The Juice Cleanse Diet

The Juice Cleanse diet is a fad diet. It requires people to drink a certain amount of juice and prohibits people from eating food. There are a lot of dangers involved with this fad diet. Before you begin a new diet, it is a good idea to speak with your doctor about it. What is the Juice Cleanse Diet? The Juice Cleanse diet has gone by different names over the years including: Cleanse, Master Cleanse, Detox, and the “Maple Syrup Diet” (made popular when Beyonce did it years ago). The Hollywood 48 hour miracle diet is a Juice Cleanse diet. … Continue reading

Summary of the Hollywood 48 Hour Miracle Diet (Part 3 of a series of 3)

Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Two days and a great deal of stomach rumbling later, I can tell you this juice fast really isn’t my bag, baby! I’ve lost five pounds (and no bodyfat) in 48 hours, but when you’re my size, that really isn’t dramatic weight loss. When you consider that no bodyfat was lost in the completion of this diet, you really need to consider what was: lean body mass (aka muscle) and water. Mind you, muscle is what gives us a good shape and makes us look thin. Consider a 100 pound woman with 50% bodyfat … Continue reading

24 Hours into the Hollywood 48-Hour Miracle Diet (Part 2 of a series of 3)

OK, here I am with 24 hours left to my Hollywood 48 Hour Miracle Diet. In my first hour on the diet I had a headache. I think that was from all of the natural sugars in the juice. I got over it. Eight hours into it and I was hungry. (I generally follow the Zone Diet and eat every 3 hours so when I say hungry, I’m talking visions of bacon double cheeseburgers!) Nine hours into it and I could tell my blood sugar was low because I was tired and cold in a room where the temperature was … Continue reading

Hollywood 48-Hour Miracle Diet (Part 1 of a series of 3)

I know you’ve seen this. Walk down any drugstore diet aisle and you’ll see a trim shapely starlet looking back at you from the bottle of juice that calls itself the Hollywood 48 Hour Miracle Diet. I’ve seen it so many times and wondered if it actually worked or if it was just a bunch of hooey. Some of you may have wondered the same thing, so I’ve decided to take one for the team, so to speak, and give this product a try. According to their website: “The Hollywood 48 Hour Miracle Diet is a special “Miracle Juice” that … Continue reading