Trying A 2 Day Pressed Juice Cleanse

I decided to attempt a juice cleanse. I wanted to see how it would make me feel and if I would lose any weight. I thought about making them myself, but I decided to go with a company and have the juices ready to go. That turned into a lot of research as there are plenty of places to order juices from. It is a bit hard to figure out which would taste best as well because everyone has different opinions. After talking to a couple of friends and scanning the internet, I decided to go with Pressed.

Pressed

Pressed is all around the country and if there isn’t one close by, there are other stores that carry their juices. They also deliver nationwide. I found a local spot that carries their juices and had them delivered to me same day. They have so many juices to choose from and they also have 1 day and half-day cleanse bundles you can choose from. There is a beginner, advanced, customer favorite, and a smoothie + juice cleanse. All the information on every juice and what is in each of them can be found on their site.

Picking a Cleanse

Most people I saw did a 3 day cleanse. I have never done a juice cleanse and I thought 3 may be pushing it for the first time. I also didn’t want to buy 3 days worth of juice and not drink them all. Since Pressed has a 1 day cleanse I thought that I could at the very least get to day 2. This prompted me to buy two, 1 day cleanses. After looking at the different juices in the bundles, I decided to go with two of the customer favorites. It comes with 6 juices for 1 day and they are 15.2 Fl OZ. I ordered them the day before I was going to start the cleanse.

Day 1

I didn’t eat much the day before so I was pretty hungry. I had Greens 2 at 11am. I could smell the celery in it, which wasn’t very appealing. It tasted OK, but it wasn’t great. The apple and lemon definitely help offset the celery flavor. The more I drank it, it wasn’t so bad. The hunger feeling started to diminish as I drank it, but I felt the urge to eat something. My guess is because that is usually what I do, eat. By 11:45am I had only got halfway through the bottle and I started to wonder how I was going to get through all of these juices. By 12:35pm I finally finished the first one.

When you are not drinking the juices you supposed to be drinking water, so I drank about 12 oz. Around 1:45pm I started on the second bottle which was Citrus 2 because I began feeling hungry again. I could smell the apple and mint. It was a little tart, but the mint and pineapple taste made it a lot better. I did a 35 minute stretch and workout while drinking this one and finished bottle 2 at 3:13pm.

Again, I started feeling slight hunger, so at 4:05pm I started on Greens 3. It did’t taste great and was not a favorite of mine. At 6:30pm I was still trying to finish it off and decided chugging it was the way to go. I really wanted to eat. Everyone around me was eating and at this point I would have been happy even just licking a piece of food.

I wasn’t even hungry, but by 6:57pm I started on Root 3 because I figured I needed to drink all of these juices. I could smell the lemon and ginger. It had a spicy kick that I could feel in the back of my throat. This one also had a beet aftertaste. 9pm rolled around and I hadn’t finished Root 3, so I put it back in the fridge. I skipped Citrus thinking it was a bit late for that and moved on to the Vanilla Almond for a late dinner.

I started this last one at 9:08pm, which smelled interesting and tasted gritty. The vanilla aftertaste was not for me either. That also ended up back in the fridge, I couldn’t finish it.

Day 2

I weighed myself in the morning and saw I had dropped 1 pound. My stomach also looked noticeably less bloated. For day 2 I decided I was going to drink the juices out of order because I preferred particular ones over the others. I drank Citrus 2 for breakfast and finished it around noon. Even though I wasn’t a huge fan of Roots 3, I decided to finish it off at 12:20pm and that spicy kick was still no joke.

My appetite was good and I felt fine. At 2:30pm I began drinking Citrus 1. The first thing I smelled and tasted was cucumber. The pineapple helped the flavor a lot. I began debating if I wanted to keep drinking the juices. I was kind of over it and I knew I would not get through 6 on this day either. Plus I still had some left over from the day before.

I ended up eating a hand full of grapes and New England Clam Chowder. So that pretty much ended the juice cleanse. That is all I ate the entire day. I did drink another juice. I also drank the rest of the juices on other days as a food substitute.

Overall

I would do another juice cleanse. In fact, I am thinking of doing another one before the year is out. I am however going to handpick which juices I want rather than the cleanse bundles. I also think I will just do 1 day. I could barely drink all 6 juices in one day. Whatever is left over after doing it for a day, I would just use as a food substitute on the following days. They have also come out with a lot of new juices that I would love to try.

I felt good. I hadn’t lost any more weight, but the 1 pound. I was fine with that. I wasn’t eating much junk food, but the cleanse curved the bit I was craving even more. It also pulled me from drinking juices from the store and drink 100% water all day long. I also feel like I began to eat even better. Eventually dropping 10 pounds.

I would definitely recommend it doing a juice cleanse. Pressed overall had some good juices and I am looking forward to trying some of their new flavors as well.