Sue Rasmussen has always been fascinated by the connection between clutter/disorganization in our exterior world and what is going on inside of us. Despite the abundance of information about getting organized and clearing out clutter, our issue with stuff continues to grow. Why are our lives still so stressed and full of stuff and activities? Because those traditional approaches just don’t work. So Sue, a Master Certified Coach, writer and speaker, created a business to help people clear out clutter.

Here’s a recap of what we discussed in the teleclass:

• Practical benefits of clearing clutter
• The most common misconceptions people have about clutter
• Cultural and biological reasons we tend to accumulate and keep things
• The one big question that will help you unclutter, organize, and transform any space
• How to look with fresh eyes at your clutter blind spots
• The seven layers of clutter, called the Clutter Pyramid
• Five areas of physical clutter

Your outer environment is a reflection of what’s going on inside of you, so when things are cluttered, messy, stressful and overwhelming in your physical space, you’ll have a corresponding level of overwhelm and stress inside, which keeps you from living and being your best. Most people have no idea of the far-reaching, negative effects clutter has in every area of their lives.

Do You Know?

• The significant hidden costs of having clutter in your life
• Clutter commonly stems from scarcity beliefs
• If you have clutter in one area, it’s likely you’ll have clutter in other areas
• Most people don’t recognize their own clutter

The good news is that clearing out clutter is a fast, effective way to transform your life! Listen to the replay of the interview with Sue Rasmussen to learn where clutter starts and how to take the first step to clear it away.

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De-clutter for more peace, joy, and abundance in life!

Here’s what you can do about it!

The first thing you need to do is to listen to your body, because your liver, throughout the regeneration process, sends out signals when all is not well.

Like the colon, the liver is begging for a cleanse. Don’t worry; it’s easy to do.

First, start your morning with a glass of freshly squeezed lemon juice in hot water. This helps to cleanse the liver and promote detoxification. It also stimulates bile production, cleanses the stomach and stimulates bowel motion.

Remember, unlike the stomach for example, the liver rarely tells you directly when it’s upset or if it needs your attention. It does tell you indirectly, though and you’ll notice, when it starts to function or perform poorly.

How will you know it’s functioning poorly~ For starters, your skin will look older then it should be, you’ll see more blemishes, more pimples, more marks, and more rashes than normal. Read More here! 

Weight Loss Elixir: A great spicy cleansing drink for the Holidays: Help detoxify against excessive caffeine

• Four grains of cardamom: Help detoxify against excessive caffeine.
• Four peppercorns: Antispasmodic,  Digestive, Diuretic, Warm, Muscle Relaxant, Circulation
• Three cloves: warming and promote proper digestion

Grind cardamom peppercorns and cloves.

Fresh ginger~ to taste: Warming and immune-enhancing properties

Cinnamon ~to taste: Warming, promotes digestion and is beneficial for diabetes

Put in a saucepan and add fresh Ginger  and Cinnamon cover with 300ml of water and simmer for twenty minutes. Before turning off the heat, you can add a pinch of organic green tea, When drinking, you may add a little raw honey.

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In our world, we deal with four basic conditions that interfere with normal health and wellbeing: toxic overload, nutritional imbalance and deficiency, fungal overgrowth, and adrenal fatigue. To have any semblance of health over time, we must address these four conditions. And Michael maintains that nothing is more effective than clay, which plays an essential role in any nutritional program.

Clay is the cornerstone of his entire philosophy of health and of his herbal program today. What are its benefits to us physiologically? Our bodies need clay to remove toxins and make nutrients bioavailable. Clay is antibacterial and assists in the oxygenation of cells. It is electromagnetic and acts as a powerful magnet, pulling toxins out of our system. It reduces the pathogen count in our bodies by bonding with and neutralizing them. It increases our friendly flora. And it works miraculously in the garden!

The world deals with four basic conditions that interfere with normal health and wellbeing. They are toxic overload, nutritional imbalance and deficiency, fungal overgrowth—that’s a huge one—and adrenal fatigue.

HERE’S AN EXCERPT of the interview I did with Michael:

Michael King:  As to toxins in our environment, it is absolutely essential to get them out of the way if we’re going to have any semblance of health over any length of time. The ones you’ve mentioned are the reasons why the three essentials for vibrant health include detoxification and nourishment and building health. Now we have radiation, which we’ve always had. Now we have more of it.

