The Juice Cleanse Reset Diet (19 page)

This meal plan was created to give you the opportunity to try out some of our recipes, but we want you to enjoy the flexibility and freedom of choosing other meals or smoothies or snacks from the plan in order to find your own favorites. The main point is to learn to plan ahead for lifetime success.

Although we have included a full meal plan for all seven days, we understand that you may have a cheat meal each week. Some of you may love Sunday brunch, others may look forward to their Saturday night “date night” and wish to have freedom there. We generally reserve our splurges for social activities, knowing there are bound to be one or two each week, and stick to healthy, nutritious, sound whole food meals in between. Listen to your body, recognize the impact of your lifestyle on your choices, and tweak the plan to work for you.

We have covered a lot of different topics in this chapter, including how and why you should increase your enzymes, how to supplement your diet, what the differences are among sugar options, and why it’s so important to find an exercise program that you can stick with. We’ve even given you a full week’s worth of recipes to show you how easy it is to integrate this new way of eating into your life.

All of this new information may seem a little overwhelming, but the main questions for you to consider are these: What can you commit to every day? What healthy habits can you add in each week?

The key to your long-term success lies in making small changes that you feel most comfortable with and that best fit into your life. You may opt to eat more salads, choose organic whenever possible, stay away from processed foods on a daily basis—all of these are great starting points. Celebrate your successes and brush off the slipups. Remember that what you do the majority of the time has the most impact on your results. At times when you seek greater and more noticeable results, you now know how to intensify your game. You can always revert back to the Juice Cleanse Reset Diet protocol, and if you have a special occasion coming up and you want to make big changes quickly, check out our supercharged cleanses in
chapter 7
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The main message we want to communicate to you in regard to tailoring the program to your life is to choose your priorities. You can’t do everything all of the time. Create a list of the things you can commit to, and then prioritize your list in order to keep your reset going.

Our priority list looks like this:

During times when you need to clean up your diet, make sure you schedule all of your diet priorities onto your calendar so that they happen. Other times, schedule as much as you can. Celebrate with a mental pat on the back when you accomplish everything that is scheduled. Commit to getting over it quickly when you don’t get to everything on your list. Focus on moving forward in the right direction rather than harping on the past.

Before we close this chapter, let’s take a moment to reflect on all you have accomplished. You’ve cleaned out the toxins, flooded your body with nutrients, learned how to exercise and eat right, and you have delicious, nutritious, inexpensive recipes you can use over and over again. You’ve probably lost a few pounds, and have seen noticeable changes in your skin and appearance. You’re armed with a newly reset attitude, energy level, and metabolism. Your body craves healthy nutritious food, your digestive system works much more efficiently, and you are radiant!

Although you’re prepared to make the best decisions in the future, there’ll be those times when you gain a few pounds, or get off track, or just find yourself in a rut. Don’t get down on yourself; just get back to real, whole foods. In the next chapter, we have three different plans to help you get back on track when you need a serious reset in a hurry or in a more significant way. You can save these plans for those little emergencies, or you can use them if you feel you still have more work to do and want to continue losing weight, repairing your beauty, or getting toned. Read on to supercharge!

We’ve all been there: you had the best intentions of getting in shape
for a momentous occasion months in advance, but somehow your health, the craziness of work, the demands of your family, unexpected travels, or pure procrastination derailed those intentions. Suddenly your big event is weeks or even days away, and you need a plan to help you look and feel amazing ASAP. It happens. We get it. In fact, the supercharged resets provided in this chapter were designed especially for these situations.

Everyone from celebrities getting ready for the red carpet to couples preparing for their wedding day have used these supercharged resets to get visible results quickly. The more closely you live the Reset Your Life principles, the less necessary the supercharged resets become. Still, we believe 100 percent in using momentous occasions as your catalyst for stepping up your game and making bigger changes in your self-care and your diet.

If you’re motivated to present your best self at your upcoming event, following one of the supercharged reset programs from this chapter is definitely in order! Knowing you’ll be showing all in a swimsuit on that tropical vacation or needing to fit into a slim pair of suit pants or a slinky black dress for that class reunion is a surefire way to make you kick your wellness rituals into high gear. Capitalize
on how motivated you feel at this moment and dive in with total dedication. Determine your personal goal for the event and then choose the category below that best fits your needs and time frame:

Consider the supercharged resets to be your crash course in overall wellness. Just as in the Juice Cleanse Reset Diet, your success will require some advance planning and your complete dedication.

