Ten Week Diet:
A Ten-Week Gradual Approach to Lifestyle and Diet Change
by Chet Day
Take any twenty people and smack them on the head with a baseball bat, and you'll get pretty much the same reaction.
Unless they're a lot tougher than I am, each will drop immediately to the ground like a felled tree.
Take the same twenty people and offer them a natural health program, however, and you'll probably get twenty different reactions.
Those who have health challenges and who have despaired of the medical fraternity's drug, cut, and burn approach may well be very open to an alternative that involves diet and lifestyle changes.
Those in middle-age who have a few aches and pains and whose get up and go has got up and went, in Pete Seeger's memorable phrase, will probably at least consider some diet and lifestyle changes.
Those fit as a fiddle, happy as a clam, and not mad as a hatter will probably say, "I'm feeling fine, and I don't have any interest at this time in changing how I eat and live."
I believe and teach that a predominantly uncooked vegan diet with daily juice, daily exercise, freshly juiced dark leafy greens or a high quality "super green" powder if you don't want to mess with juicing, and some simple lifestyle enhancements is a great place to start for just about anyone who wants to experience better health. At the same time, I don't think my approach or any other natural health program is perfect for everybody all the time.
But building health through personal responsibility and natural means makes a lot more sense than the alternative.
I mean, seriously, if the guys and gals in white coats are running you through their expensive tests and telling you if you don't undergo surgery this week, you'll die, then you're highly motivated.
When someone's threatening to cut out your spleen or to take a lung, for example, the alternative idea of giving up meat, dairy, white flour, sugar, and salt just doesn't seem like that big of a deal, does it? Especially if doing so will let you keep a part of your body that the folks with knives would like to slice right out of you.
But if you're twenty-five years old and you're had a double cheese, sausage pizza every Friday night since you can remember, the thought of never visiting Papa John's again in exchange for a slightly improved level of health may not be all that attractive.
Well, today I want to offer an alternative approach to the alternative approach, a modification, if you will, of the basic Health & Beyond program, which many people just find to be too much, too drastic, too different from the way they're used to living.
Before getting into the details of this ten-week curriculum, however, let me make it abundantly clear that if I faced any kind of major health challenge, I would get myself on a 100% vegan diet with daily juicing right now. I wouldn't cheat, I wouldn't play the edges, and I wouldn't try to have it both ways.
I would remove meat, dairy, white flour, sugar, and salt from my diet, and I would do it today. I'd also have up to eight 8-ounces glasses of carrot and vegetable juice every day, and I'd have up to six tablespoons of barley powder every day.
I'd get some exercise, and I'd sleep and rest as much as I possibly could. Regaining my health through natural means would be my Number One priority. Period.
With that said, however, I'd like to offer a different approach for those who have either tried the 21-Days to Health & Beyond program and who didn't do well with it or for those who've never really tried diet and lifestyle changes for more than a day or two.
That's okay. It doesn't matter if you didn't reach previous goals or if you've never tried a natural health program before. I don't care about categories and what you've done in the past, anyway, and you shouldn't either. The only thing that really counts involves what you're doing right now.
At this moment, however, you can make a decision to spend ten weeks experimenting with diet and lifestyle changes.
If you'd like to lose some weight, and if you'd like to experience the best sleep and energy you've had since you were a kid, I urge you to take the following simple steps.
First, take a gander at our common sense and non-dogmatic Living to the Max long-term diet program.
Then sit down and think about meat, dairy products, white flour, sugar, and salt.
Which of the five of these would you have the least trouble giving up?
For many, it would be salt.
Okay, now sit down with a sheet of paper, and write down the following goal: "For the next two weeks, I won't eat anything with salt in it, and since it's easy to do."
Everything else you'll do as you've always done. But you'll honestly avoid salt and any food with salt in it for the next fourteen days.
At the end of that period, you sit down again and write out your goal for the next two weeks. For example, "For the next two weeks, I won't eat anything with salt in it, and I won't eat anything made with white flour."
At the end of this period, you write, "For the next two weeks, I won't eat anything with salt in it, I won't eat anything made with white flour, and I'll not partake of meat or flesh, including red meat, white meat, fish, fowl, insects, and anything else that was born with a face on it. "
I think you see the general idea, so I won't detail the last two sets of goal where you'll give up dairy and sugar.
The point lies with the fact that you ease yourself into the Health & Beyond Living to the Max program. You do it over a period of ten weeks. By taking this much time, most people won't have detox symptoms, and the mental barriers associated with giving up certain favorite foods all at once are a lot easier to overcome.
This ten-week approach also offers an excellent way for those of you who cook for loved ones who would rather lose a finger than give up meat, dairy, sugar, white flour, and salt.
You see, most people most of the time shovel food in so fast and in such that they're not all that conscious of what they're eating. So you can pull some of the big bad five foods out of their diet and thus sneak them into better health without them even realizing it until they're probably halfway through the program.
And once you're off the five big bad foods, if you add daily vegetable juice, you'll notice even more improvements. Then throw in a little exercise, and, kaboom, you won't believe how much better you feel!
If you've been hesitating to make diet and lifestyle changes, please give serious consideration to trying this ten-week approach.
It's worked for many people to whom I've suggested it in e-mail, and I bet it'd work for you or for a loved one too.
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