Marcie Taylor

Tag: juice cleanse

  • What I Learned From My Paleta Juice Cleanse

    The truth is it’s mostly psychological. A 2-day juice cleanse won’t make too much of a difference in your overall health. In fact, doctors will tell you that our bodies eliminate toxins naturally anyway. But when I received my 2 bags of cold pressed juices from Paleta, I welcomed  this chance to do another cleanse , my second juice cleanse.  It would be a great way to jump start my health regimen. Since I’m not very good with exercising and always eating a balanced meal, anything that gets me on track is a good thing. It’s sad but true.

    Paleta Juices | Juice Cleanse | Marcie Taylor

    So challenge accepted!  My kids are like “Why are you doing it again?”  While my husband was supportive.  Then they saw me through day 1 and by mid-day of day 2 I wanted to nibble at my son’s chicken, and he said, “Mom that’s cheating.” So I put the chicken back and took a gulp of water. Two days, it’s only two days. I’m such a wimp.

    I made it. Two days on a liquid diet. It wasn’t bad. After the crabbiness of the first day, my body had gotten used to it. Maybe I could make it three days next time.  The juices are yummy and organic. Although the Red Root was not to my taste, I totally looked forward to the chocolate and strawberry milkshakes, made with almond, cashew, dates, vanilla bean, cocoa (for the chocolate), strawberries (for the strawberry milk shake). I could drink those all day.

    So what did I learn from my 2 day Paleta juice cleanse?

    You can do whatever you set your mind to.

     

     

     

    Motivation | Marcie Taylor | Eat Paleta

     

    After my juice cleanse, I started cleaning out closets at home. That’s a tougher challenge, to clean clutter.  But I know I can do it.

    *Thank you very much for the juices, Paleta. You should check them out, they have more than just juice cleanses, it’s Farm to Table Meal Delivery and more. Find out about Chef Kelly Boyer’s personal story behind Paleta and her philosophy about food and being green at paleta.com

     

     

  • Ritual Cleanse

    Ritual Cleanse

    My first mistake was going to two parties while on the cleanse. While I never had the urge to go to the bathroom every 5 minutes nor did I have this overwhelming hunger, the party food was very tempting. But you see, the #world knew I was on a cleanse so how was I going to cheat? That’s what you get when you announce to the world via Twitter that you are going on a cleanse.

    Social Media makes you accountable. Post a status update about that new diet and your friends (or at least facebook friends) are sure to check up on you. Tweet a question or an idea and someone will call you on it. Cleansing was one of those things.. @terararestephens had talked about it then @cindywang and @thebigdebowski and I started chatting. Finally @ritualcleanse heard the chatter (or rather read it on twitter) and invited me to try a juice cleanse. Because I am a bit of a wimp, I only did it for 2 days.

    Ritual Cleanse followed our Twitter Conversation and connected with me. Not long after, I picked up my 12 bottles of freshly pressed 100% organic juices packed in a snazzy green insulated bag and was good to go.

    Since I had never done a cleanse before, one of the owners, Marra, suggested I do a “Seasonal Cleanse” which is still 6 juices like the Classic Cleanse but one Classic “Green” juice is replaced with a specially formulated blend that captures the best seasonal produce in a fresh new flavor. Lucky for me, pomegranate was in season. Yum!

    I was never hungry on the cleanse and I didn’t go to the bathroom nearly half as much as I feared. The juices were, in fact, really tasty. On that first day however, I got really grumpy around dinner time. I figured it was the lack of caffeine. After drinking the last juice of the day, I was fine. The second day was easier.

    For me, @RitualCleanse jump-started my new attitude towards health – that week I was to begin with my fitness trainer @lafitness

    In the end, I didn’t lose weight (come on it was just two days) and my hair didn’t suddenly get all shiny as some had claimed but I did stop craving coffee -which was a most unexpected and happy side effect.

    Would I go on a cleanse again? Yeah! Maybe we can do it together… Ritual Cleanse has a group discount program. Hmmm.