Juice Cleanse Day 1: Good, Bad and the Ugly Truth

Here we go!! Juice Cleanse starts today! I think the hardest parts will be giving up coffee. I can have coffee black, but I am going to try to not have coffee. I am doing the Juice Cleanse from Drinkjoos.com it is a local juice cleanse out of Newton, MA. They deliver to a bunch of places in MA. I have to go pick up my first 12 bottles tonight after work. I wanted to get started so I went to Whole Foods this morning and bought 4 Blueprint Cleanse juices. 

9am: First drink for breakfast and my first juice of the day. Yes, this is from the Blueprint Cleanse and not Joos.  I read online that you should start your first drink with a green drink. As you can read from the container it is kale, apple, romaine, spinach, cucumber, celery, parsley and lemon. Well, I can tell you..it's disgusting. I hold my nose every time I drink it or otherwise I am gagging. I am also switching to green tea and drinking a ton of water. You can purchase the Blueprint Cleanse drinks at Whole Foods for $9.99. 

11:30am: Juice #2 is pineapple, apple and mint. It is BY FAR better than my first juice. It tastes sweet and a lot easier to go down than the first juice. If you can see in the back I am also drinking a ton of water. I am required to drink a half my body weight in ounces of water throughout the day as well. 

12:30pm: Lunch time! The best part about my Joos Cleanse is that I can have a 'sensible' lunch. Pretty much all the other juice cleanses I have read about in my research you are ONLY drinking juice for 3, 5 or 7 days. Pretty sure I couldn't do that. Luckily on my cleanse, you are allowed a salad (no dressing) or soup. No dairy, no meat, no wheat or processed foods. Today I hit up the salad bar at my work. I am eating a salad with spinach, iceberg lettuce, carrots, raw broccoli, corn, and brown rice. You are allowed brown rice, quinoa or lentils. Today I went with brown rice. So far I'm feeling okay. I can feel the headache coming on from reducing my caffeine intake. I've lost track of how many times I've had to pee today which is not surprising because of the amount of liquid you are drinking.  I'm not running to the bathroom like I feared, but it's only half way through day 1 so we'll see what happens. 

2:30pm: Tea time! Headache is worsening so time for some tea. I am having a Tazo Zen tea (green tea, lemongrass, spearmint) and Yogi Healthy Fasting tea (caffeine free supports detox while fasting). Prior to my juice cleanse I was drinking 3 cups of coffee a day, which is a ballpark figure of about 391mg of caffeine. Today's caffeine intake is 135mg. 

4:30pm: Time for another juice. I am drinking lime, ginger, lemon, agave. If you took out the ginger and added tequila it would taste like the skinny girl margarita. I DO NOT like drinking ginger. It's grotty. Not a fan.

7pm: Last juice of the day. Beet, apple, carrot, lemon and lime. Nasty. 

10pm: Bed time. Not feeling hungry. Just very tired and have a slight headache from the caffeine withdrawal. 

I survived Day 1. I picked up my Joos cleanse tonight and I start that tomorrow.