If you choose to do a juice fast, regardless of whether you’re doing it to lose weight or cleanse and tone your body and its major organs, breaking that fast properly is a very important part of the process.

If you try to go from a liquid diet straight to regular solid foods, you will get sick. You will vomit, have stomach cramps, and possibly have to go to the hospital. So it’s extremely important to do it right or you will have ruined all the great work you’ve done with your body so far.

The longer your fast, the slower you may have to come out of it. Generally taking things slow and easy does the trick anyway, so keep this in mind when you start coming out of your fast.

Continue drinking your vegetable or fruit juices while breaking your fast. On the first day of breaking it though, have some clear broth soup around lunchtime.

On the second day, continue drinking your juices, and have clear broth again at both lunch and dinner time.

By the third day, you can try having some home made vegetable soup instead of broth, but continue drinking your juices.

On the forth day, you can add a small apple along with your broth and soup. Alternatively try another mild or stewed fruit.

On the fifth day, you should be able to add small amounts of more solid soft foods such as cottage cheese, yogurt and baked potatoes.

If on any day your digestive system does not seem to be sitting well with the foods you’ve eaten, revert back to broth for a meal or two and see how you feel. Some people will need a longer period of time to come out of their fast, and often the longer your fast lasted, the longer you’ll need to take breaking it.

If you try to eat greasy foods too soon particularly, or overly spicy foods, you may get a bit sick. It’s best to work up to bland foods slowly, then add a bit more of your regular foods each day.

It’s important to note though: If you chose to do a fast for weight loss purposes, it is not going to help you much if you simply go back to your same old bad eating habits of before. The same applies to those who do a fast to cleanse their colon or their entire body. Mistreating your body again as soon as you’re finished fasting will make illness and other health problems come back.

Statements made in this article may not be approved by the FDA, and should not be taken as professional medical advice.

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