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Get Ready! A 2004 Cleanse for a New You!

The new year is coming right up and it's time for our cleansing and a purification. I always think of my January cleanse as getting rid of the old icky "stuff" collected over the past year and clearing my body to welcome the new year with a healthy embrace. I cleanse in order to hone my intuitive antennae, to sensitize my inner knowing and as a huge opportunity for personal growth. I know you have all heard that the healthier you are physically, the healthier you are emotionally and spiritually. I believe this 100%, so getting rid of collected toxins in the form of chemicals, synthetically produced foods, and environmental biotoxins (viruses, bacteria, molds etc.) is of utmost importance if you want the BEST of the new year for yourself. Do this for yourself, people. You deserve the best.

Your Food Intake for at least 3 weeks

No Eggs No Cheese No Nuts No Butter No Condimenmnts (like mayo, ketchup etc.) No Salt or Pepper No Caffeine No Alcohol No Sugar No bread or grains, except brown rice

Meat: 3-4 oz. of unseasoned meat, fish or poultry twice daily. Simply prepared, broiled, baked or steamed. Not sauteed or fried.

Vegetables: Unlimited fresh vegetables. Simply prepared. Raw, steamed or baked. No butter, salt or pepper. Spike or other vegetable/herbal seasonings OK, including Bragg's Aminos. Collard Greens Kale Broccoli Swiss Chard Brussel Sprouts Asparagus Cabbage Cauliflower Red Beets Winter Squash Summer Squash Mixed Greens of any kind including arugula, radicchio, belgian endive etc. Red, yellow and green peppers Onions and garlic Mushrooms Spinach Carrots Cucumbers Celery Radishes Sprouts No Avocados

For your dressing, use 1/2 flax and 1/2 olive oil and either lemon or apple cider vinegar. No mustard, salt or pepper or other vinegars

Fruits: You should be consuming twice as many vegetables as fruits. Here are some examples of fruits that are permissable: Apples Oranges Bananas Grapes Berries (great for shakes) Melons Pears Tomatoes

Carbohydrates: Optional: Two servings (two cups) of brown or wild rice (not instant) per day.

Water: Drink at least 64 ounces of pure water per day.

Supplement Shakes: You may have as many as 3 blended supplement shakes per day. Use them instead of the snacks you are used to having.

1 1/2 cups of fruit 8-16 oz of water 1 T of flax oil 2T. Supplement powder of choice like Mediclear, Living Fuel or SP Complete Green Powder of choice like Schulz's Super Food or another OTC combination of greens Ice if desired You can make your daily batch all at once and take some to work. Shake it all again before drinking.

Exercise: Walk at least 4 times a week for 30-45 minutes. No strenuous exercise (ie Bikram yoga, marathons etc.) during the first 2 weeks.

Supplementation:

A Psyllium Product like Herbal Bulk or OTC psyllium or SP Gastro Fiber to help move things along.

A Specific Cleansing product like milk thistle or AF Betafood (liver) or SP Cleanse

A Green Product like Super Food or SP Greens (There are many "green products": Spirulina, chlorella, barley green and a host of others. )

Sample Day

If you are coming off of coffee or caffeinated teas, you might be tired and headachy for a couple of days. As a substitute, bancha tea (4 mg of caffeine per cup) is acceptable in the morning, sweetened with stevia and "creamed" with unsweetened soy milk. Breakfast: Either a shake or perhaps 3 chicken-apple breakfast sausage (Whole Foods) or 3 pieces of turkey bacon (Applegate Farms) or some brown rice and vegetables with Braggs. Mid-morning Snack: A shake or some fruit or vegetables Lunch: Big Salad with salmon on top or see breakfast. Mid-afternoon snack: See mid-morning snack Dinner: Meat, steamed veggies, salad, brown rice Mid-evening snack: Fruit or another shake. You are on your way to feeling terrific!

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