boulderlily's 3 day cleanse - buy now!
I got an extremely awesome juicer for Christmas because I felt like I was wasting my money on V8 and Naked juice smoothies. It's a beast and I like getting the most out of it so I make fresh juices 3-4 times a week. Well, this week I decided to do a ~juice cleanse~ which didn't pan out since I was working, busy and still had to make dinner for my husband. I drank juice during the day but I ate dinner all week.
I convinced my husband to do a cleanse with me this weekend since he was off on Friday and we're making an effort to get healthier before we have a baby. I read a lot of SERIOUS BIZ juice fasts online, in this juicing book I also got for Christmas, and all sorts of other stuff. Everything varies so much that I decided to say FUCK IT! and I made my own cleanse based on a billion different websites and my own stubborn ideas.
It has been AMAZING! I feel all chilled and relaxed, my skin seems a lot brighter and I just feel a lot more alert and healthy. I figured I'd type it out here because I plan on doing it whenever we have a long weekend since it was so ~rejuvinating~ and I enjoy forcing my husband to eat as many vegetables as possible. I tried taking a video of myself making one recipe but Marley was watching me and I was intimidated and a lemon ended up bouncing out of the machine and making me look like a FOOL. I will probably upload it anyway though because Marley looks cute in it.
I used recipes from this book:
which I really like since it's kinda hard to find direct juice recipes online. I'll type out all the recipes I used though.
This is my juicer:
The produce I used:
- Apples
- Pears
- Strawberries
- Lemons
- Tomatoes
- Clementines
- Cucumbers
- Carrots
- Bell peppers
- Beets
- Flat-leaf parsley
- Ginger root
- Asparagus
- Purple cabbage
- Romaine lettuce
- Spinach
- Celery
- Avocados
- Fennel
- Brussels sprouts
- Green beans
Teas/drinks/other shit I used:
I also had 1-2 cups of coffee a day - plain black coffee.
Foods:
- Raw almonds
- Raw trail mix - this is mine, I get it at Sprouts.
Recipes:
Morning Energizer:
- 1/2 green apple
- 4-5 carrots, tops and ends removed
- 3 fennel stalks
- 1/2 cucumber
- Handful of spinach
- 1" piece of ginger root
Liver Cleanser
- 1/2 cucmber
- 1/2 lemon
- 5 carrots, tops and ends removed
- 1 small beet
Natural Diuretic
- 1 vine-ripened tomato
- 1/2 lemon
- handful of parsley
- 1 cucumber
- 5-10 asparagus stems
Joint Mender
- 1 green apple
- 1 cup of strawberries
- 2-3 celery stalks
- 2-3 clementines
Watermelon Cleanser
- 1/2 small watermelon, cored leaving about 1" of pink around the rind
- 5-6 celery stalks
- 1 lemon
- 2-3 carrots
Healthy Skin Cocktail
- 1 vine-ripened tomato
- 1 small romaine heart
- 10 green beans
- 5 brussels sprouts
- 1/2 lemon
Colon Cleanser
- 1 pear
- 1 apple
- 1 lemon
Gallbladder Flush
- 1/2 purple cabbage
- 3-4 carrots, tops and ends removed
- 1 beet
- 1/2 lemon
- 1/2 green apple
- 1" piece of ginger
Fast Breaking Soup
- 5-7 carrots
- 1 red bell pepper
- handful of parsley
- 1-2 avocados
- cumin
- garlic
- Bragg liquid aminos
Basically:
I put the recipes in order. Days 1 and 2 can be switched all up as much as you want. Day 3 goes in a specific order though.
All of these juices are awesome on their own but I like to dilute them with either water or iced green tea.
- In the morning and afternoon, I would drink my first juice and take my vitamins. An hour or so later I'd drink some coffee.
- As snacks I'd eat a handful of almonds or trailmix. I drank a bottle of kombucha everyday.
- At night I'd drink my ~final juice~ and do some yoga and take a walk.
- After that, I'd have a few cups of tea. It doesn't matter when you drink tea... it just soothes your stomach and has some herbs to aid in digestion and whatnot.
