Karen Thurman Wellness

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It’s all about doing things you’ll be able to keep up over time.

Last year I was slated for 13 minutes in a YouTube video made by a well known ‘master of juicing’, criticising my views on his juice diet.
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His main criticism of me was that I hadn’t read his books - But I didn’t need to. Because the master of juicing’s rationale for advocating sole consumption of juice for days and weeks at a time was “to give the body a chance to do what it naturally wants to do”. Despite not being a doctor, I recognize this statement as pseudoscience enforced bullsh*t.
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No doubt many people have had ‘success’ on a juice diet - though their interpretation of success is likely warped. The master of juicing rebuffed by questioning of the necessity and sustainability of his methods, ensuring me in his video that sustainability is something ‘he covers in his book.’ This was apparently exemplified by some case studies of people who had lost weight over a few months (after the initial juice only phase of his programme). He said that the sole consumption of juice for days/weeks was “the kickstart needed to go on and lose weight for good...”
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My response to this is; the majority of the weight that these ‘success stories’ lost was in the period AFTER the ‘juice only’ phase. Subsequently, individuals simply returned to consuming food whilst being in a calorie deficit - the latter being the critical pathway to sustainable weight loss.
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Furthermore, using a juice diet may ingrain unhealthy relationships with required protocols for weights loss and consumption of nutrient dense ingredients.
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Therefore, it makes perfect sense to skip a ‘juicing kickstart’, instead eating food in a calorie deficit from the beginning of the fat loss journey. Satisfying our primal necessity to digest food, learn and above all, not donate our money to celebrity paying charlatans.
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To conclude, there are no known benefits to juicing that haven’t derived from the pseudoscientific business meeting between a charlatan and a business agent. 🙂
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I manage my hunger by making sure I get a good mix of healthy, lean proteins, fats and carbs. Nuts make a great snack, filling and full of goodness.

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A little boy was playing outdoors and found a caterpillar. He picked it up and took it home. The little boy got a large jar from his mother and put plants to eat, and a stick to climb on, in the jar. Every day he watched the caterpillar and brought it new plants to eat.

One day the caterpillar climbed up the stick and started acting strangely. The boy called his mother who understood that the caterpillar was creating a cocoon. The mother explained to the boy how the caterpillar was going to go through a metamorphosis and become a butterfly.

The little boy was thrilled. He watched every day, waiting for the butterfly to emerge. One day a small hole appeared in the cocoon and the butterfly started to struggle to come out. At first the boy was excited, but soon he became concerned. The butterfly was struggling so hard to get out! It looked like it couldn't break free!

The boy decided to help. He got scissors and snipped the cocoon to make the hole bigger and the butterfly quickly emerged! As the butterfly, it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly expecting that the wings would dry out, enlarge and expand to support the swollen body. They never did.

What the boy in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If nature allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we are.

Our gorgeous, loving, naughty, adorable boys need a lot of exercise every morning so I get in at least half of my day’s steps before 8am. Every little bit counts. steps

Early morning mayo making session for hubby’s lunch sandwich. Egg yolks, mustard, oil, vinegar, lemon and a pinch of salt. That’s it! I don’t have good or bad foods, just ones I’ll eat more or less of.