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55 Pounds in 54 Seconds - The Juice Fasting Miracle!

Ray Bartley , Peter Dolan , Ray Bartley  |  DVD
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)


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  • Actors: Ray Bartley
  • Directors: Peter Dolan, Ray Bartley
  • Format: NTSC
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Studio: Mediabeyond
  • DVD Release Date: January 15, 2007
  • Run Time: 210 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000WMEAZC
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #342,476 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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I just want to tell you that I have been doing the fast since I got the DVD about a week and 1/2 ago and it is great.

I weighed myself in January 3, 2007 and weighed 253 lbs. I was obviously fat and bulged out and a thing of concern on the night of 2/5/07 when I decided to travel down this road. I have since this morning lost 31 lbs. and I feel better than I have in about 4 years when I had gone totally vegan for 1 and 1 1/2 months

I can see how easy this could turn into a lifestyle. I had fasted many times in my life and felt good every time I did it but I have more knowledge now of it's health attributes. I don't think I would have done it without the DVD and I wanted to thank Ray for his want to attitude and for all those that helped him promote and create this video. I can truly say that you are my hero.

I will send you guys some before and after videos soon. My goal looks like it will be reached within a month so look for me in the beginning of March. Again thanks for everything. --loseweightjustjuicing.com

The DVD has been wonderful! - we enjoy it so much. My Husband has been so motivated by it - he is now on day 3 and doing great!

He broke his 7 day fast with a milk shake and instantly had problems with his asthma. He watches your video everyday to get re-motivated and is constantly saying - 'he looks so much younger on the cover.'

We got a scale today to see how we are doing. He has already lost so much with the 2 fasts - he weighed 253 on Jan 3rd and today he weighed 235. I also weighed 154 at Christmas time and now I weigh 134 and we both feel great - thanks - your video has helped yet another person get closer to their goals! --loseweightjustjuicing.com

Hi! My name is Sherrie and I started my juice-fast on February 1st of this year. I just got my DVD in the mail and as soon as I put it in and started watching it I was inspired!

I admit I was a little skeptical at first but just after I finished watching it I was so inspired I ran right out and bought myself a Juicer. Well let me just say a big Thank You as you have changed my life for good. --loseweightjustjuicing.com

Product Description

Convinced his obesity was going to lead to an early death, on July 23, 2004, Ray began an unbelievable weight loss experiment: to juice fast for 54 days and videotape himself while doing it!

Watch and listen as Ray shares his inspirations, his temptations, his juicing failures and his ultimate success. Ray's story, his honest advice, and amazing transformation in both mind and spirit will surely inspire you to take the first steps in changing your own life!

This DVD is an instruction manual, a reference guide and a motivational tool; but more than anything, it is an incredible documentary of one man on a 54-day juicing quest to change his life forever!

The 55 Pounds in 54 Seconds DVD will motivate and inspire you. It is jam-packed with Special Features. The DVD contains:

- 55 Pounds in 54 Seconds: The Documentary

- Day-by-Day Video Diary of the Entire Juicing Experience

- Video Diary Additional Audio Commentary

- Amazing Videotape of Ray's First Meal in 54 Days

- Commentaries & Strategies for Staying Slim the Rest of Your Life

- See Ray's Incredible Loss of 55 Pounds in 54 Seconds

- Registered Dietitian Interview on Juicing & Juice Fasting

- Bloopers

- Promotional Trailer


 

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I don't think the first reviewer watched much of the DVD, January 5, 2008
This review is from: 55 Pounds in 54 Seconds - The Juice Fasting Miracle! (DVD)
Wow. I am simply stunned by this review.

1) Beyond the documentary, the interviews with a registered dietitian, and a whole host of other content (well over 3 hours), there are 57 distinct video clips that comprise each day of the juice fast (including the day he fell of the fast and had to start over), along with menus of everything he ate each day. How did you not "get" a Video Diary in all that?

2) Yes, he did wear the exact same thing (a swim suit), used the same camera and lighting, and stood in the exact same position, as he recorded everything he was thinking and feeling as he went through each day of the juice fast. He did that on purpose so you could see exactly what was happening to him without anything distracting from the changes he was experiencing and recording.

