Making Healthy Choices Everyday

Hey rapture people, don't look so sad, it's not the end of the world.  My cousin married a funny guy, and this is what he'd written on his F.B. page today.  Just had to borrow it for your viewing pleasure, because  it made me laugh today.  There is always one person, usually a man, claiming to know the day the world will come to an end.  Even when I was a kid, my next door neighbor had us all  digging a hole in his backyard so he could make a Fallout Shelter, because he believed,  along with his five kids, their was going to be a nuclear war in the late 60's.  By the way, he was a NASA engineer, and no dummy.   Needless to say, we dug the hole 15 wide,  2 feet deep before all construction stopped. We all got back to our lives of  riding  bikes, and rollerskating, and almost always tripped in that big gigantic  hole  whenever we played  in their backyard. 

Looking back in history I have never heard a women make such a claim that the world was going to end.  I wonder why?  And why we're on this subject,  why are all the cults in the world lead by middle aged, or old men?  Why are young women falling for their charismatic (sick) personalities, and joining them in their tripped out philosophy's.  Thank goodness I have a mother, and a father who gave me a sturdy foundation not to go off and follow every Tom, Dick, and Harry who came along with their ego loving, free love, world end's today freedom of speech!  They suck!

Awe, apparently just had to get that off my chest today!

Back to my original topic...I will be following the Fat Flush Plan for a time. I bought author Ann Louise Gittleman book awhile back, and recently picked it up, and read it again    It lines up with the BFC idea's, and possibly Fast Track (but I don't have Jorge Cruise book yet, so I am starting on  this plan for the time being. Her Fat Flush approach is to simply clean out your liver, and clean out your lymphatic system in order to get things moving again.  She claims the signs of a toxic liver are:

Weight gain, especially around the abdomen.

Cellulite

Abdominal bloating

Indigestion

High Blood Pressure

Elevated cholesterol

Fatigue

Mood Swings, Depression, and Skin rashes.  When your liver is sluggish, every organ in your body is affected, and your weight loss efforts are blocked.  Unable to carry out its activities to control glucose, a toxic liver can lead to hypoglycemia, which can produce sugar cravings, weight gain, and sabotage your weight loss efforts.   This being said, I am starting on Phase 1:  The Two Week Fat Flush.  Phase 1includes increasing oil (in the form of flax seed oil),  fiber, water, and exercise.  I noticed eating on Phase 1 is almost exactly like Fast Track is, no unhealthy carbs.

Phase 1

Oil intake:   1 tbls. twice daily of organic high-lignan flaxseed oil.  Omega 3 fat-fighting and insulin-regulating.
Lean Protein:  Up to 2 whey servings,  up to 2 eggs, and a minimum of 8 ounces of cooked lean protein. Protein raises metabolism by 25%, and activates the liver's detoxifying enzymes.
Eggs:  Up to 2 per day.  Support your liver's cleansing process. Omega 3 enriched.
Vegetables:  Unlimited, raw or steamed. These fibrous and colorful phytonutrient-rich vegetables will help speed your liver's cleansing and provide valuable carotenoids.
Fruits:  2 whole portions daily.  Choose from 1 sm. apple, 1/2 grapefruit, 1 small orange, 2 medium plums, 6 large strawberries, 10 large cherries, 1 nectarine, 1 peach. 1 pear, and 1 cup berries ( blue, black, rasp) Natures's natural cleansers are high in enzymes and minerals potassium, and low on the glycemic index.
Cranberry Water:  8 glasses a day.  Purpose: The unsweetened cranberry juice-water mixture eliminates water retention, cleanses accumulated wastes from the lymphatic system, and also helps to clean up cellulite. Mixture:  Fill two 32oz. water bottles with 4 ounces of unsweetened cranberry juice and 28 ounces of water.
Long Life Cocktail:  Taken two times daily: on arising and before bed.  Purpose: to  increase elimination and balance hormones.  How to: In 8 ounces of the cranberry water, add either 1 full teaspoon of powdered psyllium husks or 1 tbs of ground flaxseeds.  Drink it quickly before it clumps!
Legal Cheat:   1 cup of organic coffee in the morning.
Supplements:  GLA  breakfast and dinner, and a daily balanced Multivitamin.
Before Breakfast:  Drink an 8 ounce cup of hot water with the juice of 1/2 lemon to assist your kidneys and liver.
Okay, this is week one and two in a nut shell.    I think it sounds like a good plan to help my liver out since it does so much work for my body.   So I will be in detox for a few weeks, and hopefully my liver will continue to love it!    Has anyone ever tried the Fat Flush Plan by Ann Louise Gittleman?  Love to hear from you if you have given it a go.   Keep striving to live healthy everyone!

 I  read an article today in the  newspaper  about the oldest living person in the world, and she's now 114 years old.  This Brazilian women, Grandma Quinta,  tributes her long life to eating a daily roll with fruit for breakfast.  She has a fondness for Feijoada - Brazil's national dish, a hearty bean stew with various cuts of salted pork meat - and Chicken Empada pastries, with a lot of hot sauce!   She also indulges in a nip of wine on occasion ( I would too for my aches and pains).  She also says she's stubborn, has taken care of her own life, and not the life of others.  In essence, she minded her own business for most of her life.  Go figure!