1) Get in bed at a decent hour and rise early. You MUST be giving your body EVERY advantage in healing stress levels and regaining health.
2) If you have a family to feed, make your food first and get yourself satisfied BEFORE beginning cooking their food. It makes your 'normal' choices for meals less appetizing when you are already satisfied with good food.
3) "I ate a biscuit....*sob*". Okay, first off, let it go. And second, try to follow the above tip: Anticipate moments of temptation so that you can be full of good food first. WHEN temptation comes and you are starving, you can still dig deep. Ask yourself, "Would I rather feel like I took 2 steps back or would I rather feel the victory of overcoming temptaion?" VICTORY IS SWEET YA'LL!
4) Drink herbal teas. You can sweeten them with Stevia, it is an all natural herbal sweetener.
5) DRINK WATER!!! If you have a smart phone, you can get an app that will help you track your water intake. But first, calculate your daily water needs, I used this site.
6) Don't think too far ahead. On Day 1, I thought I would never make it 21 days, but now that I am almost halfway it doesn't seem like a difficulty to continue. IN FACT, I will probably keep going at least another 21.
7) Find or pray for a friend that can be determined and committed to doing it with you. I have a close friend, also doing a cleanse, who I text throughout the day and we deal with our struggles and pull one another up.
8) Before I even began, I wrote down WHY I needed to do this. I wrote down the benefits of doing it and it didn't take much to convince me that I really had no choice but do it. Why would I NOT do what is best for me and thereby best for my family as well?
Have questions? Need some encouragement? Drop me a line! If I can do it, YOU CAN DO IT!
Love,
Molly
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