and while I am at Phuket, with Louise. We are leaving next Sunday. We are going to be talking about that. Don't worry. We're going to go into that in detail, my food experiences and how I am going.

And rest assured, hopefully I can keep the information relevant and spot on to what you need, to do something similar, if you're looking to transition, which I will be talking about, obviously, at that point. Because my juice fasting will be over.

So I am looking forward to learning more myself, because obviously transitioning is not something I have done before. So it is going to be a learning process for me. But I aim to put all the information on what I'm feeling, and ways to - you know, make it easy for you in these videos.

So, please do subscribe to the YouTube channel. I know I am getting lots of people subscribing every day, which is fantastic. And these liquid diet weight loss videos are going out wide and benefiting a lot of people. So I am happy that I am able to contribute. And obviously they are helping me as well, because they are helping me to remain on track and to think what I am going to put in the day's video, and just to put that message of the day, if you will, in the video, to just really focus on giving, and helping other people in a similar situation.

Alright, I will leave it there for now. And I will be back tomorrow with my Day 55 update!

Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juide Diet Plan video here if you wish.

Day 53 - Lemon Juice - Strikingly Refreshing?!

2011-09-02T17:09:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 53 update. My juice fasting update.

I'm here at the Royal Adelaide show with Louise. Louise is taking the video.

Hello Louise!

Louise: Hello!

Tim: I'm here having a great time. So just a quick video just to let you know that overnight I have lost 0.6 of a kilo. Now I don't know what that is in pounds, but I will put that on the screen now (1 and 1/3 pounds).

Total weight loss is 22.2 kilograms, which is this much in pounds (just under 49 pounds).

And my weight now is 89.2 kilograms, which is 195 1/2 pounds.

Just going to be a quick one today, because as I said, we're at the Royal Adelaide Show, which is sort of like a fair or carnival I should call it for you American folks.

Louise: And Louise wants fairy floss!

Tim: Louise wants some fairy floss. I won't be indulging in that obviously. Lots of food here. It's amazing how much junk food I have already seen. And it's only about 10:30 in the morning. It's quite amazing.

But everything is still on track and everything is going well. I have only got 3 days after today till my juice fast finishes.

OK, so short video, as I said. I'll leave it there for now. Thanks for watching, and I will see you tomorrow for Day 54.

(Actually, stay tuned... I did more video!)

Hi, it's Tim here again. Just showing you some of the views of our Royal Adelaide Show here. I'm not sure how loud it is for you guys, but I can barely hear myself talk. Very loud.

There's Louise, say hello Louise.

Louise: When do I get my fairy floss? :-)

Tim: We'll do that in a minute Louise. We'll get your fairy floss. For all these people trying to lose weight, we'll watch Louise eat fairy floss, shall we?

Louise: Look at all those food places!

Tim: Yeah, over here, can you see all the food places! No doubt it's going to be all healthy raw food, and probably some nice juices!

Let's go and have a look shall we. And let's have a look what they have got for sale. Nice and healthy food. Exceedingly healthy. Can you believe the "Good Food" Sign? :-) Nice. Guys, what do you reckon?

Have you got these in America, Dagwood Dogs? Hmm. I don't see any juice here. Oh, there's some punch. What else have we got?

Don't see any juice here guys. Very disappointing.

Oh well. I have got to keep looking for my juice. I'm sure it will be here somewhere. There's Louise ordering a hot dog. 50 days ago I would have gone for that. No more.

(To Louise) Yeah, busted!

There's Louise, eating fairy floss. The healthiest food ever. Does anyone know what is in fairy floss! Fairy floss consists of a shitload (excuse the French) of sugar, and some artificial coloring. That's it. So, basically 99% sugar. How do I know this? Well, we used to have a fairy floss machine!

Anyway. It's OK I guess, as an indulgence every now and again. But the problem that I had with it of course, I used to eat and drink bad stuff all the time, which of course is the reason I was overweight. It is just interesting, looking around at all the stuff at the Royal Show, I haven't seen anything healthy. I think the best I saw was potato, baked potato. That was it.

Louise is saying "fairy floss is mostly air". No, sorry Louise, it is mostly sugar. You in fact are wrong.

Alright, I'm going to leave it there for now. Quite horrifying really isn't it, the state of our society where we push all of this junk food that is so unhealthy. But, rant is over, the good news is that after the show we're actually going to the market and I'm going to show you a bit of that when we get there.

[cuts to market]

Finally I can have my juice here. Pineapple, celery, orange, apples and lemon juice. Tried to get some carrot, but they didn't put it in there. We're here now at the Adelaide __ Markets, and I am going to buy some organic fruits and vegetables, which of course is a whole lot better than what we saw previously.

OK, I'll leave it there for now.

[cuts to a different scene]

So, there you go. That's my adventure in fat loss for today. We've seen lots of things, lots of good and bad foods. Mostly bad food I have to say, to be honest, but at least at this market, we've seen a lot of good food. So I'm going to leave it there for today. That's Day 53 over. And I will see you tomorrow for Day 54.

Bye for now!

You can watch a high definition version of this Lemon Juice video here if you wish.

Day 52 - Fruit Juice Heaven!

2011-09-01T17:17:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 52 update.

Still going. Now only got 5 days, including today, to go, and I have finished my juice fast and some fruit juice, which is quite amazing.

Since yesterday I have lost 0.7 kilograms, which is about 1.5 pounds. So my total weight loss now is 21.6 kilograms, which is just over 47.5 pounds.

Current weight now is 89.8 kilograms. Woohoo! Got under the 90 kilogram mark. And that is now a fraction undfer 198 pounds.

So, feeling pretty confident and happy and blissful really. It's working out nicely.

Interesting in the last 2 days for various reasons I haven't had 3 juices. I have only had the 2 juices. Yesterday I missed my breakfast juice, but had the lunch and evening one. And the day before I had my breakfast juice, but missed the lunch and had the evening one. It wasn't by planning. But I have noticed since I've done that, that the weight loss has escaled So I'm conscious of the fact that I am not trying to hungry or starve myself or anything. Because that's the wrong way to try and lose weight. But I think I'm on to something here. For a long term fast, maybe here's an opportunity to cut down on the juices per day, if you are truly not hungry, which I certainly am not. And just focus on this good stuff: water. And if I'm not hungry I'm going to cut down.

So I'm going to consider doing that today. I haven't had my breakfast juice. It's just over 10 am here in Adelaide as I'm actually filming this. And I will probably go to lunch before I have my first juice. And then have another one in the evening. Interesting that I can do this, and I'm not having any feelings of hunger. Posted a comment to someone yesterday that it has been 35 days since I felt any sort of hunger, which is quite amazing really!

So I figure, well, I might cut down my juices, if I am not hungry, cut down my juices to two a day and see what happens. See whether that accelerates the weight loss. So far I have to say it has worked. Something to consider.

The other thing I am thinking of doing. I'm not quite sure. But it has crossed my mind, given the amount of weight loss acceleration towards the end of my juice fast, there's a possibility that I might extend the juice fast, and maybe go to Day 60. Which would take me through to Friday next week, my time. And I am actually leaving for Phuket on Sunday. So it might be a little bit close in terms of getting myself ready to eat, before I go to Phuket. But that is an option I am just considering, to extend the fast.

The thing is now at 89.8 kilograms, I am under 10 kilograms to where my ideal weight for me to be out of the overweight category, as far as the Wii Fit software is, which is about 79 kilograms. So it's about 10 kilograms and I will actually be there. So, interesting. Whether or not I actually do decide to stop the juice fast in 5 days time, or continue now, is a matter of me thinking is best.

Part of me wants to stop it still, because that was always my goal to get to Day 56, which is, incidentally, in case you're wondering, 8 * 7 is 56, so it was 8 full weeks. Rather than stick to 60, which I know a lot of people do, I thought, well I'll do it by weeks. So the 56th day will be eight weeks exactly that I have done it for.

So I may still stop then. But it is just something I'm considering. And I can see now that I am going to easily get down to my goal weight.

Still thinking of getting the transitioning side of things sorted though. I think that's very important, just to put the focus on that. And I think that's very important. Because if you don't have the plan, I think what's going to happen is, how does that saying go? People don't plan to fail, they fail to plan!

So in other words, I am not planning right now, to actually fail when I go off my juice fast. But if I haven't got a juice diet plan in place, on what to do when I do leave the juice fast, then ultimately I think I will fail and go back to old habits. And that's why I'm putting so much time into this transitioning.

And, yes, I'm going to continue these videos. I am going to be talking about a lot of transitioning when I do finish the juice fast. And I am going to do some videos. I have decided I am probably going to do a quick daily video every day while in Phuket. And show you a little bit of Phuket. And do it in a bit of a different, maybe in a different street, or somewhere. I'll do that on my iPad, and I will perhaps get Louise to help me, if she's willing. And I'll post that every day and just talk about my experiences and talk about some of the food and so forth, and challenges. Because, look, I want to help you guys as well. If you are following this along as well, and you are overweight, like I was, I urge you to go back just look at my Day 1 video. Firstly look at how overweight I was, number 1. But two, look at my skin. Have a close look at the skin and see how bad it was, and blotchy. And, my energy levels. Very, very low. So it has been an incredible transition. And I fully recommend a juice fast. But do, please, make sure you speak to your doctor. I suggest you do those blood tests first. Get a good blood test, get your blood pressure checked, all those sorts of things. And if you are on medication, the idea isn't just to take yourself off medication, and least not initially. By going along and talking to your doctor about this you can actually come up with a plan on slowly transitioning off your medication as well. But you should do it under medical advice.

Even if the actual doctor doesnt understand, or worse, doesn't approve of a juice fast, if you do go back a few times durig your juice fasting, you'll find if you've lost -- let's say you go back after 30 days You've decided to do a 60 day fast. And you've lost, pick a number, 15 kilograms (say about 30 pounds you've lost) Your doctor might look at you and do your blood tests and so forth again, and say, well actually you need a reduced dose of this medication now, because your blood pressure has gone down, or your cholesterol has gone down. Whatever you wish you was.

So keep that in mind. I think the worst thing you could do is go into this blindly, without any advice, without doing any checking. And of course the other reason you want to do this, is at the end of my video a few days ago, I talked about what my results were. I talked about my blood pressure, how it is now perfect, how my cholesterol level has gone down significantly since I have started this juice fast. And I wouldn't have been able to say this with any authority if I hadn't done my blood tests before I started the juice fast.

OK so there you go. That's my plan for now. I'll keep you in the loop as to what you're doing and I will talk more about my fasting on Day 53 tomorrow!

Talk to you then,

Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Fruit Juice video here if you wish.

Day 51 - Juice Fast Recipes Can Be Simple If You Know How

2011-08-31T16:44:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 51 juice fasting update.

Since yesterday I have lost 0.4 kilogram, which is about 0.9 pounds. Just under 1 pound. Bringing my total juice fast results in weight loss since I started my juice fast, to 20.9 kilograms, which is 46 pounds.

My current weight now is 90.5 kilograms, which is 199 1/2 pounds! Yes! I have cracked the magical 200 pound barrier. I am now under that, which is good. My next goal is to get under 90 kilos, which is by the way looking like it is going to be only one or two days before that happens.

Everything else is going quite well. Only got a few more day to go now. Day 51. As you probably know by now I am finishing on Day 56. I am still putting a lot of research into transitioning and looking into more juice fast recipes. Definitely going to go to fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and seeds. That's my primary source of nutrition.

And I am skipping dairy.

And I am also not going to have much in the way of grains or anything like that either. I'll have those sparingly, put it that way, anyway.

Meat, grains, maybe once or twice a week, if at all.

And the only reason I'm having meat is to fulfill the vitamin B12 requirement, which you can't get out of vegetables.

As I result I envisage that I will get down to my 80 kilograms, within two months of transitioning back to food. And it may actually be a lot earlier than that. But that is where I am getting myself. I am not thinking of this as a diet. It's a long term eating plan.

And I am just going to eat low carb foods like that every day. And I'm sure as a result of doing that, plus my exercise, my walking, is going to be enough to get down to my goal weight, which is 80 kilograms.

So, not a lot else to report, so I'm going to leave the video there. Quite a quick one today.

Keep those questions coming in. I do my best to answer them. And yeah, let's get there together! So, if you are thinking of doing the juice fast, yes, it does work. I'm proof of that. And it is just so easy. I am finding this so easy. You know I was talking to someone yesterday who said they are finding it really hard to get past Day 4 or 5.

Perhaps I did. I don't actually remember that now, on Day 51. But if you can get past that phase it is just so simple, where I am now. It's very very simple to continue, and it is really now a way of living. It's fantastic. And I love getting on those scales every day and seeing that I have lost weight.

OK, I will talk to you tomorrow for my Day 52 liquid diet update.

Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juice Fast Recipes video here if you wish.

Day 50 - Does Lemon Water Really Work?!

2011-08-30T16:53:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 50 update, my juice fasting update.

And I promised you that I would be getting my blood test results back today, which I have, which I am going to talk about in a little while.

Firstly I am going to talk about the fact that I lost 0.5 kg since yesterday, which is 1.1 pounds. Overall that is 20.5 kilograms that I have lost, which is 45 1/4 pounds. My current weight now is 90.9 kilograms, which is about 200 1/2 pounds. So I have nearly cracked the magical amount of getting under 200 pounds, which is fantastic.

Now, the other thing that has happened today was, people have been following along for many weeks, I have got a Nintendo Wii, the games console. And I am using the Wii Fit Plus package. And I weigh myself every day. And I set myself a goal, and about a month ago I reached my first ten kilograms, because that is the maximum weight you can set as a loss. I managed to reach that. And today marks the second time that I have reached the next landmark.

So I filmed that. It goes only for a couple of minutes. I am going to go into that now and show you what happens. It's a little bit comical actually, what actually happens. And then I will come back and talk about my blood test results.

So, let's have a look at this video, right now.

OK, so we are now. I'm just checking how much weight I have lost today. And that's my BMI on the screen here, as you can see, Body Mass Index.

I'll click that and I can see that I have lost 0.5 kg, which puts me at just under 91 kilogram.s.

There you can see the little graph there, pointing ever downwards.

Now, this is a little bit comical. The next screen. We'll click on this button. Today was actually the last day of my deadline. So I made it on the last day. And it is asking, have I reached my goal? Yes, I have. Congratulations, Tim! You can see I got under that BMI of 28.82. I'm currently 28.69.

Now it's interesting that it is saying again that "I'm worried, you were so quick in reaching your goal. I'm worried about your health."

Well, thank you Mr. Wii Plus, but I think I'm doing quite well!

Yeah, very interesting isn't it. I met it on the deadline, but obviously because I lost 10 kilograms in the last 30 days it is saying that it was too quick.

And saying my BMI is 28.69, I am actually aiming for a BMI of 25, which is around about 80 kilograms.

What I am going to do now is set it to 10 kilograms. Click on this.

Now I'm setting this weight loss to be over the next 2 months. I have decided because I am going off my juice fast I am setting myself a goal to lose the remaining 10 kilograms over a period of the next 2 months. And I will just specify the time frame now. 2 months. And you can see that's about 2.3 kilograms per week. OK, I will just save that.

OK, Mr Wii, we'll do what we think is best. The Wii Fit is again saying you're trying to lose too much weight, but we are comfortable with that.

So I'm just going to go and have a look now at my weight loss journey since Day 1 of the fast. Because basically I have weighed myself every day, and you can go back here and click on that and look at my history. You can see there now, I can see time of day, and what my weight was in kilograms. We'll just change the scale so you can see more. Just change that. You can go right back and see when I started now. I will just scroll up and have a look. Literally the first day I started. Scroll up. There it is the first day I started. This is how much weight I have lost.

There is no weight going up. It has been going down every single day, as you can see there, right back to July 12th, which was when I first started. Right the way down. I went from being in the Obese category down to the Overweight category. And now I'm well down on that as well so I am moving closer down to my ideal weight, which is wonderful. And that is my current weight 90.9.

I thought you would like to see that. I'm pretty impressed, overall. Let's get back to the other video anyway.

OK, so there you go. I'm quite impressed with what has happened so far. And it's interesting isn't it, that Wii. It's obviously a good thing that I met the goal. It's interesting that the Wii was saying you've lost your weight too quickly. I think I will just ignore that for now, because I am quite happy with my progress.

But yeah, as I said I've decided to go for a smaller amount of weight, or, to lose the same amount of weight, ten kilograms, but in the next 60 days, as opposed to the next 30 days. And that is because I am going back to an eating diet. And my focus is going to be on eating healthy, and not so much on losing weight, although I still do aim to lose weight. And I believe I will lose weight doing that, but I am not going to be so anal about it. So I still set myself an ambitious goal. It is still double pretty much what the Wii says is a comfortable weight loss. So let's see how I go in the next 60 days.

But anyway, let's move on now. Let's talk about my blood tests and lemon water!

Now, for those of you who haven't seen the last couple of days, I suggest you go back to Day 46, I believe it is, where I talked about this in detail. I talked about the fact that I went back to the doctor and asked for a new set of blood tests. Now, these are the blood test results from Day 46, because it took a while for them to be processed and for me to schedule a new appointment with the doctor.

