Embarking on my first juice + soup detox on Wednesday has been an interesting experience so far. My first challenge was the fact that Ales has decided to only do a light version of it for a couple of personal and worthy reasons. This means he is eating one solid meal per day while he’s away at work, which isn’t a huge deal, of course, but it does chip away at the ol’ resolve a tiny bit. Second challenge: Day 1. Same as with the Master Cleanse, the first day was fairly difficult. I woke up, exercised, drank a lot of juice and soup and water, did some photo-retouching work and painted a cabinet, feeling fine until an abrupt crash around 3pm, after which I barely had enough energy to finish the retouching and to watch a movie. I was asleep by 10pm.
Yesterday was significantly easier, I drank 2 mugs o’soup, less juice, conducted a photo shoot, generally took care of business and felt much better and sharper. However! I cheated ever so slightly by splitting a piece of chocolate with Ales in the evening. Totally worth it. Now it’s Day 3, I feel great and have a lot to do today, in addition to having plans to see a midnight movie. My strategy is to pace myself and to conserve energy as much as possible, but I still intend to do a 20-minute pilates routine before jumping into the day’s work. Right now though, I’m in bed with the dog and a huge glass of mango juice, and will probably happily stay here dealing with a backlog of email for a while.
Since I have Alchemy to perform at next Wednesday and want to be in top form, I’ll ease into raw food on Tuesday morning, which will have given me six days of Phase 1 – enough as far as I’m concerned. I’m thinking a light lunch at Cru will be a nice way to celebrate and to kick off Phase 2.
Has anyone reading this began a detox this week? How is it going, if so?
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At first glance I thought that said juice + soap detox. I was like, “wow, I thought Zoetica was smarter than to drink SOAP.” Glad that’s not the case!
yay, cru!
I always wanted to do a liquid detox, most of all because I think it will be a good thing for me once in a while. I suffer from ulcerative colitis and I have a lot of problems processing food. I can’t drink/eat lactose, meat, chocolate… And sometimes I think that drinking just liquids for a few days will be good for me. But the problem is the energy, as you wrote. Because of my illness I have anemia and I don’t know if I could have enough energy by just drinking liquids. I will follow your aventure with this detox, knowing that you are a healthy person and I’m not, and maybe I will try it myself next week. Good luck with it!! ;)
Way to go on your detox! I’m actually starting one tomorrow, I just got back from the grocery store and stocked up on juice and clear-broth soup. I’m excited to start, and your post just helped with that :)
In my case it’s: hello antibiotics. Once I recover from the final flu impact (after some lighter signs of illness it eventually hit me badly) I promise myself a mild detox, lots of yoga and spending time outdoors – after a horrifying combo of stress and illness I really need it. The only thing I’m afraid about is that I’ll have to spend so many hours cooking soups etc., life’s hard for vegetarians-in-need-of-a-good-instant-soup here in Poland! But hey, I’ve done it before and it was fine.
There is a company called Zukay live foods, they have this line of kvass juices, my favorite is the beet ginger. There’s no frills about them, straight up beet and ginger with a bit o’ sea salt. It’s earthy for real, but I mix in some blueberry or pomegranate juice and yummy! or if I am really feeling snazzy I will top it off with some sparkling berry juice to make it a spritzer. It’s a high class liver cleanse I tell ya what! Anyway, it’s cures that 3 o’clock crash for me. Hard core energy, and a nice rosy glow to my lips and cheeks. bottoms up!
The only detox I’d really heard about was the Master Cleanse. I think I could handle a soup and juice cleanse, but it would still be very tough. I’ve been thinking about starting one before I change my diet here soon so I am excited to see how yours goes.
You’ll do awesome and I hope your energy picks up soon!
What about Gala Darling? I have noticed your paths are very close lately.
I eat raw mostly and LOVE it!
Annah, thanks again for awesome rack scouting – wait ’til you see this bad mo-fo in person.
Erin, I promise you here and now that I will never drink soap in public.
The Generalist, I’m on Day 5 now, and though I definitely feel much better than I did on Day 1, my energy level is nowhere near what it usually is. It’s OK, but I’m definitely not operating at full power – I think it just comes with the territory when you’re aggressively resetting your body’s habits.
Ashlotte, congratulations! I hope you update us on your progress.
Olga, get well soon! I suggest making your soups in large batches so you’re not a slave to the stove.
Emery, that sounds really nice, I’ll check it out – thank you!
Anastasia, I’ll be writing an update in a couple of days.
Nataliex, welcome to Biorequiem. I’m so proud of Gala – when I saw her post an announcement of getting on the Clean program the evening of the same day I wrote about planning my cleanse, I decided there was clearly something in the air. Everyone’s feeling truly ready to make real progress these days – supersynchronicityGO.
I want to do a detox soon but, I’m going slowly step by step towards it. Last week I started drinking only water and teas while still eating a few solid meals during the days. I think this week I’ll try and do a detox similar to your liquids only. I think it might be hard for me since I usually love eating soup with a bread of some sort :/ I’ll figure something out… heh
I’m quite curious what juices you drink? Or are they home made juice from fruit to a blender?
I want to understand why people “detox” so reading this helps me some…
thanks
I want to try this, though I doubt I will be able to do so while living with people who think that every diet is intended to lose weight, and will try to either force me out of this ‘dangerous dieting’ or try it themselves to drop a couple of pounds hahaha.
If you can get your hands on a blender, I HIGHLY recomment that you try peach + fresh basil + ice + maybe some honey.
Good luck with the detox!
Greetings fellow humanoid!
I have not as such began a detox of any sort, although I have been only consuming liquids for the past week. Because I got braces put on last week I have trouble eating anything that isn’t blended done to a juicy pulp without causing pain to my mouth zone.
Fruit smoothies and vegetable juices are the way to go for me. It’s fun mixing and making my own creations and being adventurous in the kitchen space. I throw a handful of goji berries in just about everything which seem to help be providing me with sufficient amounts of energy to survive the day. I’ve also been eating, or rather drinking, copious amounts of homemade soups (with help from my mother’s recipes). And I take miso soup sachets to work with me.
Also, I wonder, have you read this cookbook?
http://jonsiandalex.com/recipes
Created by the lovely Jónsi & Alex.
Jónsi is vegetarian and only ever eats raw foods.
So I thought this cookbook might be helpful for you.
ANYWAYS, I hope that you are feeling mighty fine after this Super Awesome Detox Adventure.
From Justin
- one of your fans from the land down under.
Pea.es. Seeing as this is the first time I have ever commented on one of your awesome posts I figured I should be heaps lame and mention how much I admire you.