Body Rebalancing Cleanse

For the past month, I’ve been doing a diet (or as I prefer to call it: cleanse) that involves no sugar, no dairy, and no gluten. By no sugar, I mean for the first 10 days not even fruit. If you have sugar, you’re supposed to start over.

The first 7-10 days were pretty hard for me… I was in such an awful mood because my body was going through withdrawal from sugar. I found myself irritated, frustrated, and depressed for a good majority of these 7-10 days, but once that initial phase of withdrawal was over, I was able to regain my composure. My biggest issue with this diet was the fact that I HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO EAT! This is where my frustration & irritation came from. Since I’m not a fan of cooking, I was suffering even more by not bothering to make myself anything worth while. Fortunately, my parents were on the same diet as me so I mooched off of their food (grins). I also found a recipe that I used for my breakfast almost everyday: Berry Tahini Chia Pudding. I changed it up a bit so that there wasn’t any honey. Eventually, I found other alternatives that I could have, like: tortilla chips & salsa (no sugar!), salads (avocado, cucumber with feta cheese is my favourite), rice crackers with hummus, spelt bread with almond butter (spelt is not wheat), spelt pasta, and of course there’s an assortment of meats I was allowed to have. My all time favourite was the classic BLT, which I only found out I could have during the last week of this cleanse.

The perks of this diet is that you can still eat as much as you want and the restrictions make it healthy. Doing this diet, I was able to see how much sugar can be an addiction and by eliminating it from my diet, as well as gluten and dairy, I was able to discover different alternatives to food that are more beneficial to health (and they still taste the same!). Once you start adding food back in that does have sugar, wheat or dairy, you may become aware of what foods agree with your body & which don’t. With my body being extremely sensitive to these kind of things, I’m usually able to tell what it likes & what it doesn’t.

If you’re interested in trying this cleanse out, I recommend doing it with someone else (it’ll be easier, especially if they live in the same household as you). The photos are of the cleanse information sheet with the outlines of what you can and cannot have. If you have any questions, feel free to connect with me! :)