First things first, my blood pressure was 110 over 80. Now that is absolutely perfect for a 20 to 30 year old male in very good health. And obviously I'm 47, so obviously I was very pleased to hear that.

But now, let's talk about the blood test results. I did get quite a few different results. I asked for quite a range of things.

First things first, as a negative, my vitamin D is down. Now, what that means is, vitamin D, probably more than anything means not enough sunlight. The normal range is between 60 and 160 and mine was 34. And the doctor has suggested some vitamin D capsules, which I am going to take, and to retest it in about 8 weeks time.

Not a terribly bad thing. The other thing I'm going to do is change my walk time, because I used to walk early in the morning. I have changed that now to be walking in the afternoon, when the sun is out. So I think by that process I am going to fix that particular issue, because purely because I am indoor type person, with an indoor job, I don't go outside a lot. I'm not into gardening or anything like that.

Again, interesting, if I didn't do the blood test I wouldn't know this. But the fact that I have done the blood test I can actually work on correcting it, which is good.

But let's talk about sugar, which is glucose in the blood. When I first did the glucose test, before I started the juice fast, my glucose level was 5.9. Now anything over 5.5 is considered high, anything towards that scale is getting really high. And my glucose level was really high and the doctor said it was starting to look like it was going towards diabetes.

Bear in mind also that before this juice fast I actually spent a couple of months trying to cut down my sugar content, in terms of obviously not eating chocolates and so forth. And I lost about 5 kilos in that 3 months, even though I wasn't strictly dieting. But I certainly dropped my sugar content, is the point I was making. So interesting that even then it was 5.9.

It is down now to 3.8, which is fantastic! The doctor said he was very pleased with that, and I'm very pleased as well because it is a significant drop from what it was at the beginning of this juice fast.

The next thing was cholesterol. My previous reading was 4.6, which again was starting to get high. It wasn't too bad, but it certainly wasn't too good either. And the other thing was LDL cholesterol was quite high as well. But now my overall cholesterol was 3.4. So I'm pleased about that. That's quite a dramatic drop as well. And it puts me in relatively normal range. And of that, the LDL cholesterol, the bad cholesterol, went down from 3.0 to 2.0 as well.

One little negative is the HTL cholesterol, which is the good cholesterol in your body, is still low. Previously it was 1.0, it is now 0.9. The doctor has said fish oil capsules, from fish, cod liver oil, those types of things. Until the end of my juice fast I'm going to be taking fish oil capsules, and then I'm going to be looking at that again, eating some fish and having a look at other ways that I can actually up that HTL cholesterol.

Not really a lot else to report. Just reading off the screen now. Cell counts are all fine. Iron etc. Vitamin B12 is fine. For those of you who don't know, if you are on a long term fast you need to consider vitamin B12, because that is not in any plants and vegetables. I think it might be in seaweed, but generally you need to take supplements if you are going for a long term fast, greater than 20 or 30 days or so. So I have been taking vitamin B12, and obviously now it's all been fine. It's doing well.

My thyroid function is slightly down. The range that it should be in is around 0.5 to 5.5, and it's down to 0.22. The doctor said it's a bit of a worry. It shouldn't be down. It shouldn't be down at all, but the fact that it is, they are not too worried. They are going to test it again in 8 weeks time. I'm not terribly worried about it. It's just something to keep an eye on. But I will see how I go in 8 weeks time when I retest this.

I'm going to do another blood test in 8 weeks time and just check the vitamin D levels, and also check the thyroid to make sure that's OK.

And just ureic acid. The urea - the ureic acid is mildly increased, but still in range. And the urea level is mildly decreased. Both of those are probably symptoms of giving the liver a really, really good workout. And I think the toxins that are coming out of my body are going through and being coming out of my body is giving the liver a really good workout. So that appears to be the reason why they're elevated. I suspect as I get closer to the goal weight and as this toxic stuff is removed from my body, that symptom is going to disappear. So we will keep an eye on that as well.

So I guess the point I am trying to make here is doing the juice fast, overall it has worked fantastically well. My blood pressure has gone down. My cholesterol has gone down. My sugar level has gone down. A couple of negatives that I wouldn't have been aware of it I hadn't had a blood test, which was the vitamin D. Incidentally low vitamin D can cause a lack of motivation. It can be hard to get out of bed in the morning to go do work. You're just feeling lazy. That's a symptom of vitamin D deficiency. But that's actually symptoms I actually had. I found it hard to get motivated and stuff. So it's good that we're aware of that. It's good that we're doing these blood tests. Even though I don't necessarily agree with other things the doctors suggest, like a pill for everything, in this particular case, these deficiencies can pretty well be naturally fixed, like more sunlight in the case of vitamin D, and fish oil capsules, or actual fish when I get off the diet, or something of that nature to increase the good cholesterol in my body.

So I don't need to go back to take drugs. I'm not taking any medication whatsoever. For those who don't know, have a look at my Day 1 to Day 7 videos, and you will see that I was very nasally. And that's because I was asthmatic. I'm saying "was" an asthmatic, because that has completely cleared up. I haven't had any medication for weeks now. And I don't have any plans to go anywhere near it again. I don't think I'll need to, quite frankly.

The only thing I need to do is continue to the end of the juice fast and lemon cleanse. Six days to go. And then after that it's a matter of me eating healthy, finding a proper balanced diet. I'm not going to be having dair. I've pretty well decided I'm going to go completely off dairy. I'm going to have very little meat. I'm going to have meat every now and then. But meat will be the side dish and not the main. The main meal is going to be the salads, the fruits, nuts, legumes, and those types of things. And that's really my focus. And I think by doing that any other issues I've got are going to be sorted out. But also I'm going to be continuing to get to healthy.

So I have only got 10 kilos to go now, around about 10 kilos. I want to get to about 80 kilograms. You saw that, when I was on the Wii Fit. The goal is now to get to 80 kilograms in about 2 months time, losing about 2.3 kilograms per week. And I feel confident that I can do that, and it's just a matter of really transitioning now into eating food, which I'm going to do.

And again for people who have asked - and I am getting lots and lots of messages. Feel free guys, when leaving the messages, is put them on the videos. Because the good thing, putting them on the videos, is then other people get to read it, and I can answer it, and we help other people. For all those people who have been writing in, yes I am going to be doing these videos past the point of the juice fast, and I am going to be talking about the transitioning. I have got a couple of challenges ahead of me. Obviously I am going to get off juice fasting and go to eating normal foods. And then only 5 days after my juice fast I'm actually going away to Phuket for about 6 days. So the next challenge there is to make sure I'm eating healthy and still in the groove while over there.

And I am actually going to be doing some videos on my iPad while over there, and I'm going to be posting those to my YouTube where I keep you guys informed on what's going on. So stay tuned for that.

Alright, I'm going to leave it there for now. Overall fantastic report. I do suggest you see your doctor before you start a juice fast. Get those blood tests done, because then you've got a base to start from. And look what has happened in my case. It's total proof that the juice fast has worked. All my bad levels in terms of cholesterol, sugar etc. have gone down. My blood pressure is now perfect. Juice fasting has done that for me. So I'm feeling fantastic. Feeling pumped about it.

So if there's any proof to be had, here's the proof in me. Obviously the weight that I have lost, but also the health in my body, which overall I have got a big tick from my doctor in terms of the blood, as to what is going on in my body. And all of this is a result of the juicing. So I am feeling pretty fantastic about that.

And hopefully this is inspiring you, if you are thinking about doing it, or if you are looking to continue, that this is something that will work.

Again, I'm going to leave it there for now.

I'll see you tomorrow for Day 51.

Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Lemon Water video here if you wish.

Day 49 - My Juice Diet Update!

2011-08-29T17:36:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 49 juice diet update, yes my juice fast update.

Only 7 days to go! This time next week will be my last juicing day.

So, feeling fantastic I have to say, still. Since yesterday I have lost another 0.2 kilogram, which is just under half a pound. Total weight loss now is a total of 20 kilograms exactly. And that is a fraction over 44 pounds. Current weight is 91.4 kilos, and that is around 201 1/2 pounds.

So everything on track with my fat burning diet, and doing well.

I mentioned in quite a few previous videos that I am looking at transitioning off, and what I need to do. And it is interesting. I spent some time yesterday researching this. And it seems pretty well the worst thing you could do, if you have been on a long juice fast, is to just start eating normally. Because from what I can gather the stomach creates all these digestive fluids, for want of a better term, the thing that actually helps with digestion. And because you have been on a juice fast, it hasn't had a lot to do in the last, in my case, the last 49 days, because, of course, the juice is ready to go and ready to be absorbed by the body. It hasn't had to do much in the way of digestion at all.

So, the body apparently backs off in the production of these digestive enzymes. I'm not sure if that is the correct wording, I am certainly not a doctor. But anyway, as I said, the body does back off on that, it doesn't produce as many. So consequently, from what I can gather, the layer of your stomach, is sort of coated with these digestive fluids. So if you just go back to eating your normal diet, full on, especially if it is junk food, but even if it is healthy stuff in large quantities, your body is not actually prepared for that. So what you need to do is gently kickstart your digestive 'function' ( I suppose, for want of a better term ), and to do that gently.

So, from what I can read, it is a small amount of fruits, vegetable smoothies, that are really good for the first couple of days, and just to gradually get back into normal eating. I am going to be doing that. I think from what I've read, it's going to be vegetable smoothies.

Now, of course, the difference between vegetable smoothies and juicing is the juicing pretty well removes a lot of the bulk, the fibre. Whereas the smoothie you put that in a blender and you are just blending up the entire fruit and adding some water and perhaps some ice cubes or whatever it is. So you are actually getting the bulk of it, so it is a lot thicker. But because it is sort of partly digested already, or, not digested, but partially broken down I should say, it is not as much work for the body to break it down. And then I am going have a bit of light fruit, and then gently ease into it.

And as it turns out I'm going off to Phuket in Thailand on 11 September (yes, with Louise!), and I am finishing the juice fast over here, my first day of non juicing is the 6th. So I have got about 5 days to very gently start transitioning back into relatively normal food again.

So I am going to start off and do that, and then I am going to move to, I have pretty well decided now, I am going to have meat no more than once or twice a week. I am going to pretty well skip dairy completely. I am going to completely eliminate caffeine.

Now, obviously, dairy and caffeine I have eliminated anyway. And meat I have obviously eliminated in the last 49 days in the juice fast. I see no reason to go back to it. Everything I have read tells me that caffeine is bad for you. Everything I have read tells me that dairy is bad for you, pretty well (certainly the full fat stuff, but even the low fat stuff). The example that I read was that humans are the only creatures (for want of a better term) on this planet who drink the milk of another species. Now, obviously if you are a calf, a small cow will drink its mother's milk. And as kids we might have done that as well. But we also drink other animals' milk. Which is perhaps a little bit weird, and you have to question why other animals aren't doing that!

So, anyway, I am going to ignore dairy, and I would not have been able to do that if I hadn't started the juice fast. Because, quite frankly, I was really into cheese, and had a lot of milk and so forth. But I figure, look, I have been off it for 49 days. I haven't missed it. Why would I want to go back onto it. So my diet is going to be largely fruit and vegetable based. Then I am going to have nuts, legumes, those types of things, and seeds. And that is going to give me everything that I need. And then occasionally I am going to prop that up with a bit of chicken, maybe once or twice a week. And that's going to give me vitamin B12, which is something fruits and vegetables can't give you, which I have talked about in an earlier video.

So I will give you more information as it comes to hand. I am going to continue researching, but that's my thoughts to this point in time, where I am going to be going.

And the other thing is it is about 11 o'clock here. About 3:30 I am going to the doctor's to get the blood test results, which I talked about in an earlier video. So I am pretty excited to see what they come back as. I will be reporting to you tomorrow, in Day 50's video as to how that went, what findings the doctor found in my blood, the blood test results. Hopefully we are going to find my cholesterol has gone down, and my sugar level has gone down, and the liver function and so forth have significantly increased.

Because I mentioned this in an earlier video, that some of those areas were a cause for concern when I first did this blood test, which was before I started the juice fast.

So I am very, very pumped up to find out what the results of those are going to be. And just in case you haven't seen Day 46 video, where I talked about this, my blood pressure is now 110/80, which the doctor said to me was "perfect", and basically the blood pressure was that of a young adult male, age 20 - 30, in perfect health. And of course, I am 47. So, that is a result of being on this juice fast, which I was pretty pumped up about.

But more on that tomorrow anyway.

OK, I have got to leave it there for now. Everything is still on track with my juice fasting plan and still feeling good. Only 7 days to go today, and I am going to be finished. And I am looking forward to that transitioning.

And, yes, I will be continuing these videos. At least next week I will go right up until I go away on holidays I'll do a daily video. I may even try and get one or two videos done while I'm in Thailand, in Phuket (if Louise lets me! :-) and talk about what I am eating and drinking over there.

And then gradually, I probably won't be able to continue indefinitely doing daily videos (but I will be releasing videos regularly), but look, I am going to be talking about transitioning. I'm not treating this as a once off. I am planning to continue my health eating and get right down to my goal weight of 80 kilograms (176 pounds).

And currently, as I said earlier in the video, I am on 91.4 kilos. So I have only got 11.4 kilos to go (26 pounds). I have already lost 20 in this juice fast. So I know that I can do it. And I feel pumped, and happy about it. But I think it is very important to be putting a lot of thought into this transitioning. So that's why I'm thinking about it now, to make sure it will be easy to come off it and back into the 'real eating world' I suppose, for want of a better term.

Alright, I will see you tomorrow for Day 50!

Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juice Diet video here if you wish.

Day 48 - Juicing Diet Still On Track!

2011-08-28T18:01:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 48 juice fast plan update. Only 8 days to go, and so I am feeling pretty pumped up about that. I lost 0.2 kg, which is around about half a pound.

My total weight loss now is 19.8 kilograms, which is about to crack the 20 kg mark. And that is just under 202 pounds (sorry, my present weight is just under 200 pounds). It is actually a total of 43... I have forgotten, let's have a look.

My current weight is 91.6 kg, which is just under 202 pounds. And I have lost 19.8 kilograms, which is just over 43 1/2 pounds.

So, everything is still going well in my juicing diet. I am still finishing off my juice actually. It's a fruit only juice today. I decided to have fruit only, with some lemons, limes, apple, grapefruit, and something else, I can't remember what it was [later edits video to include 'orange and grapefruit'].

But anyway, just fruit for a bit of a change. I am starting to like that again for breakfast only. And for lunch I will have a lot more of the vegetables. But for the past 20 days or so I have had pretty well vegetables every meal. But just occasionally, and yesterday was the same, I thought, no, I am going to go for some fruit in there.

I think it's important, to a degree, to mix this up. Because if you think about it, you don't eat exactly the same thing every day when you are eating. You have a range. So I don't think it hurts every now and then to mix it up. Even though fruit has got a lot more sugar than vegetables, I think doing it every now and then is not a bad thing. Certainly I am finding that's the case anyway.

Went for a nice walk today, about an hour's walk again, which was good.

Again, I am not trying to push myself too much. The weight is still coming off. Still! It's Day 48. Every single day I have lost weight. Some days it is more. Some days it is less. But hey, does it really matter?

Now, when I started my detox diet plan, my goal was to get down to 80 kilograms, which would have been a total weight loss of 32 kilograms. Unlikely, very unlikely now! Almost impossible that I am going to do that in the next 8 days. But I am still going to achieve well over 20 kilograms in that time frame, which of course is fantastic.

And I guess I could have pushed myself harder, and worked a lot harder and done weights and so forth for exercise, and ran instead of walked etc.

But I have tried to enjoy the journey. And I think that's important, to try and enjoy what you are doing, and not be too anal about it. Because that is what I have done before. I have tried to be perfect all the time, and I think I have failed because of it.

So, this time around, I still have only had juice for the 48 days. But by the same token I am not being anal about exercise, or always having vegetables, or being meticulous in everything. I think sometimes ... I don't think there's a need for that.

Oh, by the way, the other thing I had in that drink today was pineapple. That's what I didn't mention.

Anyway, I am going to leave it there for today, because there is not a lot else to report. Sunday over here in Australia. Tomorrow I am going back to my doctor. I am going to make sure blood tests results are available. I talked about that a few days ago. I am assuming they are going to come back with some very good readings. In many ways I can't wait to see what they do come back as. So more on that when I do hear from them.

It probably won't be in tomorrow's video, because I do that in the morning and it is probably going to be in Tuesday's. But I will wait and see and I will let you know what my results are.

So, again, if you do this, I do suggest you do a 'before' and 'after' in terms of your blood test and blood pressure and so forth. And the other thing is a before and after shot. I actually did a side-on shot of me and my huge stomach, plus 43 pounds, or 20 kilograms, on Day 1. I am going to do another one on Day 56, on my last day. And I am going to show you the before and after photos so you can see yourself what has been the change in those 56 days.

So, 8 days to go. It is going to be Monday week over here in Australia that I will actually be on my last day, and I will show you those photos as well.

Alright, I am going to leave it there for now. I'll see you tomorrow, for Day 49.

Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juicing Diet video here if you wish.

