Woohoo! The 10 days cleanse is over and I feel great. I really enjoyed the cleanse but am ready to add back some of my favorite food like oats 
. The 10 day Cleanse/Elimination diet started on Monday January 18th, eliminating certain foods starting 7 days before the cleanse including;
- Coffee
- Alcohol
- Citrus Fruits
- Processed Foods
- Sodas
- Sugar
- Wheat products
- Animal protein
- Dairy
The packet included daily menus and recipes with multiple options for every meal. For breakfast I had green juice since that’s my staple breakfast. I enjoyed variety of salads, lightly steamed veggies and my favorite grain quinoa for lunch and dinner. The packet also included some 100% raw days but it was up to us to adjust the days as how we saw fit as long as we had something that was included in the packet. We were encouraged that during the cleanse to stay with 3 meals a day, which I initially thought would be a challenge and during the cleanse I found it to be very easy to eliminate the afternoon snack. I ate enough food to keep me full even though I am training for MS-150. On Saturday, Day 6 of the cleanse after a 37 mile bike ride, I felt amazing, which initially it was a concern as whether or not I would be able to keep up with the training program during the cleanse.
Overall I feel great, have more energy (even though I am still getting 6-6.5 hrs of sleep), I have noticed my skin looks better and the best part I have a FLAT BELLY. I weight myself the Thursday before the cleanse started and weight myself this morning (last day of cleanse ) and noticed no change in my weight. Which was a concern for some of my readers. Would I recommend this cleanse? Absolutely. If you have a specific question about the cleanse or want to know something that I didn’t talk about here let me know and I will answer it to my best .
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So as I mentioned above.. I missed my oats, so I decided to break my cleanse with a bowl of yumelicious oats for dinner….. and yumelicious it was
Peanut Butter-Strawberry Oats
- 1/3 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup hemp milk
- 1 tbsp Almond Butter
- 1 tbsp Flax seed
- Strawberries
- Peanut Butter Morsels
- 0.5 tbsp Agave
- dash of Vanilla extract
I am off to read and catch up with some personal stuff.
It’s great that you feel so…cleansed! Lol. Your bowl of oats looks mighty tasty.
congrats on finishing the cleanse! glad it was a good experience for you.
Perfect dish to break the cleanse with! I’m glad it was such a positive experience!
Yay for finishing! So glad you feel better!
Mmmmm…looks like a perfect break from the cleanse! So glad that you had such a positive experience with the whole thing!
Its been really neat following you on your cleanse. I’m glad you had such a good experience. Your cleanse ending dinner meal looks amazing!!! Yum.
Wow! Congrats on completing it. Are you going to stick with some aspects of the cleanse, or go back to your normal diet?
Those oats look amazing!
I’m glad you are feeling better
That healthy feeling is awesome!
You must feel amazing! You can’t beat a flat stomach
I would have been dying for oats after the cleanse- yours look great!
Now that is a beautiful bowl of oatmeal! Congratulations on the cleanse!
yeah for breaking the cleanse! what a wonderful way to break it, too – gorgeous bowl of oats!
So glad you enjoyed the cleanse!! It seems like it went by so fast!!
ahh i could never give up coffee!!
good for you for eating oats! i couldnt go a day without em!
So glad the cleanse went well for you…just curious why was oatmeal not allowed? It it considered a wheat product? I bet you won’t even crave half the things you used to eat!! That’s how I felt after doing a cleanse and 2.5 months later I still don’t eat half of the things I used to love.
Righteous meal to break the cleanse with!
Can I have some
i’ve seen so many strawberries today, i wish i had some!
Those oats look incredible! I definitely would have missed them, too. Glad you had such success with the cleanse!
Congrats on completing the cleanse and that dish looks insanely good!
well hip hip hooray, it’s over! And you wrote bowel not bowl. In regard to your oats. Obvi the “cleanse” was still on your mind
What a freudian slip! Seriously, awesome job & congrats!
So glad this worked for you and you are feeling so good! I could follow this diet pretty easily, with the exception of sugar. I need to go on a sugar cleanse!
I’ve been thinking about a cleanse as well! Glad you feel so great
Props to you for surviving! Much more will power than I would have.
Thank you for updating us. It seems like it was a very positive experience for you!
So glad the cleanse was good for you. I look forward to continue following you and see how you feel as you gradually include (some??) these foods back into your diet. I recently took wheat products out of my diet, and feel like a million bucks, so I’m wondering if maybe just a few of those items, rather than all of them, contributed to the positive effect you are feeling. Let us know what you notice!
Congrats on completing the cleanse! I’m super interested in doing one as well
I’m glad the cleanse went well! I would probably miss citrus fruits…and coffee!
congrats on being done! and that bowl of oats is perhaps the best way ever to break the cleanse
Yay for making it through the 10 days! So glad to hear it was a positive and energizing experience! And I would totally have made a beeline for my oats also if I hadn’t had them in 10 days…!!
Well done and congrats! You celebrated with an amazing bowl of oats
Congratulations Gelareh! I’m so thrilled to hear about your “flat belly”, which means you certainly cleaned something out.
And “yum” with your oat recipe,
Congrats for finishing the cleanse! That is exciting! And those oats looks FABULOUS! Seriously! WOW!
Way to go! You mention a packet with daily menus and recipes. Did you purchase/sign up for this cleanse somewhere?
Congrats on finishing the cleanse, and I’m glad you’re feeling so good!
It would be tough for me to do that, but do-able…I must say, I’m a little inspired to do one!
Yay! So happy that your cleanse was a success, Gelareh! It sounds great.
That’s awesome! I for one, would love to know more about the cleanse. One thing I’m wondering about is, where did you get the packet that helped guide you through it?
The oats looks fab! I would love to try the cleanse, have heard good things about them and seems you also had a positive experience!