Blueprint Cleanse: Day One Review

Good morning!  I am writing while feeling a bit under the weather.  I completed my first day of the Blueprint Juice cleanse... and it was awful.  I honestly thought that it wouldn't be bad!

Here is a recap of my day:

5:30am Wake up and get ready for work.  Feeling pumped about my day of juicing.  I figured it wasn't going to taste like any juice I had ever had before, but I was looking at that green bottle feeling positive about the day!

6:30am Driving to work I was wishing I had a cup of coffee or my smoothie.  I knew that I was going to crack open the bottle once I got to work and my day of liquid meals would start!

9:00am I had been at work for an hour and was starting to get hungry.  I grabbed my first bottle of Green Juice and stared at the list of ingredients and dreaded the first sip.  Of all of the ingredients I think the celery and ginger stuck out the most to me and made me gag.  It took me an hour to drink this juice.  I tried to "chase" it with orange infused water, but that helped nothing.  Rough start...

12:00pm It was my lunch time and I was a little unsure about continuing with the juices.  The green juice made me feel really nauseated and I was thinking about ditching the whole thing all together.  I even got all the way to the grocery store and bought a salad.  But, I talked myself out of it and called on my willpower to push me through.  I opened the 2nd juice, P.A.M., and got my drink on.  P.A.M. stands for Pineapple, Apple and Mint.  This juice was actually delicious!  It tasted a little bit like a mojito!  I really enjoyed it.

5:00pm I was on my way home and felt okay.  I wasn't hungry, but my stomach was making some really loud noises.  I skipped the 3rd juice because it was another green juice.  I gave it to one of my coworkers because she thought it tasted good!  Are you kidding?! I would say not the worst thing I tasted, but GOOD? Ha!  On my way home I decided to try the 4th juice of the day, Spicy Lemonade.  This wasn't bad.  It tasted like an unsweetened lemonade with a faint heat at the end.  It was pretty good.

7:00pm I got home and was feeling pretty yucky.  The lemonade made my stomach turn and I was not in the mood to drink anymore.  I was invited to go to The Crab Claw with my Dad, Step-mom, Aunt Leslie, Aunt Linda and Uncle Kirby and my Grandparents.  I wanted to go to see everyone, but the thought of eating solid food made me queasy.  I got there and was probably not the most fun person to be around.  I was tired and sick :(  I got a sandwich and got it down.  At this point I had given up on the cleanse.  If it was making me feel this bad I didn't think it was worth it.

9:00pm  I was home from dinner and just wanted to go to bed.  My stomach was killing me and I was exhausted.  I didn't have this overwhelming feeling of energy and greatness that I was expecting to come from my day.  From reading all of the reviews I knew that the first day was the hardest, but I hadn't read that it had made people feel as bad as I felt.  I tried the Beet juice and the Cashew juice.  The Beet juice was a no-go because the ginger made me gag again.  I actually did like the Cashew one like I thought I would.

Overall, it was not the best first day of a new adventure.  I don't think that the cleanse has anything to do with the way that I feel today, but I don't think that it helped either.  I have been saying for the past week that I felt like I was getting sick, and the cleanse may have just loosened everything up in my system and now I am really getting sick.  I ended up drinking 4 out of the 6 juices yesterday-- I give myself a B for yesterday's effort.  I probably could have gotten the other two juices down, but I am not too upset about it.  I am planning on getting back on the Virgin Diet as I have been, its just going to be without the jump-start of a cleanse.