Day 47 - Juicing For Weight Loss - Here's To Good Health!

2011-08-27T17:10:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 47 update.

My juice fasting updates continue, and still going well. I have lost today 0.4 kg, which is just under 1 pound. Total weight loss since I started, Day One, all those days ago, is 19.6 kilos, which I think is about 43 1/4 pounds.

So my current weight now is 91.8 kilos, and that is about 202 and 1/3 pounds.

I'm going to be quite happy actually when I get below the 200 pound mark. A bit of a barrier for me. The way things are going hopefully within the next 3 or 4 days or less I'm going to get through that barrier.

I've been thinking about why I haven't done this years ago. It is almost like there has been an unconscious barrier there, preventing me from doing this. Because, if I think about it, I think I've always known that, just by the information around the place, to a degree, that fruit and vegetables are very healthy for you. So, why have I pretty well avoided both of those types of food?

I've certainly had more fruits than vegetables. But with vegetables, very little vegetables in my entire adult life. I have skirted the issue, to a large degree, with previous diets and so forth. What I have looked for is a shortcut, to lose weight without having to eat fruit and vegetables!

It's almost been like a roadblock. I'm wondering whether you guys had a similar thing, before you decided to juice fast, or whatever you did to get to fitness. Or maybe you are there right now looking at these videos and you haven't started anything yet. Have you got a roadblock like I did, knowing that fruits and vegetables are healthy for you, but deciding not to partake of them?

Why do we eat junk food? Yes, there's an addictive nature, and I understand that. And I was addicted to sugar and the stuff, trans fats and all that other negative stuff in processed foods for many years. It is just interesting, isn't it?

What I am thinking it is, is it is relating to... I read somewhere there are four steps to becoming a really good 'something'. The first step is unconscious incompetence. And that is when you don't know what you don't know. In other words, you have got no idea.

So in this case, juicing for weight loss, for me, I was unconsciously incompetent. I didn't know what a juice fast was, or the benefits. So the movie Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead woke me up from that. And I realized yes, this could be done. There is actually a way that's fairly easy to lose weight, that is straight forward, and will work.

The next step is conscious incompetence. And that is when you are actually aware that there is a way to lose weight, but you don't know how to go about it. So that's number two.

Step number 3 is conscious competence. And that's when you know how to do something, but it is hard to do. I think the analogy that I have seen there is tying your shoelaces. The first time, when you are a kid, your parents have to tie your shoelaces for you. Then you get to the stage where you are conscious of the shoelaces, that they are there and need to be tied, but you don't know how to do it.

Then there's a process of elimination. You know the first time you tied your shoelaces it was a really slow process. It took ages and you made lots of mistakes and the bows were really wide and bulky.

That's conscious competence. You can do it but it's a real hassle. It's really hard to do properly. You have got to be focused, is what I am trying to say.

And of course the last step is unconscious competence, and that is when you can do it without thinking. And that is obviously, if you are an adult, tying shoelaces, or even a kid after you have done it for a while, you do it unconsciously.

And it's interesting, yesterday when I went for a walk I actually watched myself tie my shoelaces, and I watched my hands going. And it was interesting how I'm not directing that. Unconsciously, that's happening.

But the point I'm making with these four steps, is that it is quite interesting, that has really been my weight loss journey. I was looking for a way that wasn't hard, so I wasn't even aware of juice fasting. So I was unconsciously incompetent. I didn't know anything about it. But work through those steps now, and I am up to step 3 now. Between steps 3 and 4 in that there's conscious competence. I know what I am doing and I am doing it every day. And I think I'm moving into juice fasting quite safely I say I am unconsciously competence, because I don't have to think about being on a juice fast. I'm on a juice fast and it is just happening. I go to the fridge and I get the ingredients.

Even things like putting the actual juicer together. I remember the first day I got it out, and I was going, Oh, how does this all work? Quite a hassle. Now it's all happening quite naturally.

So, yeah interesting isn't it. It just got me thinking about that. I think I have crossed the threshold now, with health and with eating. And that is why I am not going back to my old habits. I have got past that stage now. I now realize that fruits and vegetables are the key. I have learnt that. I have become consciously competent in that. What I need to move on to now is transfer from the juice fast, transitioning I'm talking about, from a juice fast back to normal eating, is I am going to have to learn how to do some cooking, learn how to do some preparing of fruits and vegetables so that I can eat those and get the right mix in my diet.

So, I am going to be - right at the moment when it comes to preparing any vegetables or fruit in any sort of cooked fashion at least, I am probably consciously incompetent. I know what needs to be done, but I have got no idea how to do it. So within the next 9 days, because there is only 9 days now until my juice fast finishes, I have got to be at least consciously competent. I have got to figure out how to do some basic cooking, how to put together some soups, legumes, nuts and those types of things, figure out how often I am going to have meat. Really get myself to the stage where I know what I'm doing.

Even though there's going to be a bit of a battle where I am - let's face it, the first time you cook a dish, if you haven't had much cooking experience, it's a bit of a trial isn't it.

I have cooked some basic stuff in the past, but nothing primarily vegetable or fruit based. So it is interesting I am going to have to go through that phase. And I can't see the possibility of stepping back into my old habits, because I just now know too much. I have been through this long journey, 47 days. I just can't see how I would go back, knowing what I know now, about the evils of sugar, the evils of trans fats, all that bad stuff, processed food in general, how bad it is for you. I can't see myself going back to it.

But with that said I have also got to make sure that I invest the time to learn this stuff, to move forward. So if you are starting, looking to starting a juice fast, do bear in mind that is normal to be floundering a little bit.

I certainly found that in the first few days. What sort of combinations? What sort of recipes? And I was trying to get all my dots lined up. You don't really need to do that. You need to basically just start. And the more you do it the better you are going to get at it. And I'm going to find that I am sure, with my transitioning from juicing back to eating again. It's going to be a slow process. And I am going to be learning more about it, and getting better at it, until in a relatively quick period of time I am going to become unconsciously competent.

I'm going to open the fridge and say, I've got these vegetables, I can make such and such a dish, and then bang, away we go.

So I just thought I wanted to share that with you, because it's something I have been thinking about, you know, firstly why I had let myself go for 30+ years of my adult life; and also how I now need to keep thinking of the right things to move on to the next phase, which of course is eating.

And what I have decided to do guys is I am going to keep the videos going. And I am going to try and do two things in the videos. Maybe show you some of my cooking - this is 9 days to go before I finish, of course, but; and certainly I will be talking about what I am learning, some sample dishes, what I am eating, and I will continue the weight loss. I'm not going to weigh myself every day. I am probably going to weigh myself once a week or thereabouts. But I certainly will be talking still about what I'm eating and what I'm feeling, and those types of things.

So, stay with me, if you are here trying to get through a juice fast yourself. You are going to have a full 56 days of juice fasting videos by the time I've finished. But then I'm also going to start transitioning. I think it is important for me. It's accountability for me. I know now I have got many hundreds of subscribers following me, and I thank you all for your comments every day. You are keeping me going, and you are keeping me 'honest' to a degree. Because I have got to stay true. I think if I didn't produce a video every day there would be a lot of people going: "Tim, where are you? Have you gone off the fast?" I'm feeling, not, I wouldn't say it is pressure. But I want to keep going, and part of that is for you guys.

So thank you very much for that. And keep those subscriptions coming. If you're looking at this, please subscribe, because it helps. It helps me to know that I am making an impact with other people.

And eventually I want to build up, we've got hundreds of videos of me going through this whole journey, so that somewhere that is where I was, and didn't know what juice fasting was, they can look at these videos and see a complete journey from A to Z, in chronological order, of what they need to do to get to their goal weight.

Because frankly, to date, it has been easy! OK, the first, minus the first week or so, it was pretty hard. And if you look back at my early YouTube videos you'll see that, well, I don't look too good in them, let's face it. I look quite bad. So the first week was hard, but after that, relatively speaking, other than a few odd moments here and there, of thinking that "why am I on this juice fast" and "I want to get back to what I was doing", fleeting moments, other than that, it has been easy. And that was my dream. That was my goal. That was something I always wanted to do, was to lose weight. And here I am! I am now nearly 20 kilograms lighter, in just 47 days. Over 43 pounds I have lost in just 47 days.

So, that's an easy diet in anyone's book. And I have talked yesterday I think about my blood pressure, and how that has gone down now, which is fantastic. And next week I am going to give the results on what the blood test results was, because I am sure they will come back positive and really, really good, all from what I have done with the juice fasting.

So it has been a wonderful journey and it has really changed me. And I am looking forward to giving more back to YouTube by pumping out these videos.

So, stay with me, and if you have got any other questions, about anything that I have faced along the way, and even things like transitioning, because that is something I am now starting to research now, because I want to be prepared. I talked about this in earlier videos that it is very important not to wait until the end of the juice fast before you start thinking "What am I going to do?" You need a transition plan.

And I am going to be talking to you about that. I am going to be telling you what my plan is, so that if you are in a similar situation and you are going to come off juice fasting, I am going to have done the hard work for you.

Alright, I will leave it there for now. Day 47 is over. Check! A-OK!

And I will be back tomorrow with my day 48 update.

Can't believe it! Only 9 days to go.

Thanks for watching guys. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juicing For Weight Loss video here if you wish.

Day 46 - Time For Drinking More Vegetable Juice

2011-08-26T16:33:00.000-07:00

Hi Tim here with my Day 46 update.

Back in familiar territory again, back home. For all those people who wrote in and said, was I homeless? because I was filming next to a highway, thank you very much! I know you were just kidding!

Yeah, I decided to film it back home today. I lost 0.1 kg, which is only a 1/4 of a pound. But still, it is some weight loss. So that brings to a total of 19.3 kg the amountn of weight that I have lost since starting this. And that is about 42.5 pounds I believe.

So my current weight is 92.2 kg, which is about 203 1/4 pounds.

So yes, feeling good.

I had some good news yesterday. I decided to go back to my doctor and get my vitals checked again. And I do recommend you do this. It is actually a great idea to do this before you start, and also towards the end of your juice fast, just to compare the difference.

Now when I went in there I didn't get my blood pressure checked, but I do know in the past my blood pressure has been high, certainly higher than it should be. It has been up around 140 or thereabouts. I don't what the other number is - 140 over whatever.

But anyway I went back to my doctor yesterday and asked him to do a blood test. I had to do a fast for that, a true fast, no eating / drinking nothing overnight. And I have just got that done actually. I have got the war wound on my arm from the blood test. The results of that will come back in next probably, in two working days. So probably Tuesday Australian time I will be able to tell you how the bloods results went. But I can tell you with my blood test before I started the juice fast the cholesterol level was high, the sugar level was getting to the stage of being high, pretty well at the maximum scale of normal, and speaking to other nurses and so forth around there, the doctors are pretty conservative. They give a wide range. So the fact that if you are getting towards the edge of normal it is really getting to be a cause of concern.

And I am expecting, predicting that they will have gone down since the start of my fast. But we will wait and see.

Blood pressure I can tell you, 110 / 80, when I tested it yesterday (I didn't test it, the doctor did). And I asked him what is that like, and he said "Perfect". His words were: "Absolutely perfect". And I have never ever had my doctor tell me that my blood pressure has been perfect. He actually said I have got the blood pressure of a 20 to 30 year old male in full health. So I felt pretty fantastic hearing that news. That's just from juice fasting.

The other thing I wanted to make a point of. I talked a little bit about it on my Day One video. I had some problems downstairs, you know, hemorrhoids and so forth were starting to become a problem. That has been completely cleared up now. I haven't had any problems with hemorrhoids.

And the other thing is my asthma. You probably noticed on Day One and probably the first few weeks I was very nasally and so forth. I used to cough quite a bit. That has all cleared up. I am not taking any asthma medication whatsoever, and haven't for quite some time.

So this is all a result of juice fasting and good juice fasting recipes. So I am looking forward to my blood test to see what they come back at. But I am predicting they are going to come back a lot better than before. So he has done a full range, and my doctor said he would give me the old printout and the new one and I will be able to compare those. And I will do a video to compare the differences.

But what this is trying to do by this is to show you guys how a natural juice fast can change your life. It can heal you. Your body can heal you. I mean, look at my blood pressure. I am the first person who can be a cynic with some of this some times. But the fact is my blood pressure is at the stage where I am at the level of a healthy 20 to 30 year old male. And I am 47. Just from juice fasting. And again, this is Day 46.

So I am sure you will be getting great results. Not necessarily from doing a fast, or you can do a fast for a shorter period of time. Or you can be looking at the Joel Fuhrmann stuff on eating healthy, fruit, vegetables, nuts, legumes, etc. So, there are lots of ways forward, and it's so exciting.

Not only have I lost all that weight - and it's such a lot of weight. I mean, can you picture 42.5 pounds (if you are in America)? Or 19.3 kgs. How much extra weight that is on your body, and the load and pressure it is putting on all your vitals. So I am looking forward to getting those blood tests. And I'll keep you posted on that next week.

But yes, ten days to go! Tomorrow is going to be a good day for me because I am going to be in single figure countdown to Day Zero of when I will actually finish my juice fast and when I actually go on to bigger and better things hopefully.

The other thing I was thinking about today and I have actually had this in the back of my mind the last few days, but haven't actually acted on it, was: I think I'm drinking too much juice and vegetable juice! What I have been doing is drinking around about 500, 550ml, three times a day. And to be honest, the last 200 or so, my stomach has got quite full. And for some reason, now this is quite strange: I've pushed through that and drunk it anyway.

So I thought after today's weigh-in, where I only lost 0.1 kg, the last three or four days my weight has only been 0.1 or 0.2, which is still decent in any other scenario. But I guess I am getting spoilt, getting used to half a kilo or up to a kilo some days, losing a pound a day, or over a pound a day.

So it got me thinking, why am I trying to drink so much juice? Even if they have so much juicing benefits. So I am going to cut it back.

Now, I am not trying to cut it back to put my body into starvation mode or anything like that. What I am going to do is stop drinking when I am full. Now I did that this morning and it was about 250, maybe 300, 350 ml. I didn't measure it because it is just a cup that I have got it in. I know the cup, when full, is about 550. Anyway. It was a bit over a half full.

When I stopped at a half, I left it for a minute or so, and I was full. So at that point I decided I'm not going to drink anymore. So I am going to do that now for the two meals today. I'm going to drink less: Just to the point where I am thinking that's enough. I'm done, I'm feeling full. And we'll see how that affects my weight loss tomorrow.

Because a couple of scenarios would be the fact that I am drinking too much and it's more than my body needs, and consequently that's why I'm not losing that much weight. Number two I'm wondering also because I'm getting close to my goal weight, I'm wondering now whether it's at the stage now where I am losing less per day because I have got obviously less weight to lose.

Speaking to my doctor actually and he suggests a BMI of 25. Body Mass Index of 25. Now, currently my body mass index is about 29, just under 29. So I have still got a ways to go.

According to him I should be around 80 kilograms. I'll just look that up now to see what that is in pounds. 80 kilos is my goal weight. That's 176 pounds. That was my original weight loss goal: to get to 176 pounds, which is 80 kilos. Which is only just over 12 kilos a way, so that is very manageable. That's only 25 or 26 or 27 pounds away.

So I will see how I go. I did say about 2 weeks ago when I got to 85 kilos (and that again, I'll just use my Google calculator, 85 kilos is about 188 pounds). At that mark, 85 kilos, 188 pounds, I may actually stop. I may decide that's where I am going to stop in terms of weight loss. I am not sure. See how I feel.

At the moment I feel my body is feeling pretty good overall. I have still got a bit of a gut. But certainly it feels fantastic looking at it compared to what it was. And the fact is my clothes sizes have gone down by so much. I am fitting into clothes I would never have fit into in a million years.

So I am feeling pretty good. But if I did get down to 80 kilos, that would be just unbelievable! But you know what? It's now a reality. I can see that it is going to happen. And it is all because of this juice fast. So I am feeling pretty fantastic about it.

And the only other thing I'll add now before closing, was I got a bit emotional actually when my doctor said my blood pressure was perfect. He actually looked away and I got a bit teary. I welled up a bit, and I thought, Oh, my God, I have just changed my life. I have changed my life here, just from a juice fast. All my adult fast I have been struggling to find a way to lose weight, and along comes this insidious, you know, a little minor little thing like a juice fast, just drinking the juice of fruits and vegetables, and it is healing me, it's healing my body.

It has fixed my blood pressure already and I am pretty confident it is going to fix my cholesteral and my sugar levels are going to be back to where they should be. And all the other vital functions in my body are going to be repaired.

Oh, the other thing I want to mention to is when I was 16 I had a car crash, when I just got my license. I crashed into a stobey pole. A telegraph pole. The poles on the street that carry the wire, for those of you that don't know those Australian slang. We call them stobeys over here in South Australia.

Anyway one leg is slightly shorter than the other. My right leg is shorter. Because the doctors I think stuffed up a little bit trying to fix the broken leg that I suffered in that crash.

