Free The Juice Cleanse Reset Diet by Lori Kenyon Farley

point, your attitude toward food has probably changed somewhat. You are likely getting hungry every few hours, because you have been fueling your body with nutritious food regularly, and your metabolism is speeding up. If you didn’t find “healthy” food tasty before now, we hope some of our recipes have changed your mind. Real food served simply has a lot of flavor, and your taste buds should be waking up to this realization now that the chemicals have been removed from your diet. Are you having fewer digestive issues—gas, indigestion, or heartburn? Your digestive system is starting to reset itself. You may even have started to lose weight or at least some of the puffiness and bloating in your body and face that hides your natural beauty. Take a moment to feel a sense of accomplishment on finishing your precleanse. Regardless of how long you spent in this phase, you did it, and you’re now ready to begin your juice cleanse. Let’s do it!

 
    “The best of all medicine is resting and fasting.”
    — Ben Franklin
    Now that you have successfully prepared yourself, the next phase is juice! For the next three days, all of your meals will be liquid. (We’ll discuss this in further detail later in the chapter, but if you don’t have a juicer, don’t worry. You can also cleanse by making smoothies in a blender. Your juice cleanse will just be lengthened to five days.) This phase is when you flood your body with nutrients. Do not think of it as deprivation; it’s whole-food based, but you’ll be drinking your meals instead of chewing.
THE JUICE CLEANSE RESETS
    As with each part of the Juice Cleanse Reset Diet, the juice cleanse presents opportunities for you to reset many areas of your health, depending on your personal priorities. You may be wondering how you’ll be able to tell whether you’re successfully resetting. Here are some of the noticeable benefits:
    • Abundance of energy and stamina
    • Radiant skin
    • Increased mental clarity
    • Better sleep
    • Empowered sense of self
    • Happier mood
    • Better digestion
    • Decreased cravings for processed food
    • Increased appetite for fruits and vegetables
    • Feeling of lightness
    • Leaner midsection
    • Weight loss
    You may experience all or only some of these benefits, and in some cases, the toxins leaving your body may make you feel a bit worse before you feel better. Here’s what you can expect while you’re resetting each area of your health.
Reset Your Attitude and Your Mindset
    Your attitude will benefit from the mental clarity and sense of well-being derived from this juice cleanse. Abstaining from food, and saving the energy that goes into preparing and digesting meals, leads to a greater level of mindfulness. We encourage you to spend time during your juice cleanse reflecting on what food you put into your body and the effect it has inside and out. Juice cleansing is also the ideal way to reset your thought processes. You might be thinking you could never go one whole day without food, let alone three or five days, but you
can
do it. And we bet that your attitude about food will have changed by the time you finish this phase. While cleansing, you’ll learn to recognize those times when you’re craving food but not actually hungry. The juices will provide your body with all the nutrients it needs. You’ll begin to understand that your cravings are generally related to emotional needs, boredom, stress, and social factors instead of hunger. You’ll feel empowered to find that you can say no to those cravings.
Reset Your Energy
    As you feed your body a steady stream of nutrients and it releases toxins, your energy level will rise. By consuming nutrient-dense drinks every couple of hours, your energy will actually increase over the course of the day, and you won’t experience that midafternoon slump.
Reset Your Metabolism
    Your energy is increasing because your metabolism is speeding up. As your body becomes accustomed to receiving