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OMGoodness! I've lost 11 pounds ...YES, 11 pounds! I feel awesome. My blood sugars are great, I'm sleeping better than in years, my joint aches are gone.

Janice

Not only did Janice drop 11lbs in just five days, but she also got her blood sugar levels in check. This, according to many experts, is impossible on a juice programme due to the apparent high concentration of sugars in the juice. I will cover this later in the book, but not all sugars are equal and freshly extracted juice is extremely good at balancing blood sugar, contrary to popular belief. This woman is also sleeping better, her joint aches are gone and she’s a happy camper. This has all been achieved, let’s not forget, in just five days. We need to understand that these results aren’t simply down to the juice, but rather to the unique combination of the absence of any rubbish coming into the body while at the same time it’s being flooded by nature’s finest in liquid form. As I will repeat and repeat throughout this whole book: remove the toxicity and replace the nutrient deficiencies and you give your body a genuine chance to heal.

I have tried to lose weight for almost 10 years now. All I'd read about was low fat, low carb, high protein diet approaches ... that was the supposed magic formula for weight-loss ... never worked for me. I knew the first day in this was going to work. I'm down 10lbs and will stay the course until I lose another 15. I’m 100 per cent confident it will happen. I feel great; my skin is better than ever, I sleep so well.

Margaret

Dropped 10lbs, feeling great, skin better than ever and sleeping well. I would say that one of the most common emails I get is about sleep. We should never underestimate just how much a lack of sleep can affect every aspect of our life and if you do suffer from insomnia, do the programme – it will change your world.

Feeling tired is normal, well I thought it was, until I tried the 5lb in 5 days! When people say they sleep better whilst juicing you just wouldn't believe how fantastic this really is and waking up totally invigorated with the cloud/brain fog totally lifted as if a ray of light was shining on your mind and literally on your head. Amazing. Losing 7lbs was a minor, but lovely, little extra. Plus I had my [personal best] running a 5k while on juice and significant [personal best] at that. Forgot to mention how great and clean I felt on the inside too!

Andrea

I am hoping this programme will smash many nutritional myths; none more so than the notion that we need crazy amounts of food before and after we exercise. I personally ran the New York and London Marathons on nothing but fresh juice. I also take part in the Great North Run (the largest half marathon in the world) each year and again I run this on juice. The first time I ever did my seven-day juice programme I ran a half marathon on Day 6, in my fastest time ever. On our retreats we do anything from two to five hours’ worth of exercise a day, while consuming nothing but fresh juice.

Day 6 of the 5-day plan and I am pretty stunned at the results: 11lbs lost. It's bloomin' amazing. To think I didn't want to juice before because I thought that juice was fattening. I just needed educating! I am going straight on to do the 5-2-5 plan.

Mimi

I mentioned at the start of this book that the vast majority of people drop far more than the 5lbs in five days advertised, and here is another example of that. For many it would take a couple of months to achieve the same results on a conventional ‘calorie-controlled’ diet. Not only has this programme effectively turned months into weeks, or into just five days to be accurate, but also it has inspired this lady to want to experience more of the same. I will explain what the 5-2-5 extension plan is all about later (and no, it’s not the 5/2 diet!), but what these five days do more than anything else is give you that fire inside again. You will also notice that this woman was under the same misunderstanding which many currently have: that juice is fattening. This is once again based on the misleading information put forward by many dieticians and doctors that ‘all sugars are the same and therefore juices will make you fat’. THIS IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE, as this email and thousands like it illustrate.

I have lost 5lbs and 2in off my waist and that is with only exercising 5 times. I feel lighter and cleaner on the inside. Pain from my osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia is nearly gone. Rosacea is cleared, whites of eyes are brighter and a nice natural colour to my lips … No going back.

Lynette

Osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia nearly gone and rosacea cleared in just five days. I am not suggesting for one second that this is some kind of miracle cure for all disease, or that if you have these conditions you will get the same results, but this is the type of thing that is happening all over the world as we speak. This ‘detox/diet’ is not simply about rapid healthy weight loss, but a way to give the body a chance to heal naturally.

Adult acne now GONE. Happy days! We had to travel to the USA for 5 days a week or so ago and without a juicer and staying at a hotel and hospital (for our son) the food choice was awful ... So the acne started coming back. But since being home almost a week it's gone again. Juicing is the way…

Denise

I used to be covered in psoriasis; I also had bad eczema and am more than fully aware of what it’s like to live with a skin condition. My psoriasis covered my neck and face and it’s no picnic living with that, I know. I personally managed to clear my skin by removing all the rubbish in my diet and putting in what nature intended in juice form. My skin took a while to clear as psoriasis is a bugger to shift, but here we have a case where this person’s acne went in just five days. I don’t wish to give any false hope to those with this condition, but this is pretty incredible and once again shows the healing power of the body once it’s given the chance and the right tools to work with.