Anyway it has always caused me a bit of grief with walking. I have noticed now that that is a lot better. Now that is only something that has just crept up on me. I haven't been paying too much attention to it. But look, I walked for an hour and a half today. I walked around 8.5 kilometers, and that is, if you trust the little Google conversion app, that is just under 5 miles. I walked that today in about an hour and a half. I wasn't particularly trying to walk fast. I certainly have walked faster than that in the past. But my knee held up quite well, and I am not getting any aches and pains from it. What else has changed? Nothing else has changed in my life. No medications. So it has to be the juice fast!

Probably the juice fast and the fact that I haven't got so much weight pushing down on the sore knee, trying to heal itself obviously. And prop me up with all this extra weight. Again, juice fasting has done all of this.

So, the only other thing I'd like to say is I have got a number of staff in our online business. I am actually in business partnership with my brother. And two of the staff members actually helped me put these videos up. Sometimes I don't get the time to spend, so I normally do the videos and I just get them to upload it, and you know, setting it all up and so forth. And they have both now decided to change their eating and change their life as a result of seeing what I am getting from the juice fast.

Now I think that is a fantastic thing. That other people are getting motivated, and getting pumped to want to do something to help themselves as well. So there you go. That goes to show that by - I started out this journey wanting to help myself, knowing that I needed to help myself. I felt I was going to die, going the way I was going. I literally was in bed some nights thinking, I'm going to die, before my time!

And now I'm thinking I'm going to live to 100+ now, I am going to live fantastically healthy, stress free, pain, injury free, sickness free type life, all because of this juice fast and also because of good juice recipes.

So, anyway. I just wanted to put all that out there today, to let you know how I am feeling. Probably waffling on a little bit, but look, I am just so pumped up by the way things are going. And just love my new body, the way it is going, you know, the weight going down. And I will talk more about that tomorrow for Day 47.

So I will catch you then!

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Vegetable Juice video here if you wish.

Day 45 - Fasting For Weight Loss - Still Going Strong!

2011-08-25T18:58:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 45 update.

Sorry for the loud noise of the traffic behind me. Standing next to a major highway is probably a silly idea to be doing the video here.

But anyway, today I have lost 0.2 kg, bringing me to a total weight loss since I started the juice fast, a total of: 19.1 Kg (about 42 pounds).

And currently my juice fast results weight is now 92.3 kg (203 1/2 pounds).

Now, the reason I didn't say this is obviously I haven't weighed myself yet. So when I get back home I will weigh myself and I am going to put those figures up when I edit the video.

Now just a couple of things today I wanted to talk about.

Firstly thank you for the comments yesterday about exercising. Interesting how I got some good comments yesterday from people about exercising. I mentioned yesterday about energy levels, and whether you actually change, you get a different energy level depending on the day. I certainly find that.

Interesting response from FindTheCenter, thank you for that. He had a comment, which was interesting, about the body decides how hard to work. I think that's really quite good. I think I sort of knew that but it was good to put that in perspective, so thank you very much for that.

Secondly I want to talk about vitamin B12. Now vitamin B12 is not available in virtually any vegetable or fruit. And it is something your body actually needs. So I am going to recommend you look at supplements if you look at doing a juice fast for a long period of time, greater than 30 days. Now, Vitamin B12 is available in meats, like beef, chicken and so forth. And even one or two serves of chicken a month, apparently, is enough vitamin B12 for your body. The fact that I have been on a juice fast for so long, more than 30 days, means that you're probably going to need B12. So check that out. Do a bit of research on vitamin B12. I bought some supplements yesterday. And I am taking one of those each day just to make sure that my body is getting that.

And of course vitamin B12 is very good for your cells. It is actually really necessary. It's quite an important thing for your development, and also for your brain as well. So I certainly recommend you look into that and be sure that you are getting enough, if you are doing a long term fast. If you are doing a short term fast, there is probably no need for it. It's more a longer term one that you really need to make sure you have got adequate levels of that.

Alright, I am going to show you a bit of the traffic before I end up today. I will pan around so you can see the traffic behind me. All these people looking at me, wondering who the hell this guy is and what is he talking about.

If only they knew I was on a fruit juice diet - yes, everyone, I am on a juice fast and fasting for weight loss! :-) I'm on Day 45, can you hear me?!

No, of course. Bit sad, isn't it, in life, where everyone just gets into the car and drives off to work, and no one can see the crazy Australian on the side of the road!

Alright, I am going to leave the video there for now.

Thank you very much for watching. I will be back tomorrow with my Day 46 update on my juice diet weight loss.

Thank you very much for watching.

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Fasting For Weight Loss video here if you wish.

Day 44 - Veggie Juice Diet - Getting More Results

2011-08-24T18:10:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 44 update.

I am actually doing this outside today. I am actually halfway on my walk. Halfway through my juice fasting to finishing it.

So I thought I would stop briefly and just have a quick chat.

Today I have lost: (I couldn't say how much I have lost, so I will put it on the screen) 0.3 kg (2/3's of a pound).

I haven't actually weighed myself yet.

Overall that is now a total of: 18.9 Kg, 41 and 2/3's pounds.

Yes, that much, that's good isn't it!

And of course, I now weigh a total of: 92.5 kgs (204 pounds)

So anyway, Day 44, only 12 days to go now until my juice fast is over. I am still feeling good, happy and pumped. I am actually filming this on my iPhone 4, so excuse the cars going by in the background.

But look everything is still really on track with my veggie juice diet, and doing well.

Interesting thing about energy levels. I wonder how you guys feel about this, if you are out doing exercise. I have noticed that some days it is a lot easier to out a lot harder when you are walking, like, a lot faster. ANd some days it is a lot slower. It seems to be more of a burden I should say, to get that speed up. So, are you finding that in your daily exercise? Interesting if you do, because I am certainly finding that.

Today is actually one of my good days. I am actually going quite fast in terms of finishing and feeling like I have got a lot more energy. Interesting, because I would have thought my energy levels would have been around the same. Or is that a conscious limitation that I am actually finding?

Not a lot else to report. As I said before, it's Day 44 and I am feeling fine. Everything is on track.

Yes, I think I will leave it there for now and go and finish my walk.

So, thanks very much for watching, and I will see you tomorrow for my Day 45 update.

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Veggie Juice Diet video here if you wish.

Day 43 - Juice Diet Weight Loss Still Going

2011-08-23T22:57:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 43 update.

Overnight, or since the last time I weighed yesterday, I have lost 0.2kg, which is around about half a pound.

Total weight loss then, up until now, is 18.6 kg, which is 41 pounds.

My current weight actually for those of you who are interested is now 92.9 kgs, which is around about 204 pounds. And of course, when I started on this journey I was 11.4 kgs, which is around about 244 pounds.

So overall everything is still going fantastically well in my juice diet weight loss. I am still feeling energized, happy, lots of energy, and really just breezing a long.

As I said in a number of videos I do occasionally have the odd issue where I look at a bit of food, like cheese (?), or whatever and think, Oh, wouldn't that be nice! But really is just a passing moment.

My moments these are days are filled with having juice. I am having three juices a day. It's actually about 9 am here in Australia when I'm filming this. I haven't had my breakfast yet. I do try and have my juices around about when I used to eat. So, around this time in the morning, around about 9 o'clock to 9:30. Then about 12:30 to 1pm I will have another juice. And then in the evening which can be anything from about 6pm to about 7, to 7:30pm that I have the final one.

I don't feel the need to have any other juices, such as carrot juice, at any other point in the day. And I do drink water. I do try and drink water to keep hydrated. I don't feel the compulsion to have anything else, which is fantastic.

Alright it's only going to be a quick video today, because I am busy, busy, busy. I have other videos to shoot in my other, in my Internet Marketing business.

So I will leave it there for now. Thank you very much for watching. And I will be back tomorrow for Day 44.

Keep in there if you are doing the juice fast yourself. And I will see how I go tomorrow.

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juice Diet Weight Loss video here if you wish.

Day 42 - My Vegetable Juice Diet Is Awesome

2011-08-22T18:17:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 42 update.

Yes, it's been six weeks! I can hardly believe that I have been doing this now for 6 weeks. Just 14 days now, to go, until my juice fast is finished.

Since my weight loss yesterday I have lost 0.2kg, which is about half a pound. So, overall, my weight loss is now 18.4 kg, which is about 40.5 pounds.

So I am very pleased with the way things are going. I am still feeling pumped and invigorated and happy, and confident I am going to get through to the last 14 days of juice diet plan. Not a lot else to report again today. It's going to be a quick video today. Still putting a lot of thought into my transitioning.

And I urge you to do this, if you are coming off a fast, or a vegetable juice diet you must have a plan. Because if you haven't got a plan on how to transition back to eating again I think you are really leaving yourself open to fail. Because you are leaving yourself open to going back to old habits.

So, in particular, you need, in my opinion, need to be making sure that you have got the foods that are healthy, such as low carb vegetables, and you want to eat, in your pantry, ready to go. In my case for example, in the situations before where I have binged eaten, or done the wrong things, it's been that I have been busy, working or doing something else, and I need something to eat quickly, and I just go for whatever is there. In other words I am talking about preparation. I think that's very important.

A couple of people have asked me about exercise, and I have been meaning to talk about that well. I have been exercising still, quite well. Walking most days. Anything between and hour to an hour and a half, walking anything between 5 and 8 kilometers in that time. Starting to ramp up the speed, but I am certainly not pushing myself. I know I could be doing more, but quite frankly I am losing weight, and everything is going well. So I don't feel inclined to work much harder. But when that feeling comes and I feel that I need to do a bit more I am actually going to do that.

The other thing that I want to talk about also is my waistline. When I started this, the first time I measured myself around the stomach I believe it was 120cm. But now I am actually down. I measured myself around the waist today: 87 cm! So that is a phenomenal amount of inches, or centimetres, that I have lost around the stomach, all from juice fasting. Absolutely amazing!

I still haven't really had anything negative to say about juice fast. It has just gone so well, and time is ticking over, and the countdown is on. And I really need to get that transitioning sorted out. I have got a reasonably good idea of what I am going to do. But as it turns out, soon after the juice fast finishes I am going on holidays, probably going to Fiji. Haven't decided yet. With Louise. So I need to make sure again that I have got a clear plan, so I don't get stuck back into old habits.

Now for the other people who have asked as well, yes, I will still be continuing these videos after the juice fast. I probably won't do them every day. But I will be doing them on a regular basis during my transitioning from the juice fast back to solids. Because I think that is just as important as the juice fast.

Look, there are so many ways out there to eat, to lose weight, diets. But not many of them are long term, and that's of course because they don't really look at the nutritional side of things. So I want to do is have a clear plan how I am going to transition, and then I want to help you guys, anyone else who is looking to transition off by following my videos, to be able to follow what I am coming up with. Which won't be rocket science. It will be straight forward. But, to have a clear goal of how to do that when you get off the juice fast.

Alright, I am going to leave it there for now.

14 days to go. Feeling pretty pumped about that. Only 2 weeks and then I am going off my juice fast.

And I will be back tomorrow for my Day 43 update!

You can watch a high definition version of this Vegetable Juice Diet video here if you wish.

Day 41 - My Fruit Juice Diet Is Really Becoming a Fun Ride

2011-08-21T18:21:00.000-07:00

Howdy!

Tim here, with my Day 41 juice fast update.

Everything is still on track. I lost 0.4kg which is just under 1 pound.

For the fourth day running now I have lost exactly the same amount of weight.

Overall since I started the juice fast or fasting, I have now lost 40 pounds, just a fraction over 40 pounds, which is 18.2 kg.

So I am pretty happy still. Everything is still on track with my fruit juice diet. I have only got 15 days to go. Feeling pretty pumped about that. Still happy with my weight loss and liquid diet weight loss. It's been about a pound a day for the last 4 days, is nothing to be sneezed at, at all. It's easy. Quite actually very easy.

Just have the occasional moments here and there where I think, hmm wouldn't it be nice to be trying some foods. I am still reading heavily up on Eat For Health by Dr. Joel Fuhrman. However you pronounce that!

His material is really good. I think that's what I am going to be focusing on to transition off the juice fast and back to solid food, especially low carb fruits. So that's all good.

In case you missed it, have a look at my Day 40 video where I actually did some juicing. I just showed you one of the standard shakes that I am making - shakes! Standard juice I should say, that I am making these days. Pretty easy to make, and tastes quite nice.

Not really a lot else to report, other than the fact that it is still going well, and I am still happy with the progress. 15 days to go, as I said, and then done!

So, I will leave it there for now and I will see you tomorrow with my Day 42 update!

Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Fruit Juice Diet video here if you wish.

Day 40 - My Juicing Fast Video - How I Juice For Health

2011-08-20T19:59:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, Tim here, with my Day 40 update.

And yes, a different background! The reason is, I have been promising to do this all week, I am ready to do my juice, or juicing for weight loss. I am going to go through and show you how to do it.

Before I do that, a couple of things. Firstly I want to introduce the person filming. Louise, say hello...

Louise: Hello

Tim: Say a bit more maybe Louise!

Louise: Hello everybody!

Tim: Hello everyone in YouTube land, how are we all going?

Louise: Hello everyone in YouTube land.

Tim: OK, that's number one. I wanted to give Louise some credit for helping me prepare it all.

Secondly I want to let you know I lost 0.4 kg since yesterday with my juicing fast, which again is just under 1 pound. Third day straight that that has happened. Overall my weight loss now is 39.25 pounds. So, getting closer to my goal every day.

OK, so the purpose of this video: I have had lots of people writing in asking me to talk about how to juice, how to go about it. So I am going to go through a sample juicing. This is my lunch time juice. So let's go through and show you how I go about my liquid diet.

OK, we're going to start off. You can see there are quite a few ingredients there. You can see there's a good selection of greens. And also of fruits. So I am going to go through, go through each one, cut them up, put them in the blender, and get stuck into it.

First, grapefruit. Red grapefruit is actually better than the traditional stuff. I am going to cut the inside and use that only. I don't suggest you use the skin, because it does really make the taste very bitter, in my experience. So I try and just cut it, and pull it out.

Louise: With clean hands of course.

Tim: Oh, it goes without saying, Louise, with clean hands.

Just get that bit at the end, chop that out.

I find half a grapefruit is enough. Grapefruit is very acidic, so you don't want to put too much of that in your drink. So there's the grapefruit.

The other thing I am going to add is a whole lemon. So I cut the lemon in half, and now again I am going to remove the skin. Some people do it with the skin but I have found that it is just a very, very strong taste, and very overpowering. So for that reason I don't bother with the skin. I always cut it out.

Again the knife should be a really sharp one. Makes your life a little bit easier.

So I just make sure there's no skin on there. That's the other - first half there. Now, second half of the lemon.

Now, obviously you can change this to taste. What I have found is that over the last 40 days this is really probably my favorite juice. And I am sticking to a proven formula. I am not trying to change it too much.

For me this is a good combination. The lemon dulls the taste of the vegetables, which I still am not a huge fan of. But I am starting to like, I have to say, the vegetables a bit more.

Let's do the limes next. Same with the limes, definitely I suggest you cut the inside out. Get rid of that skin. Because I have actually tried it once, juicing it with the skin, once or twice. And it was just so overpowering! Good if you love lime, but I like the taste of lime, but I don't like it so much that it is overpowering.

The reason that I am using lemon and lime by the way, is that both lemon and lime are very alkaline based fruits. So they are very, very good for your body. They just really help defuse some of the other tastes you may not like. So for that reason I actually use those.

And I use one whole lemon, that you saw me put in. And you obviously saw me, I'm using one whole lime as well.

OK, this can be something you can decide for yourself. You might decide it is too overpowering. I started off on less than this, around about a half of each. But over time ...

... if I can just cut this properly. Louise, help me out! ...

Louise: Smells absolutely beautiful, I must say!

Tim: Very fresh juice.

Louise: Mouth watering.

Tim: You can have some of this in a minute.

Louise: Thank you very much!

Tim: For those wondering, Louise isn't doing a juice fast.

But, to be fair, she doesn't really need to either. It's me that needs to lose the weight, and it obviously works well for me.

Louise: I am going to do a couple a day.

Tim: Right, so that's the lime. Next, I've got some cucumber. Now, cucumber I have already taken the time, because I'm not very good at cutting the skin off. I do recommend that you get rid of all the skin of the cucumber. And the reason is that it is very, very overpowering. Now, if you like cucumber, by all means obviously do it your way. But in my case, I like it, but not that much. So, for that reason, I've actually done it that way and removed the skin.

Now, I think it's about time we juiced that first bit. So we'll just put this bit down now, into the container. I hope you can still hear me while it's on.

[ The juicer starts up ].

OK, first bit done.

Now, I've also got some greens of course, and some vegetables. Carrot, 1 carrot. Obviously with your fruits and vegetables you should be washing them. Depending on where you get them from obviously, but it's a good idea to do that. With the carrots I'm putting it in with the skin.

Oops! I tried to throw it away. I'll put it in with the skin, but I have chopped off the edges.

I have got some broccoli, two lots of broccoli. I'll put that in as well.

And we have also got some apples. Apples are also very important I find, to just help that taste. I'll chop that in half and I will just get rid of this lot before we put some more in.

Louise: Get those stickers off?

Tim: You should.

Louise: No, get those stickers off.