The supercharged resets cover the standard seven main areas— your attitude and your mindset, your energy, your metabolism, your taste buds, your digestive system, your weight, and your beauty—as well as an eighth: exercise. Because these supercharged resets are designed to achieve significant and visible results, they emphasize beauty and exercise. Therefore, to help guarantee that you’ll meet your desired goal, we go into more detail on how to reset your beauty and your exercise. Exercise plays an important part in the twenty-one- and ten-day supercharged resets because it can enhance the results of all of the other resets! If you’ve been unsuccessful at sticking to a consistent exercise routine, now is the time for you to change that. Follow the program we give you, and you’ll be amazed by the results.

Keep your eye on the prize. Supercharged resets are the absolutely perfect time to focus your attention on a tangible goal. Visualize with perfect detail fitting into the dress or slacks that you want to wear for your special occasion. Focus on this goal throughout your supercharged reset and you’ll maintain the motivation you need in order to stay on course.

Fueling your body with nature’s best fruits and vegetables, having a goal that motivates you, and bringing more mindfulness into your days will help your energy skyrocket. Use the supercharged resets as an opportunity to free yourself from the burden of life-force depleting foods and toxic thoughts.

The combination of replacing processed foods with natural, pure foods and increasing the frequency with which you feed your cells good nutrition can improve your metabolism and bring your body back to functioning at its optimal level.

If you have veered off track since your initial experience with the Juice Cleanse Reset Diet, it’s time to get back to basics when it comes to good nutrition. Say good-bye to added sugars, refined carbohydrates, and chemically engineered foods. The supercharged resets lead you back to real foods and, ultimately, leave you with cravings for unprocessed, nutrient-rich fresh food.

The important addition of oxygen-carrying, organ-cleansing, and enzyme-rich leafy greens to your diet helps restore good digestion. Supercharged resets can wake up sluggish bowels and improve overall digestion.

Consider the supercharged resets to be your ultimate jump start toward skinny. The combination of what you’re eating, what you’re eliminating, detox treatments, and exercise will help you shed pounds and shrink your waistline.

Not only do the foods in the supercharged resets make you glow from the inside out, but the facial and body treatments we include in this section also help you glow on the outside. Use these simple and effective ways to restore a more youthful glow in time for your special occasion.

Supercharged resets are the perfect time to pamper yourself. Make the time to squeeze in facial and body treatments on the specified days. These treatments are designed to enhance your beauty and to open up your pores to allow for the elimination of toxins through your skin.

Indulge in the natural and effective facial and body recipes below to improve the appearance and texture of your skin. Even if you have sensitive skin and have found that store-bought facial treatments are too harsh, you may find the natural and gentle recipes below to be a perfect fit. You’ll be amazed at how easy to prepare and beneficial these at-home recipes are for your skin.

Perfect for restoring hydration and remedying dry or flaky skin. Pineapple is amazing for reducing inflammation and puffiness. Coconut milk provides nourishing and easily absorbed hydration. Watch redness and puffiness disappear, leaving glowing skin.

Combine the pineapple and coconut milk in a food processor and puree until smooth. Spread the paste uniformly over your face and leave on for 10 minutes. Remove with a damp cloth.

This gently exfoliating treatment gives you lifted and firm-looking skin instantly. Lemons slough away dead skin and Greek yogurt’s antibacterial properties prevent skin breakouts. Lactic acid in the yogurt shrinks pores, leaving you with more youthful-looking skin. This skin tightener can be done two or three times a week or whenever your skin needs a lift.

In a small bowl, combine the yogurt, lemon juice, and honey and stir until smooth. Apply to your cleansed face and neck. Allow it to dry for 20 to 30 minutes. Leave it on until you feel the skin tighten or up to 1 hour. When ready, rinse with tepid water followed by a cold rinse.

After making any juice with carrots, beets, or sweet potato in it, use the leftover pulp as the base for an antioxidant-rich mask. This will give you an immediately refreshed and glowing look. Honey helps hold moisture in the skin. It has astringent properties to draw out impurities that would normally stay clogged and cause blemishes. This mask is non-drying and your face should feel nice and smooth afterward. Orange- and red-pigmented produce have natural antiseptic properties with skin-brightening effects.

In a small bowl, combine the carrot pulp and honey until a paste forms. Apply to your clean skin. Allow it to stay on for 10 to 15 minutes and rinse with warm water. Pat dry.

This mask will quickly become your new secret weapon for dealing with freckles, sunspots, or overall discoloration. Turmeric is fantastic for evening out skin discolorations. Lemons slough away dead skin.