Liquid Detox

One of the things I struggle with is embodying the message I give. How can I espouse health and wellness if I can’t live that myself? I also know the physical effects that not living healthily has on my body. So after a two-month eating fiesta I decided the only thing that will break my sugar craving is to completely cut it out of my diet.

The homeopath at the health store where I buy my kefir milk and vitamins spoke to me about a 3-day liquid detox. It sounded easy. I make a payment and they give me liquids for the duration of the three days. No thinking about it, no planning or preparation for it, they have done it for me. I pay and I drink. It’s perfect. So the detox consisted of drinking kefir water (probiotic) first thing in the morning, four different mixed-vegetable juices every three hours over the duration of the day, water & coconut water in between and a phyto-cleanse tea before bed.

I have done day fasts many times before (no eating or drinking), so how difficult can this be? I don't consider this a fast, because I am consuming things. So the spoiler alert is that I made it all the way through, but not without a struggle. I was craving solid food - a steak, fresh vegetables, bread!! The craving was not as strong as my desire to not be its slave.

The thing with change and growth is that it comes with challenges. And without the challenge there is no sense of achievement. Also if things were easy to do, then I would not have had the need to change, because I could have just detoxed without difficulty, as if it were nothing. I wouldn't have felt any sense of achievement and it would be nothing to me.

Is what you’re putting into your body the thing that you have to change to better your health or wellness? What we consume does affect how we think and feel (emotionally and physically). What can you do differently to improve your overall wellness?