Tim: Yes, I should. These already have the stickers off.

I don't know whether you guys get that in America, but in Australia we get stickers on individual pieces of apple, on individual apples I should say. So you need to make sure that that's off.

OK, let's do this lot.

[ juicer starts up again ]

Louise: How much juice do you have so far, Tim?

Tim: We've got about 8 oz, which is about 200, 250 ml. But we'll find once we do the celery, which I'm doing next. I've got some celery now. I've got 2 long pieces of celery. Now I use the stalks and the actual leaves as well. Some people say you shouldn't, but I just put the lot in. I haven't died yet, so I am assuming I'm doing the right thing.

I started off when I first started juicing I was only doing a little bit, and I was actually cutting it. But I'm just putting it all in now. So we'll do that bit now.

There's quite a bit of juice out of that.

Alright, next, some spinach. Again this is washed spinach. I just normally fold it and put it in like that. Same deal of course, just juice that.

[ Juicer runs again ].

Giving me a bit of a workout.

I'll leave that last bit in there, and when we put the next lot of fruit in it will push it down.

Now, I'm going to use half an orange today, even though I cut up a whole one. And I am going to use a second apple. I normally don't go any more than that. But depending on where you are in your juice fast, early on you might be putting more fruit to get rid of that taste of vegetables if you are not a vegetables fan.

I know some people love vegetables, but I don't. When I first started juicing I didn't like the vegetables. So I wanted to put more fruit in. But you need to be careful not to put too much fruit in, because fruit has got a lot of sugar in it. And that will delay or slow down your weight loss.

There's a half (orange). And I am just going to put in half.

And lastly I'm going to put in the second apple. Again, this is optional. You can change it to whatever combination you want, but this is the combination that works for me.

So this is the last bit now. I am going to juice that.

[ Juicer runs again ]

And we are done!

Now I'm going to just do the final step now which is obviously wait until it stops, and we'll have a look. I will show you what it looks like.

Now that is what it is like before I've mixed it up. You can see it's a combination of green and red. I am going to pour that in a glass shortly.

Now, that's around 20 oz there, which is about 600 ml.

Louise: It's pretty green!

Tim: It's pretty green. So it's a good sign that we are having our greens, we're eating the right stuff. And I'll pour that out now.

[ phone rings ]

Tim: And just ignore that, that's the phone ringing in the background.

We made a joke before we started videoing actually that it would ring, and it has.

And you can see that is extremely green.

And, Louise, are you going to be our taste tester?

Louise: Yes

Tim: What?!

Tim: Or maybe I will.

So that's around about 20 oz guys, 550 ml, between 550 and 600 ml.

And I am going to have a drink of that. Cheers!

Louise: Cheers!

Tim: There you go!

Quite nice. I actually did my teeth about 15 minutes ago, so I am feeling a bit of a weird taste.

That is my staple juice. That is my staple juice. And again you can mix it to taste.

And Louise is now actually having a sip.

Be honest!

Louise: It's nowhere near as bad as you would think it would taste! It's actually not too bad.

Tim: And again, you can put some more fruit in it, if you want to defuse the taste of vegetables, if you're not a vegetables fan. I think I said earlier but I started off having a lot more fruit, and I have cut it back over time. You could even go less, you could go more vegetables, or less, in terms of less apples and so forth. But I think that's a good combination, and the fruits we are using here, especially the lemon and lime, are very good for you. And obviously the vegetables are all very, very, very good for you. They've got lots of great minerals and vitamins and so forth.

OK, so there you go. So that's really my ending process.

I think Louise you wanted to say something about composting?

Louise: Don't forget to compost all that lovely left overs.

Tim: Exactly, because there is so much good stuff here that can go into your garden,...

Louise: Or worm farm...

Tim: Or worm farm, or whatever you are going to do.

Louise: They will love you.

Tim: And they will love you and they will have a good feed on it, which I am about to do with the rest of this drink.

So, thank you very much for watching guys. Thanks again to Louise.

And I will see you tomorrow with my Day 41 update!

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juicing Fast video here if you wish.

Day 39 - Why Carrot Juice Is So Beneficial

2011-08-19T18:48:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 39 juice fasting update.

Everything is still on track, as it has been for most of this time. Still doing quite well.

I lost 0.4 kg which is just under 1 pound (0.9 pounds).

Total weight loss since I started the juice fast is 17.4kg, which is a bit under 38 1/2 pounds.

So everything is still going quite well in my weight loss. I have still got another 17 days. I'm actually starting to countdown now. I am getting excited!

I am not actually feeling that I need to go off the juice fast, but it is more a case of being a Gemini star sign, I get bored easily. So I am actually looking forward to the challenge of transitioning from drinking juice to getting back onto the solids.

Thank you very much to all those people writing in with all those encouragement and questions and thoughts and so forth. It does seem to be like a big issue to get this transitioning sorted out. What I can gather is - it would make sense anyway - the worst thing would be to go off the juice fast and just go back into old habits.

The way I am looking at it right now is by the end of this juice fast I will have had 56 days where I have had no junk food at all, no meat, no dairy, etc. And it hasn't affected me. And in actual fact I feel much better. So, why would I want to go back at all? That's the question I am asking. Why would I want to go back to that lifestyle, when I feel better not having eaten those foods: meat, dairy, junk food etc.

So, it feels bizarre, but I am seriously thinking I am not going to have any junk food ever again!

Can I do it?

Well, I think yes, it's possible. Because I like to think I have cleared the addictions. However, I am not naive enough to believe that if I start eating junk foods that I won't go back to my old habits. I think that's exactly what would happen if I did start trying out junk food. I would just fall back into the old habits. I have to be strong I think and view this as a positive, and think, I am doing a good thing here. I am really going back to, or creating new habits, which are going to change me. So I won't need to worry about juice fasts ever again, because I am going to be basically eating good food.

It does seem to be normal, from what I am hearing, to gain a little bit of weight when you transition from juice to normal food.

And the reason for that of course is that when you eat food, food survives in your intestines for a while before it goes out, gets disposed of, or gets used, the nutrition gets used. So it makes sense that any period of time there might be food in your food lines, food pipes for want of a better term! So, of course, that is going to take a bit of weight. So if you are transitioning off a juice fast it is normal to gain a little bit of weight.

But I think it's vital to have that plan. And again I'm thinking of that Dr. Joel Fuhrman's plan, Eat For Health. The only negative I have with that is, a lot of the ingredients, if I was in America I could buy a lot of his stuff. But basically a lot of those ingredients don't appear here. I mean, like his vinegars and so forth don't appear to be available in Australia.

Traditionally Australia, importing foods from other countries it is normally very hard to do, unless you're like importing it properly through a business or something of that nature. So, I may have to revise my plan and do something similar. But I think almost certainly what it is going to be is it's going to have a large focus on fruit and vegetables. It's going to really radically change the way I used to eat in the past.

Quite frankly, days or weeks would sometimes go past, and I would have had none, zero, zilch, nada vegetables! And very few pieces of fruits. I may have had a banana now and then. An apple once in a blue moon. So, what I have done is I have dramatically changed that around with this juice fast. And I am absolutely going to keep that, moving forwards.

So, a couple of suggestions. Asian cooking seems to be quite good as well. Very healthy ingredients. Using vegetables. No secrets but the Asians are very healthy, as a rule. And that's because they eat well. A combination of raw fruits and vegetables, and also cooked. I am looking at that as well.

But whatever happens it is going to have a large component of fruits and vegetables.

And I am considering now actually doing a course, a cooking course, to get up to speed with those skills. Because, again, if I go in unprepared, the danger that I see here is that if I do nothing, then Day 56 will come around and I will finish Day 56, and I will be ready to start eating. If I haven't got the food ready in my house, in my pantry, ready to go on that first day, that first day of transition, you know, if I am hungry, what is going to happen?

I am going to say, oh I will just eat this. Because it is here. The foods that are in my house. And look, I am going to have junk foods in my house, because step 1 of this was to fix me. But we have got other members in this household who eat junk food. And ultimately I would like to see those go off that junk food in the future. They haven't got the weight issues I have, but of course they have got the unhealthiness of eating food that quite frankly is poison!

So that's going to be a more long term thing. But the point I am getting at here is, there is junk food in the house. And I am going to have to live with that and make sure I have got the healthy combinations that I need, to keep going.

And I have got no intentions of giving up. I have got no intentions of just going back to the way I was. And honestly guys I didn't tell you this up until today. I took a picture, a side-on picture on Day 1, which I haven't had the guts to put up yet! (Oh, guts! Australian term for a big stomach!) It's not a good look. However I am getting to the stage now where I am looking at myself sideways in the mirror and thinking, OK, you still need to lose a bit of weight, but that's starting to look really good. So, in a few more days, probably in another week or so, I am going to show you the before photo and the after photo. It's dramatic, and it really pumps me up. And I am starting to like my body!

I never used to like what I saw in the mirror. But now I am really starting to look at it and I am thinking, well, actually I can see that this body is going to be thin! It is amazing, it feels good, and that's the good feeling I want to hang on to whenever I am thinking about going back to my old habits. I have to remember how I'm feeling right now. I have to know that in my heart. I can't go back to what I was doing before.

Anyway. I am ranting on. I will be back tomorrow. Hopefully, all things going well, my juicing video will be up and going tomorrow. I am going to get Louise my partner to do the filming. And I am going to show you how I juice, and just talk about some of the different low carb fruits and vegetables that I use, such as carrot juice and the pros and cons, and how I have survived these 39 days.

Thanks for watching! And I will see you again tomorrow!

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Carrot Juice video here if you wish.

Juicing Fasting Benefits Progress Report - Day 38

2011-08-18T17:22:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 38 update, my juice fasting update.

Everything is still on track in my fasting for weight loss, and I am still feeling good.

Lost 0.4 kg, which is just under 1 pound, 0.9 pounds.

So total weight loss now is 17kg exactly, which is about 37.5 pounds.

So everything is, as I said, on track, going well, as I say for most videos I have to say these days.

Interesting that I was having a conversation with someone today and the biggest issue they are having with juice fasting is starting.

And I answered that by saying "just start". Because specifically what they were having problems with was trying to find information, researching it, and figuring out how to get prepared and so forth.

Do what I do. I did actually watch a movie. Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead I think it was called, which was a great movie. So if you have got Net Flix and you are in America, have a look at that movie, and it will definitely inspire you to continue.

But the point is, you don't need to be an expert in this. I am certainly no expert. I have learnt a lot of this as I have gone along. Now, I could have spent weeks researching this and trying to wait for the opportune time. But the fact is, there is no "best time". The best time to start is now. You can't really get this wrong.

I mean, you might have too much fruit, maybe, in which case you might not lose as much weight as you think you might, or should, which I was doing early on in this juice fast, when I was having more fruit than vegetables. But, I still lost weight every day and I am feeling better every day.

And you know what else? I also went back and had a look at my videos from Day 1, 2 and 3. I look terrible in those! Particularly Day 2. That was when I had headaches, and just how much energy I had. I was very flat. I didn't have a lot of energy. Very slow: "hi.... Tim.. here.. with my Day 2 update..." Not quite that slow, but I have just gotten so much more energy, and I am so much more alive. And it is all because I am on this juice fast.

So I would say to those people who are worried about starting: Just Start! Get in there and have a go, and see how things work out with your liquid diet. (Do Discuss With Your Doctor!) In a couple of days you'll be over the toxic, your detox I should say, and you should be feeling a lot better.

Now, the other thing I wanted to say is, a couple of days, guys. My juice video - I am going to do a video showing me juicing. I am going to do that Saturday, Australian time. And be releasing that so you can have a good look at the process. So if you are looking for tips, and following what I am doing, what I juice, you can see that on Saturday.

Alright. I am going to leave it there for now. Everything is still on track. I will be back tomorrow for yet another video, my 39th.

So until then, bye for now!

You can watch a high definition version of this Juicing Fasting video here if you wish.

Liquid Diet Update For Day 37

2011-08-17T18:28:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 37 update.

Yes, I'm still going with my juice fast. I am now up to day 37. Things are still on track, and I am doing well.

It's only going to be a very quick video today because I have got an extremely busy day ahead. Just to let you know I have lost 0.3kg since yesterday, which is actually the same as yesterday's weight loss. And that's about, over half a pound, 0.66 pound.

Total weight loss now is 16.6 kg, which is I believe is just over 36.5 pounds.

So everything is on track in my liquid diet weight loss, as I said, doing well.

I'm getting to the stage now of my fat burning diet, where I am using more vegetables. I am using less and less fruit and using more and more vegetables, because I am finding fruits just too sweet. Which is a good thing of course because vegetables are a better option, given the choice. Because vegetables have less sugar, and with more micro nutrients in vegetables than in fruit, which is good.

So I am still going to do that juicing video. I have talked a couple of times about that before. That is going to be later on in the week. Our guest leaves on Friday. That's Sarah, from America. She's going back to America on Friday. So Louise is going to help me video this on probably Saturday. So, that's Saturday coming up, Australian time.

And, so what's going to happen is I am going to go through and I am going to lay out all the ingredients, talk about the ingredients I use in my juices, and Louise is going to film me actually doing the juicing. And you can even watch the cutting up, if you are so inclined. I just want to go through basically the stuff that I have, the juice and the vegetables, talk about why they are good for you etc., and get into the details of my regime.

Anyway, more on that later in the week.

For now, I will leave it there, and tomorrow I will be back again with Day 38.

So, until then, cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Liquid Diet video here if you wish.

Day 36 - Getting The Most Out Of Your Commercial Juicer

2011-08-16T18:15:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,

Tim here with my Day 36 update for my juice fast. Everything is still going well. I have actually lost 0.3 kg, which is about 2/3's of a pound, about, I think it is 0.66 of one pound.

So, overall in my juice fast plan so far I have lost now a total of 16.3 kg, which is just a fraction under 36 pounds.

So, yeah, as I said, everything is going well. Not a lot to report today.

One interesting thing: when I was making my breakfast juice today, I decided to go just for fruit only. Now it has been quite some time since I have had "fruit only" with my juices using my commercial juicer, because pretty well in all my juices I have been juicing vegetables, including celery, some spinach as a minimum. And sometimes some cucumber as well. But this time I decided to go for fruit only.

So I had apple, strawberry, pineapple, lemon, lime and a few other bits and pieces that I can't remember. But basically all fruit.

And what I found was it was so sweet! It was just sickly sweet! And I just could not drink it. So I drank about half of it and I tipped out the rest. It was just too sweet.

Now, you may not be thinking that that is a big deal, but let me tell you that I was the 'king' of sweet foods. Before I started this fast I was always the one who could finish off someone else's thickshake. So if my partner Louise had a milkshake and couldn't finish it, I was the one who would be finishing it off. Or if there were a couple of pieces of chocolate left, I was the one who could finish them off. Of course, that's why I am overweight!

But I couldn't finish this. It was too sweet. As I said, it was sickly sweet. And that just goes to show the incredible change that has occurred by doing this juice fast. Because my tastebuds are now obviously picking up how sweet things are, and I am just not liking it. So my immediate thought, which was, Shock, Horror, how do I make it so it was not so sweet.

So I could have put some celery in it, then juicing celery, or done something else with it, but the quickest instinct was just to get rid of it. So I am probably not going to try it again. I'm probably not going to go fruit only again. I'm going to make sure I have some vegetables in there so it's not so sweet.

So, I just wanted to share that so people out there who are thinking that they can't do this, just what sort of life changing effects you can get by doing this juice fast. Because as I said I would never have thought I would have been the person able to be put off by something because it was too sweet.

Lots of questions still coming in, which is good. So keep those coming. And keep those like buttons and share these videos with people, anyone you know who might be interested in weight loss. I am getting lots of messages from people talking about whether this is something they can do. Some of the comments I am getting are, for example, "I don't think I could do a juice fast, I like my food too much." That is a common one.

Now, I was like that! If you haven't seen all my videos, just particularly the early ones, my brother did a 5 day juice fast, around about 12 months ago. And I remember thinking at the time there is no way I could do a juice fast, even for a meal. Even for one meal! Let alone 5 days that he did it for.

But here I am, on Day 36!

How did I do it?

I decided I wanted to lose weight. I was sick of the way I looked. Sick of the way I felt, more importantly. And I wanted to make a change. And I took it one day at a time. Even though I set myself a goal of 56 day juice fast, I did take it one day at a time.

I wasn't going through trying to plan ahead and thinking what it was going to be like, or thinking how am I going to do this. I just took it 1 day at a time. And so far I am on Day 36, and I have 20 days to go, and I am going to be finished, and of course I have lost all that weight!

So, please! Give it a go, if you are thinking of doing it. Don't just assume you can't do it. If I can do it, I am proving to you by these videos that I can do it, you can too. Yes, I am talking to you! You can do it as well.

So, give it a go and I think you'll find the results are absolutely amazing.

Just in case you haven't caught on to the fact, I have lost weight every single day I have been on this juice fast. There were only 3 days where, Days 32-34, that I didn't weigh myself. But on Day 35 when I came back from my trip I was down by 1.2kg, which is about 2.6 pounds.

So obviously I lost weight during those times as well. Every other day I have weighed myself, and I have actually lost weight throughout this fast.

