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you’re dying—which you shouldn’t be—have an egg, a salad with red vinegar or a glass of OJ with half-sparkling water. Eating avocado slices and sweet potato slices always works, too! Make sure you’re drinking the cleanse juice every hour (with tons of WATER).
    How often can I do a cleanse and can I take vitamins while cleansing?
    I like to do it four or five times a year. Doing it too much will not shock your body as much. You don’t really need vitamins while detoxing. Your body is getting enough nutrients.
    Cleansing isn’t for everyone: If you have any medical conditions before, during or after the cleanse, please consult a doctor immediately.
    One of the best ways to get all the important vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytochemicals and amino acids you need to look and feel your best is drinking organic, raw, cold-pressed fruit and vegetable juices. That sounds pretty complicated, but it’s actually pretty simple. Juices prepared this way are as clean and pure as it gets. Suja, a San Diego-based juice company, makes it extremely simple and delicious. They start with the highest-quality fresh ingredients sourced from organic and non-GMO verified farms. After washing, the produce is cold-pressed. Cold presses are different from other types of juicers because they extract juice by grinding and pressing fruits and vegetables without adding heat. In other traditional models, the fast-spinning blades that tear apart produce create heat and draw air in, allowing the juice to oxidize and killing nutrients before it even hits your cup. Sounds great, right? It is, but unless you drink your cold-pressed juice within a few hours, all those vital nutrients you worked hard to preserve are oxidizing and being minimized by heat and light. Suja takes it a step further by preserving all of the cold-pressed goodness without applying heat as with flash pasteurization, which is used on most commercial juices. Instead of pasteurizing, Suja cold pressurizes, or HPPs, their juices. This technology, which applies a large amount of pressure to the bottles while they are kept under 40°/4°C, allows the juice to retain all of its important nutrition while extending the shelf life for 30 days and making it safe to drink as a raw product. Pretty cool.
    I have friends who have cured their psoriasis, allergies and viruses by drinking the proper juices.
    So do your research. Know what the hell you’re chugging. Because honestly? It could just change your life.
    (See Chapter 11, “Love Chub,” for more of my favorite green drinks.)



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MEET CARDIO,
YOUR NEW BESTIE
    Ahhhh, cardio.
    You’re such a little bitch.
    My body craves you. But you’re so damn difficult.

BUT, SERIOUSLY.
    You’re boring and repetitive.
    I have to say, though, when I hang out with you, cardio, I’m tighter, leaner and longer.
    Ugh. Annoying.
    For now, I’ll keep you around. Only three times a week, though.
    ‘K?
    xo. Lauryn
    So, ya.
    And that pretty much sums up my relationship with boring old cardio.
    If you love cardio, you’re one lucky kitten.
    I’ve taken month breaks from boring cardio and incorporated only weight, Pilates and yoga into my daily exercises.
    And let me just say: There’s absolutely, positively, freaking nothing like cardio.
    Cardio’s a huge part of the healthy lifestyle puzzle.
    Frequent cardio sesh’s allow all that hard work to shine. All those toning sessions/reformer Pilates and barre classes/yoga moves will shine brighter, hunny, because you’ll be tighter.
    I’m telling ya, it’s a real fat burner.
    Plus, it releases an amazing amount of endorphins, which are vital to healthy living.
    There’s really no feeling like the post-cardio feeling.

LIKE, IT’S BETTER THAN SEX.
    Kind of.
    But I guess sex is considered cardio … so …
    OK, we’re getting off topic.
    Anyway, here are my three favorite ways to complete my three days per week of cardio:

RUN YOUR LIL HEART OUT.
    This is obvious. We all know running’s cardio.