I'd been wanting to do a juice detox for a while after a friend of mine in London completed a week detox and said she'd never felt better. I stumbled upon the Juices By Ginger facebook page and decided to have a go! I'll start by saying that I love food, I generally eat alrightish, a Kanum take away being the 'healthy' option. I'm not hugely overweight at 5'7 and fluctuate at around 10 stone. I weighed myself on the Monday and the scales said 142 lbs.
On Monday 21st October a lovely man arrived at my door with a fresh box of 12 jars. He told me that the first day will be tough and to make sure I drink lots of water. He said to have the 'treat' juice if I was hitting a low point.
Day 1: I started the detox on Tuesday morning, by 11am I was starving but that was clearly all in my head as I wouldn't usually have eaten anything at that stage of the day. The first day was okay, I did get hungry, but my hot water and lemon distracted me for the most part and I kept myself busy. Once 5 o'clock hit I was home and dry.
Day 2: The second day was probably the hardest, I was irritable and moody. I felt cold and hungry but my treat juice gave me a good boost in the afternoon. I cheated and had a few nuts which actually made a huge difference, I think it might have just been the biting motion that I was missing so much! I had a surge of energy towards the end of the day and was feeling good.
Day 3: Felt fresh as a daisy when I woke up (the end was in sight), I drank my four juices (11am, 2pm, 4pm and 7pm) and went to bed early to avoid any last hunger pains.
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At the end of the juice detox I weigh 135lbs, 7lbs down! A shit load of weight to lose in 3 days, I definitely feel skinny, my mood is good and I'm not even hungry! I'm looking forward to having three meals a day but I think after this, I'm going to be a lot more mindful about what I eat.
The easiest way for me to summarise this experience would be to separate it into three sections; Biological, Psychological and Social.
Biological:
I went through stages of being staaarrrrvvvving but they only lasted about 15/20 mins, and as I said, I did have a few peanuts when it got really bad. Surprisingly, I didn't feel as tired as I thought I would considering I have two coffees a day. The 'treat juice' has a good bit of natural sugar in it so I suppose that was enough to keep me alert.
Psychological:
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All in all, the main thing that I noticed physically were my moods. I'm generally not a moody person (I swear!) but I found myself snapping a bit when I shouldn't have. The main thing I missed was the actual crunch of food, sounds weird but I just wanted to bite down on something. By the second day I was just sick of liquid! My mood swings in the first two days were significant, and I realised how much of my day is based around food. My lovely flat white in the morning, looking forward to lunch and deciding what I want, thinking about what to have for dinner... 3 days in food world is a very long time.
Social:
I missed out on dinner with my parents which was shit because I only see them about once a week and I wasn't gona sit there while they ate and I drank out of a jar. Lunch in work consisted of everyone going out and leaving me in the office like I had the plague. Socially, food is a huge part of life and I've never understood that more.
Bottom line:
I feel great after the three days and I'm delighted about the weight loss but it wasn't easy. I would imagine it varies for everyone but for me, I found it tough. The weight loss, while unsustainable at this rate, is encouraging and I'm definitely going to make a bigger effort to watch what I eat, purely because I feel so good. I'm full of energy and feeling very happy! Oh and also.. The juices were absolutely delicious!
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