Discover How to Use Natural Organic Foods to Detoxify Your Body to Help With Permanent Weight Loss!

Another natural alternative is to detoxify one’s body and switch to a live food diet.

Although this dietary change has permanent benefits that are excellent for losing and maintaining weight, it heightens energy and often eliminates toxins that cause a variety of illnesses and conditions that commonly plague the body.

With this lifestyle change, in addition to weight loss, chronic illnesses such as migraine headaches, insomnia, skin problems, brittle hair, constipation, arthritis, and many others are alleviated permanently.

The drawback for some is again the level of commitment that it takes to achieve. Far from impossible, this option takes a level of commitment to health and general well being that is strong enough to want to give up foods that are toxic to your body.

The first step one should take is to cleanse the body. If you suffer from high toxicity that is currently showing itself as chronic illness, you may want to consult with a natural practitioner before embarking on a cleansing routine, as cleansing may exacerbate many symptoms of the body’s ailments as the body attempts to correct itself.

Even if you are not highly toxic and have no signs of chronic illness, you will likely experience slight headaches, chills, irritability, and fatigue as you body is releasing toxins. This is quite natural and no cause for alarm, since your body is releasing a large level of toxins during this time and symptoms of all of the illness they cause over time are going to show up.

The best way to begin is by embarking upon a juice fast. That’s right, take nothing in except juice, herbal tea and protein drinks for three days. There will be no malnourishment here, since juices are highly concentrated foods, and the protein drinks will add the necessary protein you would normally get by consuming solid food.

In fact, drinking one glass of carrot and celery juice is the equivalent of eating two whole carrots and three celery stalks. Imagine trying to get a daily serving of six large carrots and nine celery stalks each day, in addition to other foods; this would be quite burdensome. Yet consuming just three glasses of carrot-celery juice takes care of that daily allotment.

Even if you were able to eat all of these vegetables daily, you would not get as full a benefit from these foods as you do when you juice. Juicing separates the vitamins and minerals from the fiber, which can trap the nutrients and block your body from absorbing them. Also, because raw vegetables and fruits are rich in enzymes, they serve as a great energy booster.

There are certain juices and drink additives that will help you to lose weight as well as detoxify, because they have natural chemicals in them that aid in weight loss. These can be taken during your initial juice fast, and continuously throughout your new diet program:

These nutrients are vital to losing weight and preventing obesity. It is best to purchase organic fruits and vegetables for juicing, as non-organic produce contains high levels of toxic pesticides, and will defeat the purpose of detoxification.

Even when purchasing and using organic produce, be sure to wash your fruits and vegetables thoroughly. Use a vegetable brush, available at many supermarkets or at your local health food store, and scrub lightly yet thoroughly under running water. The vegetable brush may also be used to clean the steel strainer inside your juicer when cleaning up.

Juicing with the peeling on is fine for most fruits and vegetables, except of course those with exceptionally thick skin, such as kiwis, papayas, oranges, grapefruits, tangerines, and bananas. Do not peel away the “bitter” on oranges, grapefruits, and tangerines, this is the white part of the fruit directly under the skin, but do remove the seeds of all fruits as they are very bitter.

Bananas do not juice well in a juicer and should be juiced in a blender instead.

Ideally, juices should be drunk immediately after juicing. However, if your schedule does not allow you to juice several times a day, refrigerating your juices in a glass container is suitable for one day without losing vital nutrients.

As for protein, you can use one of the many all-natural protein powders found in your local health store or health section of your local supermarket. These powders can be added directly to your juices as suggested on the packaging. You may want to use a blender to blend the powder into the juice.

Be sure to drink 8 x eight ounce glasses of purified water along with your juicing during your juice fast, and everyday from now. Pure water is vital to aiding your body in releasing toxins.

Also, always drink your juices slowly, aiding their digestion and savoring the taste. Savoring taste is very important not only for your palate, but for your weight also. When we do not taste our food and drink properly, we have a tendency to over-consume and gain weight. Sip your juice the same way someone may sip a cocktail, make it an enjoyable experience.

Once you detoxify, you will want to make a complete diet change. Meat should be eliminated from the diet if at all possible, as should all animal products.

Despite not being the best food for you in general, livestock is raised in such a way these days that makes it dangerous to eat meat. Diseases such as Mad Cow and E Coli are infecting more and more supplies of meat, poultry and dairy products.

Due to mass processing plants, it is hard to track when an infected animal is added to a mass meat supply of many tons, unlike the days when a cow was taken to a local butcher shop and butchered. Additionally, hormones being used to fatten up livestock in today’s market can seriously alter your body chemistry and cause a number of chronic illnesses over time.

Don’t get me wrong. You do not have to become a vegetarian. Simply substitute meat with fish on occasion, or purchase organically raised and prepared meats and poultry from your health food store.

You should incorporate as many organic live foods into your diet as possible, picking a variety of fresh vegetables for salads, as well as continuing a healthy juicing regimen.

You may want to employ your blender a bit more in this phase, using it to add ice and even nuts to your protein and fruit shakes to make smoothies. Nuts make a good addition to your diet, both in smoothies and whole, adding a good amount of protein to the diet. Be sure to skip desert while you are trying to lose weight, and definitely eliminate all foods made with white sugar and white flour permanently from your diet.

Definitely lose the alcohol and caffeine, as they cause mineral deficiencies due to the diuretic effect, cause great stress on our adrenal glands, and have been proven contributors to anxiety and insomnia. Regular caffeine use has been linked to incidences of cancer and prostrate trouble in men, as well as fibrocystic breasts and uterine fibroids in women. Alcohol use seriously depletes B and C vitamins, calcium magnesium, and manganese.

Of course, the most well known danger of alcohol use is its detrimental effects on the liver, causing possible deadly cirrhosis of the liver. Taking about 1000 mg of the amino acid L-glutamine will help your body replenish after alcohol use, as well as cutting down on cravings for alcohol.

Nicotine should be discontinued also, as this is a toxin that is well known for its dangers and high addiction factor.

Living toxin free and eating a diet high in live foods will help you feel rejuvenated and help cut down on cravings. This is the long-term effect you desire for shedding weight and keeping the weight off. Of course, as with any long-term solution, dedication is needed. Just remember that this is not only about your looks, it is about your health and well being.