The Juice Cleanse Reset Diet (3 page)

The Juice Cleanse Reset Diet helps your body rid itself of residual toxins and habits, and helps reset your attitude, taste buds, metabolism, cravings, digestive system, and weight. Toxin overload affects different people in different ways. It may affect your mental state, or it might manifest physically to the point of becoming detrimental to your health. Let’s take a look at the seven resets. See which ones seem to fit your current situation most closely.

When embarking on a new way of eating and fueling your body, it is important to reset your attitude. Your thought processes, habits, and mindset will have a huge impact on your chances of success. If you think you can succeed, your chances of success improve dramatically!
If you learn to love food and what it can do to help your body, you can stop those negative relationships with candy and desserts and junk food. Believe and embrace that the next seven days will change your life and reset your health.

When you don’t feed your body on a regular basis, or when you consume a lot of energy drinks or caffeine, or feed it processed, chemically engineered food, you actually sap your body of energy. Your body needs nutritious food to function properly and sustain you in your busy life. Over the next seven days, you will feed your body what it needs, avoid what it does not, and emerge energized.

If you have not been eating four to six small meals a day, starting with a healthy nutrient-dense breakfast, your metabolism may be working against you. Once you train your body to expect nutrition every few hours, it will become accustomed to burning fuel rather than storing it. Your body will burn more calories and produce more energy.

When you consume a diet high in processed food, your taste buds get confused. They begin to prefer the taste of fried, battered, sugared food to natural food. Because foods that are processed or full of chemicals are generally void of nutrients, your body keeps craving more, because it isn’t being nourished. No wonder diets in the past have been difficult! We will use the next seven days to reset your taste buds so that you will crave real, nutritious food.

Too many people live with digestive issues and don’t even know there is an easy cure. Our bodies do not know what to do with processed food. Your digestive system was not designed to filter out the excess hormones and antibiotics that may be contained in the meat, poultry, and dairy products you consume. You need fiber, a healthy digestive system, and real food for your body to operate properly. Once you rid yourself of the gunk, reset your system, and give your body what it needs, you will be amazed at how great you feel every day. You’ll wish you had known it was this easy to feel good sooner.

Throughout the diet, you will be pleased to notice that you’re dropping excess pounds. As your body releases toxins, your abdomen will become leaner and less bloated. Your healthier cravings will help you continue to lose or maintain your perfect weight after the cleanse.

Radiant clear skin, full healthy hair, and bright rested eyes are all outer indications of beauty and reflections of inner health. When you look tired, your skin sags and is puffy and blemished, and your hair is limp or thinning, those are all indications that your body is suffering inside. Exposure to excess toxins, both from our food and from the environment, saps our beauty. On this diet, you will clean your body from the inside and learn to eat beauty-boosting food.

As you embark on the Juice Cleanse Reset Diet, you will strip away old habits, thought patterns, and stored-up toxins to reset your body and your health. You do not need to stop your busy life or become a vegetarian or a vegan. You will just learn the best way to eat and live within your preferences. You will discover that not every calorie is created equal and that nutrient-dense foods can satisfy you like you never imagined.

You won’t starve yourself or even feel hungry. In the first few days, you will eat delicious foods frequently, and drink yummy smoothies and juices that you will learn to make for yourself. By changing your diet to include whole foods that contain natural fiber, beneficial fat, and protein, you will notice that you need less food to feel satisfied and you will stay satisfied longer. This isn’t a crash diet. This is a reset.

In the next chapter, we’ll tell you everything you need to know to get ready to cleanse. If you’re anxious to get started and just want to jump in with both feet, you can skip ahead to the test on
this page
to find out what sort of cleanse you need and then head to
chapter 3
to start the precleanse phase. However, the information that follows helps you prepare your life, your kitchen, and your mindset for cleansing, and gives you the start you need to be successful. Let’s go!

Imagine that you work in a messy and disorganized office. Stacks
of old paperwork, new projects, bills, folders, books, and magazines cover every surface. The desk drawers are equally stuffed and the filing cabinets are overflowing. When you walk in, it feels cluttered and overwhelming, you waste a lot of time each day just looking for the right files, and you get easily distracted by all the junk.

