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Fact: I loathe those types of articles....","datePublished":"2015-04-20","dateModified":"2015-04-20","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/kpalladino\/#Person","name":"Kirsten Palladino","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/kpalladino\/","identifier":2,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/76421eab241dc39d43a493849d7bc676e4b1c60c6b1167f727466599b6882eca?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/76421eab241dc39d43a493849d7bc676e4b1c60c6b1167f727466599b6882eca?s=96&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Equally Wed","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","url":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","width":218,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rainbow-juice-cleanse-book.png","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rainbow-juice-cleanse-book.png","height":399,"width":710},"url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/juice-cleansing-before-the-wedding\/","about":["Fitness & Health","Food & Health","Wedding Planning Tools & Tips"],"wordCount":883,"keywords":["books","health","juice cleanse","juicing","nutrition","vegetables","weight loss","wellness"],"articleBody":"\u00a0Warning: This isn\u2019t a \u201chow to lose weight in X amount of days before your wedding\u201d article. Fact: I loathe those types of articles.I was the kind of bride who eagerly showed up to cake-tasting appointments hoping to try all the flavors, not just the three I\u2019d selected. Sorry, not sorry.But beyond my personal weakness for sugar, there\u2019s a difference between getting skinny for someone else\u2019s vision for the perfect bridal size and achieving a state of wellness. That\u2019s what I want to talk to you about today.There’s a new nutrition\u00a0book that piqued my interest: The Rainbow Juice Cleanse: Lose Weight, Boost Energy and Supercharge Your Health by Dr. Ginger Southall\u2028 (Running Press,\u2028 April 2015, \u2028$17.00). The tummy-toning tome\u00a0focuses on how juicing popular high-glycemic vegetables will affect the intricate physiology of the body. Each day of the program focuses on a different color of the rainbow\u2014that is, drinking different colored veggies each day of the cleanse\u2014ensuring the best possible nutrition profile and guaranteeing positive results.While Dr. Southall\u2019s book, The Rainbow Juice Cleanse, does promise losing seven pounds in seven days, those are likely seven pounds of gross things you don\u2019t even want to know about. Toxic sh*t you need to get rid of. She also boasts that her book will help you boost your energy levels and supercharge your health. Well, I took her challenge\u2014not the seven-day one (yet!), but I have felt extra wonderful when I\u2019ve drank her recipes, so without further ado, let me show you what I did with her book, a trip to the farmer’s market, my newest kitchen toy,\u00a0Omega juicer (NC800 series),\u00a0and my Kenwood X-Pro blender (which I seriously don’t think I could live without in the summer or winter because it blends both hot and cold foods).The first recipe I made was what Dr. Southall explains is definitely not juicing. It’s a smoothie. It’s a way to get your taste buds ready for the change that’s coming your way when you start replacing meals with liquid veggies. And these are veggies, not fruit. One tip I’ll never forget from her is “Eat your fruit, drink your veggies.” She’s still pro-fruit, but she explains over several useful pages how fruit is full of sugar, and how “eating whole fruit, with its fiber and full nutritional and phytonutrient package, is entirely different than drinking a glass of condensed fruit juice or even adding a few pieces of fruit in your veggie juice. This is especially true for someone facing a health challenge (as most of us are today) and for those trying to lose weight. From a healing and weight loss perspective, try to keep your total fruit consumption between 5 and 10 percent of your total daily calorie intake. The cleaner and healthier you become, the better your body can handle fruits and even fruit juice.”Eat your fruit, drink your veggies.\u2014\u00a0Dr. Ginger SouthallOK, doc. With that lesson, I think we’re ready to dive into Drink No. 1 that I tried, the Green Cilantro Smoothie, which was positively delicious, tangy, refreshing and filling.                                                                     GREEN CILANTRO SMOOTHIE  Serves 1 juice from one lime (squeezed by hand)  2 cups of filtered water  1 cup kale or spinach leaves  1 cup chopped fresh pineapple  1\/2 cup fresh cilantro\u00a0  1\/2 inch fresh ginger root, unpeeled 1 cup ice                                                                                                  Place all ingredients in the blender. Pulse.\u00a0                                                                                                Top view of cilantro, ginger, lime juice, spinach, ice and pineapple.                                                                                                Pulse it all together in the blender.                                                                                                Enjoy your green cilantro smoothie!                             Next, I made the Thai One on Tonic. Honestly, this one made me want to break up with cauliflower, for like, forever. But, it’s packed with many of the B vitamins, zinc, magnesium and omega-3s, which promote healthy sugar metabolism, according to Dr. Ginger, which she says helps with blood sugar stabilization. So I mentally pushed myself to finish it, and I was proud that I chugged it down. It tasted good, but it was more like a creamy soup. Mixing in some (pure) stevia and pouring it over ice could really help.                                                                     THAI ONE ON TONIC Serves 1 1\/2 head cauliflower, cut into chunks; 2 zucchini or summer squash, cut into chunks; 1 inch fresh ginger root, unpeeled; AFTER JUICING: 1 1\/2 teaspoons very finely grated lemongrass; fresh basil leaf                                                                                                Juice the cauliflower, zucchini (or squash) and ginger root.                                                                                                I used Omega's awesome masticating juicer, which separates the juice from the pulp. Here it is in action.                                                                                                Garnish with lemongrass and basil. And enjoy!                             The Red Pepper-Mint Juice might resemble a Bloody Mary in appearance, but don’t add any vodka if you’re going for a cleanse. It’s full of vitamin E, manganese and more than 30 known members of the carotenoid phytonutrient family!                                                                    RED PEPPER-MINT JUICE  Serves 1 2 red bell peppers, cored and seeded; 2 stalks celery, roughly chopped; 1 inch fresh ginger root, unpeeled; After juicing: fresh mint leaves, crushed; pure stevia, to taste (optional)                                                                                                Run the red peppers, celery and ginger root through the juicer.                                                                                                 Pour the juice in a glass along with a crunched up handful of mint and add stevia, if desired.                            \u00a0All photos except book by Kirsten Ott. Recipes copyright Dr. Ginger Southall, The Rainbow Juice Cleanse.Kirsten Ott"},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Juice Cleansing Before the Wedding","item":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/juice-cleansing-before-the-wedding\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]