Beyond Detox: The Jolie Guide to Real Resets That Rejuvenate

Just like a vacation restores your mind, a reset restores your body. In this episode of The Jolie Life Podcast, Julia explores when and how to reset for the greatest impact — from quick juice and soup cleanses to longer, rejuvenating resets that rebuild metabolism and harmony from within. Learn how to use resets not as interruptions, but as rituals of renewal that keep you glowing year-round.

Transcript

Hello everyone. I welcome you back to the Jelly Life Podcast and today's podcast is on When to reset. How do you know when to reset? Why should you reset? Why should you not reset? Are resets, just fad diets? Is doing a reset just yo-yo diet? And there are two reasons why I'm doing the podcast. One because it's a frequently asked question and it's a frequently asked challenge to clients who are doing resets. And it's important to know, I do truly believe that resets are part of taking care of your body, your overall body maintenance, self-care plan, just like a vacation is taking care of yourself in a different kind of way. We don't think of vacations as wrong or bad because they are an escape from our everyday reality. Instead, we think of vacations as times for refurbishment, times to refocus, to recenter, to relax, to do something different.
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And that doing something different brings us back into our regular life stronger, more resilient, more focused with more clarity. And that in a nutshell is what a reset does. So I have a good friend who is like one of those friends where you might speak every six months, but when you speak it is as if you just hung up the phone. Anyway, she wanted to do a reset. She had been working with a company to fix some of her nutritional challenges, shall we say, but was a bit frustrated. And so it was like, Julia, can I please do a reset? And I'm like, yes, you can. Of course you can. And she was preparing herself for a wedding, but felt bloated, felt like her eating was very disorganized and felt very sugar addicted. And so she did a reset and it was wonderful. This ended up not being a weight loss reset.
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And this is what so many clients say, who lose weight on resets and who don't lose weight on resets. So if you're going to lose weight or not, it depends on the reset. But for this particular client, the goal was to lose weight or my friend, it was to lose weight. There was not much weight loss, I would say negligible. However, she felt so much better because the eating was organized. She felt in control, she felt well nourished, the sugar cravings were gone, the bloating was gone, the digestive discomfort was gone, the brain fog was gone. And so this was a win-win and she was thrilled. I was thrilled because I know that when a client does a quote, weight loss reset, and the weight loss is minimal, it is usually because their body is very starved of nutrients. And so the weight loss would happen in a subsequent reset or a continuation of the healthy eating habits, but this was more of a replenishment or bringing back into balance of your hormones and your appetite and your metabolism.
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But she was thrilled. She was thrilled because she felt better. She was thrilled because inflammation was down and she was thrilled because bloating was down and she felt more centered. The person she'd been working with sent her a very scathing email or text message, which she shared with me, basically saying that what she did was not a wise decision because it was a stop gap, it was a bandaid and that it would've been better just to do the gradual change of one's diet. And that doing the reset would put her back to square one, which this being my friend, I know that is not true, but the message she received is a very valid pushback as it relates to resets. And I think that that comes from the eighties when yo-yo diets were so in vogue and in the nineties, early nineties when yo-yo diets were so in vogue and there was this idea of lose five, gain 10, lose five, gain 10, and going through this cycle all the time, lucky for us resets and knowledge of nutrition has changed dramatically.
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And so our resets these days are a lot more nuanced. They are more geared toward building your body up, supporting your body instead of starvation and deprivation. And so I want to just get that sort of misgiving or that myth out of the way before we dive into why should you reset? So I love the vacation analogy when a client asks, should I reset or can I do a reset? My questions to them are the following. How is your energy? Usually when you feel a dip in energy, when you are fatigued, when your sleep is very disrupted, when it feels like your day is moving through sludge and that's not a normal thing for you, it's a key sign that it's time to do a reset. Because on one hand, either you're malnourished, undernourished, and regardless of weight, regardless of how much food you eat, you can be undernourished.
