Good morning!
This time I may actually mean it. My dog let me sleep until 8:30 which rarely happens, so it was nice to get that extra hour-ish of sleep. I think I may have to go to a pet store and buy her something ;)
Okay let's be honest I would have bought her something regardless. Her breed? Spoiled.
Miss Spoiled is currently curled up next to me on the couch. Yep. What a life. It looks a little something like this.
Anyway, yesterday was day 1 of the cleanse and I want to give you a little first impression I had of each juice. For reference, I'm doing Good Life Cleanse's Classic Detox Cleanse, and all the nutritional info is provided in the link. You can see which ones I'm having and the presumed order. I'd recommend referring to that so you know what I'm talking about as I go through the juices of the day.
First thing when I woke up, I drank a tall glass of water. I wasn't feeling hungry (and I never am in the morning), so I instead took Maia out for a walk, which was supposed to be an hour and turned into two. So by the time I got back home it was 11:30. I started with my first juice of the day pretty late, you're supposed to have it within the first hour of waking up. Whoops.
The first juice is "Classic Greens", with apple, cucumber, romaine, celery, lemon, spinach, kale, parsley, and ginger. On first impressions yesterday, I wasn't overly fond of this one. It tastes pretty heavily parsley, which I'm not a huge fan of. But, it wasn't horrible, and I could taste other flavours in it too. Ultimately, it was okay, but not my favourite.
Please note, in between each juice - as instructed - I had a cup of hot water. You can do hot or cold, but because it's winter here in frosty Canada, I chose to boil a kettle and have a mug of that.
The second juice is "Sweet Life", with pineapple, cucumber, apple, lime, and mint. I quite like this one. At first the mint was quite strong but about halfway through it became refreshing. Plus, I love anything with pineapple, so there's that.
The third is another green juice, called "All U Need", with carrot, celery, spinach, and parsley. This one again is parsley heavy, but it's lighter than the first one and the carrot is heavier. Which I appreciate, it makes the juice a little thicker and sweeter than the first one. If I could, I would swap out the first one and have 2 of these instead.
The next one is called "Master Cleanse" with lemon, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper, and this is the one I was most worried that I wouldn't like. I can't handle spicy things, so this "spicy lemonade" intimidated me. My first sip was, I'll be honest, horrendous. Then I realized I'm supposed to shake it. So I did that. After I shook it up it was tolerable, but I had to dump the last 8th or so of the bottle because all the cayenne fell to the bottom and made it very spicy. Otherwise, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I just can't handle spicy things.
I had been spacing these no further than 2 hours apart, and that seemed to be working well, but after Master Cleanse I had a shower and was getting distracted watching Bones and not keeping track of time. I went about 2.5 hours, and realized suddenly that I was getting really hungry.
I started my next to last juice of the day - "Roots Remedy", with cucumber, apple, celery, carrots, beet, lemon, ginger, parsley, mint. This one is okay, I don't hate beets, but again the parsley is pretty strong. I think the mint helps mellow it a little so it's not so offensive. It easily quelled my hunger about halfway through. I'm proud that I didn't break before even one day!
The last juice is called "Creamy Cashew", with cashews, vanilla bean, cinnamon, dates, and sea salt. This is the one I was most excited for and it's definitely my favourite. It's like dessert! I did find the vanilla bean to be a little strong, but it was a nice ending to the day and really kept me full overnight. I didn't wake up starving or anything.
So there you have Day 1! I'm pretty happy so far. Tomorrow I'll give more of an overview of how I've been feeling, etc. Have a good day, and thank you for reading, all that do. xx
