Considering a cleanse? Go for it! Done safely, a cleanse can help detoxify your body and heal your GI tract. Here’s how my first experience with a 3-Day Juice Cleanse went. If you want to go all the way back to the beginning of my journey, this is where it started: Day 1 – Celery Juice, Raw Cucumber “Pesto.”
Because it can be challenging to come up with a plan for detox and healing when you’re new to all of this, I encourage you to sign up for my 5 Day Clean Eating Challenge. Start with small steps first!
I have what we like to call Food Emotions. And they are strong! A well done meal or perfectly poured drink can make my day just as much as sub-par food brings out my worst. It doesn’t take long for hungry to escalate to hangry, and if you’re not careful it can quickly deteriorate to whiney. Knowing …
I didn’t eat enough yesterday and I ended up not feeling very well. I was so excited about all the food I bought and creating cool recipes that I didn’t get around to actually eating anything until 5 pm. I had a few dates and my morning (cough… 1pm…cough) Celery juice, but that really isn’t …
I woke up today more rested and ready to go then I typically am on Friday mornings. I usually fly home from a work-trip late on Thursdays and it can be somewhat exhausting. Not today – I was up and at’em before 7am which is INCREDIBLY atypical for me. Like, very atypical. But it was …
Seriously. Two days of green green green. Ok, there were some blueberries in a salad and I ate some mangoes on the side. But so much green! I guess that is a good thing. It probably shouldn’t be such a shocking thing for my system. Oops! But really, it’s time to introduce some color. Day …
Day 2 is a little smoother than Day 1. For one thing, my celery made way more juice this time. It might be that it was fresh celery and didn’t sit in the fridge a week drying out before juicing. I still managed to spill all over the counter, but hey, there’s always day 3. I started today …
Day 1 of this journey started after a ridiculous wedding weekend involving all of the cheese, all of the cocktails and pretty much everything that is opposite of this cleanse. Today we had to wake up at 5:15 for an early flight to work. This is the kind of day I’d love to start with a cappuccino and …
I’ve been inspired to do a cleanse for a couple of months now. A series of events made me hopeful that I could reverse my celiac disease and various food intolerances. After an expensive allergist, testing negative for H. Pylori, a Prilosec prescription and negative reaction and trying home-fermented probiotic rich foods, I got desperate. A few books helped me spawn the idea that I could spend a few months really restricting my diet and healing my gut to possibly reverse my current food intolerances and negative reactions.
I can’t eat gluten and adapted to that life style change fairly easily. However, I would kill to be able to eat pizza and beer again… or just not have to worry about being sick for three days if something accidentally got in my food. I also started to have bad reactions to dairy and my stomach was constantly hurting. My throat frequently gets raw and I lose my voice every time I eat large amounts of dairy. Having lived in Wisconsin for 5 years, I love cheese more than is humanely natural and the thought of cutting out dairy forever is very, very upsetting.
So I made the plan: It’s fluid and has the potential to change, but there are a few large goals that I hope to keep and a few smaller more flexible ones.
I’ve made it a lot easier by planning out meals for a couple weeks at a time. I’m hoping to plan meals a couple weeks in advance and stay consistent with the goals. If I feel awful or can’t maintain my activity level, I’ll introduce potatoes and broth quicker. If I’m feeling great, I’ll try to go longer.
