Stuff-your-face season is already here, and if you feel like you need a break from it all, this juice plan will definitely help your body overcome the food coma.
What it is
The popular 5:2 diet sounds like both a blessing and a curse – you’re meant to fast for 2 days intermittently during the week, but the rest of the days you can eat whatever you want.
‘Juice Master’ Jason Vale thinks that’s the wrong way to go about it. According to him, the diet should really be all about “optimum nutrition”.
“I’m a firm believer that nothing comes close to the rapid nutrition, your absorption rate of freshly extracted fruit and vegetable juices,” he says, explaining his version of the 5:2 diet.
How it works
Right, so instead of binge eating 5 days of the week, what are we supposed to do?
Instead of “fasting”, Jason recommends having four juices each day for two days. Each juice recipe he’s worked out comes to roughly 150 calories a day, amounting to just 600 calories a day.
On three of the other days, it helps to have a juice for breakfast. According to Jason, the average person can drop up to 14lbs in 28 days doing this diet.
Recipe ideas
Sounds like a plan we can get behind! If you’ve already got a juicer or a juice extractor, you’re ready to go. Here are a few recipes from Jason’s YouTube channel to get you started:
Watermelon, Pear, Cucumber and Mint Cooler
½ cucumber
Approximately 1/8 watermelon
1 pear
A small handful of fresh mint
Ice
Minty Kiwi Refresher
1 kiwifruit
2 apples
1 pear
A handful of spinach leaves
A small handful of fresh mint
½ cucumber
Ice
Pearfection
1 Apple
2 Pears
1 Parsnip
½ Lime
4 sprigs fresh mint
¼ cucumber
Ice
Ruby Tuesday
¼ medium pineapple
2 medium carrots
1 small bulb raw beetroot
1-2cm chunk root ginger
1 small handful ice cubes
Find more recipes here.
By Kate Ng