So, if you want a dead easy way to lose weight, this has to be it.

Alright, I am going to leave it there for now.

Everything is still on track and going well.

Keep those questions coming in.

And I look forward to talking to you tomorrow for Day 37.

Bye for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Commercial Juicer video here if you wish.

Day 35 - Calories In Watermelon - What Is The Real Deal?

2011-08-15T18:46:00.000-07:00

Hello!

Tim here with my Day 35 update.

Yes, I'm now 5 weeks, today, into my health fast, or my juice fast, I should say.

Only 3 weeks to go, 21 days to go, today.

So I'm feeling pretty pumped!

Now, since the last time I weighed, if you have been following along with the videos, the last 3 days I have been unable to weigh, because I have been interstate from South Australia. I am back today, and since then I have lost 1.2 kilos, which is about 2.6 pounds.

So that brings to a total of 16 kilograms, my entire weight loss, which is about 35 1/4 pounds. So, today I'm actually halfway to my weightloss goal. If you have watched my original video, in my original videos, probably the first 3 or 4 days I talked about it more than most of them, my original goal was to lose 32 kilos, which is around 70 pounds.

So today makes the halfway mark. I have lost 50% of the weight I wanted to lose. So I am feeling pretty excited about that.

I am thinking now, as I get further on that I probably won't go to 32 kilograms. I still have at least 10 kilograms to go. So at the moment I am 95.4 kilograms. That's 210 1/4 pounds. And I am thinking probably another 10 kilos will do it. So I'm probably looking now at a revised goal, based on how my body is looking, and how I'm feeling, will probably be about 85 kilos, which is around about another 10 kilos to go.

So I am hoping in the next 21 days I can actually lose that 10 kilos, so my revised goal will be 85 kilos, and I'll meet that on the last day of my juice fast. That's where I think I'm at now. But as I get closer to that 85 kilos, if I feel that I have still got some weight to lose then I'll tone that back up and I'll still stick to the 80.

A couple of things I want to talk about. Basically, transitioning. It's getting more and more important for me to think about transitioning off this juice fast. This is something that if you are doing a juice fast, or thinking of doing one, you must spend time thinking: "How am I going to get off this juice fast?" In terms of, what are you going to do after the juice fast ends. Because of course the problem is if you do nothing, more than likely you'll get off this juice fast and fall into old habits, and you'll get back into the same regime, eating the same bad foods, and you'll regain all the weight you lost.

And I can tell you now quite categorically, I'm not going back to my old weight. I'm not going to go back there. So I what I have to do is change. I have to update my thinking and figure out a way forward.

So, now I'm looking at Dr Fuhrman's "Eat For Health" program at the moment. And I will talk more about that tomorrow, but basically I'm really finding that I need to get my thoughts together on what I'm going to do, and I think that's the way to go. He promotes a largely vegetarian lifestyle, but look, not exclusively. The Eat For Health book that he promotes, and I will put the links on YouTube, there are 2 books, I also bought the audio.

There are four phases. He talks about phase 1. So if you were starting this and you didn't do a juice fast, and you wanted to transition to healthier food, you would start off on that approach. And that's if you were still eating meat and so forth. But he goes right through to Phase 4, which is sort of the healthiest option.

Now, the thing is with that, because you don't, well, in my case, because I have done a juice fast for 35 days, I am probably going to need to start at Phase 4. Because his phase 4 has got lots of greens and so forth, and the reason he has got phase 1, 2, 3, 4, is that he is combating addiction. You know, the fact that earlier on it is hard to not want to be eating the old foods and so forth.

Well, look, in 35 days I have eliminated all of my addictive food. So if I went back to Phase 1 of his plan, Eat For Health, that would mean introducing lots more meats, and lots of the bad stuff. So I'm thinking I need to go directly to Phase 4.

So, have a look at that book on Amazon. As I said, the link's there. So just click on the little link below this video, if you are on YouTube, and it gives you a link to go directly to YouTube. I'm finding that book to be absolutely tremendous in terms of the value that I'm getting out of it.

And I think that's going to be a real plan for me.

And look he's got lots of healthy stuff. And look, he's even got a particular chocolate dip, or something like that, made of healthy ingredients. He's got his own exclusive cocoa powder, which I think he sells on his website. And he's got all these other delicious components which are largely healthy.

So, the point is, you don't have to do without all this stuff. But you'll be finding if you want to be wanting to eat more of the healthy stuff. And that's really what I'm aiming to do - is to transition off this juice fast and to eat as healthily as I can, without being a saint.

I'm not going to try and be a saint and eat 100% perfect. And his Eat For Health program seems to really cater for that.

So that's what I'm looking at, at this stage. But I'll talk more about that during the week.

The other second thing I wanted to talk about before I ended today, is that the actual juicing video is coming. I am definitely doing those this week. I'm back home from my trip.

By the way, in case you're wondering about this video being on a funny angle, my iMac which I bought brand new in May/June this year, when the new iMac models came out, developed a fault, and I had to take it back for repair. So I'm actually recording this on my MacBook Pro, which is a notebook. Consequently the video angle is a little bit different.

But anyway, getting back to the juicing. That is coming this week, and I am also going to talk specifically about the juices that I have, which hopefully will help some of you guys that are just starting, the amount of calories in watermelon, more liquid diet recipes, or just to try a few different things. Because I'm now open to trying different juices.

But I will talk more about that later in the week.

That's it. Thanks very much for watching. I will talk to you soon!

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Calories In Watermelon video here if you wish.

Day 29 - My Easy Diet Plan Update

2011-08-14T19:41:00.000-07:00

Hi Tim here with my Day 29 update.

Yes, I'm still on my juice fast easy diet plan. For those of you who haven't seen any of my previous videos, each day I have been on my juice fast, I have uploaded a video letting you know how much weight I have lost, and my overall progress, and even things like how I have felt in a particular day, challenges and so on and so forth.

So if you haven't watched any of my previous videos about my easy diet plan, then I suggest you do that, because this is perfect. What I am trying to do is make this really easy for someone who is starting a juice fast. I'm identifying all the things that you'll find hard and easy along the way. You'll get to know how you'll feel doing the same type of juice fast, if you're considering doing one.

Anyway, my weight loss for today is 0.3 kilograms, which is about 0.6 of a pound. Total weight loss to date now is 13.8 kilograms, which is about 30.5 pounds, thereabouts. So everything still on track, and I'm still losing weight. Losing weight every single day on this juice fast and detox diet plan is making me feel fantastic.

Not a lot to report. I had a quick thing. I was speaking to someone yesterday and we were talking about lemons and its juicing benefits. And they were talking about how acidic lemon is. And I said, well, no, actually lemon is alkaline based. And they said, well, how is that possible? Because we all know how bitter (actually, sour) and how acidic tasting lemon is. And it is interesting because there are a couple of fruits that do this. Lemon and lime are two of the big ones. They actually are acidic, but when they go into your body, they become alkaline based. So therefore they are very very good for your body. So I suggest that where possible use lemon and lime, among other things, but they are two of the big ones, to really, really help your body. Because getting your body to an alkaline state is a good thing. It counters all the negative effects.

And I talked about this a few days ago. Because, when you're sick, your body is naturally acidic. So if you can counter that and move towards the other end, to get well, that's really the way to go. And that is why of course if people have got the flu, or a cold, people say to have a warm cup of lemon juice, lemon drink, pour some lemon juice into some water. That can be very good, very healing for your body. And that again is because the alkaline base of a lemon after it goes into your body is what is helping you get better. So I am trying to use lemon, well, I am using lemon and lime in every single one of my drinks every day. And I am feeling fantastic, I am feeling alive, and I am still losing weight every day.

Well, only a very quick video for today, because I have got a very busy day. I have got other videos to do in my normal job. So I'm going to have to stop it there for today. And I will see you tomorrow for Day 30. Keep up the good work, if you are following along at home!

Look forward to talking to you then.

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Easy Diet Plan video here if you wish.

Day 34 - Getting The Most Out Of Your Juicing Benefits

2011-08-14T18:25:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

Tim here with my Day 34 juice fasting update. Yes, I'm still going. And today is my last day in Melbourne, Australia. I am actually back home later this afternoon. So I am getting picked up in about an hour's time and then shooting up to the airport and then going back to Adelaide.

Consequently I haven't weighed myself again today. This is the third day straight I haven't weighed myself. Well, actually it will be by the time I weigh myself tomorrow morning. I'm expecting a good weight loss. It will be interesting to see how much I lose out of that.

Whoa! [Tim catches an orange which was thrown to him from offscreen.]

About to have some of these beauties! Anthony, how are you going? [throws orange back offscreen to Anthony]. Good catch!

Anthony: Good Tim, really good mate. 8:34am, I'm very impressed. Well done. Keep it up.

Thank you, yes, I'm feeling pretty good too. And yes, for all you people out there looking for motivation, I hope that these videos that I'm doing are actually giving you motivation. Because it's motivating me hearing feedback from your comments and hearing of your success. Because we're getting people's messages on my videos saying that they have started a juice fast and that they have lost weight already.

So, let's change the world! Let's get this message out that a juice fast is a great way to quickly lose a large amount of weight, but also to do it very healthily.

Just a couple of things. I'll start off with number 1.

The first one is I'm still getting messages from people, from time to time, asking number 1, Is this healthy?

Now, obviously I'm not a doctor. So it is a good idea to go and speak to your doctor about this. But generally speaking, fruits and vegetables are the healthiest kinds of vegetables you can have, and have a ton of juicing benefits. So the fact that you are on a juice fast, I wouldn't it's going to be a lifetime thing that you would stick to a juice fast, 3 meals a day, for years or anything like that. But for a short period of time just with the juice, I think there's not really a lot that's going to be much healthier than that. And then, transitioning off that, to a diet primarily based on fruits, vegetables, perhaps nuts, seeds and so forth as well, is going to be incredibly healthy for you. So that's number one.

Number two, people ask me about supplements. Do we need to have supplements when we're taking a juice fast?

Well, if you think about it, what are supplements, generally? They are to make up for deficiencies in your diet, where you haven't hadn't enough of a particular thing, you know, vitamin C or whatever the case may be.

A press juicer, and a couple of fruits and vegetables give you pretty well everything you need! Again, I'm not suggesting that I'm a doctor or anything of that nature, but generally you won't need any supplements. That's what the fruits and vegetables are doing, just for you. They are giving you the goodness, the healthiness your body needs. They are giving you the maximum nutrition, is what I'm saying. It's just incredibly healthy.

So, no, generally speaking you don't need to have anything else.

Another question I get is, can I still have tea or coffee?

Look, there's no single rule here that applies. In other words, a juice fast does not mean that you have to not have coffee. But, when I started this on Day 1, 34 days ago, I decided not to have any coffee or any tea at all, or anything else, any other dairy products, or anything else.

I decided to have juice only, and water.

So I really took the hard road in many roads, but it's the safest road. Because if you're having coffee, that has got caffeine in it. And caffeine has been known to affect hunger, for argument's sake, and it is an addictive substance. So, you know, just the fact that you have caffeine while you are on a juice fast could actually in some ways sway how far you can get on your juice fast.

So, keep that in mind.

But, look, again, there's no clear rule. There's nothing that says that to "succeed" on a juice fast you have to do it for 10 days, or 20 days, or 30 days or whatever. I decided that I was "sufficiently overweight" (if that's the right term) to require a 56 day juice fast and really sort myself out.

And that's why I took perhaps such a radical approach of signing up for the 56 days.

You might decide to start on only 5 days. Or 10 days, or whatever the case might be.

Well, that's about it for today guys. There's not really a lot else to talk about. As I said I'm going to be back in Adelaide tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to weighing myself and letting you know what my weight loss is.

[Drops an carrot thrown from offscreen]. Whoops! Dropped it! Point, in the AFL rules, and it has gone under the TV. Sorry about that! That was a piece of carrot I was supposed to catch.

Can't really edit that I don't think! We'll get that later!

Anyway we will leave it there for now, and I will see you for Day 35 tomorrow,

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juicing Benefits video here if you wish.

Day 33 Vegetable Nutrition - What You Need To Know

2011-08-13T18:11:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

Tim here with my Day 33 update.

Still going on the juice fast. Everything is going fine. And I'm getting all pumped up this morning, because we're going to a seminar, my brother and I, Anthony. (Anthony, say hello!)

Anthony: Hello everybody, and we have still got the jittery camera. Excuse me everyone while I just make a bit of an adjustment here!

Tim: Yeah, Anthony was doing the filming yesterday and he was actually holding the camera. And we found afterwards it was a bit shaky. So he's actually got it on a tripad - ah, tripad! tripod now.

Anyway, this morning we're going to a seminar, and apps for iphone seminar. Because one of the things we do, we're actually business together, and we actually write iPhone apps. So we're looking forward to that. That's an all day conference.

Anyway, I digress. You're thinking, what does this have to do with juice fast? Probably none! But anyway.

OK. Now, for the first time in 32 videos I can't actually tell you how much weight I have lost today. And the reason for that is, drum roll please...

I haven't weighed myself!

No drum roll needed. And that's because I'm not really set up to weigh myself away from home. I guess I could, because obviously Anthony has got some facility to do that. But I thought it would be easier to wait until I get back. So it is going to be another two days before I weigh. But everything is still on track in my fat burning diet. I still managed to keep on the juice fast without any problems yesterday. Anthony did well. He's on Day 1 of his juice fast again. So he's going through that with me.

In actual fact he's feeling a little bit, he's got a bit of a headache and so forth today, which of course is normal. So if you're starting a juice fast -

And can you hear that noise in the background? The noise we all love! Yes, Anthony is actually going our juice now. As I'm doing this video he's actually doing our juice for breakfast. And because we're going to a seminar we're actually taking the juice with us. Not the juicer! We're taking a thermos of juice.

Coincidentally, if you are doing juicing, like juicing beets and low carb vegetables, did you know, the best way to drink juice is to actually juice it and drink it immediately. And that is because nutrients and vegetables nutrition can be lost after an hour or so, if left out.

However, if you do need to take it to work or something, what you should do is juice it and put it an airtight container immediately, and that will preserve the nutrients as well. So keep that in mind. If you're just putting it into a jug, in the fridge or something, and leaving it there for hours, you could be losing most, or a large portion of the benefits of juicing. So, make sure you don't do that.

What I do personally is, at home, I juice every single meal. I do it live. Because I'm doing three meals a day, morning, noon, and evening, I juice just before each meal, so that I'm guaranteed to get the freshest, best nutrition.

And as I mentioned the other alternative is to put it into an airtight container, which Anthony told me about. And that will help preserve it as well.

The other thing I wanted to talk about (you can hear the juicing going again) today, is a great book for going off juice fasts. Now, I talked about - this actually came from some people who were watching previous videos. It's called "Eat to Live" by Dr. Joel Fuhrman.

Now, what I want you guys to and have a look at today, or, I suggest you do that, is go to YouTube and do a search for "the greatest diet on earth". "The greatest diet on earth"

And what that will give you is around about an hour of video, by Dr. Joel Fuhrman. It's fairly old, about 7 years old now. 2004 I believe. But it has got some fantastic information on why you need to be juicing, just how bad processed foods is for you, how bad dairy is for you, and what the benefits are of going onto an all natural vegetarian type diet.

Now, I'm still torn as to whether I am going to be going vegetarian. But I have to say, after watching this video, I'm very tempted that I should be doing just that. So, go and have a look at that. I suggest it's great information. And thank you very much for that. I believe the actual YouTube user name, Rick, you know who you are, 'findthecenter' is the username, he's the guy that put me on to this first. And I know Rick has been following along and has been doing a great job with losing weight as well. So keep up the good work.

To everyone else who is leaving comments and so forth, I really appreciate it. You've been doing a fantastic job. And keep up the good work, because your comments, and your likes and so forth, are motivating me as well. So it's a two way street. I'm hoping I can motivate you, and vice versa. You're doing that.

So, please, share this video with anyone you can. I notice I am starting to get lots of views on some of the earlier videos now. And that's because they're getting out there and people are following along. And, look, we can...

[video interrupted by loss of camera batteries.]

You can watch a high definition version of this Vegetable Nutrition video here if you wish.

Day 32 - Drinking The Best Detox Juices

2011-08-12T19:09:00.000-07:00

Hi,

Tim here with my Day 32 juice fast update.

Still going guys. I'm actually in another state of Australia today. I mentioned yesterday in the video that I was going interstate, and I am here now, in Melbourne.

Anthony, say hello!

Anthony: Hello everybody! This is Tim's brother doing a bit of filming today. Pleased to meet you all!

Tim: That's right! So this is the first time ever you have seen me, from this far down anyway. I'm not sure how much Anthony is filming of me.

Anthony: Well, they're getting a full body shot now.

Tim: Uh oh! A bit scary! I might have to try and cover up.

Anyway guys I'm going to keep this quick today. First of all I will tell you that I lost 0.2 kg, which is just under half a pound. Total weight loss now is 14.8 kg, in 32 days, and that is about 32.6, 32.5 pounds. Everything is still on track.

