NOT so (juju) cleanse

So. A few weeks back I received message from C, one of S's girl cousins, asking if I was interested in joining them as they needed a third person to get the barkada package of Juju Cleanse. At that time, I had been hearing about it already, and had visited the site once or twice, considered it, but never really pursued it.


But now, since someone offered to organize the entire thing,  I was more interested. I visited the site again, read more, and said yes, I was going to join them.

There were 3 of us doing the "hard core" cleanse. "Hard core" because there is actually a one-day cleanse. But not us. We went ahead to order the 3-day cleanse. The 3-day cleanse meant that we would be on a liquid diet the ENTIRE THREE DAYS. Which didn't really faze me because a friend said he didn't feel hungry at all.

We did it over a Friday to Sunday weekend, in anticipation of the need to be close to a bed (if one is weak) or the bathroom (you know...).

I read that I had to prepare for the fast by having mostly fruits and veggies and soup the day before. Best to nix the solids, it was suggested -- the only solid food I had that day was chicken. My Guama's (maternal grandmother) steamed chicken which I could *never* say no to.

The next day began late for me, as I was too afraid to start early and be hungry by late evening. I tweeted the entire of day one. I cheated on day 2 (the birthday party we went to had fish balls and corn dogs, how could I say no??? But paid for it in the bathroom a long time during the evening of day 2), and finished on day 3. I eased back to solid food two days after the actual cleanse, as, again, suggested by the site. In fact, I was waiting for the *huge* flushing out of "toxins" as some people I know have experienced, but there was none. I have been wondering why (hence, the title).

Here are my learnings:

• I can live on juice alone. It is true, I was never hungry. At all.
• I am perennially on a "see" food diet. Really. When I see food, I want to eat it. I realized that sometimes, I eat even when I'm not hungry. I eat because --- well, I enjoy eating!
• (I realized this a few weeks after the cleanse) I've learned to eat less than what I regularly do, I opt for food that seems more nutritious (but not all the time ha), and I have learned to say no when I'm not hungry. 

Would I do it again? Yeah, most probably. The taste of the juices (is this correct grammar, to pluralize a mass noun?) were okay enough for me. However, I should try and consider juicing myself. Ang mahal! Hahahaha!

How about you, would you be up for a Juju Cleanse challenge???