Decreasing Toxicity: Implementation

Implementation is the unmentioned fourth step in the process of decreasing toxicity.  This is when you put your new skills to action.  But where does one begin?  Well, the good news is, you don’t want to eliminate too many toxins from your diet at once.  It wouldn’t be harmful to get a whole new set of nontoxic/eco-safe household products, but as far as toxicity in food and beverages, it is better to decrease toxins more slowly.

The place I ALWAYS suggest for people to start when it comes to decreasing toxicity in the body is with beverages.  When my clients were looking to lose weight, the first thing I would have them do is drink more water.  As you start drinking more water, start decreasing the amount of sugary beverages that you drink as well.  I had my husband do this.  He was addicted to diet sodas when I first met him.  His cravings for both diet drinks and for sweet beverages decreased significantly within a week after he started drinking more water.

While you are weaning off of sugary (or artificially sweetened) beverages, you may have cravings at times.  If you really badly crave for a sugary beverage, have some fresh pressed fruit juice.  If you don’t have a juicer, Lakewood is one of my favorite brands of juice because their selection is mostly fresh pressed organic juice (if you would like to buy from amazon below understand that the prices may be very high because the product is sold in a case of six or more.  Click the "buy at amazon.com" button below the product of choice for more information).

When I was helping clients lose weight (actually, I was more helping them get healthy), I would also have them keep a journal.  This way they keep track of their new lifestyle changes.  With the journal, you can show your doctor what you are doing, how you are progressing and where you need some support.

What is the hardest part of making this change for you?  Let us help each other.  Please start a discussion in the Making Changes forum on the Whole Health Destinations page.  As usual, questions, comments and furthermores are more than welcome!