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So, I decided to do a 3-day Cooler Cleanse and here’s why. My first day was fun! Exciting! Refreshing! And then I woke up for Day 2 feeling a bit too much like the morning after my 21st birthday. Except I did feel a whole lot lighter (thanks to the healthy juices/lack of an entire birthday cake at 3am).

After a lot of napping, some major ‘How I Met Your Mother‘ reruns, and 6 more juices, I climbed back into bed on Saturday night (at 9pm…woof), excited to take on my final day of the cleanse. And here’s what happened when I woke up on Sunday morning:

Note: Apparently being tired makes me repeat myself a lot. Who knew?

[Disclaimer: This product was provided to us by Cooler Cleanse. All opinions are our own...and blatantly honest.]

So, I decided to do a 3-day Cooler Cleanse and here’s why. My first day was fun! Exciting! Refreshing!… And then day 2 hit me like a campus bus. (Sidenote: In college, one of our campus buses DID hit a student. WTF, right?) It was like the worst hangover of all time…only I couldn’t eat an egg and cheese bagel to make myself feel better.

Watch my video to see how I handled hours 25-48 of not eating….or leaving the house. Or doing anything at all, really. Well, besides de-toxing.

Come back tomorrow to see how I rounded out the weekend on my cleanse!

[Disclaimer: This product was provided to us by Cooler Cleanse. All opinions are our own...and blatantly honest.]

So, I decided to do a 3-day Cooler Cleanse and here’s why. And in this here video, you can see how my first day of cleansing/drinking/not chewing/not visiting my local Starbucks boyfriend barista went.

Surprising fact: I didn’t miss food nearly as much as I thought I would. I really wasn’t hungry at all. I also thoroughly enjoyed not having to make anything/do any dishes. You mean all I have to do is twist off a cap? I’m sold!

Come back tomorrow and Sunday to see how I managed through the weekend. While all my friends were out partying. And eating. And I was sleeping on my couch.

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No matter how hard we try, I don’t think any of us treat our bodies as well as we should. Yeah, we workout a few days a week and sure, we try to get some fruits and veggies in at every meal, but that only goes so far. Especially when you throw in the late night pizza parties; the PMS cookie dough feasts and; obvi, the shots, beers, vodka sodas, fishbowls, jungle juice, Four Loko….

You don’t realize it, probably because you college chicks have built up quite a tolerance for bad food and cheap booze, but all of those less-than-healthy choices are doing a number on your body.

But I, a college grad out in the real world, totally do. All the crappy things I eat and drink weigh heavily on me and leave me feeling lethargic, cloudy and at least 10 pounds heavier than I want to be. (God, I miss college.) While bitching about it to my friend, a total natural-food freak, she told me I needed to cleanse my body of toxins (and threw in some other random, voodoo terms) and recommended a cleanse.

I wasn’t too keen on the idea of of starving myself for 3 days (“how the hell is that going to make me feel better, FREAK?!”), but after doing some research I learned that if you cleanse the right way, that’s not the case at all. So I decided to do it…and to bring all of you along for the ride. Starting today, I’ll be vlogging all about my cleanse openly and honestly. Read More »

Before you dismiss this as just another article about the master cleanse, please read on!

Studies have proven that liquid cleanses, like the juice cleanse, the infamous master cleanse, and even the water with lemon cleanse, are more harmful to the body than beneficial. Probably because girls tend to do them for weeks, even months at a time, to lose weight.

We forget that the purpose of a cleanse is to help rid the body of toxins from processed foods and from our environment, not to become anorexic for a week.

Every day our body is exposed to chemicals from car exhaust, pollution, and the very lotion we apply to our skin. We breathe in harmful particles floating in the air. We eat fruit that has been soaked in pesticides and meat that has been injected with antibiotics.

Our incredible bodies constantly filter out all of these toxins on an a daily basis — it is a self-healing, self-renewing and self-cleansing organism. However, all of this can be too much and we find ourselves feeling sluggish and unhealthy. This indicates that your body needs some help. A holistic detox is the best method.

Here’s how: Read More »

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I know lots of people who swear by fasts.

Three day grapefruit fasts, weeklong juice regimes, monthly cleanses, I’ve heard them all, and haven’t wanted to try a single one.

Call me strange, but I’m a fan of food. I’m no holy profit or international peace symbol, and since shrugging off my Roman Catholicism, feel no guilt for eating a sandwich on Good Friday. Basically, I have no need to give up food I work two jobs to pay for.

My friends go on and on about the health benefits of fasting, but I’ve always felt eating a regular healthy diet has it’s own health benefits—with the added incentive of energy.

While I totally respect and appreciate people who abstain from food for religious reasons, I’ve just never been the kind of girl to equate being hungry with being healthy.

That was until I realized a good friend of mine, who is completely normal and well adjusted in every way, regularly fasted on Sundays.

“All I drink is green tea” she told me a few weeks ago when I asked her why she wasn’t joining me for lunch, and explained that flushing out her body and relaxing once a week was one of the best things she’d ever done for herself.

While my friend is on the thin side, she watches her weight very closely, and explained that giving her body one day a week to “get rid of toxins” in a simple, easy way has really helped her maintain her weight. Read More »