Now we have more and more chemicals falling from the skies and in our water and food. We have to be very conscious, more so in this day and age than ever before.

To remove toxins there is nothing more effective, in my book, than taking a simple clay bath. It’s gentle and powerful, especially during the first three days to two weeks. In some cases there have been high chemical exposures.

They can be farm chemicals like herbicides, pesticides, house, environmental, work chemicals, or from medical treatments, which are very toxic. You have to be able to pull that back out of your system.

The clay bath is gentle after you get past that initial phase, and there are ways to speed it along. That’s why we have Black Beauty. Electrolytes are the key to moving toxins out of the body faster.

You need electrolytes to literally mobilize a toxin from one place to another, and out of the cells into the bloodstream, and then from there into the clay.

The clay is like a magnet and is constantly pulling, the thicker or more abundant the clay. Water does play a valuable role in that because it converts silica to the amorphous silica in this clay, which is one of its secrets, to orthosilicic acid, which is an anti-aging nutrient.

Water plays a role in that recombination of minerals for that purpose. It helps bring nutrients to your cells and it helps to pull nutrients out. A simple clay bath is giving you all of these benefits without you needing to know about them.

You just feel lighter, uplifted and energized, but calmed and soothed, once you get past the detoxification phase.

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Here’s what she said:

Rosemary Gladstar: I think we have to be committed. Our very lifestyle, as you’re hinting, is partly because of the problem that people are so stressed out. Stress is considered the number-one underlying problem of all health diseases. I think that statement is practically true. There are teas and wonderful herbs. There’s a group of herbs called the adaptogenic herbs.

These herbs actually restore and rebuild energy, especially depleted energy. They’re very good for the adrenal system and the endocrine system. They help to support the systems.

If somebody is very addicted to drinking a strong, black tea or coffee every morning, it will take more than just substituting these herbs for that. For one thing, these herbs don’t have caffeine in them.

They’re not going to give that ‘buzz’ feeling.

Over a period of time—and I don’t mean a long time, it’s usually within seven or eight days—people will start to notice that instead of feeling an irritated energy, they’ll feel grounded and calm.

When we’re calm, we have so much more energy. In our culture, whenever you’re in a city or on a highway, you see things speed up. It’s almost like the energy is buzzing. It is, because everybody’s buzzing on caffeine or sugar.

It agitates the system. I use this analogy: Imagine everybody going to work in the morning, and they have had peppermint or chamomile and a good night’s rest. If people get stuck in a traffic jam, they’re waving and smiling at each other.

However, on coffee, everybody is honking and frowning at each other. They add the agitation. Plants and herbs like coffee, guarana and black tea are all great substances.

However, when we use them abusively or too often, or use them in ways they’re not meant to be used, they can be an irritant to the system. The biggest group of herbs that I look at to restore depleted energy are the adaptogenic herbs.

The term simply means that it’s a substance that helps your body adapt to modern-day stresses. The herbs categorized as such are quite common to people.

They are herbs like ginseng, rhodiola, nettle, dandelion, ashwagandha, and astragalus. All around the world there are herbs that are used as adaptogenes. They help people restore and rebuild depleted energy. Of course, I also look at using calming herbs.

People think it’s very counter-indicative when they’re looking at something that will lift them up and give them energy, to think about drinking an herb like chamomile or linden or passionflower.

People think, “I don’t want to calm down and go to sleep.” However, those herbs don’t work that way. I use this image: they embrace you. They make you feel calm. They hold you.

When we’re calm and centered we have unbelievable amounts of energy, don’t we? When we’re agitated and irritated it looks like we have energy, but we just spin in circles and agitate everything around us.

The adaptogenics and the nervine herbs are very common herbs. Those are the two groups that I usually suggest to focus on.

Here are some other high points from our conversation:

• Three steps to building endurance, energy, and stamina
• The perfect herb for kidney stress
• The dangers of over-stimulation in both our diet and environment
• Springtime’s powerful and effective restorative plant
• Great recipes for food and skincare
• Herbs and food that feed the brain and help to combat brain-fatigue

Rosemary is an enthusiastic advocate for backyard herbalism. But more than that, she has a beautiful vision of global herbalism. She believes with all of her heart that the natural world, while struggling, is still full of hope and strength.

