Juice fasting is an excellent way to lose weight and build a healthy foundation in which you can drastically change your life style for the better. Add to that a well researched exercise routine and you are well on you way to reaching your fitness dreams.

What type of fruits and vegetables and juicer for fasting?

Because you can't buy store bought juice you will have to buy a juicer. A decent juicer starts at around $100 and goes way up from there. I personally bought Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer classic model. It works great and the only down side to it is you must clean it very well after every use and it can get quite dirty full off fruit and vegetable fibers.

Exercising and losing weight while juice fasting is the secret to success to fully jump start your body into a healthy life style change.

Most doctors recommends at least 30 minutes of cardiovascular work every week for normal healthy adults. Cardio is probably the best workout you can practice for a healthy body. Cardio increases your circulation and pumps blood throughout your entire body.

During a juice fast your body is going through a enormous healing and detoxification process. The best way to support this healing is getting blood flow throughout the body. Blood is the fuel which heals every part of your body and cardio promotes healthy blood flow even when you are not working out.

How to break a juice fast properly

Breaking a juice fasting diet can be just as challenging as staying on a juice fast. During the time you are on your fast, your intestines have not been digesting huge meals like before, so they must be casually trained how to digest whole foods again.

The benefits of having a personal health and fitness journal outweigh the time it takes to write to it every day. It's your choice weather your journal is detailed to the extreme with every calorie you eat, or very basic with just and overview of the day.

I personally chose more of a basic journal which I have posted here. The journal includes if I have been eating healthy throughout the day, what kind of exercising I've been doing, and perhaps my plans for tomorrow. Not only will this keep your mind motivated to continue your fitness goals, just imagine how much you haven't been doing since starting the journal.

Recent medical studies confirm what we already know.

Our odds of longer life with better health depends on how we treat our bodies. Picture our body as a tomato plant. If you don't water it, feed it right, and take care of it, chances are your plant will die or be very unhealthy.

So news flash we are made of kinda the same stuff, so this rule applies to us as well.

You don't need fancy medical studies to tell you what you already know, take care of your self. The problem is self control.

Unfortunately there are no guarantees you can take perfectly good care of your self and die tomorrow either by bad health or an accident of some kind, however there are odds, and as a poker player and gambler living in Las Vegas I will say this. Always play the best odds to win.