I decided to try Adina Niemerow’s Super Cleanse again.

The last time I tried it for a few days I felt fantastic and stopped drinking coffee completely. I weaned myself onto it by cutting out dairy first, which cut out the coffee since I was drinking about 1/3 a cup of pure cream or Half & Half (whichever was available) every day with my 2/3 pot of very strong coffee.  Then I cut out wine and started cooking dinner earlier which made my family much happier. I wrote the goal of 6PM on my refrigerator blackboard for dinner and it’s moved dinner from 7:30PM to between 6 and 6:30PM. This was also a move from summer late sunsets and later eating in general.

This time with the cleanse, I did the One-Day Wonder Cleanse. It involves the least amount of work in my opinion. I did not feel as good this time and had a headache most of the day. I had green juice for breakfast, the Blissful Blend Broth for lunch and the Satisfy-Me Broth for Dinner. I also had a salad as a snack. I felt myself detoxing when  went to bed by sweating a lot and woke up very early. The next day (yesterday), I continued with other cleanse menu items. I had the Rush Hour Coconut shake for breakfast, then a Beauty smoothie as a snack. I still had a headache though. For lunch I had some butternut squash soup I bought at the market. By dinner my headache had  not subsided, so I decided to eat some of the brown rice and eggplant I was serving everyone else. After that my headache went away.

I realized when I did this last time I was doing cleanse foods all day, and then eating a conservative, limited meal with dinner. I felt great, so I will try that for the next few days.

Today, I again woke up early and I have to say, my skin looks fantastic. And I do not have a headache! There really is something to the skin and body revitalizing through simple foods. We are healthy eaters in my family, but I have a tendency to cook a lot of grilled proteins whether they are chicken, red meats, fish or shellfish. I feel much better with lighter fare.