If we wake up and work with the plants, our hope can be restored. And when hope is restored, we can do anything.

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The infrared sauna is incredibly beneficial for detoxification, pain relief, and boosting your mood. Just to give you an example, we recently found a study that showed that when you go in a normal sauna, your sweat is 90% to 95% water. When you go in an infrared sauna, it penetrates about one-and-a-half inches into your subcutaneous fat.

We tend to store the majority of toxins in our body in our fat. Your sweat in that case is 80% to 85% water, and the other 15% to 20% is heavy metals and toxins. The More sessions you can do in an infrared sauna, the better it is. It’s even more beneficial for patients in whom we suspect an estrogen dominance. Right now I’d say estrogen dominance is an epidemic.

We tend to accumulate estrogen in so many different ways: from the plastics in our environment, our skincare, and taking different medications like the birth control bill or hormone replacement. Men and women both are accumulating so much of this estrogen, and we know it’s linked to prostate cancer and breast cancer. Again, the infrared sauna is such a nice way to eliminate extra toxins, especially the estrogen, which is stored in the fat cells.

The other thing about the infrared sauna is that it’s another mode of excretion beyond your liver and your digestive system.

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They are twelve times more nutritious than the average vegetable.

They are rich in minerals and vital trace minerals that we can barely find even in the richest organic soil, especially iodine, iron, B6, B12, magnesium and many others.

Sea vegetables are generally sold in dehydrated form, and if they’re stored in an airtight container in a cool, dark place, such as a kitchen cupboard or pantry, they will keep indefinitely. Because they’re dry when purchased, sea vegetables require soaking in water prior to use. Two exceptions are nori sheets and kelp, both of which can be eaten right out of the package.

Sea vegetables help your body in numerous ways:

• Weight Management - The thyroid gland is under attack these days. More people have thyroid issues than ever before. Sea vegetables are a tonic for thyroid function, and increasing thyroid function can be beneficial for weight loss.
• Beautiful Skin – With their internal moisturizing properties, improved detoxification results, and high concentration of skin-friendly nutrients, sea vegetables are huge in the natural beauty industry.
• Remove Radioactive Compounds – Brown seaweed binds and expels radioactive isotopes from the thyroid gland. Detoxification is essential in the post-industrial age.
• Remove Heavy Metals - Our ancestors never had to deal with cadmium, mercury and lead the way we do now. Sea vegetables (Wakame, Arame, Hijiki, and Kombu) help the body efficiently detox these industrial waste products.

Five Simple Things You Can Do NOW….

Your body is great at telling you if you’re deficient in certain minerals or vitamins. Your body can send you on a mission to the kitchen as you crave foodstuff that will make up for the particular deficiency.

Unfortunately, this can often lead you to eating the wrong foods and/or too much of the wrong thing, especially if you are on a selective diet of some kind.

1) First, to eliminate sugar cravings: You must drink water, water, and more water. Common symptoms of dehydration are cravings and fatigue. So you must start hydrating your body.

Water is a natural appetite suppressant. Doctor F. Batmanghelidj, author of “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water,” says that most of the time your hunger, or craving, is really your body asking for water—not food.

If you are having a hard time drinking water, add fresh lemon and Stevia. “Sweet Leaf Peppermint” is the best!
Start hydrating first thing in the morning.

And if you do like a cup of coffee and simply can’t give it up altogether, drink it in mid-afternoon instead of in the morning as a wake-up call. The afternoon cup best fits your body’s natural cycle, avoiding the high-adrenal morning and late pre-sleep hours.

Also, check your urine. The normal color of urine should not be dark. It should be almost colorless to light yellow. If it begins to become dark yellow or even orange in color, you are becoming dehydrated.

That means the kidneys are working hard to get rid of toxins in the body, which results in very concentrated urine.

2) Another simple way to speed up the process of eliminating food cravings is this: One of the most therapeutic ingredients of all is fresh green plants and green super foods, and one of my favorite is chlorella.

Chlorella will help balance your blood sugar. It will also help with sugar cravings, which is what we want during this process!

