Black Girls Guide to Juice Fasting: How I Lost 100 Pounds
By Sista Cassie
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I want to turn Black Girls Green! After years of enduring obesity and obesity related illnesses I was able to end my food addictions to Dairy and processed foods and lost an amazing 100 pounds. Juice Fasting was the cure and paved the way for me to eat a diet of whole organic foods. In my new Ebook, "Black Girls Guide to Juice Fasting" readers will be able to find out exactly what I juiced and how I made it through an extended Juice Fast. The book contains my 100 Day Juice Fast Journal, tips, juice recipes, as well as how to prep ahead and how to properly end a Juice Fast.
Everyone can benefit from my experience but I chose to focus on Women of Color because we are in a health crisis that is driven by us being overweight. It is my sincere desire that this Ebook be the first step in a movement to turn the tide of the obesity epidemic disproportionately affecting Black Women. 80% of Black Women are overweight and 60% of that number is obese. We are in the midst of an epidemic, but there is hope on the horizon. Everything we need to heal can be grown in our homes, gardens, and purchased in the produce section of most grocery and Dollar stores. My Ebook serves as a guide to help you get started and complete a successful Juice Fast, lose weight, and step onto the path of eating a plant based healthy diet.
Sista Cassie
Sista Cassie has an enduring passion for working to improve the quality of life of neglected children and high-risk families. She worked for several years in the Social Service field and as an event coordinator and fund raiser for non-profit organizations serving needy populations. She has a Masters degree in Psychology which she applied in practice, counseling seriously emotionally disturbed children and their families. She has experience working across a broad cultural spectrum including Hispanic and West Indian clients. Following an unforeseen health crisis Cassie discovered that she was part of an ever growing number of Black women suffering from obesity illnesses. When she sought support she found there were few culturally relevant options. Cassie states, “I looked at my medical records for only three years it was over two-hundred pages long. And there were a lot of Black women sick like me but very few health related resources that spoke to me. I had to do something”. She completed a juice fast and made a lifestyle shift from addictive processed foods to primarily organic produce and whole grains and lost 100 pounds. So she decided to share her experiences online, with the hopes that others find some commonality and see that there are women of color completing successful juice fasts and eating clean organic food. The response was immediate and intense, women began filling her message box with requests for help with losing weight and beating food addictions. This positive response inspired her to try and make an even larger impact. Cassie completed her first ebook “Black Girls Guide to Juice Fasting” with another focused on eating organically in the works. Cassie is presently building her brand, Black Girls Eat Green, as a global platform to turn the tide of the obesity and obesity related illness epidemic disproportionately affecting women of color.
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Black Girls Guide to Juice Fasting - Sista Cassie
Black Girl’s Guide to Juice Fasting
Copyright 2015 Sista Cassie
Published by Sista Cassie at Smashwords
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Table of Content
Acknowledgements
Message from Author
Why Are Black Women Overweight?
Getting Started in 5 Steps
What to Juice and Why
How to Complete a Juice Fast
How to Overcome Cravings
Juice Fast Side Effects
Cost of Juice Fasting
Exercise and Juice Fasting
Breaking the Fast
Transforming Comfort Foods
Long Term Results
About Author Sista Cassie
Connect with Sista Cassie
Medical Disclaimer
Before starting any dietary change, you should speak to your doctor. You must not rely on the information on this ebook as an alternative to medical advice from your doctor or other professional healthcare provider. If you have any specific questions about any medical matter, feel ill, or have other concerns, you should consult your doctor or other professional healthcare provider.
Acknowledgements
Special Thanks to my sister Nefertina for being my biggest cheerleader and helping me stay motivated, and my Momma Jeri for being a great mother and inspiration in every way. Thanks to Erika and all my friends for rooting me on. My husband, Adrian Marshall, for being my second heartbeat. My nephews; Tabari, you created an amazing logo! Tomar, I am looking forward to my Black Girls Eat Green App! Asad and Amari, thanks for testing my juices for me (even when I didn’t need THAT much help drinking ALL of them Amari)
Thanks to all the people I met in Farmer’s Markets and Trader Joe’s who gave me advice about produce. Thanks to the woman with the beautiful smile I met in Downtown Oakland who said, You need to write a book about what you are doing, we really need the help. You can help a lot of people.
