Raw Foods and Juicing

**CryloZeus** · 02.07.2012

Hey folks, I just finished watching a documentary on Netflix called "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead". An Australian guy had some terrible disease and he was eating all kinds of crap food. He decided to do a juice cleanse and ended up losing tons of weight. He then met a trucker who had the same problems he had and he put the trucker on a juice cleanse. He also started shedding the pounds. He would take fresh, organic vegetables and juice them and drink that juice all day long, every day for approx 30 days. No solid food. Just juicing and exercise.
I'm a company driver and wanted to ask y'all out there if anyone knows of a good, solid OTR company or otherwise that have APUs for close to 2500 watts. I have a Vita-mix blender which sucks close to 1600 watts and my juicer I think is slightly less.
There are videos on YouTube by a guy named Dan MacDonald aka "theliferegenerator" who enthusiastically endorses juicing and exercise. A real inspiration, he also found this guy named Dave aka "Dave The Raw Food Trucker" who was in pretty bad shape when he first found him. Through juicing, he nursed this guy back to health and he now spreads the word about raw, organic foods and how to get back into shape.
Is there anyone out there with experience juicing or you know of anyone who juices?

P.S. I am also acutely aware that only juicing is only the half of it, the other half is exercise routines and consistency.

Thanks for your input folks.

-CZ

**RAGE 18** · 02.07.2012

I try to eat fruits n salads as much as possible in my truck but I miss my flatbed thats where my real workout was.

**Lady K** · 02.07.2012

From what I can gather most companies don't provide APU's - if you lease, then it would be up to the driver - we least and have a large inverter - it was out of our pocket, but well worth it.

**TaserTot** · 02.07.2012

I watched that movie too. I tried juicing and lasted about a week. It's alot harder than it looks. It works really quickly though if you can do it. I don't see how you would do it in a truck unless you bought the juice. You could maybe use the stuff that comes in a bottle that's in the veggie section of the grocery store. It's expensive though.

**SMBdriver** · 02.07.2012

This must be the new health thing. My sister just got a juicer and posts on facebook every morning the things she blends up for breakfast. It's probably great for you, but dang it, I want coffee when I wake up, not zucchini and bananas!

**TheHealthyDriver** · 02.07.2012

Juicing is great, when used for short periods of time. If all you're doing is juicing, and nothing else, your body is going to be deficient in many necessary nutrients. Better to eat a paleo style diet, than to juice, and only juice.

**Lady K** · 02.07.2012

Another thing about juicing... it goes right through the stomach... no need for it to stay there to get to the right consistancy, so then no prolonged feeling of fullness. REALLY easy to over do on calories if you drink them...

Suggestion - take those fruits/veggies you were going to 'juice' and eat them - more satifying