Juice Cleanse with the Whys Guy!
By Aaron Traister
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I'm starting a three-day "Juice Cleanse." It sounds grosser than it is-wait, no, it's pretty gross. And despite what this headline says, I'm being totally serious when I write: "DON'T Juice Cleanse with the Whys Guy."
Now that I've made that disclaimer, let me back up and start at the beginning. Last year, in an effort to break a lifetime of fairly rotten eating habits, I went vegan on the weekdays for a month. I knew I needed a change because I was basically sweating bourbon and bacon grease, and things like breathing comfortably were starting to become a bit of a hassle. My plan worked fantastically and led to one of the healthiest years of my life-I hadn't felt that good since high school. That one month taught me about balancing the meats and cheeses and boozes that I love with all the veggies and non-boozes that I need. I had a year of smaller portions, very little straight-up junk food, and lots of energy for exercise.
However, as a reward, I decided that during the holidays I would just enjoy myself and revert to my old ways. Wow. I may have kept it a little too real. I stopped exercising and was back to bacon sweats within the first week. Then, multiply that by five weeks. Simply trying to go vegan again wasn't gonna cut it-I needed something harder to motivate me. Hello, Juice Cleanse!
Actually, I tried to start my cleanse last week, but when I unexpectedly got my hands on four pounds of free Cheddar Brats (gift from my sis), things sorta went off the rails. You can't just let awesome Cheddar Brats go to waste. After my Wild Card weekend of cheese-filled sausages (and maybe some all-you-can-eat ribs at Deke's BBQ during the Lion's game) I'm ready to give it another shot.
Just to clarify, I'm not wandering around sipping Minute Maid or Welch's apple juice, or doing a fancy and wildly expensive cleanse, where they deliver the juice to you in a cooler and Gwyneth Paltrow tweets about it. I made a boatload of different, mostly awful-tasting juices out of fresh fruits and veggies on Sunday night. I'm thinking I shouldn't ("shouldn't" being the operative word) get hungry because I'm guzzling a concentrated few pounds of raw beets, cucumbers, carrots, celery, chard, watermelon, pineapple, apple, oranges, and grapefruit.
Ugh, it'll be great-or slowly kill me. Stay tuned.
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