When you\’re trying to lose weight, you have to realize that crash diets or fasting or starving yourself don\’t work. They may be all right to lose a few quick pounds to fit into those clothes for your high school reunion or special occasion, but the pounds will come right back, plus they are not a healthy course of action to follow for your body as they will cause you to lose muscle mass rather than fatty tissue.

You need to proceed with a program that will provide the nutrients your body needs plus help curb your appetite. Vegetable juices can do just that. They act as appetite suppressors while providing vitamins, trace minerals and micro nutrients to your body, plus the sugar they contain is lower than in fruit juices, though this fructose is a natural low calorie sugar anyway, whether it comes from fruits or vegetables.

The key is drinking the freshly made juice about one half hour before the main meals so it can act as an appetite suppressant. Usually this will be lunch and the evening meal. For breakfast a juice can be taken as well in place of the meal, but to be assured of receiving adequate nutrition, you may want to stir in a low calorie, low sugar powdered protein shake or breakfast concentrate to the juice. This juice can also contain more fruits than vegetables or all fruits if you prefer.

Here are some breakfast juice ideas with which you can experiment.

Use equal parts of a cantaloupe, a watermelon, and a honeydew (usually cut up into a bowl or cup as a measurement), season with a couple of drops of real vanilla extract. You can add the protein mix to this or even stir in a spoon or two of instant oatmeal.

Or try two oranges, one small grapefruit and about six strawberries.

Another one uses one apple and one papaya.

Or use three oranges and half a pineapple (about two and half cups).

Raspberries and blueberries also make a nice addition to the juice as do bananas but the bananas don\’t yield much in the way of juice so make sure your juicer can handle them. It\’s best to push a more solid fruit or vegetable through after the banana such as an apple or if you\’re mixing in vegetables as well, carrots work great and they impart a sweet taste to the drink as well.

Speaking of carrots, juicing two carrots, two apples, two celery stalks and half a lemon also works as both a morning meal or as main meal appetite suppressors.

Here are some other low calorie drinks to try to help curb the hungry before lunch and dinner or just in between.

One small cucumber, one celery stalk, one small beet, four carrots and one apple, flavor with vanilla or ginger.

Six carrots, one medium beet, one small bunch of spinach.

Two apples, two carrots, one small sweet potato.

Two tomatoes and six carrots.

Two stalks of celery, one cucumber, two broccoli crowns and an apple.

However you do it, if this is the first time with juices, take it slowly until your body adjusts to the liquid nourishment.

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