Over the last two years I’ve referred to it a number of times for troubleshooting and fine tuning. It’s affordable and one of the best investments I’ve made in my personal health. For the recipes, simply purchase the book. add avocado to a salad, or, eat 1/3 cup serving of beans instead of 1/2 cup).īecause these are not my recipes to reshare, I don’t intend to fully list out each recipe, but rather share photos and give you a general idea of what you’ll eat if you decide to try it. The meals are pretty straight forward and essentially repeat themselves over the course of 4 days with minor variations (i.e. In addition to eating the meals outlined below, I chose to avoid: sugar of all forms (natural and processed), alcohol, caffeine, coffee (even decaf), and any drink or food not listed in the cleanse. To me that means “consume these foods and beverages and leave out the rest.” Others may interpret that differently, but I thought it was worth clarifying. alcohol, caffeine, etc.), but rather shares what you can eat. I’ve enjoyed it both ways, having now done the cleanse twice over the span of a couple months.įrom what I understand, Alisa does not go into detail about what you can’t have during the cleanse (i.e. While it does recommend salmon/fish as a protein, you can easily sub legumes to make the cleanse vegan-friendly.

The cleanse outlined in the book lasts 4 days and is whole foods focused. I won’t go into the various other treatments I’ve tried for these symptoms (none of which have been successful anyway), only that I was at a pretty desperate place with my skin and this cleanse sounded like it would help jumpstart my body in the right direction. The primary symptoms I’ve experienced off and on over the last two years have been hormonal acne along my chin and neck and hair loss, which I talk in detail about here. I don’t think this is the cure all answer for getting your hormones back in order or to eradicate symptoms you may be having, rather it’s a reset for your body to hopefully better support natural hormone balance moving forward. In this case, I was cleansing because I – like many women I’ve spoken to – have suffered from hormonal imbalance and wanted to try a dietary approach to begin healing my body – emphasis on begin. I’ve never done an all juice cleanse, only whole foods-focused cleanses with an end goal of either detoxifying the body or healing a certain symptom.

This post is about this cleanse in particular, why I chose to do it, what meals I ate, and what my overall impressions of it were. There’s a whole slew of reasons to do cleanses and that’s not what this post is about.

After sharing briefly about a cleanse I was doing outlined in the book The Woman Code by Alisa Vitti, many people asked if I’d share a more detailed account of my experience and what meals I ate during the cleanse – specifically if they were vegan-friendly.

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