Chlorella is amazing in that it binds with heavy metals (such as mercury, aluminum, and lead) and to environmental toxins (pesticides, insecticides, carcinogens, and radiation), so that they can be more effectively eliminated from the body.

3) Next would be: Mix up green grass powder, or any good quality green drink, five to six times during the day for six to seven days, and notice what happens. That’s your magic pill… without side effects! While you might visit the bathroom more often, that’s a good thing, believe me!

It may sound crazy, but you need to alkalize the body a.s.a.p.! This will alkalize and energize the cells of your body, as well as accelerate the cleansing process. It will taste strange to start with, but as your bloodstream pH level drops, your taste buds adjust to the flavor.

Be aggressive for just a few days (7), and let me know if it works for you.

There are two more things that will help to control your cravings…

4) Exercising will make you healthier and stronger, and the stronger and healthier you are, the easier it is to fight cravings. It can also help alleviate stress and boredom, which may cause you to eat sugar when you shouldn’t.

5) Get enough rest. Sugar affects your blood sugar levels, which affect your energy levels. If you aren’t on a regular sleeping routine, try to go to bed at the same time each night and waken the same time each morning.

This will make you less likely to reach for a candy bar the next time you’re feeling tired because you subconsciously need a boost. Stay in touch, and let me how these suggestions work for you!

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The first thing I’m going to ask you to do is to think about clearing yourself in preparation for more energy.

The first thing we need to do is clear the clutter. There are many types of clutter, but I’ll talk about two of them: the physical and also emotional clutter. One of the interviews I did a few months ago was with Sue Rasmussen, who’s a master certified coach.

She talked about how your outer environment is a reflection of what’s going on inside of you.

When things are cluttered, messy, stressful, and overwhelming in your physical space, you’ll have a corresponding level of overwhelm and stress inside that keeps you from living and being your best.

Most people have no idea of the far-reaching negative effect clutter has in every area of their lives.

She mentioned that basically everything in our environment is a reflection or mirror of what’s going on inside of us.

As we look around our home and we are relaxed, peaceful, and quiet, that’s happening inside as well. If we look around and feel stressed, overwhelmed, and chaotic, that’s what’s happening inside as well.

Organizing your home and decluttering, believe it or not, can have a huge impact on your energy and health.

People come to my place for the weekend or day, and here’s what they tell me: “I am so comfortable. I sleep well.

I feel energized.” This is not just because of the food. It’s because of the energy we create around our living space. You can do the same at home. I’ll give you an example. The kitchen is an example.

Look around your kitchen. Is it clean and organized? Look inside your fridge. Is it inviting and colorful? Does it smell good? Is it organized? All of this has a huge impact on your energy!

# 2 Take  Care Of Your Skin:

One solution is to stop using chemicals on your body. Go chemical-free. There are so many natural products on the market today.

You can also start eating dark green leafy vegetables. They are excellent foods to help you cleanse and purify the skin. People ask me what is my magic formula for great skin.

I show them the picture of my garden in which you can see a lot of dark green leafy vegetables.

Drink and eat your dark green leafy vegetables this summer. An inexpensive way to take care of your skin is to use a skin brush. Skin brushing is a way to detoxify the skin and promote good circulation.

Interestingly, uric acid crystals and other acids are more easily eliminated when the top layer—the dead layer—of skin has been removed.

Brushing the skin allows the pores to stay open so the metabolic waste can be released. What the skin brushing will do, ladies, is prevent wrinkles by tightening the skin.

It’s amazing to relieve muscle tension and stress. It will also help to break down cellulite, believe it or not. If you hydrate your body properly, exercise, have a good diet, and use your dry brush, within 30 to 45 days you should be able to see some amazing improvement in your cellulite.

Here’s a good one: skin brushing stimulates all the acupuncture meridians and promotes energy flow to organs and glands. This is all from a simple dry brush.

It also improves digestion and bowels. Go to your health food store this week or weekend, or you can order online, and get a dry brush. They’re not expensive. You don’t have to spend a lot of money. It’s $12 to $15 for a good quality dry brush. Just look for a natural vegetable fiber

# 3 Take Care Of Your Colon

Nobody likes to talk about constipation, but the longer you remain constipated the more you’re poisoning your body. The fact is that the stuff that needs to come out is trapped inside your body and you’re poisoning yourself.