Then one day, you make the decision to get organized. There will be no more piles! You will touch each piece of paper only once. You will open the mail, read it, and either toss it in the trash or place it in an appropriate file. You will pay your bills immediately, and then file the payment stub. You’ll line up all of your books in a bookshelf on one wall, and you’ll either read your magazines right away and then place them in a storage folder or recycle them. You will frame your photos and hang them neatly along the walls.

Sounds great, right? But to do this, you first need to sort through all those piles, empty those drawers, and cull through the file cabinets. The desk and bookshelves need to be cleared of clutter to make way for the organized items. The process will take some time and attention, and everything will seem even more cluttered at first. You may be tempted to shove everything back in the drawers when you find out a colleague is coming over for a meeting!

But if you resist the urge to give up and really go through the cleansing process, you will have a much better chance of keeping your office organized going forward. And you will feel so much better. The energy you previously used to hunt down a particular letter or document can now be spent on getting your work done more efficiently so you can do more pleasurable activities outside of the office. The frustration you felt at being disorganized will disappear. You will be so inspired by your new clean office that it will be easier to keep it clean. The systems you put in place to organize your work will allow you to keep your office organized. Sure, every now and then, you might let a stack of mail sit for a day or two, but because you have a method for sorting and dispatching your mail quickly, you’re able to get right back on top of it, keeping it neat and organized.

Your body is a little bit like that imaginary office. Once you let your good habits slide and things get messy, it seems easier and less painful to keep the status quo. You promise yourself to eat cleaner and exercise more, but without a foundation in place to keep you organized and accountable, you slip back into your old habits. In this chapter, we’ll tell you how to build a structure (like having a process for sorting the mail and filing your paperwork) so you can keep your body clean, healthy, and functioning efficiently during and after your cleanse.

Have you ever done a cleanse before? How did it make you feel? Were you able to complete it? If not, what were the reasons you failed? Perhaps your cravings got the best of you, or you felt light-headed and tired, or perhaps you found yourself hungry. Maybe your resolve wasn’t that strong, or you didn’t see results fast enough on the scale, so you threw in the towel.

This chapter will teach you how to prepare for your cleanse, make it easier, and ensure your success. There are three phases to the Juice Cleanse Reset Diet—the precleanse phase, the juice-cleanse phase, and the postcleanse phase—and all are equally important. Throughout the three phases, you will be resetting your body for the rest of your life.

Successfully achieving your desired resets requires you to prepare for the Juice Cleanse Reset Diet. The following section gives you all of the information you need in order to plan for success both during the program and for the long haul. It’s true that following the Juice Cleanse Reset Diet will take a commitment of your time and energy. But it’s also true that the results will be worth every ounce of energy that you expend! We not only review planning for success on the program, but also give you a plan to clean out your cupboards as well as the information you need to navigate through the supermarket with ease and confidence.

The easiest way to dramatically change your diet is to completely plan out your meals ahead of time and get all the grocery shopping done
before
you start. If you have a busy schedule, grabbing food on the go is one of the most challenging habits to break. It’s also a change that makes a huge impact on your long-term success.

Get cozy with your calendar and pick a chunk of time that you can dedicate to shopping and prepping your food for the week. If you can carve out this time to plan your meals, you will be amazed at how easy the issue of food becomes for the rest of your week. This approach to shopping and prepping not only works well for the Juice Cleanse Reset Diet, but it’s also an effective way to handle mealtime after the reset, while you maintain your new way of eating.

It’s time to clear your kitchen of all processed items that disguise themselves as food and to stock your pantry with only the essentials needed for your seven-day reset. Staying on track will be much easier if you get rid of any foods that could be detrimental to your success. If you hesitate to ditch the salty chips, sweet candy, or that peanut jar that you visit too many times per day, those items likely pose the greatest threat of derailing your success. Do not keep any of these foods in the house during your reset! It’s time to reclaim control and overcome the power that these foods have over you!