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Showerthought: My juice cleanse made me gain five pounds
I did a seven day juice cleanse last spring, thinking it would reset my system. By day four, I was so hungry I started eating extra peanut butter toast at night just to feel full. When I stepped on the scale after the week was over, I was up five pounds from where I started. The tip-off was my friend asking why I looked so tired and puffy, not fresh and clean. It hit me that starving myself just made my body hold onto everything and led to secret binges. Has anyone else had a 'cleanse' totally backfire like that?
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victorb741mo agoTop Commenter
Yeah, the "tired and puffy" look is a dead giveaway. I tried something similar and just felt awful. Switched to just eating more veggies and protein, felt way better without the starving.
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elizabethg181mo ago
Exactly this, @victorb74. Veggies and protein are the real game changers.
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