healthy — FITNESS — SALTY BLONDES

If you follow us on Instagram, you probably know that we all 3 just got done doing a 3-day juice cleanse with Just Organic Juice! We documented the whole thing on our stories :) Overall, we thought it was great, but we wanted to share a little more about it on here because there are definitely some things we wish we would have known ahead of time! SO below are 10 things you need to know before trying one for yourself!

1. YOU'LL HAVE LOW ENERGY

We were kind of prepared for this, but for the first two days especially, you really don't feel like doing much! Try to choose a few days where you don't have much going on, because you definitely feel a little sluggish and tired!

2. YOU'LL TEMPORARILY SLOW DOWN YOUR METABOLISM

Once you're done cleansing, you can't just go straight back to eating normally. It's a process! Your metabolism slows down temporarily, so you've got to speed it back up by slowly introducing solid, healthy foods on a consistent basis. Start eating small amounts of healthy foods every two to three hours to teach your metabolism to speed up and ease your body back into solid food digestion.

3. YOU'LL LOOSE WEIGHT

You WILL lose weight, there's no doubt about it, but if weight loss if the sole reason for doing a juice cleanse, we don't recommend it! It's better to just eat healthy and workout. However, if you're like us, it's almost easier just to do something extreme to start the process. Just know that a lot of it will be water weight, and you have to be so careful about easing back into eating afterwards so you don't just gain it all right back! During the cleanse Sidney lost 6 lbs, Regan lost 4 lbs, and Paige lost 3 lbs.

4. PREPARE TO BE HUNGRY

Yep. There's just no way around it, but there ARE a few things that help! One of them is eating a clean diet the week before your cleanse. It's so tempting to go all out eating yummy food before you start since you know you'll be "cleansing everything out" and won't get any food for a while, but don't give into the temptation! Start your cleanse with a week of healthy eating ahead of time. You will have far less cravings and your body will adjust a lot easier! Another thing that helps is staying on track with drinking ALL of your juices every 2 to 3 hours (you get 6 a day). When your body is at least getting all the nutrients in the juices, you're definitely not as hungry!

5. CAFFEINE WITHDRAWAL

This one we weren't prepared for! I (Paige) have about 200 milligrams of caffeine a day so I definitely had some withdrawals! The first day was the worst, so just be prepared for it. I got a horrible headache and had to take ibuprofen to fall asleep. Days 2 and 3 weren't as bad.

6. YOUR STOMACH WILL SHRINK

We're on day 3 and 4 post cleanse and we're definitely not as hungry! We're still being very careful to eat super clean and healthy so we don't undo all the work the juice cleanse did, but it's a lot easier when you don't get as hungry!

7. VEGETABLE JUICE DOESN'T TASTE GOOD

It just doesn't. There are two juices in the cleanse that are DELICIOUS (the grapefruit and mint, and the almond delight at the end of the day) but that's because they're the only two without veggies haha. The other 4 are pure veggie goodness, but it's definitely not the tastiest thing in the world drinking pure beets, greens, carrots and other veggies (although there are some things in most of the veggie juices that help the flavor, like apple or mint).

8. YOU'LL GET RID OF ANY SUGAR/PROCESSED FOODS CRAVINGS

Drinking only vegetable juice for three days gets all that stuff out of your system, and we really haven't craved any of it since we've been off!

9. VITAMINS WILL MAKE YOU SICK

I (Paige) took my prenatal vitamin the first day and got so sick! They also won't work as well since they're not being taken with solid foods. I didn't take my pre natal vitamin the last two days. (I'm not pregnant yet anyways, and figured I was getting enough vitamins from the juices)!

10. YOU'LL GET ALL OF THE PROCESSED CRAP OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM AND CLEANSE YOUR CELLS

This is the main reason we did the cleanse! Overall we feel a lot better and were happy to re boot our systems! If you have any more questions about our cleanse feel free to comment below or email us!

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When Sidney returned from her mission she decided to try one of the recently popular 3 day juice cleanses. After eating off the streets of Indonesia for 18 months, she returned home with a lot of digestive issues and about 10 lbs of extra weight. She started right back in on a workout plan to get back in shape, and decided to try a 3 day juice cleanse to kick start a healthy eating plan, body detoxification, and weight loss....

The first juice cleanse she tried was the 3 day Suja cleanse. Suja juices are all organic and cold pressed, and this company is based out of California. You can find their 3 day juice cleanse boxed and for sale at many Costo's in CA for an amazing price of $22.99. There are 3 juices for each day, and Sidney did this cleanse without any additional food.

The morning juice is a spicy lemon, cayenne paper mix which is actually not bad tasting but pretty spicy. The afternoon drink is a vegetable and greens mix, which is not great tasting but not terrible either. The third drink is something to look forward to and is a delicious mix of almond milk, mashed banana and coconut meat. Tastes likes a treat! After 3 days Sidney felt great! She still had plenty of energy, her digestive problems were better, and she had lost 6 pounds. Below are her before and after pictures from a couple days after she returned home from her mission, to just 10 days later, after the juice cleanse.

After having such great results with her first cleanse, when Sidney visited Utah a couple weeks later, she decided to do another 3 day cleanse, this time with Regan. This time we tried juices that were custom made from home by DI.Vine Juice. These juices are a little more pricey, but are sooo good! It was hard to believe we were drinking vegetables! We actually had to call and ask if there was any added sugar because the juices were all so sweet! The only one that had any sweetener (agave) was the Chia Lime, which was our fav! You can choose the juices you want from the variety on the website, and can also choose your difficulty level, meaning the harder you go, the more veggies and spices are added compared to fruits. These juices were in smaller bottles, so there were six of them for each day. We each lost about four pounds on this cleanse.

We would highly recommend a 3 day juice cleanse! It's not hard to make it through the 3 days, and there are so many benefits! This is a way to give your body a good detox and flood it with nutrients, while helping to reset bad eating habits and curb cravings. The weight loss is a good confidence builder and jump start into a long term healthy eating plan. It's also so easy to stay on the plan for 3 days when the juices are already there and ready! It was a nice three day break from planning meals! We would highly recommend either of these 3 day plans! Happy juicing :)