LOVEHEALJANUARY

FOOD AND DRINK:

Upon waking hot water and 1/2 a lemon ( preferably organic)

Drink water ( about 3 liters a day) and as much herbal tea as you like.

1 cup of coffee a day and drink green tea if you need caffeine again in the day.

Sparkling water is fine.

For the first 5 days...

Nothing refined, no bread, no pasta and no packaged anything
No white foods in general
No sugar including agave, honey and maple
No dairy ( except grass fed butter)
Fruit in moderation... If you are a sugar addict it might be best to omit for a few days
or stick to berries and apples, nothing tropical
No Booze
No Nuts for the first 5 days unless you have zero weight to loose.
The idea basically is the elimination diet for the next 5days. We want to
remove all allergens from our diet.
Brown Rice, Quinoa and other true grains are ok in moderation this week. Just be mindful
and think of this week as a whole foods cleanse.

Eat lots of vegetables and proteins for breakfast, lunch and dinner and for your snacks.
Skin on chicken is fine! Eat fats and oils like avocados and olive oil quite freely. If you find yourself
properly hungry, eat a little more protein. The first few days can be hard but it is amazing how quickly our body adjusts to a super healthy diet.

It is also important that you eat.
Eat breakfast within 30 minutes of your lemon water.
Eat lunch and dinner and a snack if you are hungry.
Do not skip meals.
Listen to your body, see if you can tap into your own metabolic code, when are you hungry most and so on as oppose to mindless eating and snacking or drinking coffee and no eating at all. Get to know your body, it is rad and it is yours, all yours for this lifetime.


FITNESS:

The most important component, move your body for an hour a day for the next 6 days. It need not be complicated, it can be a focused walk to and from the subway ( free of your phone and other things, a proper power walk). You can do a dvd, go to a class whatever inspires you. One full hour, nothing less. For those who find fitness in winter impossible, go to a class, a warm one! Try Hot Yoga or Flywheel or anything sweaty. Do something different if you are unmotivated as oppose to going back to your old standbys. I am full of ideas, ask me. I have done most classes in nyc. Sit down right now and look at your calendar and write in when you will be exercising and what you will be doing.

Coming up on weekend is a one day soup cleanse, start to ponder that now.

More soon...

For those of you who not drinking is painful! I recommend Urban Moonshine Bitters with sparkling water and fresh lemon.


Xove,
Kls