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"After a weekend of &amp;quot;prepping&amp;quot; for this cleanse, I&amp;#039;m digging into my first juice. It&amp;#039;s the green juice, made from lots of different green veggies and fruits. It&amp;#039;s cool to think that by drinking one juice I&amp;#039;m ingesting celery, cucumber, romaine, spinach, kale and more. There&amp;#039;s a whole salad in this little bottle! This will be my mantra as the day goes on. If I get hungry I&amp;#039;ll repeat again and again &amp;quot;There is a salad in that bottle. There is a salad in that bottle&amp;quot;. Not as good as &amp;quot;There is a cheeseburger in that bottle&amp;quot; but it will do. I&amp;#039;ve heard the green juice is the scariest tasting of the bunch, but I love it! It tastes fresh and healthy and slightly sweet. One thing I am nervous about is how this is mini-fast is going to affect me throughout the day. In the past I&amp;#039;ve had issues with feeling faint and sick if I wait to long to eat between meals. I&amp;#039;m hoping that doesn&amp;#039;t happen, but if it does I do have one of my allowed &amp;quot;cheat&amp;quot; foods on the corner of my desk\u2014the trusty avocado. I&amp;#039;ll try and resist and instead hold off until the end of the day, where a vegan meal waits for me in the fridge at home.  I want to briefly talk about the prep aspect involved in the cleanse. Two days ago I received an email from the folks at Blueprint Cleanse. Besides giving me some delivery information, it gave suggestions on how to prepare for the cleanse. This weekend, I was supposed to eliminate coffee, alcohol, processed foods, dairy, meat and most carbs Hmmm, sounds like a cleanse already, right? Basically they want you to eat vegan, or, as they like to say, eat clean. One line struck me, &amp;quot;LISTEN UP! NO farewell-to-solid-foods-with-a-steak-and-martini dinner the night before you start. You will NOT be a happy camper by the end of Day One. And that&amp;#039;s a promise.&amp;quot;  Yikes. Ok, so, I didn&amp;#039;t have a steak dinner and martini last night, but I did have some Chinese food. I know, I know, not good! I&amp;#039;m a bit nervous on how this is going to affect my stomach. So far, so good. Fingers crossed. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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