Day 1 of My 3 Day Juice Cleanse with GoodStuff Juices Summer Slim

Okay you guys, you ready to follow along on my FIRST EVER juice cleanse?!?!?! It’s gonna be fuuuuun! (I think?!)

Yesterday was Day 1 of my juice cleanse and I’m tapping out this post in the wee hours of the morning on Day 2 to recap the previous day. So, you ready? Here we go!

Day 1 Juice Cleanse Recap

Early Part of the Day – I went to bed reeeeally early the night before with the intent to be well rested for my juice cleanse. So of course the kids picked that night to wake up every half hour demanding things of me. I woke up groggy, sleep-deprived, cranky and famished. Which is really weird since I don’t usually feel hungry in the mornings and my first meal of the day tends to be around 11am (and I generally wake up around 6 or 7am). I’m pretty sure the immediate hunger was largely psychosomatic because I was prepping myself to go without food. I weighed myself and weighed in at 162.7. My stomach was feeling pretty bloated from the veggie burger I had the night before that had lots of wheat in it, which I’ve discovered I’m a little sensitive to. So between elevated weight and bloated belly, I am READY for the cleanse!!

It was a work day at my dads (I work for my dad as a process server and office assistant a couple of times a week) and since today was going to be a run around town type day, I packed all 6 of my juices, bundled up all the kids and got ready to head out the door. I was already DESPERATELY missing my morning coffee habit (this is the main worry I have with this cleanse.. I literally drink coffee all day, every day) so I made myself a morning cup of Hibiscus Herbal Tea instead.

Once at my dads office, I had my first juice, the Sumer Shine mix, and OMG it is so far my favorite out of all I’ve tried. It straight up tastes like the Dole Whip Floats from Disneyland. Not even kidding. I felt guilty drinking it, like, this is sooooo good, how can it be slimming??!?! I guess we’ll see..?!

I set a timer on my phone to go off at 8am, 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm and 6pm to remind me to drink my next meal. The morning started out slow for me (and I was running into some frustrating issues with my work) so the first couple drinks seemed like forever apart. I kept staring at the clock wondering when my next one would be, not because I was hungry or thirsty, but just impatient and flustered.

Middle Part of the Day – I started to get a headache which I am fairly positive is the caffeine withdrawal. I normally drink about 6 to 8 cups of coffee a day, so I was totally expecting this. I took some Tylenol and a caffeine pill and the headache cleared up fairly quickly. I got the desire to eat something solid around 1pm, just after my normal lunchtime. I chugged some water and it went away fairly quickly as well. About the half day mark by day really sped up, I was running around the Central Valley delivering jury summons, so between my head in paperwork and a good amount of car karaoke I was pretty preoccupied and when my alarm would go off I’d think, “Time for another juice?!”. And it really did feel more like a treat than a meal.. these things are wicked good! When I make juices at home I am always more heavy on the greens and so these struck me very much as sweet dessert fruit cocktails than detox drinks. So no complaints here!

End of the Day – A couple of things I noticed. I started to feel really dehydrated, and realized that with the exception for one bottle of water around noon and my morning tea, I hadn’t had ANYTHING ELSE to drink. I was so preoccupied with work and juice that I forgot to really push the hydration. Oops. At this point I’d had almost every single drink while driving in the car. My last juice of the day, the Granddaddy Grapefruit was the only drink that I can say I wasn’t terribly fond of, but then again, I’ve never been overly fond of Grapefruit. But I AM fond of it’s health promoting properties, so I won’t complain!

Around 6pm I noticed I had not had a bowel movement during the day, and was instead just having really rotten smelling gas. Yuck. I also started to feel my energy slow waaaaay down. I had intended to put in a 12 hour work day, but when I got back to the office at 7:30pm I just pulled the plug and headed home with my kiddos. I wanted so desperately to sit down with a hot cup of tea and relax and unwind for a bit but my kids were in MEGA DESTRUCTION MODE and were basically needing to be corralled into bed. By the time I successfully got them all into bed, I just crashed in mine, forgetting (again) to go hydrate myself beyond the juices. I’ll get better about this on Day 2, I swear!

Overall – Juices were tasty, quite good, and great variety. I did not feel bored or deprived flavor-wise. I had some minimal desires to chew on something in the middle of the day, but they weren’t hunger pains, just wanting something to chew.. if that makes any sense?? I didn’t feel hungry at all, in fact. The worst effects of the juicing cleanse so far is my caffeine withdrawal symptoms and feeling low energy later in the day. But overall, not a terrible Day 1! I feel like Day 2 will be about as easy. We’ll see, right?!

A Little Bit About GoodStuff Juices

From the GoodStuff Juices website (CLICK HERE to visit or place an order):

We make real authentic cold-pressed juice. Intentionally unpasteurized. We do it right that means we never add water, sugars, flavor or anything that would compromise the nutrient quality of the juice. We also use #9 certified organic fruits and vegetables. Add all that up and factor in that we own the Mercedes Benz of cold-pressed juicer machines and you have GoodStuff Juices.

The inspiration to start GoodStuff Juices was to create the easiest access to the best liquid nutrients in the world because real cold pressed juicing is considered expensive and a huge hassle, so people over look the benefits of drinking real cold pressed juice daily. 

Our cold-pressed juice provides more nutritional benefit and is a great way to round out your diet helping you live a balanced life.

A Little Bit About the Summer Slim Cleanse

From the GoodStuff Juices website (CLICK HERE to visit or place an order):

Each cleanse consists of six 12-ounce bottles of juice per day. All drinks are perishable after 72 hours. Unless they are frozen, drinks should be consumed within that time to avoid spoilage. Juices are derived entirely from local and organic produce (no sugar or water added) and is nutrient rich and pure.

This cleanse package “The Summer Slim Cleanse” is great for reducing bloating, increasing metabolism, boosting energy, and shedding fat. Contains an assortment of these nutrient dense fruit and vegetable cold-pressed juices:

Summer Shine
Mint Melon
Candy Apple
Granddaddy Grapefruit
Lemon Ginger Blast

12oz juice. No added water. No added sugar. No HPP.

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