I forgot to tell you guys how much weight I lost juicing two weeks ago!  Before setting out for Lake Michigan (family vaycay) and LA (A Night for Green Beauty) I juiced for four consecutive days with my friend Callie of The Organic Giraffe . Damn, she makes a delicious juice.  I ate an organic, raw, all-vegetable salad two of the nights for dinner so I could chew, as this is the longest juice cleanse I’ve done so far.  If you ask any detox coach, that is not cheating, FYI.

I’m a fairly-seasoned cleanser, so I don’t experience too many withdrawal symptoms anymore, but I do become tired a little earlier than usual in the evenings.  I try to cleanse when I know I will be busy as hell; it keeps my mind off of food and it gives me more time to mark off my checklist (less time cooking, grocery shopping, etc).  I also continue to exercise while juicing and I drink two or three liters of water per day; this pushes the toxins out of my body even faster.

I ended up losing four pounds, which puts me just three more pounds away from my “skinny” pre-pregnancy weight, or what my friend Katie calls “driver’s license weight”.  I also finally fit in my smaller pair of white jeans, which is enough to make me happy for the rest of my life (or the summer).  Four pounds doesn’t sound drastic, but keep in mind that I already eat super-healthy and exercise five days a week.  If I regularly ate bread, refined sugar and processed foods, I would have lost more weight, as what one is losing when cleansing is water and (a symptom of inflammation in the body).

That is all for today, just a quick check-in with you to keep myself accountable.  I am about to juice again for a couple of days, as now I’m coming off a family vacation, which requires heavy drinking when you’re with my people.  Interpret that how you’d like 😉

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