7-Day Cleanse: Day 1

Today Mike and I are starting a 7-day cleanse created by Jason Vale.  I started my day out with a cup of hot water and lemon; and am currently drinking the first juice of the day: The Super Juice.  The Super Juice contains apples, pineapple, cucumber, lime, avocado, wheatgrass, and a couple of “friendly bacterias”. .. And I have to say; it is very good!  I’m full and am only halfway.

The way the plan works is that you drink juice every couple of hours (8:00am, 11:00am, 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm and 9:00pm), and the juice you drink changes so it isn’t like you are drinking the same thing all of the time for 7 days.

The reason a cleanse is good for you (especially after the holidays) is because it helps your body get rid of any toxins from all of the bad– although delicious– food you consumed.  During the cleanse, you are only putting healthy– and still delicious– foods into your body so there isn’t anything bad for it to digest and absorb.

It’s a good thing I bought Jack Lalane’s Power Juicer from an infomercial back in the day.  I knew it’d come in handy!

8:00am Super Juice

11:00am Super Juice
I had to skip this one because I was so full from the 8:00 one!

2:00pm Super Chute Juice
(apples, carrot, celery, kale, spinach, watercress, cucumber, broccoli, alfalfa sprouts, beet, zuchini, lemon, and ginger! WOW)

5:00pm Turbo Express
(apples, spinach, celery, cucumber, lime, pinapple, avacado)

8:00pm Lemon-Ginger Zinger
(apples, carrot, lemon, ginger)
I totally forgot to take a picture of this one… but it was a beautiful vibrant orange. It was very tasty; and I’ll take a picture the next time I make it… which I believe is Day 3!

All in all, Mike and I feel great. Earlier in the day around 1:30, Mike started to experience heartburn and some stomach pain but then felt better as the day progressed. I didn’t have any discomfort or headaches, however I tend to eat slightly healthier than Mike. I told him his discomfort was because he was “dirty inside” 🙂

By the time 9:00pm came around, neither of us wanted the last juice which was supposed to be hot apple juice with cinnamon. Perhaps tomorrow night!