How to do a 3 day Juice Cleanse
Three Day Juice Cleanse
Doing a 3 day Juice Cleanse is so majorly important for your health not just as a one time detox for the body, but should also be implemented on a daily basis. Health professionals and many successful entrepreneurs talk openly about how they have added juicing into their morning routines. Why is juicing so important? Check out my article on the health benefits of juicing here but the main keys to keep in mind are:
It gives your digestive system a break and a chance to rest that it NEVER gets. Think about all the energy it takes you body to break down food and how many times a day it has to repeat this process. This frees up energy to do other tasks like healing, re-generating and fat burning.
Secondly, Live Juices ,which come from freshly squeezed fruits or veggies, contain active enzymes which act as catalysts used to provide nutrients to your body. These nutrients are powerhouses that prevent cellular damage and disease. By drinking a fresh juice , its almost as if you are injecting these nutrients straight into your blood stream within a few minutes.
There are so many juice cleanses out there it is easy to get overwhelmed. I remember when we first started juicing we spent so much unnecessary time and money looking up different recipes that required multiple fruits and vegetables. But when you get home with 10 different fruits you have to peel and clean and mix together (not to mention read all the separate recipes) just to make ONE juice, its actually discouraging. Now I just make sure to do only recipes with very few ingredients maybe 3-4 fruits or veg per juice. Keep life simple!
There is so much information out there on juicing and so many people wanting you to buy their pre-packaged programs, of course they want to tell you to do a 10 day cleanse….more money for them! For our family, and our health, its best to take it nice and easy. Not eating solid food for one day alone is hard enough. Ease your body into this change and introduce it to this wonderful healing process with a simple start, for us that means a 3 day juice cleanse.
Here’s how to do a 3 day juice Cleanse
Tips: Wash Vegetables in cold water, use vegetable brush to scrub or cloth and dry vegetables before juicing. This is VERY IMPORTANT to remove bacteria.
Remove Skins from Any Waxed Vegetable like Cucumbers
Do not Juice the Cores of Apples or Seeds( They contain cyanide which is poisonous to humans)
Cut off Ends of Fruits/Veggies like carrot tops, lemon rinds, cucumber ends, bottom of stalks)
*For water consumtion: In the morning I prepare a large gallon/ glass container of water and give myself a goal of how many of these containers or how many glasses I will drink
DAY ONE
Start off the morning by boiling water… Drink at least 1 glass of warm water with lemon
Juice 1-
1 Cucumber
1 Lemon
1 Handful of Parsley
1 Tea
Lots of Water
Juice 2-
3 Romaine Lettuce Leaves
3 Red Kale Leaves
2 Valencia Oranges
1 Tea
Water
Juice 3-
Bunch Green Grapes
Bunch Dandelion leaves ( or dark green leafy veg)
One Granny Smith Apple
Drink More Water
Juice 4-
3 Romaine Lettuce Leaves
1 Pink/Red Apple ( Gala Apple, Fuji or Red Delicious)
2 Whole Carrots
Drink More Water
Juice 5-
Handful of Lacinato Kale
2 Celery Stalks
1 inch of Ginger
One Green Apple
One Lemon
One Tea Before Bed ( Licorice Tea is sweet.. I really like it as bedtime sweet)
DAY 2
Start off the morning boil water…
Drink warm water with lemon
Juice 1-
1 Apple of Choice
3 Leaves Romaine Lettuce
2 Celery Sticks
½ Lemon
1 Cucumber
Juice 2
1 Cucumber
1 Apple
2 Stalks Celery
1 inch Ginger
½ Lemon
Tea
Water
Juice 3
1 Apple
3 Leaves Kale
2 Leaves Swiss Chard
1 Lemon
Tea
Water
Juice 4
3 Leaves Bok Choy
1 Cucumber
Handful Parsley
1 Lemon
Tea
Water
Juice 5
3 Carrots
2 Apples
1 Inch Ginger
Day 3
On this last day I would evaluate how much fruit/vegetables you have left then based on which vegetables remain… Google specific recipes for what you have left over. For example if you have excess of lemons and kale then google search: lemon kale juice recipe and look at what comes out in the results to find a new recipe.
Just make sure you continue to drink at least 5 juices or more as meals and consume a lot of water as you have in the previous two days.
It is important to remember after doing a juice cleanse, although you will be ravenously hungry, remember to introduce solid food slowly back into your system by first eating fruits and then a very light meal like a salad or soup. Try to follow this the following day and then try some solid food in small amounts to see how you feel.
