juicing

do any of you do juicing? adding protein to the juice?? any info would be nice to hear back

Most surgeons recommend that WLS patients not drink any calories other than milk or protein shakes (and some don't even make an exception for milk), and they often strongly discourage drinking juice of any kind because the fruits and vegetables used for juicing are pretty high in carbs.

The liquid makes it much easier to ingest more carbs than you would if you were eating the fruits/veggies, so it isn't generally a good idea from that standpoint, either. No matter what kind of surgery you have, too many carbs are the kiss of death.  Juicing is not nearly as healthy as most of the juicing proponents and infomercials make it sound.

Lora

the juice is Kale, spinach, carrots, celery , ginger lemon. in the juicer. Its not regular juice.

If it is limited to those ingredients, then I cannot think of any reason not to drink it since those items are fairly low in carbs and calories.

http://www.obesityhelp.com/articles/juicing-after-having-bariatric-surgery

i found this article. Should I at least add a protein shake in my daily routine? Ive dropped 10 lbs in 12 days.

My plan calls to avoid all liquid calories aside from a protein shake, so I wouldn't juice.  I'd rather eat the vegetables.  

I used to juice but my smoothies ended up more fruity than greeny lol besides my dr didn't want me drinking my calories no matter how healthy I tried to make it. It had too many carbs.

there is no big calories in this Juice. its mean green juice. freshly juiced in a juicer. no pulp. 

The pulp isn't the problem - it's the sugar in the fruit that is added to the green stuff.  Most of the smoothie recipes mentioned in that article were full of fruit = sugar = slowed or no weight loss and no room for real nutrition.

IMO the fiber in the veggies is more important than the juice.   I would just eat the veggies.