I still had a few other temptations to talk about. First one, fish and chips last night. Now, I understand, because of our American friend Sarah, that fish and chips is an Australian thing. So, let me tell you what it is.

You know the chips you get at MacDonald, but they're a much thicker variety, and with fish, in batter. Now, in Australia we call that fish and chips.

Now that was staple diet for me, prior to the juice fast. In other words, very unhealthy guys. We're talking batter, and it's just not good for you.

Everyone else had that last night, for their dinner. So I had already had my 'mean green', you know, my celery, spinach etc. the best detox juices I can drink. Had all that, so I was feeling fine.

Just the smells again! It was really quite interesting how the smells resonate. Again for that brief period of time I thought, hmm, won't it be nice! But, look, the feeling went pretty quickly.

So that was number one.

And then of course today, I took an early flight from Adelaide to Melbourne. It's only around about an hour's flight, but of course, by the time you get to the airport, you get up early and get yourself ready, so quite a few hours have elapsed. So when I got the airport, lots of good food - oh, sorry - lots of bad food over there! Let's get that right: junky food, that's not good for you there. And a couple of times there I was thinking that would be nice.

But just to make it clear, when I am thinking like that, I am not really seriously tempted by it. It's just a fleeting thought. And it's interesting, because, I have that fleeting thought, and then just as quickly the thought gets replaced with something like "you don't need it" or, "you don't want it", or "you don't really feel like that". This is all happening because of the juice fast.

So, at the end of the day the story is that everything is still on track, everything's going fine. I've had my juice and vegetable drink about an hour ago with Anthony. We both had one. Feeling fine. And everything is going well.

So, look, there's not a lot else to report today guys. As I mentioned, just a couple of days here in Melbourne, so the videos are going to be pretty basic. Next week I'm going to come back and actually show you me juicing. I'm going to talk about the actual recipes, more carrot juice benefits, benefits of wheatgrass, more about energy drink dangers and so forth that I am doing, and show you the juicing process. So, hang in there, that's probably going to be a few more days.

Other than that, everything is going well. Thank you very much for watching. And I will talk to you tomorrow. Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Best Detox Juices video here if you wish.

Day 31 - Craving More For Low Carb Vegetables

2011-08-11T21:16:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here, with my Day 31 update.

Since yesterday I have lost .3 kg, which is about .66 pound.

Total weight loss now, since I started, is 14.6 kilos, which is 32 1/4 pounds.

Everything is still on track. I'm still feeling good. I've had a few temptations. We had about ten people over yesterday. We had a big luncheon here. This was after I shot yesterday's video. And lots of food. Lots of cakes and pies. Everyone brought a plate and so forth.

I managed to stay out of it, stay clear of it. I had some work to do anyway, which was lucky enough. But later on in the afternoon when I had finished my work I went out there and mingled with the guests, and no, I wasn't tempted.

People were saying, "Aren't you tempted? Wouldn't you want to eat this type of food?"

And, "No, absolutely not!" Then I went to my brother-in-law's house in the evening. We went there for a meal, and I took my juice. And they had - he's got a pizza oven, his own pizza oven. An outdoor pizza oven made of brick where you put a fire in there and you can make your own pizzas.

Beautiful smell, I have to say! Of pizza and also home made garlic bread. But again, not tempted and wasn't prepared to break the fast.

So, still feeling strong. And even this morning, I noticed my partner Louise, who has gone out now, with Sarah, they've gone out to look for dolphins. They're going on a cruise to look for dolphins, which is pretty exciting for them.

And I noticed there was cake left out on the kitchen bench and so forth, and yes, briefly, I thought, hmm, you know, it just brought back old memories, of in the past, I would have sit down and eaten probably half a cake, quite easily. And I would have had a large glass of milk with that. I would have found some chocolate. I would have eaten that, and I probably would have felt OK eating that, for those few minutes, but afterwards it would have been a world of regret! Well, maybe not "world", but it would have been a long period of time I would have regretted it.

Again, I managed to stay clear of it.

So, interesting enough I was late doing my juice this morning because I had to go out and help someone move a trailer actually. And it was about 10 o'clock by the time I got back home and hadn't had my juice. So I was wondering whether the fact that I had had a later juice than normal was the reason that I was feeling a bit more temptation than I would normally have felt.

All interesting. But all secured, and I managed to pass the test, and not give up.

Now, a few other things. I am hoping to do a video soon showing my juicing. I can't actually do that now, over the next couple of days, because I am on a trip to Melbourne that I forgot about when I talked about this in the previous video. I'm going to Melbourne tomorrow and I'm going there for a conference which is on Saturday, and I am not back until late Sunday.

So, I am still going to try and mix in my videos while I am over there. I hope to do just quick updates. But I probably won't get to "weigh" until I get back, so that's going to be interesting. But I will check in, because obviously I'm going to a few social events while I'm over there, and there will still be me needing to make sure I'm staying strong and focused and so forth (which, of course, I will be!).

I'm staying at my brother's place, and he has done a juice fast before. He's done a 5 day juice fast before, quite successfully, and actually I'll give him the credit for showing me all about juice fasts. So we are planning to stay on the juices, and we will actually take a thermos of juice to the conference on the Saturday. Because obviously there will be plenty of food around there, and there's a lunch break, and there will be local shops, etc. etc. So, I want to steer clear of that. I will make sure that I dont' get involved in any of the other foods.

So, overall, everything is going well. Do expect that juicing update. It will probably be Monday, my time now, which is Sunday in the US, before I get that video to you. Because I will be back too late on Sunday to do it, and then it will be Monday over here.

So Monday morning I aim to do that. So what I will do is I will go through and talk about all the fruits and low carb vegetables that I use, and then I will show you how I juice with a commercial juicer. Pretty straight forward, but I will show you anyway, because lots of people have been asking about how to go about juicing celery, juicing beets, and etc. This is a little thing that I think I can do to help, in the meantime, I'm quite happy to do it.

Alright, I'll leave it there for now. And almost certainly the video tomorrow is probably going to be late, because I will be flying early in the morning. So I will get a chance some time in my day to do it.

So, rest assured the update is coming, but it may be coming a bit later in the day. And as I said, I'm still going to be doing the videos the other days that I'm there, but due to the timing, and the fact that I'm not in my own house and so forth, they may be a lot later than they normally come out.

Hang in there, I'm still keen, and focused, and I hope I'm helping you guys out. And I will talk to you again tomorrow, some time.

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Low Carb Vegetables video here if you wish.

Day 30 - Is Lemon Cleanse Diet More Effective?

2011-08-10T18:18:00.000-07:00

Hello,

Tim here with my Day 30 juice fast update.

Everything is sitll on track.

I have lost .5 Kg since yesterday, which is just over 1 pound.

Total weight loss to date, today, is a total loss of 14.3 Kg. And that's about 31.5 pounds.

So, yes, everything is going quite well, and I am feeling quite energised. I haven't had any problems with feeling hungry, or anything of that sort for quite some time now. And I mentioned a few days ago that I was thinking that perhaps it was time to go off the juice fast. Those feelings have gone. It was only a temporary one.

So if you're experiencing similar types of feelings, know that, more than likely, they are going to be temporary ones, and they will go away. The other thing I am going to do in the next couple of days, is that I have got a couple of messages from people asking what sorts of fruits and vegetables I put in my juices, and secondly, how I go about it.

So I thought if anyone was interested, let me know if you are, I will put together a video and go through the process, and do the juicing, so you can see what I use, the type of press juice I use, the best juice cleanse methods, and what quantities I use, and so forth. And the various fruits and vegetables I use. And I will just talk about the flavors I use, combinations in other words, that I am using.

If you're interested in that, let me know. And as I said before, if you know anyone who is looking for a juice fast, or perhaps needs a juice fast, a great way to help them out is perhaps to send them to one of my earlier videos, and get them to have a look at how I looked early on, and how I look today, the differences, the amount of weight that I have lost, to show them that this is something that truly can be inspiring. Because, look, I have lost weight every single day. There hasn't been one day so far, that I haven't lost weight.

So if that is not telling you that this is a fantastic way to lose weight, I don't know what is.

And of course, nutrition, lemon cleanse diet, liquid diet recipes, fruits and vegetables are incredibly healthy. So there's literally no reason not to be doing this.

But yeah, let me know if you are interested in that, in me showing you the juicing. And also send this off to anyone, by all means.

Now, what I am going to do in a video in the next couple of days is I'm going to take a picture of myself each video, and do one of those collages (? I'm not sure what they're called). But basically it will show a picture of me each day, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, right through to Day 30, and see the difference. I'm going to do that, because I want to know myself how different I look. Because obviously I'm still me, and while I can see that I'm losing weight, perhaps I can't see some of the dramatic effects that other people are telling me. So that's another good way to help inspire someone going through this juice fast, not just you, but it's also going to inspire me. So it's a win-win.

Keep your questions coming in. I'm getting lots of messages in the Inbox in Youtube as well. Happy to answer those and give you as much information as I can. Generally speaking it's better to put comments on the actual video, because that way more than one person will get to see the answer. If someone else is browsing the video they can read the comments and read the answers.

But whatever you want to do, hit me up. I'm quite happy to share my knowledge, because I'm all about losing weight and helping others to do the same.

Alright, only a quick video, because there's not a lot else to report today. I'll be back tomorrow and giving you the Day 31 update then.

Bye for now!

You can watch a high definition version of this Lemon Cleanse Diet here if you wish.

Day 29 - My Easy Diet Plan Update

2011-08-09T18:44:00.000-07:00

Hi Tim here with my Day 29 update.

Look forward to talking to you then.

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Easy Diet Plan video here if you wish.

Day 28 - Juicing Vegetables. It Gets Easier Over Time

2011-08-08T18:36:00.000-07:00

Hi Tim here with my Day 28 update.

Yay! I'm halfway! Halfway through to my 56 day goal.

Since yesterday I have lost 0.8 kg, which is pretty close, I think it is 1.8 pounds, nearly 2 pounds.

So overall that means I have lost 13.5 kilograms, which is just under 30 pounds. So I have had a pretty good day overnight.

A couple of things.

First thing I wanted to talk about was, yesterday, after 27 days, I started thinking hmm, food! Maybe it would be good to be off this diet!

Now, it may have been because we picked up our friend Sarah from America. She's over here on holidays for 12 days, to Australia. And on the way home Sarah and Louise were hungry, so they stopped in to Hungry Jacks, which is Burger King for you US folks. And I just sat there. I wasn't too worried about it, I have to say. I just went in and sat there while they ate that.

And then for the evening meal they had more takeout, "takeout people"! Very nice veal. I don't know whether you US folks get veal, or eat veal. But it is just basically meat and chips and a salad. And that looked very appetising. And I just had that fleeting though: "Mmm, have I been on this juice fast too long".

But look, it went fairly quickly. I just decided, no, I'm going to keep juicing vegetables. And that happened a couple of times during the afternoon, probably 3 or 4 times all up, distinctly different periods when that thought bubbled up, whether I wanted to continue.

But, I persevered, had my juice using a commercial juicer, and I drank the healthiest drinks, and I was OK. And I wake up this morning with a fantastic weight loss! You would have to say, have I been rewarded for my commitment? Who knows? But that's my best ever weight loss day other than the first 3 or 4 days where I lost quite a bit of weight, which you would normally expect in those first couple of days from water and the first amount of toxins leaving the body.

And so that's really good, and that's really motivated me with the weight loss. And it's interesting when you think about it, isn't it. The more weight you lose on your juice fast plan, the better you seem to be. You're feeling better and that it is worthwhile persevering. I've talked about this before on previous videos that when I did go on diets in the past I would invariably find a plateau where my weight didn't go down, or worse, some days I would gain weight.

But again I have to say, every single day on this juice fast, I have lost weight.

Yes, it varies, the amount of weight, right down to a bare minimum 0.1 kilogram, which is probably 0.2 of a pound or something, right up until my best of 1.6 kilograms on the first day, which was quite a whopping amount, which is getting close to 3.5, 4 pounds.

So I have had that fantastic journey overall where I have actually lost weight every day, and I am finding there's only 2.5 kilos to go, and I will be at the halfway mark of my weight loss. So here I am at the halfway mark in terms of time, but I'm almost at the 50% of total weight to lose.

So I have still got a ways to go. I am re-evaluating it. Because, look I am starting to get lots of comments from people saying you look fantastic, and you don't need to lose all that weight. I know I've still got a certain amount of weight to lose. But whether now I need to go to the full 32 kilograms which I wanted to lose, which was 70 pounds, it might be that another 20 pounds, or another 10 kilos, or thereabouts, might be enough for me.

But I'm going to reassess that. I'm certainly not going to stop at this stage, until I feel that I have reached the weight where I am comfortable with my body. The way I'm feeling now is yes, I'm losing weight all over my body, and I can see that I am, but I've got more to lose. I want to get my stomach so that it is fairly flat. And there's still quite a bit of fat there that I want to go away basically! But it is going, that's the fantastic thing.

So, I guess what I'm saying is guys, if you're feeling anything like this, hang in there, and keep at it, and the results will pay you back in dividends, as they are for me. Because this is the only ever eating plan, drinking plan as the case may be, because it is juicing, that I have ever lost weight continually every single day. So if that's not commitment, a sign that I should say, that it it is something that works, I don't know what is.

So, keep at it, especially juicing vegetables. I'm going to keep at it. And I will report tomorrow on my progress.

So, until then, talk to you soon, cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juicing Vegetables here if you wish.

Day 27 - Are There Really Energy Drink Dangers?

2011-08-07T18:34:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 27 update.

Yes, I'm still going with my juice fast. Getting up close to the halfway mark. Tomorrow is going to mark the halfway mark of my juice plan.

I have lost, since yesterday, 0.4 kg, which is about .9 of a pound, just about 1 pound. Overall my weight loss is now 12.7 kilograms, which is pretty close to 28 pounds.

So, still feeling good, still feeling fantastic, still feeling in control. I had a couple of thoughts today.

Firstly, the word juice fast. 'Fast', to me conjures up a negative sort of vibe. I saw someone used the word 'feast'. I thought that was a good idea. Any other ideas? I'm open to any other ideas to call it. Because it seems such a negative thing to say that you are on a fast, because traditionally that means you're 'going without'. Whereas I think what we're doing is actually giving your body the nutrients it needs. So I'm going to have a think and see if I can come up with a better phrase, and see if we can get that phrase out there and being used in everyday life.

Not a lot else to report. As I said everything's on track and feeling good, and everything is still quite easy. The other thing I wanted to talk about was the number of drinks I'm having per day.

What I have done in the past I have been trying to have about 500mls three times a day, which is somewhere between 16 to 18 fluid ounces I think, for you US folk. And what I have found in the past few days is that I haven't been feeling hungry at all during lunch time. So I have had something at breakfast, and then something in the evening. And I have just found that I don't want to have any juice at lunch time. So I have done that for two days in a row. I am not consciously trying to avoid it. I just feel I don't need it, so I'm not thinking about it.

Anyone else out there having a similar thing? I would be interested to know whether that's happening for you as well.

I am making sure though that I drink plenty of fluid, because it's obviously important to keep hydrated. So if you are cutting back your juices a little bit, make sure you're topping up with water and having plenty of water. And I do tend to avoid drinking low calorie smoothies, since I’m focusing more on juices.

Of course, the other thing is, if you try and actively stop giving yourself too much juice, thinking that perhaps you're going to lose some more weight, your body can go into a protection, survival type mode.

[ Can you hear that rain out there? Pouring with rain out here in Australia. I don't know whether you can hear it. I'll just stop for a minute. Not sure whether the microphone will get it, but is absolutely belting out there. I gather you folks in the US have got some heat at the moment, but that's certainly not the case here in Adelaide at the moment. ]

But anyway, what I was saying was if you are trying to cut back, and thinking, well, I'm only going to have one or two juices a day, and you're trying to do without, your body goes into survival mode where it actually thinks that there is a problem with you getting enough nutrition. And that hinders your weight loss. Make sure you don't do that purposely. Also do avoid energy drinks since they have a lot of energy drink dangers.

So if you are feeling hungry you should be having something. Absolutely you should be having some apple juice or a substitute for apple juice which is by far one of the healthiest drinks in the world. So, in my case, if I'm not feeling hungry, then I don't feel I'm going without. So the last two days I have only had the two juices. So I will see how I go today. If I feel I'm getting a bit hungry I will certainly have some.

I would be very interested in hearing about your experiences on that.

Alright, well I'm going to go now. That's all for today. And I will see you tomorrow for my Day 28 update, which is going to be a good one, because I will be halfway through my juice fast, to finishing!

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Energy Drink Dangers here if you wish.

Day 26 - Are Low Carb Fruits The Key?

2011-08-06T19:50:00.000-07:00

Hi, Tim here with my Day 26 update.

For those who haven't seen previous videos, I am releasing a video every day of my juice fast. I am attempting to lose a total of 32 kilograms, which is around 70 pounds, in a 56 day juice fast. So today is Day 26, and my 26th video about the whole process. So feel free to look at my other videos and go back and see how I went on a particular day.