Not only am I down 7.5 pounds but I feel fantastic! My mental clarity and patience has improved so much… And the BEST part is I quit smoking! I quit cold turkey when I started [juicing] … and haven't looked back since. I was so preoccupied juicing that I didn't even think about smoking.

Shannon

Another person down over 7lbs in just five days; once again illustrating the ‘condense success’ nature of this programme. Clearly the biggest side benefit this person had wasn’t the weight loss, but the fact they stopped smoking! This isn’t the first time I have heard this either; I have had many letters over the years claiming the same. If you do smoke, please don’t necessarily expect this to happen to you, but as nicotine only takes three days to leave the body and the actual withdrawal is no more powerful than that of caffeine, why not kick the cigarettes into touch for the next five days and see what happens after that?

10.5lbs down… Yeowwww! To celebrate my clearer skin, better mood and bags of energy I had a banana berry crunch! Yum. Even my hubby and work colleagues noticed a change in me; think the word glow was used!

Caroline

Clearer skin, better mood, glowing inside and out, and down over 10lbs in just five days. Not bad, methinks.

Lost 7lbs this week on the 5-day juice programme. In total, 41lbs gone since I started back [9 months ago], just a pound off 3 stone. Dropped 3 dress sizes, skin looks amazing, and it’s so great to be a size 12 again…

Joeli

Later in the book I will strip away all of the usual false arguments against juice diets, one of which is that once you finish the diet you will simply gain all the weight again. Many medical professionals claim it is not a sustainable way to long-term weight loss. This email is just one of thousands I have that says otherwise.

Well I feel like I've accomplished a lot this week: I lost 11lbs in 5 days! A lot of people said I'd didn't have it to lose when I mentioned that I was doing it, but obviously I did! (I am 6ft and reasonably slim). I did the 7 in 7 in January and lost 9lbs, but I exceeded that this week! I teach Pilates over 45 hrs week and have inspired a lot of my clients to try juicing! I love that juicing keeps me focusing on what I put in my body.

Christina

This lady did the 7lbs programme in January and dropped 9lbs in seven days; this time she lost a massive 11lbs in just five days. This is why I developed this programme. By removing one juice a day and adding in my SAB training (coming later) she condensed success and managed better results in fewer days, plus she got his weekend back!

I weighed myself last Tuesday night and was 19st 11lb (277lbs). This morning, 18st 5lbs. Yep 1st 5lb. (19lbs). WOW. That took me 6 weeks on my last diet! I cannot believe in 4lbs time I will be the lightest I have been in about 15/16 years.

Greg

This man dropped 19lbs on the seven-day juice programme. I wanted to add his story to this book to illustrate a very important point. Clearly this man didn’t lose 19lbs of fat, but he is 19lbs lighter than he was a week ago. All the body is ever looking to do is heal. By removing the junk coming in and replacing it with only the pure ‘live’ nutrient-filled juice contained within nature’s fruits and vegetables, the body can go into healing mode. This man was 277lbs; his body was not designed to be that weight, and was always looking for an opportunity to ‘detoxify’ itself. This is why in such a short period of time he had such dramatic weight loss. The body was finally given a chance to let go of unwanted crap, and did just that.

The weight loss was clearly not all fat, but it wasn’t muscle either; it was the body doing whatever it can to remove the ‘danger’ to its very survival. When all the junk coming in was removed, the liver, kidneys, lungs and bowel could finally get to work and do what they are always looking to do; remove the rubbish and heal the body. The removal of junk leaves the organs open to do their job and the juices can get on with helping the healing process by providing key nutrients. It also took this man over six weeks to achieve the same level of weight loss last time. As I mentioned at the beginning, I’m all about ‘condensed success’ and turning months into weeks – this is exactly what happened here.

My first experience of a juice detox and I am totally hooked; I lost ten pounds and feel fantastic, calmer, no more sugar cravings, am craving healthier foods, slept better, more energy and can’t wait for my next juice … It has transformed my life. Thank you so much.

