The FIPS Fad Diet/Exercise Challenge: Week 3 - Juice Cleansing

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It seems like every time I turn around, someone I know is on another fad diet or exercise routine. From the Master Cleanse to the Caveman Diet to P-90X to Cross-Fit, it’s hard to know what works and what’s total crap. So for the next four weeks, I’ve decided to try some of these for myself. I’ll tackle a different diet/exercise routine each week, and then report the results back to you the following week.

Note: I’m not a dietitian, nor am I a fitness guru. So I make no claims here that I’m doing anything properly. I’m guessing a lot of you out there might approach this sort of thing like I do: overhear someone talk about it, do some Internet research, give it a try for yourself. For those who follow that pattern, maybe you can learn from my mistakes. For those who don’t follow that pattern, maybe you can educate us in the comments section.

If you've been keeping up with the FIPS Fad Diet/Exercise Challenge, you'll know things have been going pretty well. Week one, I started with a pretty extreme diet: raw vegan. My second week, I kept up the diet and added on some slight exercise: running. I was upon week three -- time to try a new diet. But since I was already eating raw, there was really only one other drastic place I could take my eating habits. That's right folks: I was doing a juice cleanse.

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The FIPS Fad Diet/Exercise Challenge: Week 1 – Raw Vegan Diet

It seems like every time I turn around, someone I know is on another fad diet or exercise routine. From the Master Cleanse to the Caveman Diet to P-90X to Cross-Fit, it’s hard to know what works and what’s total crap. So for the next four weeks, I’ve decided to try some of these for myself. I’ll tackle a different diet/exercise routine each week, and then report the results back to you the following week.

Note: I’m not a dietitian, nor am I a fitness guru. So I make no claims here that I’m doing anything properly. I’m guessing a lot of you out there might approach this sort of thing like I do: overhear someone talk about it, do some Internet research, give it a try for yourself. For those who follow that pattern, maybe you can learn from my mistakes. For those who don’t follow that pattern, maybe you can educate us in the comments section.

To start the FIPS Fad Diet/Exercise Challenge off right, I figured I’d start week one with my diet. This way, I could work myself up to working out (something I’m notoriously lazy about). Of all the fad diets I saw out there, I decided to start with the one that seemed the easiest: the Raw Vegan Diet. What can I say: I had just seen Wanderlust. It seemed appropriate.

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