I really should never let old friends meet my wife. When I do crap like this happens. When Coop and I ended our Fat Boy Summer Road Trip a couple of weeks ago it gave my lovely wife a chance to get to know him. That led to him talking about healthy living, the polar opposite of the Fat Boy lifestyle. He encouraged her to watch a documentary made by a man named Joe Cross entitled "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead".
In the movie he details his incredible weight loss achieved by going on a juice only diet. The success of the film caused him to write a book of recipes, sign a deal with a juicer manufacturing company, and exploit his success. Suddenly my darling wife wants me to order her a juicer, and a new series for Fat Boy Heaven is born.
Over the next week I will compare two popular juice based cleansing diets, the "Reboot with Joe" made famous by Joe Cross, and The BluePrint Juice Cleanse, a very popular brand of pre-made cold pressed juices that sell for a huge amount ($7-11/each) and whose recipes have been widely copied and published via the web as a result.
Each plan is a three day cleanse, and we will compare taste, variety, cost of ingredients, and weight loss/health changes to determine which plan works out best for me and proves most time and cost effective.
All of this for just 3 days of juice? This is more vegetables and fruit than I ate last year!
First up starting tomorrow will be a DIY version of the BluePrint Renovation Cleanse, their most varied and flavorful package intended for those of us new to Juicing.
BluePrint has an iOS app to help you track your cleanse
