In the age of Kardashians posing with bright blue gummy bear vitamins, in an attempt to get you to shell out $30 a month on over-hyped sugar pills, and Gwyneth Paltrow urging you to shove a $66 jade egg into your vagina to balance your hormones and awaken your sexual energy, it only makes sense that Juice Cleanses are now a $5 Billion dollar industry. These holy grail juice cleanses are praised by kale crunching celebs and suburban soccer moms alike. What is all the hype about? Drinking cold pressed fruits and veggies for anywhere from 3 days to multiple weeks at a time, claims to carry with it the benefits of detoxifying the body, aiding in weight-loss, and hell, some of them even claim they will get you closer to God. I have never been someone who jumps on the latest trend bandwagon, but after a couple of weeks of eating poorly, sleeping poorly, and feeling overall rundown, the magic juice elixir was calling my name. So, in an attempt to hit the reset button on my diet, I decided to embark on a three day juice cleanse to settle this once and for all. My partner, Kyle, also agreed to undergo this spiritual colon cleanse alongside me.
Now, I think it is worth noting that both Kyle and myself are relatively healthy individuals to begin with. He trains Mixed Martial Arts several times a week, and up until an unfortunate injury a few months ago, was training for the Honolulu Marathon. I practice Yoga and Pilates several times a week, and focus quite intently on eating a balanced, predominately plant-based diet. So, we were entering the juice cleanse with a pretty nice head start on some of the average juice cleanse participants. Kyle weighs himself almost daily, so the day before the cleanse he weighed himself in an attempt to see if the weight-loss claims had any merit. I never weigh myself, I try to be more intuitive about my overall health based on my complexion, energy levels, and how much give I have in my blue jeans. I took a long hard look at myself in the mirror the day before I started the cleanse and got a baseline idea of how I looked and felt. We decided to purchase the 3-Day cleanse series from our local Clean Juice.
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