The Ultimate Guide To Your First Juice Cleanse: Part One

If you are thinking about doing your first juice cleanse but you are not quite sure how to prepare, or what to expect during the cleanse, then reading this guide to your first juice cleanse will be a great help to you.

This guide will talk about your first juice cleanse on the assumption that it will be a three day cleanse. The reason we will talk in terms of a three-day juice cleanse is that this is the amount of time most people undertake their first cleanse for.

It’s important to not push yourself too hard however. So if you have to give up after a day, or two days the first time round, then it’s not a disaster and you certainly should not be hard on yourself. It may be that you have to do a one day juice cleanse, then a two day and then a three day, working upwards as your mental strength grows.

Why Do I Need To Do A Juice Cleanse Anyway?

There are multitude of reasons why you would want to undertake your first juice cleanse. It could be a holistic thing, where you just want to move towards a more healthy lifestyle.

It could be because you want to lose weight. Juicing is a great way of losing weight and a three day juice cleanse can be a great way to kickstart weight loss.

It could be because you have an unhealthy diet and wants to use juice cleanse to kickstart a change in your eating habits.

And there could even be medical reasons. Although medical reasons are in some cases unproven, which means we have to advise you to speak to a doctor before undertaking a juice cleanse, sometimes a juice cleanse can really help with things like digestion problems.

Digestion problems especially can be helped by juice cleanse. Think about it this way, lots of people go to the doctor and are advised to eat a more simple diet due to problems they are having. A juice cleanse diet is the ultimate in simplicity, because it removes a lot of the processing work your system will have to do.

A juice cleanse can also be great for addressing cravings. Many people are addicted to sugar and breaking this addiction through juicing is a great way to do this.

Preparing For Your First Juice Cleanse

The first thing you need to consider is your mindset. It really is as simple as mind over matter. You’re going to be hungry and you’re going to crave all the rubbish you usually put inside yourself.

So you need to be mentally strong and prepared.

This means choosing a time for your first juice cleanse when you can devote your emotional energy to completing the three day duration.

Other things you need to do include:

• Research juicing in detail so that you understand exactly what to expect
• Avoid any food related stimuli in the lead up to your juice cleanse and during it
• Transform your diet away from processed foods towards simple whole foods in the week before your juice cleanse
• Make sure everybody around you knows you’re doing it so that you get support
• Plan your juice cleanse at a time when you do not have social commitments which can tempt you away from it or make it difficult to achieve

In part two of this guide we will talk about creating a juicing schedule, equipment and juice blends you may need and ways to cope during and after your juice cleanse.

To research more about the background to juice cleansing right now, click here to download the Dr Juice guide to cleansing.