No wonder you feel so bad. No wonder you can’t lose weight. I still ask my clients today how many bowel movements they usually have every day.

Seven or eight out of 10 will tell me they have two or three bowel movements a week. That is very sad. For anyone who’s listening out there, no one on this planet should allow himself or herself to be constipated.

I did an interview with Dr. Edward Group. He’s the founder of Global Healing Center, and he is actually considered to be one of the colon experts out there.

Here’s what he shared in the interviews. If you don’t eliminate daily, first the protein turns putrefactic, then the carbohydrates ferment, and then the fats turn rancid and actually turn into carcinogens and toxins. These can burn tiny holes through the intestinal lining, leak into your bloodstream, and cause serious damage.

Think about your daily habits. What do you do first thing in the morning? If you’re like many people, you have a cup of coffee. The bottom line is that you need to be drinking water in the morning, not coffee. Let me explain what happens when you drink coffee.

Drinking a caffeinated beverage can dehydrate your body and interfere with digestion.

Caffeine also interferes with the absorption of magnesium, which is critical to maintaining regular and healthy bowel movements. Coffee also over-stimulates the digestive system and can induce a temporary laxative effect.

That’s why when people drink coffee they have a bowel movement. What happens is that the coffee causes you to have a bowel movement and release the waste before it has had the chance to process and utilize vital water and nutrients.

Thus, when you drink coffee first thing in the morning, you’re flushing everything—the vital water and nutrients your body needs. First thing in the morning, you go into your reserves that you need to be able to function throughout the day.

If  you have IBS, acid reflux, stomach ulcers, diarrhea, Crohn’s disease, high blood pressure, difficulty sleeping, anxiety or colitis, I think it would be a good idea to eliminate or at least reduce coffee.

There are so many amazing substitutes if you like your cup of coffee. This is not about eliminating everything, including your comfort drink or food, all at once.

However, if you really like a cup of coffee and can’t give it up altogether, it’s a good idea to drink it in mid or late afternoon, believe it or not, instead of in the morning as a wake-up call.

Remember what it does. First thing in the morning, it’s going to flush everything out of your body. First thing in the morning, we need to hydrate the body.

Coffee is not the ideal way to accomplish this. When you drink your coffee in the afternoon, it’s not going to interfere with your adrenal glands, stress, and sleep if you drink it before 4:00 in the afternoon. What you can do this summer is herbal infusion.

Herbs have become such a part of my lifestyle. My husband and I live at the cottage here in Bancroft, Ontario. We are surrounded by the most amazing herbs.

Every year I discover something new. I have several herbs in my collection, and one of my favorite herbs now, which I’ve been using for some time. I started doing my own nettle herbal infusion, and it’s very powerful. A nettle herbal infusion is very different than just an herbal tea.

They are excellent for extracting the maximum amount of medicinal potential from an herb. That’s what I’m drinking right now. Nettle is extremely high in minerals and is amazing for constipation.

A cup of nettle tea first thing in the morning will get you going in the bowel department. Nettle is detoxifying, improves the ability of the liver and kidneys to cleanse the blood, and also perks up the appetite.

Drink nettle tea; it’s amazing for the body. It doesn’t take a lot of time to do, but if you don’t want to take the time to do the nettle infusion, just drink nettle tea.

It’s a very gentle diuretic, which is considered restorative for the kidneys and bladder. It’s also recommended for weight loss. If you want to drink the ideal tea, you can make iced tea out of nettle, and you can add some stevia in your nettle tea.

It’s wonderful; it’s an amazing drink. That’s your iced tea for the summer. It also stabilizes blood sugar. It’s good for allergies and amazing for healthy hair, skin, and nails.

To purchase nettle tea, go to your local health food store or order online. First thing in the morning condition yourself to drink more fluids and add some good quality green powder, which I’m going to talk about next.

First thing in the morning, hydrate your body. I’m not saying not to have coffee, but drink your coffee later in the day. Hydrate your body in the morning until breakfast.

# 4  Take  Good Quality Green Powder

The green powder is like a multivitamin. Not only that, but it will help to alkalize and energize the cells in your body and accelerate the cleansing process. The drink may taste strange to start with, but as your bloodstream’s pH level drops, your taste buds adjust to the flavor, believe me. Any good quality greens will support your liver, kidneys, blood, bones, colon, circulation, and immune function.

