Since finishing the cleanse, I have found myself actually craving the juices on a regular basis. It refocused me on consumption for nutrients rather than consumption for entertainment. In some ways I think my life revolves too much around the experience of eating, so in that regard this cleanse might have also been good for me.

I missed the pleasure of sitting down to a homemade meal with my husband, or walking up to Barracks Row after work to enjoy a cocktail and some appetizers. I rarely felt hungry or lethargic as I feared might be the case. The cleanse itself was not that bad physically. I didn’t do this cleanse for weight loss, but because I’m sure some of you are curious, over the three days, I lost five pounds (I’m sure that this was mostly water weight, because I’ve since found it).

I hadn’t weighed myself since the batteries on my scale broke several months ago, but out of curiosity I replaced them right before the cleanse. It made me wonder whether gluten and all the crap in the processed food I eat causes fatigue that I’ve come to accept as the status quo. I was waking up before my alarm and having good morning workouts. I also found that I had a good deal of energy. I felt like I was treating my body right with all of the vitamins and minerals in the ridiculous amount of fresh produce I was juicing each day. I figured it was something that I could throw in a juice anyway if I really wanted to, and the last thing I wanted was more celery and cucumber.As many of you know, last week I did a three day Do it Yourself Blue Print Cleanse, making all of my juice from scratch in my new Breville juicer (read my summaries of day 1, day 2, and day 3 here).

I decided since I was a first-timer, I would treat myself to a half of an avocado. I knew it was just something I had to wait out like a food craving, but the hunger was lasting much longer than the day before, and the Green Juice just wasn’t cutting it.īluePrint does have a “cheat sheet” on their website with celery, cucumber, avocado, and black coffee. The good thing about doing these at home, and maybe it was because I was making smoothies and not juices, was that I had a lot of leftover juice every time I followed the recipe, so I’d just stick the juices in the fridge for later.Īround the same time as yesterday, between the Spicy Lemonade and the second Green Juice, I became hangry again. Besides dreading the preparation, I drank my green juice happily as I watched the morning news. I woke up not starving and actually feeling good about myself. I was honestly a little nervous it wouldn’t yield the same results, but figured not eating anything except for ground up kale, celery, and beets couldn’t hurt. The only real difference between my DIY cleanse and BluePrint’s was that I had a blender and there was no way to create a “cold-pressed juice” out of my ingredients. BluePrint’s 3-day cleanse costs $195.00 I got all of the groceries I needed from Trader Joe’s for $35, and they lasted me for the entire 3 days with some to spare. I decided I wanted to try BluePrint’s Renovation Cleanse program and found copycat recipes for all the juices they offer online. Being the broke college student that I am, I decided I would do the 3-day juice cleanse by making them myself. However, I also found that 3-day juice cleanse programs run anywhere from $140–$200. Also, since the cleanses claim to supplement your body with all the nutrition it really needs, it seemed like a moderately healthy option compared to some others (yes, I did consider the taco cleanse). Most of us have heard of the juice cleanse trend by now and, after some Googling, I found a girl who did it and lost three pounds in three days, which seemed acceptable by my standards.

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