![]() ![]() ![]() It just made it seem like there was even more of it. “Maybe you should put it in a bowl and eat it with a spoon like it’s soup,” I suggested. It was fresh, healthful, it was a bit like drinking a salad or cold cucumber soup.Īshley had a harder time getting it down. After a few torturous sips, it started to become tolerable. I always avoided them because I imagined they tasted like what we had just made. Ashley had tried and enjoyed the kind of green juices they sell in stores and claimed they were delicious. It tasted like grass, like we were eating mulch, like someone just emptied a lawn mower into our glasses. ![]() We took a break to sit down and drink the first juice. By the time we finished making our first juice of the day, it was almost 3 PM. You’d think this goes without saying, but washing, chopping, juicing and blending enough spinach, kale, romaine lettuce, parsley, cucumber, celery and green apple for two people to drink twice a day for three days is incredibly labor-intensive. We got a late start and because it was technically day 1 of the cleanse, we refrained from eating anything all morning. We should have known this would be the case, but the juices took a really, really long time to make. The plan was to meet on Sunday morning, make the juices and be on our way to feeling lighter and having cleaner bodies and clearer heads. Why couldn’t we just buy the ingredients and juice/blend them ourselves? We looked up all the ingredients for one of the more popular 3 day cleanses and bought them. My brother’s girlfriend Ashley and I decided to try to see if we could replicate the juice cleanse at a fraction of the cost. It’s how I’ll systematically achieve every single one of my life goals and finish reading all of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time… one of these days… so I tell myself.īut I still couldn’t justify the expense. When I put my mind to something, I do it. ![]() How clean does it need to be? It’s a bit like asking the garbage man to wear a three-piece suit and aftershave to work– what’s the point? But I suppose I was curious and wanted to see what all the fuss was about and I must say that I love a challenge and a chance to test to my willpower. I guess I wasn’t sure if I believed in the contention that your digestive system needs a “break” or that your colon needs to be cleansed. Not just starve herself, pay a whopping $65 dollars a day for the pleasure of starving herself. Don’t judge me as I judge you, but it always struck me as strange that while there are millions of people starving in the world that someone who lives in a developed country and has enough food to eat (and presumably doesn’t suffer from an eating disorder) would starve herself. How can being in ad for Target possibly compare to Popeye’s fried chicken?īut lately, it seems like everyone I know is on or has gone on a juice cleanse. Food is one of the greatest pleasures life has to offer. Even when, for a foolish few years when I was a struggling actress and I thought modeling would be a good way to earn extra money and exposure, I could never bring myself to limit my food intake. Let me begin by saying that I don’t diet. This is the story of how I undertook a 3 day juice cleanse and why it was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. ![]()
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