Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!!  Well about 5 days late anyway.  I think we have all been outside of our normal schedules but in addition to that – I have been fighting a little bug of some sort.  I am not sure if it is from the clean eating causing all the toxins to want to jump out of my body OR if I am fighting a good old fashion cold.  BUT I have been sleeping like 9 hours a night and not doing hair or make up :D therefore I keep planning a vlog I never do! 

I finished the Clean book by Dr. Junger and started a new book by one of his colleagues called Revive.  Great reading and I love how they both tie in our mental and emotional loads into what happens in our body.  So I thought I would summarize the top three things Dr. Junger suggests even if you do not jump into a full cleanse with his supplements besides the normal eat fruits and veggies.

1. Make sure there are 12 hours between the last thing you put in your mouth at night and the first thing in the morning.  It takes our bodies sometimes as much as 8 hours to fully digest our food.  That leaves atleast 4 hours a day for our body to go into detox mode and do some daily house cleaning.  This is harder than I thought as I started… I realized how much I graze on things post dinner but I am sleeping much better!
2. Replace breakfast with a juice/smoothie/protein shake.  This is easier for your digestive system to process so you are not over taxing it.  I have read this in a lot of books.  Even Dr. Mercola says this is what he eats every breakfast.  I got a AWESOME new juicer from William Sonoma for Christmas from my father in law so I have been doing this for the last 4 mornings with protein powder.
3. Incorporate probiotics into your supplements and/or at a minimum a cleanse.  A lot of the cleanse books I read talk about giving your body a break but this one talks a lot about using that time to heal and giving your body the right supplements to do that during that time.  There is some great science on how your gut is as instrumental in hormone production as your brain so keeping the good bacteria is crucial in that. 

So in my first baby step I am incorporating these three.  Only issue so far is a new routine with eating because with the juice in the morning, I am hungry again by 10:30am for lunch. But baby steps….I have also cut out the morning sugar in the coffee (which I do not enjoy yet) AND cut my bread carbs down to one serving a day.  WHOA Happy New Year!! 

I got a vlog to put up tomorrow but wanted to share how much I enjoyed the book!!

Hope your new year started off with a bang and that my Aussie girls are staying dry with the horrible floods.  xoxo

Comments

[Chelle]

Happy new year babe. Sounds like your body is going through the 'healing crisis'! Its very common to experience colds, headaches and lethargy during the frist 3 -5 day of a detox. Just know that its all the toxins leaving your body! I'm sure you'll be feeling a million dollars next week! ...Well done on cutting down on the bread and coffee sugar... I've also said NO to snacking after dinner and eating it earlier (6pm) to give me 12 hrs between meals too. At first it was quite hard and unusual to not have a full tummy going to bed but i'm really enjoy it now. I'm also telling myself that the length of time allows for more FAT BURNING! .... No floods where i am BUT we've had about 6 days of sunshine since the 1st of December. Talk about a miserable summer! xo