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I did a 24 hour juice cleanse. Here’s what happened.
Does a liquid detox make us feel better, or just leave us broke and unsatisfied?
A whole day without solid food is an unappealing prospect for many of us.
Finding the energy to power through a whole day of just being alive seems almost impossible without regular meals and snacks. Obviously, there’s that whole part of it just being a bit bloody miserable too.
However, despite our obvious human requirement for food, and our emotional attachments to it, the juice cleanse (or juice fast) is still a popular short-term diet. Some of these cleanse packages can claim to offer everything from rapid weight loss to a full body detox.
Reader, I remain skeptical.
The basis of these cleanses is the consumption of only juice for anything between 1 and 30 days. Naturally, they are often also prohibitively expensive.
Questions and doubts abound. Where will I get protein from? Where will I get fat from? Will my pee be green? Will my teeth rot? Will all this expense be worth it?
To cement my own feelings about this trend, and to provide my lovely YouTube viewers with some juicy schadenfreude, I tried it out.
Looking to a local juicing company, whom I had previously ordered from in the name of…
