Has anyone else dealt with this?
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Megan Peterson87 said:I said I drink 100% orange and blood orange juice. No added sugar.
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Apparently, those Voodoo Doughnut ones aren't half bad.
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Apparently, those Voodoo Doughnut ones aren't half bad.
Has anyone else dealt with this?
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Megan Peterson87 said:It’s better to drink any kind of juice than nothing at all. Personally, I love Tropicana orange and red grapefruit.👍
Not really, though. If you actually bother to read the label, most of those juices are basically 5% fruit—the leftover scraps that were too bruised or rotten to even hit the shelves—mixed with emulsifiers, artificial colors, fake flavors, and a whole lot of other chemical nonsense.
Do you honestly think anyone is out there squeezing fresh mangoes to make mango, papaya, or kiwi blends?
Plus, they're loaded with sugar or artificial sweeteners, so it’s ACTUALLY better to just stick to plain old H2O from the tap than to touch those drinks.
Just my two cents.
I'll dive into how they even define "peach flavor" in something like Lipton Ice Tea in the next post. 😉
Has anyone else dealt with this?
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gentlecanyon92 said:Seriously Dana Allen3, you don't start caring about your health until it's already gone.😢
Don't wait around—just start small, maybe by actually eating some fruit...
Check the post above 👍
Yeah, that’s basically what I was getting at, I just couldn't wrap it up concisely. 👍
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Hey,
Look, speaking from experience, you can't keep living like this forever (and expect to stay even remotely healthy).
Sooner or later, you’ve got to learn how to actually take care of yourself—meaning cooking for yourself and watching what you eat. Once your health hits the wall, and the symptoms get loud enough for you to actually notice, it’s usually way too late to just "lifestyle change" your way back to normal.
Our bodies need a steady supply of everything on a daily or weekly basis—proteins, carbs, vitamins, minerals, sodium, magnesium, potassium, pH balance, all that good stuff, even trace elements and metals. It all needs to be balanced.
If you want to start feeling better immediately, focus on vegetables. If you don't have time to cook a full meal, at least make a veggie broth using big chunks of produce (so you don't boil away all the nutrients). If you're truly running on empty, grab some grapefruit and toss it in a blender (most people have one sitting in a cabinet gathering dust 😁 ) and just drink the juice.
That was a total lifesaver for me. I felt an instant boost, and after a month, my appetite for fruit just came back out of nowhere. I started having grapefruit juice and a few oranges every morning, and things just kept looking up.
Your body starts craving what it needs, and suddenly you'll actually want cooked veggies, milk, grains, etc.
But man, that feeling of burning the candle at both ends, working yourself to death while living on nothing but sandwiches and feeling totally wiped... I hope you never have to go through that again!
So yeah, start with some basic veggie juice.
Take it easy (sorry for the long rant) 👋
Look, speaking from experience, you can't keep living like this forever (and expect to stay even remotely healthy).
Sooner or later, you’ve got to learn how to actually take care of yourself—meaning cooking for yourself and watching what you eat. Once your health hits the wall, and the symptoms get loud enough for you to actually notice, it’s usually way too late to just "lifestyle change" your way back to normal.
Our bodies need a steady supply of everything on a daily or weekly basis—proteins, carbs, vitamins, minerals, sodium, magnesium, potassium, pH balance, all that good stuff, even trace elements and metals. It all needs to be balanced.
If you want to start feeling better immediately, focus on vegetables. If you don't have time to cook a full meal, at least make a veggie broth using big chunks of produce (so you don't boil away all the nutrients). If you're truly running on empty, grab some grapefruit and toss it in a blender (most people have one sitting in a cabinet gathering dust 😁 ) and just drink the juice.
That was a total lifesaver for me. I felt an instant boost, and after a month, my appetite for fruit just came back out of nowhere. I started having grapefruit juice and a few oranges every morning, and things just kept looking up.
Your body starts craving what it needs, and suddenly you'll actually want cooked veggies, milk, grains, etc.
But man, that feeling of burning the candle at both ends, working yourself to death while living on nothing but sandwiches and feeling totally wiped... I hope you never have to go through that again!
So yeah, start with some basic veggie juice.
Take it easy (sorry for the long rant) 👋