A new journey… starting a cleanse… My Busy Healthy Life

Psalm 138:8

New Living Translation (NLT)

8 The Lord will work out his plans for my life—
    for your faithful love, O Lord, endures forever.
    Don’t abandon me, for you made me.

It is true that the Lord is the one who guides us as we trust in Him. So, I made a decision to start this journey.

When I got the challenge to start this journey to wellness I was not given too many days… two to be precise and I wondered if I could do this. There would be so much to learn and so much to do and what would I do when I was craving certain foods. What do I have to lose other than maybe the pounds that have not shifted with any other method?  

I had already been eating fairly healthy and taking AIM products for about 6 years.  The Garden Trio, Herbal Fiber Blend, Prepzymes, Florafood, GlucoChrom, Revitafem, Frame Essentials and AIMega were my main ones.  I exercised regularly and did not think there was much else to do. But then I made up my mind that I was going to give this a try… So I began…My Busy Healthy Life 4 Month Healthy Lifestyle program delivered through weekly emails from Health Coach, Celeste Davis of The Wellness Workshop.

The emails came thick and fast at first, teaching me why I must drink water and why I am to avoid chemicals. Much of this I knew but much of it I didn’t!  And it was all put together in such a great way… easy to follow and easy to read, plus many emails in-between with laughter and other lighter notes. Plus all the amazing recipes. 

The 4 phase program includes a 28-day cleanse.  Just before Christmas I was due to start the cleanse and I decided to postpone it to the new year, perhaps around the 2nd of January, however, on the 28th of December whilst looking into all the vegetables and different oils and foods that I will need, I decide to simply do my 3 days of raw, for then I will be done by the 31st of January.  I had all of my products to take, the only change being to take 3 Florafood each morning, instead of only one, which I was doing.

I had listened to the teleclasses included in the My Busy Healthy Life program and had decided that I would be able to eat fruit and veggies for the New Year’s party and I did not need to eat the chocolates etc. Celeste emphasized Good Preparation was the key to success in this program.

After 3 days of only raw food I am amazed as to how well I feel. Not hungry and not given to cravings… I try some of the recipes that Celeste has created and the one with cherries and chocolate appeals to me and so I try it. I even get my family to try it… a fairly favourable response from most…even those not partial to avocado.

Then I continue on… I am amazed.  The Personal Symptoms Tracker (PST) is a tool to help me listen to my body.   The PST rates my personal physical complaints on a scoring system.  My PST numbers are going down, and my weight is going down! That has not happened this fast in over 20 years.  And I feel energised. At one point I did experience a few days of tiredness and grumpiness and weepiness, but overall I am mostly feeling great.

Now at the end of 3 weeks eating mostly raw foods and some cooked, I have lost 8 pounds (in 3 weeks…Unheard of for me) and my PST has gone down 65% and I feel like I can pull my tummy in again!

Thanks to Celeste, her great program, My Busy Healthy Life, with easy to follow and informative emails and God for His food, which is feeding me and His enabling me to do this and healing me through it.

He does fulfill His purposes for us and works out His plans for us… Amazing God! 

 

More next time… BB