So how have the first three days been for you all?
Are you finding it easy, hard or are you just dipping in and out? Please feel free to share your experiences and any questions you have in the comments box at the bottom of this blog.
Day Four (Thursday):
We’ll be continuing with the regime from the last three days and then adding a couple more items.
So here goes:
1. Out with gluten, processed sugars, sweeteners, alcohol, fizzy drinks and energy drinks
2. Meditate for 5 mins a day
3. Drink at least 2 litre’s of water a day
4. Do 10 seconds of planking
5. Pick another drawer or cupboard to de-clutter, use the natural vinegar solution (mentioned in day two) as a cleaner rather than any toxic chemicals.
6. Note 10 things you are grateful for in your gratitude pad.
7. Increase the amount of steps or length of time you walk today by 5% from the previous day’s total.
8. Take a daily probiotic
9. Eat 5 fruit or vegetables a day (preferably raw for optimum nutrition)
New for Day Four:
1. Make sure you have breakfast within a hour of getting up. This improves your metabolism and helps your blood sugar levels.
2. Don’t skip meals. Skipping meals affects your blood sugar levels and it can force your body into starvation mode (this means your body may store the fat from your last meal to deal with not knowing when it’s going to be fed again). Even if it’s just an apple or an oatcake, eat something regularly.
3. Reduce your caffeine intake by 25%, or replace it with green tea.
4. Introduce some chia, flax and or hemp seeds to you diet (preferably freshly ground), these are a great source of fats and proteins and the flax are an essential source of omega 3 fatty acids (which we all need daily and generally don’t get enough of).
That’s it for Day Four!
Good luck and feel free to post questions and comments below, or just ‘like’ the post so I can see who’s joining in! =0)
All I can say is that it’s just as well I’m already doing a lot of the stuff! My favourite breakfast for a while now is a plate of organic fruit – blueberries and raspberries (either fresh or the ones I’ve frozen when I’ve bought extra fresh ones), a pear and a banana with a heaped dessertspoon of milled organic flax seed. I find the milled stuff much easier to eat than the whole seeds and it’s yummy 🙂 The making of the dehydrator had to be shelved for a while when Ruan was too busy and Stephen wasn’t very well, but Stephen has been down in Ruan’s studio today and hopefully getting it well on the way to being finished. Will give me the incentive to make some new nutritious recipes as I’m fed up with my limited diet. Although I’m enjoying having soup now the weather has turned so cold 🙂 That’s something you’re missing Faith.. Not! 😛 My daughter gave me some wee note books for my birthday, so going to start my gratitude pad today! Though I did think them yesterday and I ordered the book you recommended “A Simple Act of Gratitude: How Learning to Say Thank You Changed My Life” on Saturday, which is now on it’s way to me. Still have to improve on a few things though, can’t just rely on the fact I’m already doing a lot of it! Good to get your reminders to improve on some and to introduce more Faith. Thank you 🙂
The milled seeds are much better for you than the whole one’s anyway Anne, as we don’t digest the whole one’s unless they are soaked anyway – so mill away! ha. Oh that’s really exciting about your dehydrator. I know there call out their for non plastic ones so they could have a new business come from it if they wanted =). Really hope you enjoy the book as much as I did Anne.