Do you have a juicer?

Yes I do. I don't use it every day but it has been very useful.

I would caution you to not swig down an 8 oz. glass of any type of juice full strength. Juice is very powerful because it is concentrated without the fiber to moderate things.

I am ultra-sensitive to fruit and sweet juices (like carrot) but a fun juice I make is real ginger ale from juicing ginger. Then add bubbly water with sweetener (I use honey dissolved in hot water then cooled). You can add other flavors as you like, apple juice and ginger is one.

I freeze the juice I don't use immediately (ice cubed) because sometimes I'll have a bunch of cabbage and can't drink too much of that either

This is the one I got, should last forever I hope.
www.amazon.com/Omega-J8003-Single-Gear-Commercial-Masticating/dp/B000KHPFFI/ref=sr_1_6?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1310937427&sr=1-6

I just got a Breville 510XL five speed juicer. That thing is SWEET. The different speeds allow it to do everything from leafy greens to pineapple with the skin still on. It's got nothing but brilliant reviews and I see why. Very well built, easy to use, clean, etc., and fast as hell.

I gave myself a bout of liquid movements though the day after buying it haha. The advice here on not drinking too much juice can't be overstated. Be careful! I went nuts my first day and had two full glasses of veggie juices, and paid for it the next day, as well as the day after that. Not pretty. A good rule of thumb is to only juice and drink as many veggies as you would normally eat in a day anyway. Any more than that, and people like us will get quite a bit of gastric distress.

imagardener2,

Love your ginger ale recipe! What a great idea.

I have a Norwalk juicer. It's a hydraulic press juicer and it makes the best juice in the world. It's the juicer the Gerson Institute recommends for cancer treatment. I love my Norwalk but I haven't juiced in a couple of years. I did it for a long time and then slowly stopped. For no particular reason other than I guess I just got tired of doing it.

So interesting that you can do the fruits easier than the veggies! Yes, indeed we are all different.
I have had issues in the past with orange juice. Your fruit juices sounds wonderful, though!

Maybe you could try different veggies, too. Like one at a time along with apple so you know which veggies you can tolerate. I tried cabbage at one time (and not even very much of it) and it was just awful for my gut.

Subdued, you could still do veggie juices. That's what most people go for when they juice anyway, it seems, because veggies in large quantities are hard to get down sometimes.

It is odd that fruits wouldn't hurt me, but now that I think about it, I eat way more fruits in general than I do veggies. It's quite likely then that my system just isn't used to that much veg intake, with or without the fibers. It seems to be pretty common that heavy veg juicing gives people diarrhea, at least until the system adjusts.

I can't handle large amounts of insoluble fiber that come from eating salads and things, so juicing still seems to be the best option for me to get my veg on. I just need to take it much slower. Learning the hard way, as usual

We have the Jack LaLane's juicer and my husband loves it. He's always on these fad diets to try to lose weight but I have to concur by saying - definitely take straight up juice in small portions! He will make a big glass, down it and within an hour his stomach is gurgling and he has to run to the bathroom!

I juice once in a while but usually only to get me going because sometimes I have C with my IBS. Juicing apples is a sure fire way to get things going that is for sure. lol I personally like orange, apple and pineapple juiced.

badslinke, That combo sounds good. Glad your guts handled it better.

We have it narrowed down to 2. the Breville or Jack Lalane. I think overall we would prefer the Breville, but we have a gift card to a store that carries the Jack Lalane so it is tempting to just get that one so we can use our gift card!

I have the Champion Juicer from championjuicer.com
It's a pretty rugged unit, and it seems like it'll probably last forever. I've used it a lot and I'd buy another one just like if something happened to the one I have.