Green juicing is hard work. It makes a mess in your kitchen, takes time to clean up, and is a process if you really want to form a green-juicing habit rather than toy with it as another health fad.

Yet, there are many people who have invested time and effort into their green juicing regimen and are committed to doing it every day – and the results are so worth it.

In the beginning, juicing is new and exciting, so it is easier to keep it up. But as time passes, the newness and excitement fade away, and this is when you need to remind yourself as to why you’re juicing in the first place!

You need strong reasons to keep juicing. Remind yourself the supreme benefits of how juicing supports, nourishes and nurtures your mind, body, and soul. The following is a list of the Big Whys of Juicing.

Read this list to get yourself into juicing, print it out, modify it to your liking and use it to your heart’s content in order to stay on the green juicing track!

Top 6 Green Juice Benefits 

1. You Get Top Nutrition

Fruits and vegetables contain nutrients that are good for your overall health and vitality. I cannot stress the importance of eating your raw fresh fruits and vegetables and greens enough – you just feel it in your body when you feed yourself with the much-needed nutrients! You instantly feel better, your skin glows, your eyes have a new spark. There’s something about eating right that no other anti-wrinkle creme can give you!

Fruits do contain a natural sugar called fructose but eating fruits does not make you fat and is not bad for you. This sugar is not the same as processed sugar found in junk food. If you have diabetic tendencies, check with your doctor. Otherwise, as a healthy person, you need not worry about fruit so much as about eliminating all processed sugar from your diet!

Green vegetables on the other hand contain very low levels of sugar. They help you to detoxify and cleanse by helping your digestive system to eliminate waste. And the more you consume vegetables in their fresh and raw form, the lesser you crave junk foods.

2. You Get Quick Absorption

When you juice your vegetables, the benefit is two-fold:

1. you’re taking in the essential nutrients that your body needs.
2. your body immediately absorbs all these nutrients because juice is in liquid form.

You give your digestive system a rest because it doesn’t have to breakdown any solid foods, and the nutrients go directly into your cells and bloodstream, making it much easier on your body. As a result, you feel lighter yet active throughout the day.

3. You Get to Enjoy a Variety of Tastes

With juicing, you can bring in a large variety of vegetable and green options such as kale, broccoli, chard, dandelions, spinach, parsley, collard greens that you’d otherwise hardly consume on an average diet.

Also, the large quantities of fiber in  vegetables and greens can give you a bad stomach ache. Juicing removes all the fiber. Some vegetables are hard to combine in your usual diet and juicing brings a great way out to take advantage of these rich in nutrient vegetables.

Note: Fiber is great for you but you get plenty of it in a healthy diet. So don’t fret if you are not getting it through juicing. Instead, you get tons of other nutrients

4. You Can Go on Juice Fasts and Detoxification

Once you form your juicing habit, you can start going on mini-fasts on a consistent basis and build up to a longer fast. As your diet becomes cleaner, you may not need to fast as much but it’s a great way to detox your body at the beginning. During a juice fast, you’re doing your body a favor by giving it a break. Your digestive system can now focus on eliminating the wastes instead of processing solids and junk foods.

5. You Can Lose Weight Easily and Naturally

Green juicing helps you lose weight in a seamless manner. For me, it’s the easiest way to lose weight. You can replace one meal a day with juice and if it’s a green juice, you can drink up to 32 ounces and be fine. In return, along with losing the extra pounds as a side benefit, you are rewarded with delicious taste of green juices. Your taste buds are happy too.

6. Your Body Returns to a Healthy Alkaline State

Your pH level is an exact measure of how alkaline or acidic is your body. The pH balance of human blood has to stay within a certain range. In order to avoid the harmful effects of the acidic nature of many foods you consume, your body has to work hard to minimize the acidic effects and bring it in the neutral range. Green juicing helps keep your body in that alkaline state.

This is the ultimate green juice. Enjoy!!!! Add veggies and herb one at a time in juicer. Preferably a masticating juicer to preserve all of the enzymes. ***Use organic ingredients***

INGREDIENTS

1. 2 celery stalk
2. 1 apple
3. 1/4 thumb of ginger root
4. a handful of cilantro
5. 1 cup of spinach
6. 1 cucumber
7. 1/2 of a lemon with rind
8. 1/2 of green chard leaf
9. 3-5 kale leaves

Below is the printable recipe for you to keep handy.