Last week I wrote a post on my first detox cleanse….it was just a 3 day cleanse of healthy smoothies, water, vitamins, and detox baths. I started on Tuesday and ended on Thursday, just in enough time for me to pig out eat again over the weekend.
Day 1 was the hard. The morning went awesome, I am used to having a morning routine of green tea when I wake up followed by a super healthy smoothie, so it wasn’t out of the norm. I made my lunch smoothie ahead of time because I knew I would be out and about all day and would be starving before I could get home to make it. Well….I screwed it up and it was HORRIBLE. I gagged and knew there was no way in hell that nasty concoction was making its way to my belly. My mistake was when the recipe called for 1/2 of a lime I threw the literal 1/2 of a lime in the blender. Well well well…..can I just tell you how bitter lime peel is!?Blah. I was up too early and tired to put a lot of thought into it, I just hurried and made it. That threw off the rest of my day because I had to remake it when I got home about 1 1/2 hours after I should have drank the lunch smoothie, so I was cranky and hungry. When I remade it I just squeezed half of a lime in the smoothie and it was much better. Not yummy, but tolerable.
Day 2 was better but still hard. By the time dinner came around I was so freaking hungry that I am pretty sure I threatened my husbands life, I think he actually became nervous for his safety. “Aunt Flo” was well on her way into town and my hormones just took over me, I was possessed. I cheated and ate some tuna. I know, you’re thinking why the hell would I eat tuna if I were going to cheat and why the hell would I be craving tuna while majorly PMSing. Well I don’t have a good answer for either of those…I just know that I was craving tuna, so I gave in and ate some. It made me calm down and the possessed Ashlee went away, my husband was so grateful. 😉 Other than cheating with tuna all went well.
Day 3 was okay, I was just ready to be DONE. If you can make it 2 days, you can do one more. Nothing exciting to report.
Okay, so I didn’t really feel all that different afterwards, but I had some major PMS going on, so it is really hard to tell if I was so tired because of one or the other or possibly a combo. I would suggest not doing a cleanse at the same time Flo is arriving. It definitely confuses the results. I did however lose about 6 pounds, which was exciting! Then the weekend came, I could eat again, and I may or may not have eaten too many sweets and chips. But it was a fun out of town weekend and I am just happy to be eating food again. So I probably gained most of the 6 pounds back and could care less.
I wanted to do a cleanse and I did it, I am glad too. I will tweak the next one to better suit my needs though….when I won’t be dealing with the inconvenient girl issues.
Tell me your cleanse experiences…
