Is anyone juicing. How do you enter home made juices.

[Able]

I'm making my own juices for Breakfast and sometimes otehr meals, as in the movie,

"Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead."

Is anyone else here juicing?

[CarolS]

When I make my kale smoothie, I weigh each ingredient and list it separately.  If you mark that ingredient as a favorite, it is easier to find.  Here's an example of what I made recently:  Kale, raw - 82 grams, apple, Fuji - 67 grams, banana, raw - 115 grams.  I keep a litle notebook in my kitchen and I write down each ingredient as I weigh it and then enter the numbers later in my food database.

Hmmm, I just thought, though, that if you're jucing with an extractor type juicer, you'll have some pulp left over, so I'd like to hear what others say about how you account for that in your calorie count.

[Able]

Thank you for your response and help, you seem very didicated.  

I am using a Breville Juice which uses the centrifugal method of expracting juice, and there is virtually no plup in the drink.  Weighing and entering each each ingredient  would be very accurate, but I do not have that much discipline.  Did you find it helped you acheive better results.  I am after weight loss.

I usually make 12 - 16 oz, and if I'm not using kale it would be spinich instead, or if no celery, then I use cucumber or bok choy.  I vary almost every juice but suspect calorie count per oz is very similar.  I just don't know what number to use.  I am trying to log all food I eat at meals, but seem to always miss something or away from computer and unable to enter.

[spb]

I was also inspired by the "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead" movie.  I just purchased a Breville juicer and plan to start using this week.  Have you found any recipes you like?

[sharebear]

I don't have a juicer but for almost every morning for about a year now I have been making a green smoothie.

This is how I get my veggies in, mostly...I have a weird "thing" where eating veggies makes me nauseous, I think it's something to do with the texture. So it's important to have a "smooth" smoothie. If you make them a lot you might know kale is very rough, and spinach is very smooth.

Anyway, my favorite go to is this:

*8 oz of low calorie Orange Juice (Trop50 for example, or Kroger even has a 40 cal version), plus a little water if it comes out too thick and won't blend well

*2 cups (about two handfuls, I'm not very precise) of either spinach or kale, or one cup each

*1 banana (frozen optional but makes it thicker)

*1 cup frozen fruit (I use a a mix I get at walmart with peaches, strawberries, and mango, but it doesn't really matter, and you can mix and match to your personal taste)

*(Optional) 1 serving of either tomatoes, carrots, or mushrooms (to get extra veggies in, for me)

*(Optional) 1/2 scoop of vanilla protein powder (this makes a good mixture of protein to carbs to work as a recovery drink)

I throw all ingredients in a blender in the order listed. It's very green, doesn't always look appetizing but I think it is very good. You can then experiment if you don't like the OJ (though IMO OJ & spinach go well together; I have heard you should have vitC with raw spinach), with other low calorie juices. I've tried 15 cal lemonade and fruit punch though I'm not personally a fan. If you're brave you can just use water but kale has a pretty strong taste so I don't like it that way!

[sruthp]

Juicing isn't as healthy as a smoothie because when you juice you take out the fiber. I lost 7 pounds the first week I started making smoothies. 

[Bladez]

I juice with Blend Tech,  Many spinich and grape, and pineapple and Bannana smoothers

[ChatteringLass]

I agree that, unfortunately, you need to total your ingredients in order to do a calorie count on homemade foods - a challenge since I make a lot of my own food, but the favorites or custom food options seem like they'll work. 

Gotta share my Green Monster Smoothie recipe as I think its *amazing*.  May start adding protien powder - great suggestion.  My suggestion: steam your kale for just about 2 minutes to soften it, then add to your smoothie. Makes the kale a lot less course.

Blend:
1 green apple
about 2 - 3" of english cucumber, skin on
4 frozen strawberries (very low sugar)
1 tsp to 1 tbsp fresh ginger (to taste)
2 cups greens (kale, spinach, chard, etc.)
1/4 - 1/2 cup orange juice
water and ice as needed to liquify

Blend the heck out of it!

[StefK]

@ sruthp: "Juicing isn't as healthy as a smoothie because when you juice you take out the fiber. I lost 7 pounds the first week I started making smoothies." 

It depends on what you are after: juice is much eaiser and faster digestible and therefore you give your body a rest so that it can concentrate on maintenance instead of digesting. There are huge benefits in fasting. So I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. Yes you need the fibre, but it would be enough to drink one smoothie a day and the rest of the day juice. This should result in a much greater weightloss than drinking smothies all day.

But then...there are a thousand ways to loose weight, it is important to find one that is sustainable. I personally drink 1/2 liter of homemade juice every second day, but then I fast two days a week. (5:2 Fasting)

Stef.

