Detox Lifestyle

One of the most popular detox diets is the Lemon Diet or Master Cleanse. It is a completely liquid diet that evolved during the 1940s and was made famous by Stanley Burroughs. He called his program detoxification and stated that it removed toxins from the body. He promoted it as an aid for weight loss, and a cure for ulcers.

During the 1990s Peter Glickman promoted the Master Cleanse to remove toxins from the body via the lungs, kidneys, skin, urine and feces. The cleanse involves no solid food and includes drinking purified water infused with lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper. Laxative tea is also ingested and saline solution can be used to clear out the bowels and lower GI system.

Those opposed to the Master Cleanse suggest that the lack of nutrients could lead to deficiencies over a long period of time. In the short term practitioners can experience headaches and lethargy along with weight loss. It is also suggested that weight gain can manifest after the diet is completed owing to the body reacting to having been in starvation mode and quickly converting food into fat. That is why proponents of the Master Cleans recommend a change to healthy eating habits once the diet is completed.

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What are you looking for from food? Chronic over-eating is nothing more than confusion about one’s function. Your function is to be a vessel for life – to be clear inside so that energy can flow freely through your body. Physical congestion in the form of excess fat and toxins weigh heavily on the spirit and diminish feelings of well-being. This leads to overeating as a way to compensate for not feeling fully alive. Your body is not designed to hold on to anything – food and emotions (energy in motion) are supposed to flow through you, not get stuck. Once you support your body by eliminating physical toxins, emotional toxins will also release along with any excess fat you are holding on to. You will then feel the natural high that we are all naturally meant to feel. You will discover that this natural high is way more powerful and alluring than any pleasure derived from over-eating.

It might help if you view yourself as a container. You are comprised of four levels: Spiritual, emotional, mental and physical. Like everything in nature, our primary function is to receive, contain and express abundant amounts of life or spiritual energy. Without the life that animates our cells, we are no longer living. Being mentally, emotionally and physically clear is essential in order to feel spiritually charged and fully alive.

While food is a valuable source of energy, it is only one source. It is the densest source, and is designed to nourish the physical body. There are other sources of energy that feed the body, mind and spirit. Your breath, for example, is a powerful energizer. Being in nature is energizing, as is sitting in silence. There are many sources of energy and relying too much on food causes us to become desensitized to more refined energy sources. It is possible to become psychologically dependent upon the feeling that dense food energy provides. The Detox Lifestyle Diet releases some of that density in the form of toxins and allows us to be nourished by the variety of energy sources that surround us each day.

Changing the structure of your cells so that you are well nourished from a variety of energy sources is a process that takes time. However, you will begin to lose weight immediately and will continue to lose weight until you reach your ideal weight. Your ideal weight is the amount that suits your bone structure while creating optimum efficiency in digestion and elimination. You will know when you’ve reached it because you will feel confident, clear, vibrant and attractive.

This is an excerpt from the upcoming book The Detox Lifestyle Diet by Kimberly Kingsley

Detox is hot right now and for good reason: It works. In fact, it is essential in order to lose weight. In the presence of toxic build-up the metabolism slows down and directs any available energy toward protecting the bodily systems rather than burning fat.

While detox is essential, it is only effective for weight loss if it is incorporated into your lifestyle. Extreme fasting to lose weight is no different than yoyo dieting. There is a disturbing trend on the rise. Many people are now using the same “diet rollercoaster” approach using fasting instead of restrictive dieting, setting them up to regain the weight after their fast is over.

The rollercoaster of chronic dieting does not work. Allowing yourself to overeat for days, weeks, and months with the idea that you will eventually “go on a diet” leads to guilt, frustration and future weight gain.

The process is the outcome. What does this mean? It means that the way you live each day is the way you’re going to be in the future. Over-eating on a regular basis and strict dieting are opposite ends of the same spectrum – neither behavior can be sustained long-term. Each eventually leads you back to the other. The body strives for homeostasis (balance) and will instinctively drive you to overeat after severe restriction. Your own body will fight your efforts to maintain weight loss after a severe diet or fast.

There is another way to lose weight and keep it off for good. It involves incorporating detox into your daily life. Detoxifying the body means to do things that assist the liver, kidney, and digestive system to eliminate not only waste, but the additives, pesticides and substances that tend to accumulate in our bodies each day.

We have two choices. We either allow toxins to accumulate over time, causing us to become inflamed, congested and overweight, or we take the steps to eliminate excess toxins on a daily basis, thereby allowing our bodies to release all that they don’t need, including fat.

The Detox Lifestyle Diet incorporates detox into everyday living. For example, did you know that you can fast every day if you simply wait 15 hours between dinner and breakfast? This practice alone gives your body time to clear out toxins that keep your metabolism from working at its peak. We think we need to eat all the time, but our bodies really need little breaks to maintain optimum efficiency in digestion and elimination.

The Detox Lifestyle Diet allows you to:

• Lose Weight and Keep It Off
• Eat the Foods You Like
• Stop Obsessing and Enjoy Inner Peace
• Experience Increased Energy, Radiance and Natural Beauty
• Develop Authentic Will Power

The Detox Lifestyle Diet is a three-step process that is geared toward those who want to get off the diet rollercoaster and move steadily toward their ideal weight. This is not a traditional diet, rather it is a way of life that incorporates the principles of detox into your current lifestyle. You will feel your body respond to the Detox Lifestyle immediately. Your body and mind will get in sync and losing weight will no longer be a struggle. You will naturally lose the extra weight while establishing a way of life that feels so good that you won’t ever want to let it go.

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