For a few years now I have wanted to do a juice cleanse. It was never the right time. The reason I wanted to do it wasn’t just the promise of losing weight, but more that I wanted to get healthy and clear my body for my mind to also clear and my emotions to detox.
Now I know there are people out there who think it is all a bit woo woo and full of nonsense to change your diet to a fast of this kind. All I can say to you for centuries and more different cultures have had moments of fasting. As much evidence as you will say makes it bad there is equal amount that says it is good for you too. So it is down to individual choice and not about the science you follow.
I am too food indulgent to be 100% raw, or 100% juice diet and I don’t go for deprivation. Again, personal choice!
I also don’t believe there is anything spiritually evolved in eating raw or juicing all the time. Although I do think there is something evolved in eating good, ethical and healthy food whatever your preferences and choices are!
Yet you can’t disagree that when you have eaten so much that you have to undo the top button of your trousers or undo your belt a notch or two, you feel like sitting, lolling and sleeping. Too full and you can feel lethargic and unmotivated. Not always but pretty much so.
There is something about eating less that lets other senses heighten and gives your body a rest from the bulk it is normally filled with.
My diet has become a bit too carby and cheesy so a break was needed.
I went to Soul Mate Food on the recommendation of someone on Facebook who would know about these things. Gotta love the power of social media. You can find out all the health qualities in the juices and satiate your is this right hunger.
It happened to be a day when I was home alone a rarity when we both work from home and I just ordered without even thinking about it enough to talk myself out of it or try and plan it at a more convenient time.
Never mentioned anything and then before the delivery which was midnight to 9am, yes a bit odd timing I happened to mention it in passing to him in doors.
I know some would say prepare your body for this, but my body has been hungry for a detox for a long time. My only preparation was self-enforced as I was recovering from a cold so I had eaten less the week preceding and had given my early morning coffee a miss.
As serendipity had it my delivery arrived on a Monday and the weekend before had been a BIG one as I had a 50th celebration, not mine someone else’s.
Hey that is me the all or nothing kind of girl.
I started immediately…and am about to tuck into the final juice of the day and I have to say so far so good.
It was weird around 5.30pm as I felt a bit lost not thinking about dinner and spending time cooking. I suddenly had a whole lot more time. Fabulous!
What did I do, had a long soak in the bath and wrote this.
Do I feel hungry yes. More the ritual of not stuffing my face till my tummy feels tight and satiated. Do I feel determined to succeed yes.
Will I eat anything this week? Maybe but only time will tell. Like I said I don’t do depravation, I am not into self-torture either. I just want to experience a shift in my body, how I feel from the inside out and to be honest I have been a bit bored of eating recently anyway. Usually a sign my body wanted a break.
Well I hope to be back tomorrow with another update and by then I will be able to tell you which is my favourite juice as they are the same 5 every day and I have just about finished round one!
Juice one as you can see in the image is carrot, apple and ginger. It is a bit of a staple when it comes to juicing and good favourite of mine and whatever the folks at Soul Mate Food do the juice was so light. It was scrummy! Their advice is to sip the juices and I get why as it kept me busy and stopped me falling off the wagon so early and kept my body nourished regularly, in fact they say a juice every 2.5 hours and it took me about that long per juice. Magic!
So far so good and I haven’t lost my cool once so that has to be a good thing, wouldn’t you agree?
Do you have any experience of juice cleanses? What was your experience? What made you start it…I am interested, do share in comments below!
Sarupa Shah
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Sarupa, A fantastic effort and well done for getting through day one without even a tiny sneaky snack! Keep up the good work, we’re all behind you!
Thanks Michael…after writing this, I did get into a slightly ratty mood…I think my body was releasing toxins as my shoulders ached like they would after a massage….so I took myself off to bed…look forward to sharing the adventure later today….so far so good 😉
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Hi Sarupa, the ratty-ness is yet to come. And the skin breakouts and all the other lovely things that go with detoxing. Which is why they never recommend women do it before a special event, 6 weeks prior is the latest.
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Ahhh you will have to read today’s update – to be posted later on what has happened, I think you will be surprised….and I don’t know who this ‘they’ is….but ‘they’ may be wrong… 😉
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