Body Cleanse Eating Guide
One problem many people have when they begin a natural full body cleanse is they find themselves feeling a little lost and confused.
The American diet, especially, is built around most of the foods which cause us to become toxic in the first place. When, all the sudden, this processed fare is off limits, its is hard to know what to eat.
This simple guide should help. We want to make sure you know you have plenty of great choices. We also want to convince you that cleansing and staying healthy is not so hard after all. Like everything else, it merely takes getting used to.
Your cleansing diet starts in the morning.
Breakfast truly is an important meal. If you do it right, you set yourself up to have energy and make healthful decisions all day. If not, you are likely to cause yourself to spend the day fatigued and on the rise and fall cycles which come from refined sugar and caffeine.
That is why you should exclude coffee and other caffeinated drinks and have herbal tea instead. You can also eat any fruit for breakfast, as long as it is natural and raw, without added sugar or preservatives. Smoothies make wonderful morning meals.
You should snack twice during the day, once between breakfast and lunch and again between lunch and dinner, as long as you are hungry. Never force yourself to eat, but, if you can manage to eat 5 or more smaller meals per day, it will increase your metabolism. Eat raw fruit, nuts, vegetables of seeds for snacks. Before noon, eat only raw fruit.
Lunch is a perfect opportunity to have a creative salad. You can include raw vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds, as long as you use nothing with added sugar, and don’t dowse your food in salad dressings. Instead, squeeze on some fresh lemon juice and use just a small amount of fresh cracked pepper.
Finally, at dinner time, it is okay to have a larger, cooked meal. You can include steamed vegetables, whole, non-glutenous grains, and a little bit of lean, organic meat, like fish or chicken. You still want to avoid refined flour or sugar, and continue to exclude red meat and dairy.
That is all there is to it. You get to choose from a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, non-glutenous grains, and lean meats.
The main rule is to eat many different food each day. You can put together a week’s worth of meals, for instance, and then keep them on rotation for thirty days, or make up menus a week in advance.
The fact is, once you learn what to eat and then begin new dietary patterns, your new favorite foods will quickly emerge, new combinations will find their way to you, and eating for a natural cleanse will feel as good as, or better than, the way you were eating before, and it will be just as easy.
