After 21 days of the Nutribullet Detox my participants were eager to find out how they did. So was I. The winner of my challenges is always determined by how much body fat was lost and how much muscle gained. Losing weight isn’t that important but what matters is that your body composition changes. You may have started at 150 pounds and finished at 150 pounds, but what matters is what happened to your body fat. If your body fat drops and your weight stays the same, that means you lost fat and gained muscle. That’s a great change because muscle increases your metabolism, makes you leaner and smaller and when fat is lost, then toxins are released from the fatty tissue.
The challenge is always to keep the muscle on our bodies. Typically when you reduce your food intake, you lose muscle. That’s fine up to a certain point. If you lose too much muscle, you’ll slow your metabolism down. That’s why we eat protein 5x a day and exercise.
A conventional juice fast always promotes muscle loss. Take, for example someone who spend $350 for one of the currently popular juice fasts for 5 days. Yes, you would lose weight, but the weight loss is the result of you emptying your bowels and losing muscle. You rarely lose body fat because on a low-or no-protein diet your muscle cannibalizes itself. Even worse, once you eat real food again, all that weight is back in a matter of 2-3 days, plus more because now your metabolism is even slower, thanks to the muscle loss. Got it? That’s why the Nutribullet Detox produced fat loss galore. We ate, were never hungry, felt energized, our mood was balanced and we slept like babies.
Let me show you the winners:
1st Prize of $500 goes to DENNIS:
Weight loss: 8 lbs
Body fat loss: 9.4%
% of body weight lost: 5.5%
Lean muscle gained: 6.7 lbs
Fat lost: 14.7 lbs
2nd Prize of 10 Boot Camp sessions goes to BARBARA:
Weight loss: 8.8 lbs
Body fat loss: 4.1%
% of body weight lost: 6%
Lean muscle: .26 lost (Barbara managed to maintain her muscle mass, which is great!)
Fat lost: 8.5 lbs
3rd Prize of 5 Boot Camp sessions goes to Laura:
Weight loss: 12.1 lbs
Body fat loss: 2.7%
% of body weight lost: 8.3%
Lean muscle: 3.3 lbs lost
Fat lost: 6.7 lbs
Here are a few others with remarkable results. Just for inspiration!
Nicole lost 7.6 lbs, 2.3% body fat. That translated into 6.3 lbs of pure fat lost!
Kelly lost 12 lbs and .6% body fat (that measurements is inaccurate due to dehydration) and 7 inches!
Wade has lost close to 40 lbs in the last year and absolutely deserves a big mention here for his consistent working out and eating clean. What an incredible change!
Samantha dropped an “easy” 10.4 lbs!
Gwynne dropped 10 lbs as well and started feeling great again.
Leslie dropped 10 lbs and 2% body fat!
Liz got a new body. Check this out: 4.4 lbs lost and 8.5 inches down!
Or, this might just say it all: Kick Ass!!!!
Here’s more interesting stuff. 27 People did the final weigh-in and here’s how many lost that amount of weight:
1 lb: 1 person
2 lbs: 2
3 lbs: 1
4 lbs: 5
5 lbs: 5
6 lbs: 2
7 lbs: 1
8 lbs: 3
9 lbs: 2
10 lbs: 3
12 lbs: 2
Congatulations to all who participated. You made some amazing changes in your life and it shows. Keep on it as this is only the beginning!