Day 4
Off Sugar Yet?
- Give thanks
- Do 10 deep breaths
- Drink 16 ounces of water upon awakening
- Dry brush your body
- Move your body
- Drink 8-10 glasses of water throughout the day
Your Breakfast
Your Lunch: raw foods and a Starch dish OR Protein dish of your choice. You can make a dressing with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, OR coconut oil, OR essential fatty acids for your salad.
Snack
Your Dinner: raw foods and a Starch dish OR Protein dish of your choice. You can make a dressing with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, OR coconut oil, OR essential fatty acids for your salad.
If you have stopped all sugar, white flour and other processed junk, today may be the first day you are not a mad, craving, lunatic.
This may also be the day when you have no appetite. That is a sure sign that your blood sugar levels have dropped.
Take it easy if you are going through detox. Lay in bed if you have to. If you are going at this easy, and still caving in to the chemicals, that is okay. Congratulate yourself for getting to the 4th day.
There is no hurry. Living Well is a life long journey and a complete lifestyle change. One day at a time… true wealth is never built in a day.
A word about dry brushing. I find this practice relaxing and envigorating at the same time. My skin feels so nice and velvety. This dry brushing practice is something that the old time naturopaths felt was a normal part of daily hygeine, a standard part of any wellness program. The other idea that Rachel has to completly masticate your carbohydrates also hails from the same era. A man named Fletcher who was quite eccentric felt that people should chew their food a mnimum of 32 times before swallowing. This is a very intelligent process since the mechanical digestion of chewing and the mixing with saliva will help any carbohydrates digest. The mechanical digestion of chewing also helps protein get broken down by exposing more surface area for the protease enzymes to be able to work. So just remember chew chew chew it is the thing to do!
Mr. Fletcher also believed in exploring your excrement but that is a story for another time LOL!