Awhile back, I did a juice fast and absolutely loved it. I probably didn’t follow all the rules, but I made a couple quarts of pure juice with my Green Star juicer and another quart of juice in my Vitamix. I lost weight, my hair started growing really fast and my nails, too. My skin cleared up… need I go on? It was awesome!

I followed the Master Cleanse “Lemonade Diet”, quite a few months ago, and that is what propelled me to to do the juice regimen. I love green drinks, but then I usually added an apple, strawberries, or some sort of fruit. I just realized from our RawFood.meetup.com/197 message board, that there is now a new Juice Feast starting March 1! And if you just look around the internet at other raw food sites, everyone is doing it! First, it was Terilynn at Daily Raw Cafe, and then, today I see that Heidi at Raw Food Right Now is doing it, too.

Then I found a site which was totally devoted to coaching people who are juice feasting. Goodness!! I never thought of getting someone to help me do a juice fast…. I never realized that there would actually be a site that offers support and encouragement for juice feasting.

Of course, if you are thinking of doing any sort of Juice Fast or Juice Feasting (it seems the difference in terms has to do with whether you are juicing your vegetables or blending them), you will need to have, at the minimum, a powerful blender. I love my Vitamix, which I’ve heard people describe it as a “blender on steroids”. It will pulverize just about anything you put into it (within reason, of course). You might also want a personal blender, so you can blend fresh anywhere (I usually blend my juice in the morning, and carry it in an insulated container, it still tastes great, and it works for me).

I do like plain old juice, so I need my Champion juicer. I love my Green Star juicer, because it does a great job juicing greens and wheatgrass, even if it does have few more parts to clean. I also love my Champion as it makes great pate, and other raw food goodies.

Juice Feasting is an highly nutrient-dense and digestive-saving way to cleanse and detoxify the body while still getting tons of the nutrients your body needs. The difference between juice fasting and Juice Feasting is that Juice Feasting is designed so the feaster will consume enough calories to supply their daily requirements.

Juice Feasting’s current hero and biggest supporter is David Rain, who holds an M.A. in Live Food Nutrition and also is research assistant to Dr. Gabriel Cousens at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona.

David and his wife Katrina have created the official website of Juice Feasting, JuiceFeasting.com, and they created it to be “a treasure-trove of exciting information, stories, music, movies, books, and files for you to learn all about personal healing with Juice Feasting.”

They have a membership site that is designed to fully support you each and every day while on your 92-day juice feasting journey. Each day you will learn new and different aspects of the raw and living foods lifestyle while also being provided with the full juice feasting information available.

And you don’t even have to sign up and pay for a membership just to learn how to juice feast, since David & Katrina still provide the most basic Juice Feasting information available for free on the JuiceFeasting.com website. Check out their site and read everything under the “Juice Feasting Intro“.

If you’re ready to do a Juice Feast, or even if you just want to read about the concept, A Juice Feaster’s Handbook is a good guide.

If you are not ready to juice feast, but you are looking to take off some weight check out RawReform: How to Go Raw for Weight Loss for some good information.

Need more weight work inspiration? Check out Raw Reform.