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"Stuffing. Pumpkin pie. Chocolate-covered everything. Sound like your most recent holiday meal? This December four Glamour staffers tested out a 5-Day Post-Thanksgiving Cleanse from Sakara Life, a Brooklyn-based vegan meal delivery service. Note: All four staffers are card-carrying carnivores. So as 2014 rapidly approaches and you frantically scribble down that list of New Year&amp;#x27;s resolutions, consider replacing &amp;quot;Juice Cleanse&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;Vegan Cleanse&amp;quot; (hey, Beyonce&amp;#x27;s doing it! #22daysvegan), taking into account our roundup of pros and cons: Pro: Five days is a helluva easier than seven. Those two days off are key. (Just don&amp;#x27;t eat a cheeseburger!) Pro: The meals are fairly filling, thanks in part to being jam-packed with superfoods like quinoa, flaxseed, and goji berries. And the portions are not small&amp;amp;#8212;even for the one male staffer who participated! (Though I personally chose to supplement with an apple a day&amp;amp;#8212;one of the few approved low-glycemic fruit snack items.) Con: There is no portion variation based on your height, weight, or gender. You&amp;#x27;re expected to listen to your body and stop when you are full (or eat some blueberries if you&amp;#x27;re starving), but the 6&amp;#x27;1&amp;quot; male in our group received the same portions as the 5&amp;#x27;3&amp;quot; female. Pro: You can choose to do three meals/day, breakfast/lunch only, lunch/dinner only, just lunch, or just dinner. Ultimately this allows you to have more of a social life than sipping your green juice at a restaurant, as long as you plan in advance. Pro: The food is tasty 80 percent of the time. A day&amp;#x27;s menu might include: Lemon Poppy Seed Crepes with Fall Fig Jam for breakfast, Spicy Sea Veggie Rolls with Rockin Ginger Miso for lunch, and Whole Beet Ravioli paired with Toasted Sesame Broccolini for dinner (with a pesto sauce that is divine!). But there was a Breakfast Squash Scramble that will never be repeated. Con: Sometimes it&amp;#x27;s not quite clear whether an accompanying sauce, albeit tasty, is meant to be salad dressing or sauce for the main part of the meal. It&amp;#x27;s also not clear whether you are supposed to heat each meal up or consume it cold. Could we get some idiot-proof instructions, please? Pro: Minimal headaches, despite banning caffeine (OK, there was one cheater in the group). Sakara recommends starting your day with room-temperature lemon water rather than coffee, which admittedly did perk us up in the morning. Con: Our cleanse included two vitamin supplements: a probiotic Floracor-GI and a magnesium and calcium powder drink called Calm. These are optional items that you select at check-out, but we weren&amp;#x27;t totally sure when to consume them. Pro: All four of us were told multiple times that our skin was glowing and/or that we looked thin within the first two days. Sold. Con: Some of us were a little thrown by having no clue how many calories were in each meal. Pro: Yours truly lost seven pounds in five days. I decided to continue with the breakfast/lunch option for the next two weeks (&amp;#x27;tis the holiday season after all), and I kept off five of the seven. So, want to get on board for the New Year? Sign up for delivery starting Monday, December 30, by Friday at 5 P.M."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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