The reason that I'm doing this very day - a couple of reasons I guess. Reason #1 is for self motivation. I am pushing myself by getting myself out there in the public spectrum. I'm to a large degree forcing myself to stay on it, even though I'm not really finding it a hard thing to do. But early on I thought it was important to make sure I wasn't going to give up after a few days. Being out there, people are hopefully more inclined to be watching what I'm doing and hopefully encouraging me, and that certainly works so far. I am getting more and more people following what I am doing, leaving comments. And look, those comments are inspiring me as well. So please do click that Like button and leave some comments. It helps me on my journey, and hopefully other people down the track who are watching these videos, they can look at the videos or read the comments, and they are actually going to be enthused by this process as well.

So, overnight, or since yesterday, I lost .2 kg, which is around 1/2 pound, bringing my total weight loss to a total of 12.3kg (27 pounds). So everything is still going good. As I said before in previous videos, I have lost weight every single day since I started my juice fast. There you go, pretty amazing isn't it!

Now, as promised I wanted to talk about a couple of things: about water first. If you are on a juice fast, are you drinking enough water? Because you need to be drinking quite a bit of water. The thing with water is that people can survive for weeks without food, but you can't survive for more than up to 10 days at the most without water. Water is realy the essential thing in our body, and as we grow up and get older and become adults, we are not able to figure out in most cases when we are thirsty. Particularly when you're overweight. It's very, very common for overweight people to confuse thirst with hunger. That's one of the things now that I'm finding with this juice fast, is that I'm now getting a better idea of what hunger is, and I'm not actually experiencing hunger very often.

I get a little bit of minor: "Oh, it would be nice to eat" but before this when I was eating the wrong types of food, the fast foods, I would go very much: "Oh, I have to eat this now" - an urgent type thing. And, let's face it, it was an addiction. It was the sugars, and the trans fats, and and other unhealthy stuff they were putting into those foods, which was basically what my body was addicted to, I was addicted to. And now that I've gone onto a juice fast I'm not getting those anymore.

So I'm clearer now on what my feeling of thirst is, and consequently I'm drinking plenty of this stuff: water. So I suggest you do that. It's very very important to be doing that. Now, it's not just drinking water, but obviously the types of food you eat will affect your dehydration, whether you are dehydrated or not.

Here are a few stats of a few low carb vegetables, cucumber 96% water, celery 94%, spinach 92%, carrot 90% and apples 85%. Just a rough idea there. So you see that's one of the reasons why juice fasts are good for you, because those fruits and vegies that I have just read out are key components of a juice fast, and they have got lots of water in them. So you are helping by drinking that.

But don't think that just because you're juicing (if you are following along) that that's enough. You need to have quite a bit of water. I'm having one to two litres a day, plus. I'm really quite drinking a lot.

I'm not gulping it down. What I do is use about a 500ml glass of water (17 fluid ounces), and I'm filling one of those up and drinking it over time. I think that's a lot better than gulping it down and thinking, well, I've only got two times in this day available, I'm going to scull 500mls at a time. Rather, it's better to sip it over the course of a day.

Now the other thing that I wanted to talk about, I have been meaning to talk about this for quite some time, is alkalis. The body ranges between acidic and alkaline. Basically sick people are traditionally almost always very acidic. I'm talking about the pH level in your blood.

Note: Warning: I am NOT a Doctor! You need to do your own research to back this up.

Now the thing is generally speaking the scale of pH in your blood between 7.25 and 7.45. A very small range.

In fact if your blood pH level goes below 6, or above 8, you can actually die from organ failure. So, consequently your body is doing all this automatically. It's trying to maintain that healthy level, keeping you alive basically. So the more bad foods you put in your body, you're lowering it to a more acidic state, causing dramatic problems in your body, because it has to over-compensate and try work out how to deal with this more acidic food. It has to find a way to deal with it basically. It might rob Peter to pay Paul, so to speak. To keep you alive it might have to damage another part of your body. That's how it works, because the pH level is so critical to be maintained.

By the way, pH level, if you have a swimming pool and you check your pH level - same sort of level, but we're talking obviously about your bloodstream here.

Anyway, as I said, the body tries to do anything it can to maintain that level, and whatever you eat and drink can affect that. As I said, sick people generally are very acidic. They are very low on the pH scale. The better and more fit that you are, the more alkaline (in general) that you are.

Generally speaking, if you believe in the alkaline diet, that is promoting for you to eat more alkaline food, foods with high amount of alkali in it. Because the theory is that "alkaline equals healthy", generally. So if you're putting more of that type of food into your body, your body is liking that and it is actually doing good for your body.

So that's the theory. I guess it's probably more important when you're overweight, and unfit, and/or unwell. Because you probably naturally are down the scale, being more acidic. So consequently you probably need more alkaline stuff. So just to give you and idea, some of the best alkaline type foods, avocado, which unfortunately don't juice too well, lemon and lime, which I have talked about before, tomato. They are also very high in alkali, lots of alkali in them basically. Even a typical apple juice recipe has some alkai in it. Kale is very good, and soy sprouts, just to give you a bit of an example. And there are lots of other ones. ANd you can find websites online that give you a good range of what these things are.

Lemon and lime, low carb fruits that I have talked quite a bit about before. Some of the other ones, which you might be interested to know, are highly acidic. Very, very highly acidic, very bad for you. Basically what they do when juicing vegetables of these types, they basically shock your body. So that response, that upper you're feeling when you have coffee or tea (especially when you haven't had it for a while) that is like a jolt. Your body is getting a negative jolt of acidic.

Incidentally herbal tea is actually better. It's in the middle. It's just a little bit alkaline. It's certainly a lot better than normal tea/coffee. But ideally it is probably better to be skipping those all the time. Did you know that most breads and dairy are acidic? Meat is acidic as well. Soft drink and fruit juice that you buy from your grocer or supermarket are very acidic normally as well.

But the message here I think is balance. Overweight people, certainly in my case, I can't speak for you, but I can speak for myself, I was eating very unhealthy foods. All those foods on the lists, the bad lists. Lots of dairy, I've always been a dairy person. Lots of breads and meats and so forth - all very acidic. So consequently, not only was I packing on all the kilos, but also it was very unhealthy for my body as well.

So I'm just thinking with the juice fast, the reason I'm using lots of lemon and lime and some of those other things where I can, where I can find them, is that it's actually pumping in good stuff and they are also the best detox juics. Not only am I getting the benefits of a traditional juice fast anyway, I am still putting in food that is very healthy, but I'm also getting an added bonus of the extra alkali.

And please don't think I'm saying that you shouldn't be eating any acidic type food, because that's certainly not the message. The research that I have done doesn't say that. But it talks about a balance, and it talks about increasing the use of alkali foods. We're not talking about getting rid of, permanently, bread and dairy and meats, although probably not a bad thing to do that if you can, and I am certainly going to consider if I can do that if I can at the end of the 56 days, but it's more a balance.

I think generally in the alkaline diets you see promoted on the internet, I think they are about 70/30. 70% of the stuff you eat should be alkaline. Because the body can obviously still use those things. Obviously meat has got a really good source of protein. So you don't necessarily want to get rid of meat, unless you are a vegetarian and you don't eat meat. Fish has got very good protein but it is still acidic. So it's that balance. You would probably be able to counter that by having a salad and having lots of greens with your meat, or whatever your main dish is, or your fish.

And by the way, the ones I mentioned, the lemons and limes and avocadoes, they give your body the most alkaline input than any of the other fruits and vegetables as well as being part of the low carb fruits group. There are still other ones on a sliding scale that can still help you, but just not on the range, not as much as those foods do.

And obviously some other foods are very healthy, grapefruit for example is not high in alkali, in fact it's slightly acidic, but it has got other benefits as well. Again I'm not focusing on alkaline only. That would be a mistake. Because that's not a balance. We are trying to balance what we're eating here.

And looking back at what you've eaten in the past, if you are like me, you have probably had very, very little alkaline based food. Because basically nothing in junk food is alkaline. No surprises there! It's all acidic and bad for you. Coffee, if you're like me. Softdrinks, diet sodas - very, very high in acid, very acidic. So very bad for you basically.

Alright, well I just wanted to go through and mention that. I have been trying to get the chance to do that for a few days. And I hope that helped. And I will be back tomorrow for my Day 27 update.

Thanks for watching, and I will talk to you then. Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Low Carb Fruits here if you wish.

Day 25 Of My Juice Fast And An Eat To Live Discussion

2011-08-05T19:59:00.000-07:00

Howdy, Tim here with my Day 25 update.

Juice fasting is still going quite well. I lost .2 of a kilogram since yesterday, which is around about half a pound, give or take. That brings my total weight loss now to 12.1 kilos, which is about 26 and 3/4 pounds.

So everything is still on track, and I haven't got a lot to report. This video is quite late today. It's actually 3:30pm in the afternoon. It was quite a busy day. Haven't had a chance to do too much in the way of preparation for this video, so I'm really just putting it out there as is. It's more to let you know that I'm still on track and still doing well.

A couple of regular followers on my videos commented on a book, Eat to Live. I think that's probably going to be a good book to look at. So I'm going to order that from Amazon. I'm going to put a link in the video notes. If you're interested to go to Amazon and check it out.

It's quite inexpensive, and I have read some of the reviews, and it's got a lot of good reviews. What we're talking about is a book that helps you transition off juice fasting. Now that particular book isn't created specifically for that purpose. It's more a general way to eat well, eat to live - in other words eat the right foods. Try and be healthy in other words, and it's just a way of doing it.

So what I'm going to do is read that and see how relevant it is, and see if I can use that to transition back on to normal food.

So I suggest you check that out. I think that is going to be worthwhile looking at. I'm looking forward to checking that out. So because I'm in Australia I'm going to need to order express post. It will still take 4 or 5 days, and I'm sure the post is going to be more than the actual book! But I'm pretty keen to get it and start reading.

Everything else on track .Look, I still haven't done the lemon, lime and grapefruit intro. I promise I will get that done tomorrow. I know there's a few people waiting to hear that. That's talking about the alkaline benefits of those fruits. So I will get stuck into that tomorrow when I've got a bit more time.

Other than that, as I said, everything is going well. I'm still feeling fine. Still not feeling any need to go back to food, or any negatives I guess about being on the juice fast. And I'm not feeling hungry most of the time. Just feeling quite content, and it is becoming part of my normal every day process I guess, for want of a better term.

Alright, I will leave this short video there for now.

Thanks for watching. I will be back tomorrow.

Cheers for now.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juice Fast here if you wish.

Juice Fast Progress For Day 24

2011-08-04T19:04:00.000-07:00

Hello, Tim here with my Day 24 update on my juice fast. For those not following along, I have been doing this now, for, this is Day 24. I have been surviving on a diet of juice only, vegetable juice and fruit juice. I have been doing that now, as I said, this is Day 24.

Since yesterday I have lost .7 of a kilogram. Quite a nice weight loss. Quite happy with that. It's about 1.5 pounds. So overall now since I started my juice fast I am now 11.9 kg lighter than when I started, which is about 26 and 1/4 pounds.

So I am pretty happy, becuse my original goal was to lose 32 kilos in the 56 days, which is about 70 pounds. So another 8 and 3/4 pounds and I'm going to be halfway. So I am feeling pretty fantastic overall about the progress I'm making.

I still feel very much in control. It is interesting that the further I get through this juice fast, the less hungry I am getting. In the morning I am still not getting hungry. Now, I actually want to be hungry, because I think that's a good sign, to be hungry, generally, after not having eaten for so long. But at lunch time, and it's now, I'm doing this about midday.. before I started my juice fast I would have been really hungry. I would really have wanted to eat something right now.

But I'm thinking, well, it's not really a problem. So it tends to get to 1:00 or 1:30, and then I'll just decide I might go and get a juice.

In the evenings I'm finding it's after 7, 7:30. In our family we normally sit down to a meal early. We are normally like, 5pm type family. And in the past I have thought, 3:30, 4pm, I have thought wow, I'm getting hungry. And it has sort of being can I get to 5 o'clock. But now it gets to 6:30, 7:00 and even then I have not got those feelings of hunger which I had early on. When I say early on, I mean before I started to juice fast.

So what I am finding is there are two different types of hunger. There's the emotional hunger, that you get from cravings of sweet foods, or foods that are bad for you (I say sweet foods, because that was my addiction), but then there's real hunger. And I am now recognizing that they are different. So, that guys is pretty motivating! So I hope you're getting motivated because I'm sure you're going to see similar results that I'm getting.

Just the fact that you're so much in control of what you're eating, and losing weight. In case you haven't caught up on this, I have lost weight every single one of those 23 days since I started this diet.

The most I've lost was about 1.6 kilos, which was Day 1, which was about, I think that's over 3 pounds, 3.5 pounds maybe. And the smallest amount was .1, which was virtually 1/10th of a pound or something.

Nevertheless, overall, for the entire period of time I have lost weight every day. And let's face it, if you are like me and you are overweight, you have tried many diets in the past, how many have you tried where you have lost weight every day? Now, to give you a sample of what I used to do, I would find that I would lose weight for the first two or three days. Maybe up to the first seven days. And then after that I would hit a plateau where my weight would stabilize. So I wasn't gaining or losing weight. Or worse I would start gaining a little bit. And it was so frustrating for me, trying to do without all these other types of foods, and thinking, Oh, I really want to have cake, chocolate or icecream, and thinking well, look, I'm doing without that, and I'm not losing weight?! And that was so frustrating. Because I thought, if I can do without this food, I should be able to lose weight. It just wasn't happening.

So, the fact that I have now gone 23 days, losing weight every single day, tells me just how right this is for me, how right this juice fast is. It's also got me thinking about what I'm going to do in the future. Because obviously after Day 56, I have to come off this juice fast, and go back to a "normal" type lifestyle.

Now, will I become a vegetarian? That's open for discussion now, and I wouldn't have thought that was somethign that I would even consider, just 24 days ago. Because I've always been a meat type person. "Gotta have my meats!"

But, now, I'm thinking that's a real possibility! Or, will I just go back to like, a person that has 3 meals a day, but my portions are going to be much smaller, and I'm going to be more focused on what I'm having, in terms of what I'm eating. So, it might be a bit of meat, but also vegetables, fruits and those types of things.

So, it's now coming to me, I'm now starting to think, well I've got to start planning what's going to happen in the future. And I need to be thinking of that, and not just getting to Day 56, and what am I going to do?

So that's something for you guys as well, even though you might be just starting this, and you might have a long time before you get to that, do start thinking about what your transition off the juice fast is going to be. You don't want to leave it to the last day, and then think, Oh, what am I going to do? And then get tempted by food getting eaten right in front of you. Ideally what you want to be doing is planning. And certainly what I will be doing is making sure I've got the food I want to eat in my house, the day before I'm due to go off the diet. So when I finish, I have my last juice, I have got whatever I want to go onto next, ready to go.

So I am going to talk about that more as I get closer to the end of my 56 days, what that is going to be. Because at this stage I can't tell you, because I don't know for sure. But I am certainly going to explore options with that, anyway. It will also depend on how close I am to my weight.

Hopefully by then I will have lost all the weight, and I will be down to my 80 kilogram mark, which is what my goal was, that's minus 32 kilos. If I'm not quite there I will need to know what I'm going to do, and I will know that closer towards the time.

I really want to reinforce how important it is to have a goal though. If you're just doing this juice fast, and just saying, well, I'm just going to go on it for now, I think you're going to fail. I really think you need to set yourself a time, and say, right, I'm going to do this juice fast for 56 days, and/or until I lose x pounds / kilograms. I think if you go into it with an actual plan, it's just a lot easier.

Because the way I'm tracking now, I know this is Day 24. In 4 days I am halfway through my juice fast. And that's important to me because each week I've counted it down. I've counted it down on the videos - this is Day 7, I'm one week through. This is Day 14, Day 21 and so forth. I've had a countdown, something to look forward to. So the fact that in 4 days time I'm going to be halfway through this juice fast is a good feeling. Again, because I've got that plan.

So if you are doing this, even if at the start you didn't have a plan, but definitely if you haven't started, in either case it is still not too late to start, to create that plan.

You don't have to adopt the 56 days. You might decide to start off with 2 days, or 7 days, or whatever it is. I decided to make a radical decision to go for 56 days, 8 weeks, because I felt I had to. I was at the stage of being scared what was happening with my body, scared what was going to happen to me. So I felt impelled to do it. I had reached that level where I was ready to do it.

You may not be there. You might just want to put your toes in the water, so to speak. And there's nothing wrong with that. But set yourself a goal. Even if it is 24 hours, and count down the hours, instead of the day. I think that makes a big difference, and it is something you should be doing.

Alright, I'm going to leave it there. I'll come back tomorrow with Day 25, and talk about other really exciting topics that you just won't be able stand hearing! :-) Well, I hope you like hearing it actually.

I was going to talk about lemon and lime and grapefruit, and their benefits actually. If you watched the previous video, I mentioned that. I didn't get around to that, and I hope to do that tomorrow. But hang in there, if you were wanting to know what their benefits are. Just those three things are really worthwhile that you add to your diet.

Alright, time to finish Tim. I'll leave it there.

Talk to you tomorrow,

Cheers.

You can watch a high definition version of this Juice Fast here if you wish.