The 5 Day Juice Cleanse is COMPLETE--Our Thoughts

We DID it! YAY!

Wanna know what we thought about the experience? Here you go!

PROS:

    +Easy. No meal planning. No grocery shopping. No food prep. No dishes.

    +Yummy. I liked every single juice.

    +The packaging was BRILLIANT! Recyclable and compostable.

    +Less tummy bloat, face/eye puffiness, and feet/leg swelling.

    +Made us hydrate!

    +No hunger. We never said, "I'm starrrrving!"

    +We experienced good energy–when we felt like we needed fuel, we drank a juice and

    felt like we were back in action.

    

    +Slept great.

    +Weight loss (I lost 5 lbs. Hubby lost 11lbs. Is that a healthy amount to “lose” in 5

    days? No. Do I expect that most of it will go right back on after eating healthy food–

    even when watching calories? Yes. I’ll talk more about this in another post!)

    +AND…the biggest boon…it was definitely a mental re-boot. We’re not jonesing for junk

    food nor do we have ANY plans to overstuff ourselves like we had been doing in our

    prior “vacation mode”. We don’t miss THAT feeling at ALL!

CONS:

    -Expensive. (Probably NOT for what you get though…making juice at home is expensive

    AND time consuming!)

    -High sugar content…when the sugary floor came out from underneath us, we turned

    into grouchie-grouchertons.

    -The Wellness Shot was insanely spicy and the Vitality Shot was not for me.

    -OK for a 3-5 day thing, but I wouldn’t recommend it as a long term thing due to lack of     protein, fiber, fat, etc. (Which, of course, is why it’s called a “cleanse” and not a “way of     eating” LOL!)

    -As the 5-day mark approached, some of the juices started looking a little funky and

    didn’t taste nearly as fresh as they did on day one even though most of the “Best   

    By” dates were still 2+ weeks away.

CONCLUSION:

Would I do it again? Sure thing! Though, I would probably stick to 3 days as I don’t feel like I got THAT much more out of the extra two days. I experienced ALL of the Pros listed above by the third day for sure.

Would hubby do it again? He actually said the same thing! “Three days is about right!”

So there you go! Thanks for tuning in and checking out our 5 Day Juice Cleanse Experiment! It was fun having you along for the ride!

Until next time!

HUGS!

My first chewable food in 5 days!  Wahoo!