Rebecca

This email represents thousands of similar ones with the same message. It is not simply about the initial weight loss (although 10lbs is not to be sneezed at!) but how your cravings change at the end. ‘...No more sugar cravings, am craving healthier foods...’ – isn’t that the Holy Grail? Isn’t that what we ultimately want, to change our cravings for junk into actually wanting healthy food? I get this more than anything else, and what you think you will be craving at the end of the juice detox is not what you actually crave. This lady also reported she felt fantastic, had more energy and was sleeping better.

I feel alive! Shadows under my eyes are gone, athletes’ foot clearing up, more energy and a clear head. Just come back from my first gym session in 6 years. I’ve lost about 7lb and my body fat has gone done to 22 per cent.

Hannah

This is also extremely common: dark circles or shadows under the eyes disappearing. Dark circles under the eyes can be a sign of tiredness, lack of sleep, fatigue, stress or lack of fresh air. On the other hand, it can also indicate a more serious illness, and is connected with heart, kidneys, thyroid gland or meta-bolic illnesses. But for this juicer, the shadows under her eyes are completely gone – how come? Because, as I will constantly repeat, the body just wants to heal! Please also notice that her athletes’ foot is also clearing up. The reason I wanted to point this out is because many people think juice feeds yeast and therefore should be avoided by anyone with Candida or conditions like athletes’ foot. This is not the case with the freshly extracted fruit and vegetable juices in this programme.

Day 8 and I am so chuffed as have lost 11lbs and 2in from my waist and hips! The weight loss is great but I am so, so very pleased that my health has improved. Not so much chest pain because of the angina, my BP is normal and stable, my GFR count is rising, I am breathing better and easier, my joints are not so swollen, and I am not suffering as much with the fibromyalgia...

Lynne

Where do we start? Tremendous weight loss, improved angina, blood pressure normal, GFR rate up (that’s Glomerular filtration rate, which is the best estimate of kidney function), she’s breathing better (the freshly extracted apple juice is wonderful for that), joints not as swollen and not suffering as much with her fibromyalgia. Once again so many apparent ‘different’ ailments improving all at the same time, One disease – one solution!

I didn’t do this for weight loss as was only 8st 4lb. Although I have lost 3lb the most important thing is that before doing this I hadn’t been able to kneel down for over a year as my knees were swollen with arthritis! Seven days on nutrient-filled juice and the swelling has gone and I can now kneel down. Woo hoo, over a year of pain and swelling GONE!

Emma

This woman wasn’t able to kneel down for over a year as her knees were swollen with arthritis and in one week on the juice the swelling has gone and she can kneel. Remove the rubbish, replace the nutrients and you change the internal environment so the body can heal ... naturally.

I’ve cleared up my eczema on my hands to the point where I no longer feel the need to have long sleeves. We both have more energy, life seems clearer, I’m calmer, sleep better, happier, more confident, the list goes on ... in terms of weight loss ... I lost 9 pound and hubby lost 10 pound.

Donna

I am more than aware of what it feels like not to wear short sleeves and always having to cover up due to a skin problem. To clear it to the point where this lady feels she can now be free to wear what she wants in just one week is truly spectacular. I am not suggesting this would happen to everyone with eczema, but it did for her. Not only did her skin improve, both her and her husband reported having more energy and feeling that life seems clearer; they’re calmer, sleep better and feel more confident. This is all within a week!

9lbs lost, 6 inches down, and body fat lowered by 3 per cent on day 8! Sleeping great, skin feels better ... I couldn’t achieve this in a year, so to do it in a week is amazing!

Melissa

That’s 3 per cent reduction in body fat, which is quite remarkable in a week, and flies in the face of what many believe is possible. Over the years I have received hundreds of emails reporting similar or better fat percentage reductions; one person even said they had stripped their body fat by 5 per cent ... in a week.

Well 9.9lbs for me and 8.8lbs for Marc! Woweeeee. What’s more, my depression has lifted! I have been depressed for nearly four years, but it has left the building! I’m sleeping better, my hubby doesn’t snore anymore! We are converted! I’ve got my life back.

Siobhan

You cannot heal selectively, which is why everything seems to get better on both a physical and mental level. I think the nutrients found in good quality fruits and vegetables are the key to giving the brain, as well as the body, what it ultimately needs for optimum health.

Wow, the end of an incredible week. Can’t wait for my juice tomorrow morning :-) Skin feels great, lost inches all over, hair soft, asthma better, IBS gone!

Clare

Skin great, lost inches, hair soft, asthma better and IBS gone; ‘one disease – one solution’ in action once again.