- Drink lots of water too!
Most of the produce I used was organic, but it's not necessary. I also use this to wash all my produce:
I really recommend trying it, or some variation of it! It feels amazing.
I convinced my husband to do a cleanse with me this weekend since he was off on Friday and we're making an effort to get healthier before we have a baby. I read a lot of SERIOUS BIZ juice fasts online, in this juicing book I also got for Christmas, and all sorts of other stuff. Everything varies so much that I decided to say FUCK IT! and I made my own cleanse based on a billion different websites and my own stubborn ideas.
It has been AMAZING! I feel all chilled and relaxed, my skin seems a lot brighter and I just feel a lot more alert and healthy. I figured I'd type it out here because I plan on doing it whenever we have a long weekend since it was so ~rejuvinating~ and I enjoy forcing my husband to eat as many vegetables as possible. I tried taking a video of myself making one recipe but Marley was watching me and I was intimidated and a lemon ended up bouncing out of the machine and making me look like a FOOL. I will probably upload it anyway though because Marley looks cute in it.
I used recipes from this book:
which I really like since it's kinda hard to find direct juice recipes online. I'll type out all the recipes I used though.
This is my juicer:
The produce I used:
- Apples
- Pears
- Strawberries
- Lemons
- Tomatoes
- Clementines
- Cucumbers
- Carrots
- Bell peppers
- Beets
- Flat-leaf parsley
- Ginger root
- Asparagus
- Purple cabbage
- Romaine lettuce
- Spinach
- Celery
- Avocados
- Fennel
- Brussels sprouts
- Green beans
Teas/drinks/other shit I used:
I also had 1-2 cups of coffee a day - plain black coffee.
Foods:
- Raw almonds
- Raw trail mix - this is mine, I get it at Sprouts.
Recipes:
Morning Energizer:
- 1/2 green apple
- 4-5 carrots, tops and ends removed
- 3 fennel stalks
- 1/2 cucumber
- Handful of spinach
- 1" piece of ginger root
Liver Cleanser
- 1/2 cucmber
- 1/2 lemon
- 5 carrots, tops and ends removed
- 1 small beet
Natural Diuretic
- 1 vine-ripened tomato
- 1/2 lemon
- handful of parsley
- 1 cucumber
- 5-10 asparagus stems
Joint Mender
- 1 green apple
- 1 cup of strawberries
- 2-3 celery stalks
- 2-3 clementines
Watermelon Cleanser
- 1/2 small watermelon, cored leaving about 1" of pink around the rind
- 5-6 celery stalks
- 1 lemon
- 2-3 carrots
Healthy Skin Cocktail
- 1 vine-ripened tomato
- 1 small romaine heart
- 10 green beans
- 5 brussels sprouts
- 1/2 lemon
Colon Cleanser
- 1 pear
- 1 apple
- 1 lemon
Gallbladder Flush
- 1/2 purple cabbage
- 3-4 carrots, tops and ends removed
- 1 beet
- 1/2 lemon
- 1/2 green apple
- 1" piece of ginger
Fast Breaking Soup
- 5-7 carrots
- 1 red bell pepper
- handful of parsley
- 1-2 avocados
- cumin
- garlic
- Bragg liquid aminos
Basically:
I put the recipes in order. Days 1 and 2 can be switched all up as much as you want. Day 3 goes in a specific order though.
All of these juices are awesome on their own but I like to dilute them with either water or iced green tea.
- In the morning and afternoon, I would drink my first juice and take my vitamins. An hour or so later I'd drink some coffee.
- As snacks I'd eat a handful of almonds or trailmix. I drank a bottle of kombucha everyday.
- At night I'd drink my ~final juice~ and do some yoga and take a walk.
- After that, I'd have a few cups of tea. It doesn't matter when you drink tea... it just soothes your stomach and has some herbs to aid in digestion and whatnot.
- Drink lots of water too!
Most of the produce I used was organic, but it's not necessary. I also use this to wash all my produce:
I really recommend trying it, or some variation of it! It feels amazing.