3) You're saying, he looked the same from Day 1 to Day 55?? It is this comment that blows me away. Go to his website (55in54.com) Look at the Day 0 Video Clip and stop it while it's playing. Open up another browser, play the Day 37 Video Clip and stop it while playing. Now switch back and forth between the two. You don't see any difference?? On Day 0, he weighed 278; on Day 37, he weighed 235. The difference is like night and day.

Look at the DVD trailer which is on his website and on YouTube (search for "juice fasting documentary") and watch for the morphing sequence in the last 5 seconds where he goes from Day 0 to Day 54. The change is stunning. All I can think of is, you watched a couple of days, didn't notice a change between them (you never will between any two given days), and came over to write this review. Very sad.

4) You "guessed" his main intent was to release a DVD from the beginning rather than show it on YouTube for free. Saying things like this makes me think you didn't even watch the DVD. The whole reason he started recording himself was because he had started and failed 5 previous juice fasts and he thought if he recorded himself and put it out on the Internet, he would be too embarrassed to fail.

He started recording, failed on what was to be Day 2 (his taped failure's on the DVD as well), but it was going back and looking at his taped failure that gave him the strength to start again, and this time, continue on for 54 days. It was only when he finished the juice fast, looked back at the footage he had created, and saw the incredible change, both mentally and physically, he had undergone, that he got the idea to make the DVD. All of this is described in the documentary, which is what makes me think you really didn't watch it.

He truly thought that if people saw what juice fasting did for him, they would consider it themselves. He wanted to change people's lives. That's why he made the DVD. Like he said, the DVD has over 3 hours of content including a professionally shot documentary, interviews with a registered dietitian, the Diary, bloopers, and a whole lot more. There's no way he could put all that on YouTube. Having said that, he did make several clips available if people want to get a feel for what's on the DVD. Just go to his website, 55in54.com.

5) You thought the DVD sounds like an infomercial? Well, the powers of juice fasting are so amazing that when he describes it, it probably does sound a bit like one. There's one critical difference though: all he's suggesting to people is that the way to dramatic and permanent weight loss and the rejuvenation of their health and energy levels (oops, now I'm doing it!), is to buy fruits and vegetables and a juicer. And he doesn't make a dime doing that. He doesn't sell juice fasts. No one can. That's why the $40 billion dollar diet industry doesn't want you to even know about juice fasting. They can't make any money from it.

Don't you understand? Juice fasting doesn't require any special foods, or any pills, or any complicated menus. That's the whole point of it. The secret to solving most of the world's weight loss problems can be found in the produce section of the neighborhood grocery store. On the other hand, keep following the advice from all the commercials and infomercials that are selling pills or special foods or require you to follow special menus and you'll understand why 95% of all people who lose weight following that advice, regain it within 1 to 5 years. That's he learned and what he had to tell people.

He thought if he could actually show people what happens to someone; actually let them see the physical and mental changes of someone going through an extended juice-fast day-by-day, they wouldn't be afraid to investigate the most powerful weight-loss technique known to man. It saved his life. He wanted to save other people's lives. That's why he made the DVD.

6) All I can say is this: go to his website and read the testimonials. This DVD is changing people's lives.

I'm truly sorry you didn't enjoy the DVD. But I will tell you this, this is the first negative review I have ever seen of it. I hope you do have a chance to watch it again.

Take care,

Kathy

P.S. You may wonder how I know all this. Well, I'm his wife and I actually saw him go through the juice fast. The 5 stars I've given this DVD represent the ratings from all the other people who purchased the DVD from his website and posted their testimonials. Don't believe me? Go to his website and see.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars a little misleading, November 20, 2007
This review is from: 55 Pounds in 54 Seconds - The Juice Fasting Miracle! (DVD)
I bought this item out of curiosity, for my father too.
A video diary was something that I didn't get or am I too sane to see that guy looks exactly the same from day 1 to day 55, same clothing, same lighting for the camera, same microphone level, same shaving and same belly. When I started watching it, then I noticed a pattern that everyday looks exactly the same, then I just started fast forwarding dvd and I thought it was a some kind of joke. It seems like everything could be done in 54 minutes because everyday looked the same. It was too scripted. I would imagine that you would talk about belly how smaller it gets day by day but it looked exactly the same all the time.
The video could be taken over a long period of time not even connected with juice fasting.
I felt it was like an infomercial, especially when family members are involved. I don't know, it just seemed too scripted. I guess main intent was to release a dvd from the beginning rather than showing it on youtube for free.
I will watch dvd again and maybe I will change my comment.
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