Adding greens will neutralize many toxins in your body and will also help any cravings and increase your energy level, as well.

# 5 Take Good Care Of  Your Liver

It’s very difficult to lose weight if your liver and gallbladder are failing. Your liver is an amazing organ. The stomach is responsible for breaking down and processing fats but, in truth, the gallbladder and liver are the primary organs.

Both organs have so much input into the entire cycle. The liver is the most important organ in the human immune system. It actually removes harmful chemicals.

There are so many different chemicals and biological contaminants in our environment, and the liver is the first line of defense against illness and disease. Over 500 chemical and metabolic functions take place in the liver.

The liver is a power player because it filters these contaminants from the bloodstream. Unfortunately, some of the impurities removed from the bloodstream are stored in the liver itself. We’ve been exposed to 180,000 chemicals in the last 30 years, and these contaminants build up in the liver and interfere with the ability to filter toxins properly.

This will weaken the liver and allow these contaminants to escape into the bloodstream, where they are stored in other organs of the body down to the cellular level. That’s another reason you can’t lose weight, feel tired, have allergies, and may experience hormonal imbalance.

What you can do to help your liver is to reduce your consumption of food with artificial chemicals, artificial ingredients, and artificial coloring, and artificial preservatives. Every artificial substance that you bring into your body will have a direct impact on your liver.

Take the time to read labels and find alternatives. At least 80% of the food you currently eat could be replaced by food items that are free of artificial substances. If I were to recommend one particular food to cleanse and rebuild the body, it would be greens.  Greens control the calcium in the body. They’re high in iron and potassium.

The bitterer they are the more potassium they contain. Greens are one of the finest things known for neutralizing acid in the body. If you’ve been following me for some time, you know I love to talk about green juice.

—greens are the most cleansing food on the planet.

You should also increase your water intake to at least a half-gallon of pure water a day. This is so crucial for the liver. This becomes even more important if you diet, fast, or exercise. This is because the fat-soluble toxins that were stored in your fat cells are going to be released back into your bloodstream.

Now your liver will have to process these fat-soluble toxins and convert them into water-soluble products that your body can eliminate through bowel function and urine. If you’re dehydrated, you will slow down this process.  75% of people in North America have mild chronic dehydration.

The other thing to watch is your alcohol consumption. Not only does it affect your driving, but for some who are particularly sensitive, one ounce of alcohol can produce damage to the liver

Be careful with alcohol consumption.

# 6  Add Coconut oil To Your  Diet:

I interviewed Bruce Fife. He’s the author of 17 books, and one of the books he wrote is The Coconut Oil Miracle. Coconut oil has had a bad reputation for a number of years.

Since the 1980s, saturated fats have been scrutinized because they tend to raise cholesterol levels and contribute to heart disease.

Coconut oil does have a high amount of saturated fat, but it’s a good fat that the body responds to and processes very differently than the fats in meat and dairy.

This makes it a superior and safer alternative to the hydrogenated vegetable oils that make our diets and foods so unhealthy and that are linked to premature aging, as well.

During the call I asked him about the connection between coconut oil and weight loss. He said when he wrote The Coconut Oil Miracle book, after it was published he started getting calls and emails from people who said they added coconut oil to their diet and lost 10 to 40 pounds. I’ll explain how it all works. The other thing you can do during the middle of the day—let’s say 2:00 to 3:00 PM—if you’re feeling tired—try this tomorrow if you have coconut oil at home—or sleep, take a teaspoon of coconut oil.

It will boost your energy; it’s amazing. That’s one of coconut oil’s benefits. It’s very different from other oils because when you eat the other oils, the body puts them into what are called lipoproteins, which circulate in the body.

If they’re not used immediately for energy they’re usually packed into storage as body fat. Coconut oil, however, is a medium-chain fatty acid and doesn’t do that.

Coconut oil goes straight to the liver. The liver looks at it and says, “This is a great source of fuel,” and uses it as a source of fuel like a carbohydrate, and starts burning them. During this process it gives us a boost of energy.

In fact, it gives us such a boost of energy that it keeps our metabolism up a higher notch so our metabolism is actually running at a faster rate.