Are you starting to notice a pattern here? Are you starting to see that the health possibilities go way beyond dropping a few pounds? I wish to make this clear to those sceptics (as there are many out there) – I haven’t received a dozen or two of these testimonials. I’ve received tens of thousands of them, all reporting incredible positive health changes in exceptionally short periods of time. There are simply too many to be dismissed as just anecdotal evidence.

What became very clear to me early on when the letters and emails started flooding in was just how many apparent ‘different’ ailments and diseases improved at the same time. The medical profession’s focus tends to be on ‘a pill for every ill’ philosophy and they try to treat each ailment or disease separately with different pills. What appears to be obvious to me now, is that when you remove all of the rubbish coming in and flood the body with the right nutrients to address any vitamin, mineral or other nutrient deficiencies, everything has a chance to heal. I didn’t take a specific juice to treat my asthma, eczema, hay fever, psoriasis or obesity; I simply removed all of the rubbish coming in and flooded my body with the finest nutrients in the most bio-available form – fresh juice.

I also wish to point out at this stage that I am all for intelligent, and often much needed, short-term, and at rare times, long-term medical intervention. I also don’t believe that every single disease will be cured or made better by a fresh juice. However, the vast majority of common lifestyle diseases, the ones we are popping pills like they are going out of fashion for, do indeed get better when you treat with fresh natural juices.

This ‘one disease – one solution’ hypothesis is not simply based on my own experience. It is based on the tens of thousands of testimonials I’ve had over the years and from what I have personally seen at my retreats for years. I am convinced that if you remove all the rubbish coming into the body and address all of the nutritional deficiencies, the vast majority of lifestyle diseases will either improve dramatically or go away completely. This is an intelligent hunch based on 15 years’ worth of research.

I put this ‘hunch’ to the test in my Super Juice Me! documentary: a group of people with over 22 apparent diseases living on nothing but juice for 28 days. Trust me, it makes interesting viewing – and the results will blow your mind! I am hoping in time it will start to affect the way the medical profession approach healing and disease.

I think this is still a long way off, unfortunately. But, the more people start shouting from the rooftops about how great they feel after getting rid of all the rubbish going into their body, while flooding their system with the finest plant nutrients through fresh juice, the more they will have to sit up and take notice.

Luckily, it is not lost on all in the medical profession and things are starting to change. More and more are understanding that nature’s finest nutrient-packed liquid fuel contains something often way beyond any human or scientific understanding. More and more people in the medical profession are no longer relying on the ‘evidence’ produced by the pharmaceutical reps, who bombard them with the latest drug that can cure obesity as well as just about every common ailment. They are using common sense and starting to believe in the power of plant-based foods and the body’s ability to naturally heal itself. I am not anti-doctor; a doctor has even written the foreword for this book, but I am anti certain doctors and certain dieticians who, despite what thousands are reporting, still close their minds to any plant-based ‘food as medicine’ approach to healing. The good news is though, it’s not all doctors and the message is slowly filtering through:

Hi Jason,

I'm a GP, for my sins, and have been following your programmes for the last 2 months, prompted by a serious illness in January that left me unable to eat anything except juices and smoothies. I've lost over 2 stone (28lbs) in that time and am now telling patients about it. It's working for me whereas in the past other diets (rather than changes in lifestyle, as this is) have not … I think this is something that is realistic and that people can do. I've never eaten as much fruit and vegin my life, and am enjoying it and also am full on it. My type 1 diabetes control is improving…

On a professional note, people far prefer to take a tablet (which is easy) than do something hard like totally change their lifestyle. I will continue to advocate you to patients and colleagues – I know I'm only one GP amongst thousands but every little helps I guess.

Kate

And yes, every little does help, as people tend to listen to what a doctor has to say on the subject of nutrition. You may feel that’s an intelligent thing to do, but it’s worth knowing that the average doctor in the UK spends just three to six hours of their six years of training studying nutrition. No, I am not kidding.

The good news is you don’t need to spend years studying the fundamentals of nutrition in order to know what to do to have a slim, trim, energy-driven, ailment-free body. I have been studying health and nutrition for over 15 years and I have realized one thing more than any other: the more I study the less I know. What I mean is, we have so overcomplicated the issue of health and disease we have missed the simplicity of it. We have missed just how stupidly straightforward the answer to health can be. Do you remember when you were a kid and fell and cut your knee, what was the advice? ‘Leave it alone and it will heal itself.’ And that is all we need to do – give the body the right environment to be in a position to heal itself.