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Undernourished is just not having the nourishment that your body needs. So if you're walking around in chronic fatigue, always tired, can't sleep well, it's a sign that your body needs a reset. If you are bloated, if your digestion is disrupted, if you have that just feeling heavy, it's a sign. You need a reset. If you're inflamed, you look puffy, your face is flush, it's red. You're very reactive to sensitivities. That's a sign you need to reset. If you are a bottomless pet, you are always hungry, always thinking about food, always ending a meal and feeling like it still wasn't enough. Having massive sugar cravings, those are signs that you need a reset. Your body is craving nutrition, and that's what a reset does, at least a Jolie life reset. And we'll get into what a reset should be doing for you. So those are the signs, the hallmarks that it is time for a reset.
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And generally speaking, once you are on a healthy eating as a lifestyle, the number of resets you need during the year begins to diminish. When I was coming into my Julie Life lifestyle, I was resetting for probably a good nine months. Every single month I would do a juice cleanse, and there was a point, I think it was month and nine, it could have been month 10 where I got ready to do my juice cleanse and I was like, you know what? I don't really need to do this because my last juice cleanse, I didn't feel the same give back that I had felt with the other juice cleanses. And so if you are on a monthly cleanse and you do that cleanse that month and you don't feel that boost that you usually feel that's a sign that you're good, you are well cleansed, you are well reset, and now you can take a break and maybe reset once a season, once every three months, once every four months, once every six months would be a good cadence.
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So now that we talked about some of the pushback on resets, the telltale signs that you should reset and how frequently you should reset a little bit, we talked about that. Let's talk about the kinds of resets you can do because in the Jolie world, not all resets do the same thing and not all resets are appropriate at every time. So let's talk about the juice cleanse because that is super popular. The juice cleanse is one of my favorites because it's quick. It's usually three days you're in, you're out and you feel really amazing afterwards. Jolie does very low sugar juices, which I think is key. And the idea behind it is to create a calorie deficit. So you are in a fasting state by having a very low sugar cleanse, you are not having insulin spikes and you basically allow your body to detox deeply.
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So you're giving it all the antioxidants, it needs to affect the detox, to bind with the toxins and to usher them out. You're deeply, deeply hydrating your cells and hydration helps accelerate detoxification if you are detoxing and you're not well hydrating. So how might that happen? Let's say you're fasting like no food fast, no food, no juices, no nothing. You're doing a water fast and you're not really drinking enough water. You're going to come out of that feeling worse. Let's say you're detoxing through frequent sauna use. You're going to come out of a month or so of frequent sauna use and you're going to feel worse because you haven't hydrated. You haven't given yourself a means of quickly expelling what you're detoxing. And so it detoxes, but it ends up recycling back into your system. And so that's one reason why I do love the juice cleanse because it is so hydrating.
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And I tend to recommend the juice cleanse before an event like let's say before vacation because it gives you a hard reset, it resets your appetite, it detoxifies you, it deeply hydrates you, and it gets you ready to roll. Oftentimes on vacation, we eat things we don't usually eat, we drink too much, we have a lot of sun. We're going, going, going, and those are all we're flying in airplanes. Those are factors that lead to dehydration. So imagine going into that deeply hydrated, you're going to fare so much better. The other thing about a juice cleanse is it tends to cut your appetite. Your stomach tends to shrink a bit, and so when you're on vacation, you're less likely to overindulge because you get fuller faster. So that's one reason why I love a juice cleanse before a vacation. I love it for after. And I also love juice cleanses for breaking through weight loss plateaus.
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So when I was on my weight loss journey, I would get to these plateau areas and they just would not budge. No matter what I did, it would not budge. And here is where the juice cleanse was a lifesaver. I would juice cleanse for three days. I would drop through the barrier, I would go back to my healthy eating and I would continue to lose weight. So a juice cleanse allows your body to be in that fasting state so you can reset your metabolism, you can reset your set point and you can go through the plateau. And then by eating healthily afterwards, you don't have that rebound of gaining weight. So I love the juice cleanse for that. At Joli, we also have a broth cleanse and a soup cleanse. The soup cleanse is similar to the juice cleanse, but juice cleanses in the winter tend to make me cold, so I tend to do soup cleanses.