[Able]

I can honestly say, there are very few recipies i dont like.  I always vary it somewhat but all recipies are very much alike.  Carrot based juices are my favorite, with celery and/or bok choy and/or cucumber.  I add an apple or 2 for sweetness and I'm done.  Another favorite ingrediant involves usinf beets.  I pick a bunch that has 4 small bets with stems and leaves.  Its good for 4 juices.  Jucie the beetm stem and leaves, then add your other ingrediants.  just remember, beets are very sweet, so if you use an apple, choose a green tart one rather than at sweet one.  Beets go well this green juice, kale, spinich, swiss chard, etc.  You can also experiment with citrus fruit, and tomatos.  Frankly, I use whatever is on hand.  Lastly, I read where watermelon rinds are good to juice, but I never tried it. If its good, its a breat way to get extra juice from the rind.  Its almost always just thrown away.  I curious if anyone uses watermelon rind for juicing?

[tturbo]

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@Able wrote:

Thank you for your response and help, you seem very didicated.  

I am using a Breville Juice which uses the centrifugal method of expracting juice, and there is virtually no plup in the drink.  Weighing and entering each each ingredient  would be very accurate, but I do not have that much discipline.  Did you find it helped you acheive better results.  I am after weight loss.

I usually make 12 - 16 oz, and if I'm not using kale it would be spinich instead, or if no celery, then I use cucumber or bok choy.  I vary almost every juice but suspect calorie count per oz is very similar.  I just don't know what number to use.  I am trying to log all food I eat at meals, but seem to always miss something or away from computer and unable to enter.

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I just bought a Breville Juice Fountain Crush. I'm hoping that since it grinds the food it is the best of both a smoothie and a centrifical juicer. I'm not a food scientist but I hope that only removing the fibre (which as mentioned in another reply) gives the gut a rest when you fast once or twice a week, will be good. For this first week only I will be weighing each item for my own benchmark, then after that it'll be "handfuls" of this and that. Good luck with your weight loss with this!

[sim_smax]

I am doing juicing for breakfast and smoothies for lunch.  For counting my juice calories I am using mynetdiary.  I just use the app to add my carrot, apple, and orange juices, which form the base for most recipies.  Vegetable juices for kale, cucumber and celery are a bit harder, but they have so few calories as a whole that I just enter them in as is.  I think the fruit juices are most important because of the amount of natural sugars they have.  Aside from carrot,  most vegetable juices have very few calories so I don't really worry about them.  That being said, it would be great to find a formal source of information that details the various calorie counts for different vegitable juices. 

[SunsetRunner]

I have a juice every morning! I use My Fitness Pal to create the "recipes" and then link the apps so when you enter anything from MFP its recorded on Fitbit.

[tturbo]

Unless the produce's juice has been verified in a nutritional analysis it's all a guess anyway. Even with  MyFitnessPal you don't really know if the food info has truly been verified. I wonder if anyone publishes the true analysis of juice - OTOH does it really matter as long as you check it with raw veggies to make sure they are close enough.

[darkangel07760]

can you show me an example of your recipies? i use myfitnesspal too 🙂

[KateMF]

Hi,

I've jusy come across this website for finding nutritional information for juices:

http://juicerecipes.com/build/

Just giving it a go now....

[Pugz]

Able - I started juicing after watching the same movie.  I bought the same Brevell juicer over two years ago and still use it.  Since then I purchased the NutriBullet and most recently the NutriBullet 900 so that I could take the original one to work and have green smoothies at work.  I love juicing!

[au4all]

You can google: juicing weight loss hoax

Then you can learn more about this. But it makes no sense to buy a labor-saving device to take the best part out of fruits and vegetables.

It's always been to learn about nutrition from peer-reviewed scientific articles, rather than from movies.

[nochem66]

That is a very strong statement to make when you don't know what the rest of the persons diet consists of. Both juicing and smoothies can be very heathy or very unhealthy. For instance, the fiber issue; If you are juicing for vitamins and nutrients then it is not a meal replacement. It is a sublingual form of these vitamins and nutrients, which means they hit your bloodstream faster than having to process and digest them in a smoothie. When you eat your meals is when you get your fiber. Please be careful what you say to people without doing a great deal of research. There are many ways to eat a healthy diet.

[au4all]

I don't think it really depends on your diet. To tell some overweight people that they should be drinking high-calorie sweet liquids is border-line criminal and totally misleading.

If you're trying to lose weight it's about learning new healthful habits.

How come they're no movies saying eat lean protein, fiber, and vegetables?

Do you really believe that they're lots of people who've recently lost lots of weight, and kept it off, who attribute their sucess to ready-access to high calorie beverages?

I guess the movie appeals to people who can't be bothered to chew an orange.