"The full Gwyneth"! HAHAHAHA. I love it. Keep it up. I want to find out what kind of strange headtrip you're on by day 5.

Although now I'm starting to rethink my fervor for doing this. Sounds rough.

Women talking about their diets is mind-numbingly boring - in real life and online. Why are you doing this? Why are we supposed care? Do you not actually have anything of value to report or discuss?

@2: I couldn't have said it any better.

If the series directs people away from the stupidity called "juice cleanse", it will have performed a valuable public service.

@2: I find it very interesting.

I just went to their website and saw that this 5 day cleanse is $230!

Wow, it's almost like your body is trying to tell you something. Something like "For the love of God, this is the worst thing you've ever done to me!"

@6 wow. That's a trip to Costco for a family.

I once declined a favorite snack while at a friend's house, at which she gave me the side-eyeball. So I launched into this story about how the Mr. and I were on this diet, and the first two days were easy but now it's getting difficult, but I really want to stick with it because I'm 10lbs more than I was in high school, and I just want to see if I can finish the whole thing as an exercise of will, blah blah blah. She just LOOKED at me. After a few seconds she just said, "That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. If you want to test your will, see if you can read a poem every day for a week. Do not fuck around with food, dumbass." I love her.

don't forget to describe your poops. we are all on the edge of our seats

Um, just don't do it. You acknowledge it's pointless, and cheeseburgers are not so very expensive.

Around day three, while making juice, just the smell of celery makes me desperately want to eat them. Incidentally, and a little late now, I find that eating anything on a juice diet makes the cravings for food worse. If I don't eat anything at all, by day 4 or 5 I'm not hungry at all and find 64oz of juice a day to be more than enough. If I eat some celery on the way because it smells so good, it delays the time when I'll be satisfied with just juice.

That said, I am on a juice diet for weight loss/control, not cleansing. I gave up on multi-day juicing because A) it was too hard to accomplish, not so much from a can-i-really-only-eat-juice standpoint but from a family dynamic and shopping standpoint. And B) Recidivism (weight regaining) was too easy. Currently I juice two days, eat 'normally' for 1-2 days, then juice..etc. So far it seems to be working quite well and it is easy, at least for me, to stick with it.

Obviously, just because something works for me, doesn't mean it will work for anyone else.

This seems like a nice opportunity to get the company involved and directly ask some hard questions about the science behind this luxury product and write a real interesting article.

@13 YES! Give us the full Gwyneth, Anna!

Boring AND self-indulgent! Congrats Anna!

It sounds like the beginning of an eating disorder. Didn't Dan just post his favorite Karen Carpenter song?

Sorry all you haters, but I find this series eminently more interesting than anything Chuck has ever written.

Anna, unless you're willing to go balls deep you're wasting your time. I'm talking wheat-grass enemas here, not some fly-by-night juice "cleanse." Personally, I just extract all of my nutrition from the restorative energies of alfalfa and pass a walnut-sized turd every Tuesday.

I'm serious about the wheat-grass enemas though - shit exists. I had a hippie roommate who was all about it.

@12: But do you feel like exercising? Are you at least walking around the lake?

I think the point is that reading this whole line of posts is hilarious.

It sounds like your juice has sustenance. Back in the day, the Master Cleanse was just lemonade followed by salt water.

You made a 64 oz pitcher of spicy lemonade with fresh lemons, cayenne pepper and a little bit of maple syrup. Drink all day. Add in water if needed. Then, finish it off with a flush of moderately warm salt water, which will make you shit our your insides.

It was far cheaper than TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLARS.

@22 if you simply add vodka to your recipe you'll get all the sustenance you can handle.

@20, I do fairly intense exercise 3-4 days a week. My energy level, as long as I keep my water intake up, is similar on 'juice' days as on 'regular' days.

@22, that sounds terrifying.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/10/17/…

Why not make a bet who can smoke cigarettes for a week? Or who can eat McDonalds everyday. Actually the latter would be more entertaining for all of us. Honestly your self deprecation just saddens me. And makes me hungry.

How does it taste? Is it worth the price?

For a second here, I thought I was on Twitter. Now I know why the 140 character limit makes sense.

You are doing this for absolutely no reason. It is the worst type of quack-quack-quackery. You may loose weight. A few decades ago, women swallowed tapeworm eggs for the same reason. Good idea? What if it were free?

You loose weight on what amounts to a crash-diet, you will put the weight back on. That's called yo-yo dieting. It is horribly, horribly, terribly bad for your health.

You are an idiot. You are on what amounts to a crash diet and all this "juice brain" stuff is basically your body going into a tailspin as it cries out for real food. This is not a "cleanse" this is self abuse. Help yourself to a nice plate of your favorite solid food. You deserve it.