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Soup cleanses, however, are more nourishing in the sense of they are not as light. So you don't feel that empty feeling that you get with a juice cleanse. With a juice cleanse, you do have this feeling of being empty, which I personally really love, but if that is not your vibe and that's not what you like, then I recommend a soup cleanse. Because a soup cleanse allows you to deeply nourish and allows you to deeply hydrate the soups by the cooking and the broth by the pureing of the soups. All of the nutrition, everything is very soft in the soup. All of the nutrition is very, very easy for your body to access. And so soup cleanses are great when you are battling a cold right after a cold. If you're going through a cold, they are wonderful, wonderful for your immune system. They're also wonderful, wonderful if you have digestive challenges because unlike a juice cleanse, a soup cleanse has lots of fiber in it.
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And so you're getting nourishments that is easy to assimilate into your system, but you're also getting fiber for your microbiome. A soup cleanse is a little bit easier on your microbiome. If you are in that touch and go space. Let's say you have a delicate balance right now, then I would suggest you do a soup cleanse because the soup cleanse is going to maintain that balance as opposed to challenge it. And while we're here, let's just touch on the broth cleanse. The broth cleanse is for us in our world, it is medicinal, meaning it's something that you use for deep gut healing for a limited amount of time. Usually for us it's one to three days. And the broth cleanse is completely about gut health for us. It gives you digestive rest and it gives you everything you need to help your gut lining repair.
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It is extraordinarily low in calories, and so it's not something I recommend outside of medicinal use, and it's also not something that I recommend doing frequently. It is very much my gut needs attention, let me give it it. And it's like a wheatgrass shot, like a wheatgrass shot. It goes down fast and it does a lot. That is a broth cleanse, so you can heal your gut other ways. It's just a much slower process where a broth cleanse is painful for those 1, 2, 3 days, but it really, really, really does the job. So let's move on to more food-based cleanses because Jolie is really into food-based cleanses. And I think doing a food-based cleanse helps to really accentuate the reasons behind a reset behind a cleanse. The reasons behind a reset or a cleanse is to make you better. It's to make you stronger. It's to make you more resilient.
(17:08)
It's to support your immune system. It's to lower inflammation, it is to support your gut, and it is a beautiful thing to do it with food and it is much easier and you can do a longer reset. So the ones with food, you're thinking a five day, you're thinking a 10 day, you're thinking a 21 day, you're thinking a 28 day because when you're doing it with food, it's less of a break from your normal life. And instead it gives you time to really, really hunker down and reset so many things. To reset your hormones, which take time. A three day cleanse is not going to reset your hormones, whereas a five day cleanse, if it's designed well, can reset your hormones. You have time for that.
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A three day reset outside of the broth cleanse is not going to reset your gut completely. Whereas a longer reset, you have the chance to do a deep repair, you have a chance to do an elimination diet, and you have a chance to do a inoculation of the gut. And so for concerns or objectives that need more than a quick fix, you want to look for the longer reset, at least five days. And in that time, you also want to be learning what your body needs, what it's doing, and also thinking always in the back of your mind, okay, how can I incorporate this kind of eating into my regular eating? How can I take this reset with me? And here we're back to the vacation analogy. Whenever I go anywhere, particularly to a foreign country, but anywhere that's different than New Jersey, New York where I usually am, I always ask myself, what's something I can take from this vacation and integrate into my life?
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Because I think the value of going places, experiencing new places, new cultures is that it shows you a different way of living that you may not have noticed or seen or experienced before. And bringing that back into your own life makes your own life so much richer and resets in your normal eating are the same way. So whenever you do a reset, the thought is always, what can I bring with me when I return to my normal eating? What can I learn? What can I observe? What can I notice that I can bring with me into my normal eating? And that way you make the reset even more powerful because it not only transforms your body during those 5, 10, 21 days, it continues to transform your body over the next year, two years, five years. And so for me, that is like the real gold in doing a reset. The other thing that you gain is you get to reset your palate. So sugar is one of those things that is really hard to unhook from. It is literally a chemical dependence. However, when you lessen your taste for sugar, by the absence of or by greatly diminishing the amount of you reestablish your baseline, you reestablish what it means to have something sweet. And sometimes, and clients find this all the time, you actually really cut the, what is that practice where you cut the cord on the sugar addiction?
