Post-Cleanse Plan

After spending several days drinking only pure fresh juices, we begin to contemplate what it will be like to go back to solid foods, and normal foodie life, a common realization can be that it’s actually not so hard NOT eating, and EATING is what is really hard.

To ease this challenge have a cleansing smoothie at around 3 or 4PM, and follow this by working out your menu for the next few days. And then tonight a creamy and cleansing almond "Comfort" drink before bedtime consumed cold, or warm as you prefer.

 TIP: do not work out your break fast menu’s until AFTER you have had your smoothie. It keeps things “real” and makes it less “edgy.”

We will take half the total number of days you have been cleansing to fully return to regular eating. So if you have been cleansing 3 days, take a day and a half to step back to a regular menu.

If you have been cleansing 6 days, take 3 days of break fast planning, etc.

MENU PLANNING:

In your journal, since we will be working backwards, go into it 4 pages or more, depending on how many days you have been cleansing. On the last page, start writing out what Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks etc, that you would eat on a perfect day, in the perfect body, with the perfect job, and the perfect love partner, in the perfect life. What would THAT person be eating in order to maintain that perfect body and life? What's on THAT person's menu for a day in the life?

This menu is your first day's menu once your break fast stage is complete. This is what your normal post-cleanse diet would look like.

Now go back to the first page. Here is where we will plan our segue menus. Add foods in the following order - adding one of these 5 food types each day, according to what would be on your ideal life and body menu for Day 4. If your perfect you on a perfect day menu includes seafoods, it would be five days before you worked up to it. If you are a vegan on your perfect day in the perfect body, then you will be back to your normal eating sooner.

1. Fruits & Vegetables - good fats such as avocado/olive oil/UDO's oil - 1st day

2. Grains & Legumes - 2nd day

3. Soy, Dairy & Eggs - 3rd day

4. Animal Flesh foods - 4th day

5. Seafood and shell fish - 5th day

Of course your juices are great to incorporate into your daily menus as snacks or mini meals. Consider blending fresh whole fruits into your juices to create smoothies. Bananas, fresh berries, whole spinach leaves, cucumbers, are all great blended whole into your fresh juices.

About animal flesh and seafood - these are very dense foods that will require your body to become very acidic in order to be digested. It's a lot of work and your body is very sensitive and clean. Shellfish is the hardest and most work of all for your body to digest. (Think about it: they are muscles - you must produce acids to burn through them). DO NOT EAT SEA FOOD before day 4 or 5. IF you will be going back to these foods, your body needs some time to get back up to speed.

As you begin to enjoy your clean light body, you may very well find you prefer fruits and vegetables, salads, smoothies and soups and grains with healthy fats such as avocados and good cold pressed oils over animal flesh foods. Consider the possibility of using this as an opportunity to reduce or eliminate consumption of animal flesh foods – including sea food. Try it for a few weeks and see how you feel.

For your ease of transitioning from your juice fast / cleanse we have created a worksheet for you. Just click the pdf download and print it out.



We have also written a blog article for you with a helpful video for your Post-Cleanse process.