How I lived for 5 days on the detox menu: an editorial experiment

I have heard about detox services for a long time. But I never dared to try. A couple of months ago, I attended a nutritionist’s seminar, which impressed me greatly. “Porridge with milk is evil,” “Fruits and vegetables with yogurt are evil,” and a couple of other statements destroyed my fragile ideas about proper nutrition. Of course, I eat better than 90% of the world's population. But I don’t fall into the 1% of those who perfectly monitor their diet.

My bad habits include lack of regularity, rare double cheeseburgers and frequent lattes from the same McDonalds. And, of course, a passion for sweets. I don't mind devouring a chocolate bar in one sitting. And a couple more sweets in the evening before bed won’t bother you. But the worst thing is that in the flow of things and events, I may not even notice how much sweets I eat.

So, I got to the seminar. I listened. I was impressed. I rewrote the recommended detox menu and went home determined. The menu included soups, boiled vegetables, smoothies, and cocktails. “Nothing complicated,” I decided. And she was supposed to start from the next Monday. But Tuesday came, and I was still exploring the supermarket in search of celery. On Wednesday I prepared mentally. And on Thursday morning I was too lazy to make a smoothie. My detox ended before it began. I had almost lost hope, but suddenly I received an offer to take a 5-day WowDetox course, which provides all smoothies, cocktails and mixtures in ready-made form.

And I started right away on Monday.

Only I forgot to take into account that the coming Monday was post-Easter. And when everyone around was gorging themselves on Easter cakes, I just watched them tearfully.

The courier arrived exactly at 8 am, as agreed. First of all, I took a photo of my WowDetox cocktails, rejoiced at the fertile ground for Instagram photos, and drank a smoothie. “Tasty, bright, youthful!” — I didn’t even have time to think about the fact that there might be some difficulties. After all, you need to drink juices every hour and a half. 8 juices a day. Using some simple math, I figured that I wouldn’t go hungry. And she sat down waiting for the second cocktail.

To our misfortune, that day we went into nature. I, with a smoothie in my purse, had to look at people who swallowed barbecue meat in their mouths and ate bread and ketchup. “God, what was I even thinking about? Why now?" — and by the end of the first day, all my psychological attitudes about food came out. At some point, it felt like I had given up food forever. And on the very first day in the evening I lost my temper a little and stomped on the sandwich.

Burning with shame, I went to work on Tuesday. And if it weren’t for the constant birthday cakes in the kitchen, I might not have noticed that instead of pancakes for lunch I was drinking a spinach cocktail. On the second and third days, I developed a habit of drinking juices and the feeling of hunger disappeared.

In the comments to my posts about WowDetox, friends wrote sympathetic and scary comments about the dangers of such a detox. By Wednesday evening I even began to worry a little about fainting from hunger. But my condition was never close to fainting. Thursday and Friday (if not for the cakes) passed quietly. That long-awaited lightness in the body has arrived. The contours of the abs have improved, the stomach has become perfectly flat even in the most relaxed state. And most importantly, the addiction to food that I had before has disappeared!

The 5-day WowDetox was the key for me to overhaul my overall eating habits. I suddenly realized how negative my evening overeating was. This time on vacation, with a rich buffet, I did not allow myself to eat first-second-dessert as usual, but limited myself to one thing. After such a grandiose cleansing, there was a desire to maintain freshness and lightness in the body. I would like to be more attentive to what I eat and how much.

I understood that going through a detox program once was not enough. It is important to bring nutrition