Although we did not exchange contact information, I hope you see this ebook one day and know that I DID IT! Lots of love and appreciation to all the women of color who have and continue to inspire us all with your tenacity, willpower, and beauty as we transform our community with healthier lifestyles, one by one!
Message from Author
Black women I am calling you out! Anyone can benefit from the information in this Ebook but, I titled it Black Girl’s Guide to Juice Fasting
to get your attention. One hundred days ago, I started a fresh vegetable and fruit Juice Fast. Me, at over 260 pounds addicted to processed sugar and dairy products, I never would have imagined it. Still, I poked out my chest took a deep breath and decided to give it a go. I wanted to make sure I had as much information as I could find as well as role models to guide me and help keep me focused along the way. I searched online and read books. Of course I watched the amazing documentary film, Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead
(five times!)In this documentary Joe Cross loses an astounding 60 pounds in two months only drinking freshly juiced organic produce. He journeyed across America and documented his experience and encounters with others while on this Juice Fast. When I watched the movie I could not help but notice the responses from the overweight Black women when he talked to them about Juice Fasting. They thought he was crazy and they clearly could not relate at all. Some looked appalled but, it was one in particular who looked defeated, she was the person who impacted me the most. Even more than Joe Cross and he was the subject on the fast. Her whole body language shouted, There is no way I could EVER do a Juice Fast
. In fact, she basically said she couldn’t. She sounded like me, trapped with food addictions, as she talked about eating fast food several times a day. I wanted to jump into the screen and take her hand and say, Girl, you can do this! We can do it too.
After I watched the film, my mind kept drifting back to this one particular woman. She continued to remind me of myself. I imagined my reaction if an Australian man, of apparent means, approached me out of the blue and asked what I thought about trying a Juice Fast. Would I too look as hopeless? Would I believe I would never be able to stop eating processed foods? My thoughts about this woman and our similarities continued to nag at me as I became determined that I would give Juice Fasting a try.
Throughout my research I was getting all the basic information I needed but I could not find that person, that one person, I could relate to. It was difficult to find another Black woman who started out like me, obese and with food addictions, who successfully completed a Juice Fast. A woman who not only lost weight but makes a lifestyle change. You see, I didn’t just want to Juice Fast I wanted to change my way of life, permanently, for the better.
After about two months of research and having few options to model myself after, I just decided to become my own hero. I started my Juice Fast and Boom! The pounds began to melt away very quickly. This is when a very interesting thing happened. Other women in my immediate circle started asking me questions. As I continued to rapidly shed pounds and my skin began to glow they suddenly wanted juice recipes and resource materials. So I started to keep a journal with the intention of sharing with those closest to me, my daily experiences and the types of produce I was juicing. Can you guess what happened? Around 50 days into my fast, my friends started sharing my update pics and story online and strangers began to email me for help. I put up a 50 day update photo and joined the Facebook.com group; I Like to Juice it, Juice it
. By the end of the week I had numerous inbox messages from women who were all saying the same thing. Seeing me, a woman of color, stick to juicing and the startling results it made them believe they could do it too. I even got messages from women telling me I inspired them to buy a juicer and/or eat more fruits and vegetables.
Present data indicates that upwards of 82.0 percent of Black women are overweight, 60 percent of that number are obese. This is a very scary figure to me. While the entire Western World is steadily getting fatter we, Black women, are affected by obesity and obesity related diseases at a higher rate than any other group. The number of overweight Black women is now double that of our Caucasian and Hispanic peers. Additionally, current studies confirm that 1 in 4 African-American women over the age of fifty-five suffers from diabetes. We are in the midst of an epidemic and we have to act now to stop it. It is the processed foods with empty calories and no nutritional value at the root of the crisis. The culprits are the fast food on every corner in our community, our traditions of big dinners and frying foods, and the daily stresses we take on that make the Black woman number one on the obesity chart. It is not laziness or lack of gym memberships. This E-book will help you lose weight and join the movement to reverse these startling figures.
A pound of fat is 3500 calories. Typically a person can burn 400 calories in a one hour medium impact cardio workout. So just do the math and imagine how long you would have to work out to lose 50 pounds if exercise was the key to weight loss? Take this information and be empowered. Don’t accept any more nonsense from people telling you that you are lazy and that is why you are fat. It’s not your activity level, it’s the food! Yes it is good to work toward and maintain physical fitness but it is a smaller