Towards the end of January, I was starting to consistently feel sluggish, tired, bloated as soon as I ate food, and that really irritating balance of being so tired for bed, but so alert you can't switch off.
Christmas and New Years festivities weren't really horrible to me. I didn't really over indulge or go from one extreme to the other, but I was starting to think lazy thoughts regarding my eating and it's prep so I decided this was the perfect opportunity to do a juice cleanse.
Why just one day? This is a safe space, we're all friends here, so let me divulge. When the Lemon Detox Diet first came out, I was on it like white on rice. Ordered, received, bought my lemons, bought my cayenne pepper (hated normal pepper but whatevs im sure this was going to be soooo different) bought my fancy little container to keep it in. 5 Days detox come at me! I lasted half a day until I power walked up the road at lunch to get the honey chicken with fried rice combo. No joke.
So let's be realistic, if you're going to do a juice cleanse, the price adds up. I know myself well enough to get that no matter how good my intentions, anything longer than a day was going to be painful not only for myself, but for those around me.
So one day it was!
I did a bit of research prior to purchasing the juices, and while you may read so many reviews of reasons for and against certain brands and completely disagree with me, my criteria was:
* Online is easy, but it would be nice to sample a few flavours first, so i'm not spending up to $9 a bottle on fancy swamp moss. Look for a company that has a store, pop-up store, or distributor close to me to sample
* The option to mix and match flavours, a good balance of green juices alongside some sweeter fruit/smoothie based ones
*Lets be honest, pretty packaging is important
*Use by date - when I purchase at my convenience, how long will they last for before I need to drink them?
*Pricing - is there an option to do just a one day and select the flavours that you know you can drink? I scrapped places that only gave 3 day or 5 day options (refer to Lemon Detox Diet story as to why this was a no-go)
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In the end I went with Pressed Juices, located in Mosman. I took my roomie and live-in Personal Trainer (so handy, but it's all fun and games until you want a Tim Tam) who was super helpful in explaining which juices would be better for what I was trying to achieve. We opted to stay away from the majority of sweet fruit juices, even though natural sugars, the content would still be quite high, and I really wanted a detox-flush out type cleanse.
There was no real rule on when I had to drink one or the other, the website was also really helpful in explaining that the idea was to continuously sip on the juices throughout the day.
Flavours I went with:
GREENS: greens 2 (x2)
apple, celery, cucumber, kale, lemon, lettuce, parsley and spinach
ZING: zing 2
apple, lime, cinnamon, ginger
EARTH: earth 4
apple, carrot, ginger
SMOOTHIE: smooth vitality
banana, blueberry, chia seeds, coconut water, mesclun, mint, strawberry and raspberry
MYLKS: espresso almond mylk *by far the yummiest!*
almonds, dates, filtered water, sea salt, vanilla bean, espresso
By lunch time, I was contemplating eating my own hand. The smell of my friends toasted sandwich was doing things to me. I was prepared to go Hunger Games on him. But by the afternoon things started to improve, as I sip-sipped away on my juices.
I had bootcamp that afternoon, which accompanied my headache nicely. A positive of training whilst on the cleanse was that instead of burning off the food and energy from food I would have normally consumed, my body was instead burning stored fat and digging deeper for that energy.
I struggled a bit with my energy levels, but I did feel lighter and less sluggish. That night I had one of the best nights sleep in a long time.
When I woke up, I went back to the healthy eating and controlled portions that I was starting to get lazy with, however after just one day without this, I started to crave it.
The cleanse gave me the desired outcome I was hoping for. A boost back on track with my healthy eating and food prep, and it had me missing my way of healthy eating, with less thoughts of things that aren't great for me.
Below are a list of the brands I researched. A few friends have done cleanses from some of these reputable brands with great results!
Urban Remedy
Orchard Street
Prodjuice - Northern Beaches based - support your local community!
Pressed Juices
Lucky You Cleanse
*This was not a sponsored post*
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