

It was quite enjoyable, actually! When the body needs to heal and shed the weight off, it wants you to allow for it. I drank only fresh fruit and vegetable juice for 50 days straight and a couple of months later I did another 40 days again.ĭuring that time I lost those 40lbs and I have kept them off for the years since.Īnd it wasn’t any hard ordeal, I must add. We were ready to make a change and those documentaries gave us the support we needed to make the change. In the year or so prior to that day, Venny and I had already almost stopped eating meat and we were joking that we could easily become vegetarians but we were worried what our family and friends would think of us! To this day I cannot understand what motivated me but I think that I needed some kind of social confirmation that not eating animal foods is OK. Joe Cross’s experience truly resonated with me and in a couple of days, on the, I started living only on fresh, fruit and vegetable juices. That’s when we watched the documentary Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, Food Choices and some others. Like I did not know it! Discovering the power of plantsĪt some point Venny and I decided to watch a documentary every evening. I lost some through sheer will power but it did no last.īy 2016 I also had high total cholesterol, high LDL, I was overweight (with BMI of 29 I was practically obese!) and my physician told me I needed to do something. And show me I can be slim.įor a couple of years, that is. It was a painful experience but it helped me lose the extra weight. I had such a severe throat infection that I couldn’t eat almost at all for about a month. Until I contracted a disease called mononucleosis. You think that this is who you are and that’s it. When you are overweight for as long as you can remember, it becomes a part of your identity. I was embarrassed to go swimming with my friends and when I did, I wore a t-shirt even in the water (I said I had sun allergy). I developed a hunched posture since I thought that this way my belly wouldn’t stick out as much.

Spring became the nightmare period the year. If I did any remotely vigorous exercise, I couldn’t catch my breath. I also took strong allergy medication that made me super sleepy and unfocused, at exactly the time when all the end-term examination were happening. For a couple of years I had to receive a shot every couple of days, in an effort to desensitize me. In addition to sharing Joe's inspirational story, The Reboot with Joe Juice Diet gives readers all the tools they need to embark on their own journey to health and wellness, including inspiration and encouragement, recipes, and diet plans.What that meant was that from April till late July I had to be indoors, sneezing and coughing all day. Joe-who managed to lose one hundred pounds and discontinue all his medication by following his own plan-walks you through his life before juicing, sharing his self-defeating attitude toward food and fitness, and brings you along on his journey from obesity and disease to fitness, a clean bill of health, and the clarity of physical wellness. The Reboot with Joe Juice Diet brings us of the plan that allowed him to overcome obesity, poor health, and bad habits, and presents success stories from others whose lives he's touched. New York Times BestsellerSince his documentary, Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, was released in 2010 and became a worldwide sensation, Joe Cross has become a tireless advocate for the power of juicing. Fast Shipping - Mailed in plastic mailer! This book either has curled pages or is slightly warped. The cover may have stickers, sticker residue, or writing on it.