Because of this feature of the medium-chain fatty acid, it’s been investigated as a means of weight management and treating obesity.

There was a study in which they used medium-chain fatty acids, and after a meal they found that in normal-weight individuals, their metabolism after a meal containing medium-chain fatty acids increased by 48%. In an obese individual, when they ate the same meal their metabolism increased by 65%.

The more overweight a person was, the more effective the medium-chain fatty acid was in boosting their metabolism, and the greater the effect it had in helping them lose excess weight.

Another study showed that even after a single meal containing medium-chain fatty acids, metabolism would rise and remain elevated for a full 24 hours. If you incorporate coconut oil into your diet, you would burn off more calories, so there would be fewer calories at the end of the day to be converted to body fat.

Now, Ditch your potato chips this summer and replace them with air popcorn.  Add coconut oil to your popcorn. Melt coconut oil and add it on your popcorn. Season with Celtic salt or seasoned salt. You can even add some garlic powder. It is absolutely amazing, and your guests will love it.

# 7  Avoid, at all costs, sugar. What happens when you eat white processed sugar? The sugar makes your blood more acidic, which in turn makes the blood more vulnerable to viruses and bacteria.

Sugar dulls the brain, damages organ function, strips the body of calcium, taps mineral reserves, causes depression and obesity and, sure enough, it will contribute to hormonal imbalances like PMS and mood swings.

White flour has the same effect, as well. It has no life force. The number-one solution is not willpower, believe me. I’ve tried that, and it doesn’t work. Actually, it works for two days, and then you give in.

The best approach is to start cleansing your body to remove all those toxins out of your body. In my personal experience and with my clients, I’ve seen amazing results within five to six days if you follow a cleansing program.

Cleansing your body is the number-one thing to stop your cravings. When you cleanse your body and then start to add nutrients back into your body, you start to mineralize the body and rebuild the reserves.

There’s a beautiful quote from Harvey Diamond, the author of Fit for Life: “We eat approximately 70 tons of food in our lifetime. The quality of that food will be the greatest determining factor of the quality of our lives.”

Eating good quality food every single day makes a huge difference in how you feel in your energy, sleep, skin, and digestion. My hope is that these ideas and suggestions will make a difference in your life.

Find out more About The Fat Burning Detox Program Here:  7 day Body Detox

So if this is your first time cleansing, I would not recommend that you start with a fast.

 Starting off with something like a juice fast might be too intense for a beginner. 

Once you’ve done a fast and return to established eating habits, if you haven’t learned about how to eat healthy foods, it’s likely you’ll go back to eating the same old foods that got you where you are in the first place. 



Generally speaking, when I work with clients I recommend they learn about Healthy Foods and how to incorporate them into their daily life.

Learn recipes and places to shop. Learn how to develop a more natural lifestyle, and then maintain that for a period of time. That, all by itself, is a gentle detox.



When you stop eating refined grains, sugar, caffeine, or any type of processed food, your body will naturally begin to detoxify. So that would be the first step to detoxification. 



It really begins with laying the foundation. Doesn’t that make sense? Think of it as taking baby steps.  

Baby steps, for a lot of people, are huge. 

The danger, I believe, is that people tend to be extreme.

They’re so fed up with how they feel or look that they go from a typical diet with a fair bit of fat and processed foods to a juice fast or a very cleansing diet, and then they go back again to their old diet because they haven’t developed the habits that allow them to maintain healthier eating patterns.

These drastic swings are extremely hard on our body and system.  

My Detox Program is a step-by-step 7-Day  Body Cleanse that will reboot your energy, destroy bad fats in your body, and boost your immune system.

You’ll eat only nutritious, natural, and whole foods—things like vegetables, juices, smoothies, and salads. 

Because these can be significant changes for someone new to cleansing, I have created three levels of my Detox program to accommodate the first-timer, the seasoned detox pro, and everyone in between! 

Check out the details here: Fat Burning Detox Program

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As I mentioned, you begin by laying the foundation. I work with you to do this, providing tips, coaching, and words of wisdom to ensure a smooth transition into my program.

 My Detox Program includes pre-cleanse strategies that show you what to do four to seven days before you begin the program. 

Click here for more information on this powerful program, and begin to change your life!