Day 3

YAY! The last day is OVER!!!!!!!!! I am sipping my absolute last juice as I type.

Got woken up by the delivery guy today with my last 6 bottles of juice. I worked from home, breaking up the day to go to yoga. Honestly, I had no desire to drink the stupid celery juices and only managed to choke down 3 quarters of a bottle for those ones.

Since we've been out of town the last couple of weeks, there was no food to tempt me in the house, but what that also meant was there was no food to consume tomorrow morning. I planned on going to the grocery store tonight so that I would have food to eat tomorrow.

Big mistake.

Never, ever, go to the grocery store after 3 days of not eating. Luke pushed the cart as I went aisle by aisle, barely containing the drool dripping down my face, placing everything into the cart. In the first aisle, Luke protested (is getting 2 boxes of wheat thins REALLY necessary?), I shot him a death look, and he remained quiet for the rest of the trip. $200 later with 5 shopping bags in hand, I can hardly contain my excitement to chow down into something solid tomorrow. What to make!? AHHH 12 more hours!

So as I bring this blog to a close, I wanted to recap the overall experience with a 3 day juice cleanse. My biggest learnings were:

1) Read the ingredients before deciding on which cleanse to go with. For example, if you absolutely detest celery, don't buy from the Juice Shop.
2) You will have horrible juice breath all day, especially in the morning after the blue-green algae. Be extra nice to your significant other, because they are being awful nice for kissing you.
3)  Do not attend events where you are surrounded by delicious food (i.e. bowling, baseball games, etc.)
3) Do not go grocery shopping during the cleanse.

So, do I recommend doing a juice cleanse? No. Not unless there are some solid foods sprinkled within the diet. For me, paying $200 to feel tortured was not worth it. Do I feel energized? Not really. Even though I did not feel that 2:30 exhaustion I usually feel, I was always lightheaded when 6:30 rolled around. It may be a good way to kick start a diet, if you aren't like me and craving unhealthy food on my first day off. But all in all, I did learn from this experience that I can definitely reduce my portions by a lot. I didn't think I could go 3 days without feeling starved (I never got to a point where I was starving, just a bit hungry), but surprisingly these juices were pretty filling.

So next time I grab a burrito, I probably don't have to devour the entire thing. I will continue to drink juice, but on my own terms (there will be no celery in the house, no way, no how!). And I will never, ever, repeat a juice cleanse again.