In the 6 months following, he lost another 107 pounds through diet and juicing. Staples dropped 97 pounds during his summer reboot in 2008.
The transformation is nothing short of miraculous. He even convinced a morbidly obese truck driver, Phil Staples to join him. Fatter people can last longer.”įor Joe, who started his 8 week fast upwards of 300 pounds, the risk paid off. Thin people can usually go about 3 weeks before the losses become so serious that they are irreversible. “Fasting induces weight loss and metabolic changes to protect the brain and vital organs against harmful losses. She adds that going a few days on such a regimen is not worrisome, but extended weeks on such a plan would be cause for concern. “Lots of people say they feel better if they don’t eat solid food for a day or so every now and then, but fasting goes better with fluid intake and juices have sugar that feeds brain activity”, she said in an e-mail exchange with FORBES. The concept allows new and inexperienced juicers to conduct their first all juice fast safely and effectively.īut is what Joe doing safe? Can an all juice, no food, fast be considered healthy and effective at weight loss? According to expert nutritionist and NYU Professor Marion Nestle, it depends on the person and the timing. Reboot has also created an option whereby any one of his 300,000 online members can pay a fee of $10 a day to be part of a 50 person juicing group, being put through a guided juice fast by a nutritionist on Joe’s staff.
FAT SICK AND NEARLY DEAD PHIL FREE
His website, provides a free online community to support juicing efforts, links to different juicing products, multiple juicing guides and juice recipes. Through Reboot, Joe is making it possible for those influenced by his film to join him in achieving better health by juicing and introducing more plants into their diet. “Once you gain perspective on the situation and there’s real understanding, and a reasoning, and a logic as to why I’m doing this, that’s the biggest hurdle.” “I think the first hurdle is gaining perspective,” he said. With only a basic understanding of nutrition to his credit, Joe describes the experience as a crash course in overcoming obstacles. Instead of sampling the fine American cuisine, he would live off a combination of fruit and vegetable juice he would press himself in a Breville juicer hooked up to a battery in his trunk. His film, which became freely available on YouTube for the first time in April, chronicles Joe’s 2 month, 3,000 mile journey across the continental United States doing just that. How would he do it? Eat nothing, and only drink fresh juice for 60 days straight.
Determined to make a change, he set out on a mission to rid himself of obesity and illness.
FAT SICK AND NEARLY DEAD PHIL SKIN
By that point, weighing over 300 lbs, sporting a 44 inch waist, and suffering from a chronic skin condition that required constant medication, Joe’s career pursuits had left his body debilitated and his health deteriorating.
“When I looked in the mirror”, he said with his characteristic Aussie accent, “I saw a fat person and a sick person staring back”. Then one day, he began to notice something wrong with his body. Like so many of his peers, he focused largely on the needs of his companies, placing them ahead of even his own health. For the first 40 years of his adult life, he built his career working on Australia’s Wall Street, personally juggling a half dozen companies and investments at any point in time. “We’re focused on creating content that inspires, educates, and entertains people to lead a happier, healthier, and longer life,” Joe said during a sit-down with FORBES.
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