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That is a huge, huge, huge benefit. And so much of sugar addiction comes from your body just wanting nourishment. And when you do a reset, you are giving your body deep nourishment and your reset should be all the vegetables, should be lots of color, lots of fiber, lots of variety, so that you are hitting all of those bases and you are deeply, deeply, deeply nourishing yourself. We have a broth called the health and wellness Broth, which I designed for gut health. But the thing that I love about it is that it is a true elixir. And that happens because of the huge number of herbs that are involved in making it where each one gives you a gift and does something good for your body. And that's what a reset should be. It should not be like the old fashioned grapefruit reset where I'm just eating grapefruit.
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No, no, no, no, no, that's back in the day. That's the yo-yo. Instead, our resets are rainbows of color. So that's what you want to think about. So maybe your reset is, I'm going to be total plants. And when I say total plants, I mean actual vegetables and fruits. I don't mean brown rice and chickpeas and gluten-free pasta or egg, Liz pasta. I don't mean that. That is not a reset. I mean actually going to the things that come from the earth that are vegetables, those are the things that are going to really deeply nourish you in a reset. And by doing that deep nourishment, you cut the sugar craving because you cut it at its root. At its root is a desire to be nourished. And so by doing the deep nourishment, you cut that sugar craving at the root. And that for me is a huge benefit to resetting.
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What else do you get from a reset? You get rejuvenation. So I'm doing the deep reset right now, which is a fasting mimicking diet, or I doing it right now when I'm recording it, I'm getting ready to do it, but by the time you listen to this, I will be in the throes of it. But the ethos or the intention behind it is to bring your body into a fasting state so that it can rejuvenate so that at the very primal level of your cell, you can renew. And so you detox, you go through your glycogen stores, you go into that state where when our aunt and ancestors didn't have meat or water, they needed to be alert, they needed to be strong, they needed to be resilient. And so their body went into this repair pathway that even though they didn't have food, they were actually becoming stronger.
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And so that's what a fasting mimicking reset does for you. It also allows you to get rid of precancerous cells. It allows you to get rid of DNA that didn't replicate properly. It allows you to get rid of sentient cells. So cells that are alive, they're not dying, but they're not reproducing. They're kind of like just hangers on, which really gunk up your system literally. So that's what the rejuvenation resets or cleanses do for you. It allows your body to reset metabolically and it allows your body to go into a much deeper detox than you would get in any other type cleanse. And the point of these is not necessarily weight loss, and that's not the point at all actually, the point is not weight loss. It does happen, but it is not weight loss. The point of these fasting mimicking diets is to deeply rejuvenate the body.
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And I will say losing that extra and it tends to be belly fat that you lose, is also part of the rejuvenation process because that is the most toxic fat you can have in your body. So the deep reset and resets like it definitely rejuvenate both in a cellular sense, but also by burning through some of that very toxic belly fat and resetting your metabolism. Metabolism is a really key factor to rejuvenation. And rejuvenation is the turning back of the clock. Your metabolic health when it is running well is active and making your body feel younger and making your body look be function younger. So I hope you enjoyed this. I hope this answered all your questions about should I reset? How often should I reset? What does a reset do for me? And kind of like which reset should I choose? If I need a quick fix, I need to rehydrate.
(26:57)
I've been sun too much. I'm about to go on vacation. I'm dehydrated. I want to glow. Do your juice cleanse. I need a deep gut repair. Quick. Do your broth, cleanse. I need to boost my immunity. Do your soup cleanse. I need to reset my palate. I need to reset how my systems are working. I need to cool inflammation. You're doing a longer reset. You're doing at least 10 days. You're healing that gut and getting it on its way. You're doing the 10 days you want a deeply rejuvenating, turning back the clock youth, as I call it, you want a five day deep reset fasting diet. That fasting with food, I will say, because it's so much easier fasting with food, you want that. So I hope this has been helpful. If you have any questions, please let me know and check out Instagram and you will know how my debrief reset went. You can reach me at the Jolie life, julia@thejolielife.com. You can reach me on Instagram and you can come visit us too. We are at 12 Village Road, but if you would like to dive more into having your own Jolie life, then come check us out. Come order something. The food is transformational. So let me know what your next cleanse or reset is going to be. And then you segue into healthy eating the Jolie Way.