Day 1: Juice 5

1 apple

1 large cucumber

1 lime

4 leafs red-leaf lettuce

LOTS of spinach

(I meant to put ginger in it, but forgot)

This is just a standard, easy green juice to round off my day. Pretty tasty!

Day 1: Juice 4

2 large tomatoes

2 cloves of garlic

20 basil leaves

I was a bit scared for this one, too. I'm not a big tomato juice drinker, and I generally prefer my juices sweet, but this isn't bad at all! I freakin' love garlic, and 2 cloves was plenty. As I suppose you would guess, this is a rather pulpy juice...

Here's some info on the benefits of garlic:

Garlic is well known for its bold flavor, but it does a lot more these days than just taste great or ward off vampires. Research is highlighting garlic’s natural antioxidant, cholesterol lowering and anti-inflammatory properties. Recent studies show its benefits range from keeping blood cells from becoming too sticky to interrupting prostate cancer cell growth and signaling breast cancer cell death in test tube and animal models.

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Day 1: Juice 3

6 oz. blueberries

6 oz. rasberries

2 apples

1 lemon

I think next time I'll get more berries. I needed the last 2 to make enough juice! Was pretty good, though.

Day 1: Juice 2

2 oranges

2 carrots

1 beet

1 (locally grown) red pepper

1/2 jalepeño

I was a bit scared because of the beet, but this juice tasted freaking AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here it is before stirring. So colorful!

...and after. NOMNOM!!! 

Here's a bit about the benefits of this kind of juice:

Carotene is a pigment that causes many vegetables and fruits to have the orange, red & yellow colour characteristics such as carrots, orange, capsicums, tomato, beetroot and pumpkins. There are approximately 600 known carotenoids found in foods.
Beta-carotene has been shown to improve the immune system and how it will fight infections. Carotenoids offer antioxidant activity, reducing the risk of certain cancers such as lung, skin, uterine, cervix and gastrointestinal tract. It offers protection against macular degeneration and cateracts. 

The beneficial actions of carotenoids are optimal when a variety of carotenoids are consumed together, so a juice mix is ideal.

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Day 1: Juice 1

2 apples
1 orange
1/3 of a HUGE papaya
Lots of spinach

I accidentally took a big gulp out of it before I remembered to take a pic... YUM

Why Not Just Buy Juice From the Store?

Juicing offers us many delicious health benefits including a faster, more efficient way to absorb immune boosting nutrients naturally found in fruits and vegetables. It also provides a way to access digestive enzymes typically locked away in the fiber matrix of whole fruits and vegetables.

Most commercial juices are processed and lacking in nutrition compared to fresh juiced fruits and vegetables. Those that indicate they have 100% juice are technically better than those with only 10% or less. However all varieties are not made and drunk right away like with fresh juice from a juicer. There is still processing and travel which must occur thereby decreasing some of the nutrients. Many juices on the market have more sugar per ounce than soda. The least amount of sugar per ounce of juice is found (no surprises) in fresh made juice. The intake of fruit drinks that are not 100% juice is linked to an increased risk of childhood obesity.

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My Daily Cleanse Regimen

My cleanse begins tomorrow!! Eeee!! SO what exactly will I be doing by way of juicing? Here are the guidelines I'm following:

-Begin the day with 16oz. hot lemon water as soon as I wake up.
-My first juice will include lots of papaya—this can help prevent me from becoming constipated (hooray!)
-Throughout the day, I'll consume 4-5 16oz. juices and 16-24 oz. of other fluids
-There really aren't any rules to how much of which fruits and veggies you should drink, but "drink a rainbow a day" is something that's good to go by.
-I'll try to put something green in most if not all of my juices per day.
-Apples and pears can pretty much go in every juice and help to make a potentially undrinkable juice delicious.

Here is an excellent FAQ page for reboot questions.