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" Planning to embark on a juice cleanse? Look no further. Whether you want to get fit, fight ageing or squeeze into your wedding dress, Purifyne offer a range of home-delivered and\u00A0organic cold-pressed juice plans to suit your every need. Here,\u00A0Bazaar\u00A0reviews three of their most popular cleanses... Three-Day Super Green Cleanse \u00A0Who: Eugenie Hanmer, Harper\u2019s Bazaar\u2019s executive fashion directorMotivation: To prove to myself I can stick to a health regime for three days. I am not physically or diet motivated in the least and have a severe lack of energy as a result.Cost: \u00A3265Programme: Four juices a day, colosan powders, Epsom bath salts and digestive teas. \u00A0Experience: I failed at the first hurdle by not cutting out alcohol and sugar in advance, as stipulated in the pre-cleanse guidelines. However, on the morning of the first day, a friendly lady called to wish me luck and check that everything had arrived, which gave me the motivation I needed. I chose to cleanse during the week so I could count on my colleagues to keep me focused \u2013 my willpower is non-existent, so if I\u2019d been at home my children\u2019s sweetie jar would have been my stumbling block. The first day was fine, pretty easy in fact, and I enjoyed not having to prepare anything. The only additional supplement I bought was vitamin C to ward off flu. The second day wasn\u2019t too painful either, the novelty of the juice flavours began to wear off but, most importantly, I didn\u2019t feel hungry. In fact, I couldn\u2019t finish all the juices they sent each day. I knew the evenings would be the hardest. My husband graciously agreed not to drink while I was juicing to help me avoid temptation, however I did have to eat before him and sit in a bath full of Epsom salts as the aromas of fillet steak wafted upstairs. On day three, I was still not particularly hungry but very aware that the end was near. I was definitely short-tempered and had some blinding headaches \u2013 but this was partly my fault as I didn\u2019t drink enough water throughout the cleanse. \u00A0Results: On a personal note, I was rather pleased with myself for not falling off the wagon. It proved to me that a 5:2 approach to my eating would be fairly easy for me to sustain, so I shall be trying that next. I lost three pounds, but this wasn\u2019t my motivation and I know that will creep back on. I did feel cleansed, inside and out (perhaps aided by the colosan powders \u2013 watch out!). On the fourth and fifth days, watch what you eat and stick to raw food as much as possible so your body doesn\u2019t get a shock.\u00A0 \u00A0Five-Day Fitness Cleanse \u00A0Who: Henry Windridge, head of marketing at Global RadioMotivation: Through a mix of a six-week boot camps and being mindful of my food, I managed to hit the summer with some semblance of a six-pack. However, following a good wallow in the Ibizan sun, and many plates of calamari in Corfu, I emerged blinking into autumn resembling an actual dish rather than a dishy man-about-town. A good kick-start to the system was needed.Cost: \u00A3365Programme: A lot of juice (3 x 500ml bottles), almond milk (to be mixed with supplied vegan protein powder), 2 pre/post-workout smoothies, coconut water, power green powder every day of the plan. \u00A0Experience: There\u2019s a certain smugness that comes with announcing to friends and colleagues that you\u2019re about to commence a juice cleanse. Obviously you hope for admiring glances, but you mainly get people looking at you like you\u2019re mad and asking furtive questions about whether you can eat anything. Day one passed in a blur of excitement at trying each new flavour, and a sense of being waterlogged by the end of the day. The pre- and post-workout smoothies were delicious and thick \u2013 a satisfying textural difference \u2013 while the juices had a refreshing property that reminded me not to gulp them down. I got through three workdays easily, and if I had done my final two days during the week too, I think I would have been a success story. I don\u2019t think there was enough protein powder to do a hard-core workout, but I felt fine doing lightweights, and the juices didn\u2019t get boring at all. However, waking up on a Saturday morning to your boyfriend\u2019s baleful stare as you open your 16th bottle of juice is not a recipe for a\u00A0successful relationship. So we went out for lunch, where I decided that grapes of the wine variety count as a juice. I managed three and a half days of the five-day cleanse, and was happy with that. \u00A0Results: It was a brilliant transition from caffeine addiction. I didn\u2019t touch a cup of coffee for over three months after the cleanse, and the juices somehow seemed to ensure I didn\u2019t get the crashing headaches some people experience. I felt so much less bloated, and I liked having smoothies for the variety. Juice cleanses fit well in a regime, and I would happily do three days again to fit in with work and working out. \u00A0Three-Day Signature Cleanse Who: Helen Brocklebank, managing director at Trefusis &amp;amp;amp; CompanyMotivation: Through laziness and self-indulgence, I\u2019d put on 17 pounds in as many months by supplementing a fairly healthy staple diet with the four Cs: chocolate, chips, cocktails and cappuccinos. I needed the motivation of speedy results and the discipline of going cold turkey on sugar, fat and booze.Cost: \u00A3249Programme: Four different and delicious juices (some pure fruit, some mostly vegetable) each day, together with a range of supplements, turmeric water for its anti-inflammatory properties, fresh lemonade, matcha powder and almond milk (a matcha latte was a great pick-me-up mid-afternoon). \u00A0Experience: The first two days were challenging. I must be horribly addicted to caffeine because within half a day of quitting, I was deep in a sofa-snooze (tiredness is a side effect of juice-cleansing), so I very much recommend starting it at the weekend, not on a workday. I never once felt hungry, but by teatime on Sunday, I felt I could happily never see another juice again as long as I lived. However, I woke up on the third day bright-eyed and incredibly energetic, feeling lighter and healthier than I had in months. \u00A0Results: I lost five pounds, and along with it the unhealthy, puffy look that the late nights and bad habits had given me. My skin and eyes looked clear and fresh, and I felt quite endorphiny, rather as one does after coming back from a run. It also taught me that I could kick sugar (of the refined chocolate/carb variety, if not fruit sugar) and caffeine, and the reboot gave me the motivation to keep up a no-booze/no-sugar/no-carbs approach to my diet without seeing it as a terrible swizz. I\u2019m not sure I could progress to a five- or seven-day cleanse unless I did it while on holiday, but I love the idea of the 5:2 juice programme, or a monthly three-day cleanse to reset and reboot my system. 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