Thread: Nutritional Cleansing

I tried to post earlier, and it did not work - hopefully this will work out better.

Without trying to remember everything I shared earlier, I guess I would just like to state that "diet" is a four-letter word in my vocabulary. Diet means deprivation, and our brain plays horrible tricks on us like hoarding when it senses deprivation. In addition, diet alone does nothing to get rid of the fat in our body that is attributable to the brain protecting us against toxicity.

After a lifetime of many of the well-known "diets" out there, I finally settle in with nutritional cleansing, a lifestyle that provides a flood of nutrients (instead of deprivation) and gently flushes out decades of toxicity over time. I call it my missing link between "good food choices and exercise" on the one hand and "results" on the other hand. Nutritional cleansing got me from where I had always been to where I had always wanted to me. It took me a few months and I have now remained happy and stable since September 2006.

I feel so blessed to finally have reached and sustained an optimal weight and happy brain chemistry.

Cheers and be well,
Lorri

Good for you Lorri.. I guess we all have different views when it comes to dieting. I guess it all depends on how healthy your diet is. There are healthy diets and unhealthy diets so we can't really say that all diet means deprivation.

I agree.. I don't feel deprived in my diet that's why I was able to maintain my weight up till now..I don't feel hungry either..

I have to admit that I feel hungry sometimes but not always.. It only happens before my period starts.. I always have unusual cravings especially to salty foods..

It's nice to know that someone is reading out there ☺!

Please know that the context in which I was using the word "diet" in my original post was in the sense of "being ON A DIET" rather than say "eating a HEALTHY DIET". Having a healthy diet is complete, but usually BEING ON A DIET, unless one is really savvy, means deprivation. I realize that there can be exceptions to this, and you ladies sound like you are really in the know, but for a large cross-section of the population, "diet" is used in the context of "going on a diet" with every thing that "a diet" usually entails in our North American vernacular ... lowering calorie intake and cutting out fat, and sugar, and salt, and more often than not, you end up with a a diet (in the sense of food regimen) that is unhealthy to the extreme. We need a healthy caloric intake to keep our metabolism revved, and the right amounts and quality of fat, sugar and salt are essential to feed and sustain all the various processes of body and brain.

Re cravings, what I have come to learn is that cravings are initiated by the brain. If we experience a craving, it is really a message directly from the brain that there is a lack. We need to be mindful of cravings so that we can determine the lack and then develop a strategy to prevent the lack in future.

With sugar cravings for example, we need to make sure that we are feeding an ongoing slow drip of quality sugar sources to the body at all times (molasses, everything brown, and fruit are good sources, for example) so that when the brain needs that sugar for energy (because a large percentage of our caloric intake goes to feeding the brain and a very large percentage of the brain's caloric needs come from sugar because of the incredible energy it takes to keep the brain going), the sugar is already there for the brain to tap into ... that way, the brain does not need to send out the sugar craving to you that sends you straight to the cookie/muffin/white pasta.

Conversely, with salt cravings, one is probably looking at an electrolyte imbalance ... I know less about salt than sugar, because sugar was always my issue and that is what I researched, but may I suggest that a salt craving is likely indicating a salt deprivation, if only on certain days of the month, which may easily be solved through a good quality all-natural elecrolyte drink instead of resorting to food necessarily ... this way, you save your food for mealtime instead of wasting it on cravings. Beware however of most commercially-bought electrolyte drinks since the ingredients can often be less than desirable, such as high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors and table sugar.

And I still come back to the importance of cleansing ... note that I am not advocating intestinal purging, single-organ detoxing, or all-liquid diets for days on end, because that too is all about deprivation ... the goal may be healthy, and one may actually feel healthy for awhile, but these methods are not healthy in the long run in my opinion because they inevitably flush out some good along with the bad, and unless one is following up their detox program with a major replenishing program, then at some point one usually ends up worse off than when they started the detox in the first place.

Rather, I am speaking of gentle full-body regular, sustainable and nourishing cleansing. Now this makes all the difference in the world. I was on diets, yes, but my DIET, meaning my food choices, were really healthy, and yet I was never able to get rid of a lifelong battle with weight and the moody blues that went along with it until I discovered nutritional cleansing. Not only have I remained stable for 4 years, but this is the first time in my life that I have experienced a healthy weight. Imagine what it is like after 52 years of being clincially obese to discover that YES, THERE IS A SOLUTION! It involves healthy food choices for sure, and it involves exercise for sure, but diet and exercise alone never, ever solved my weight problem unless you call the yo-yo syndrome a solution. So no, I never solved my weight issues until I finally learned of and integrated nutritional cleansing into the mix.

I once thought that nutritional cleansing was a miracle cure for weight issues, but I soon learned that all nutritional cleansing does is provide the body and brain with the essential ingredients they need to work the self-healing that they were designed to perform.

And thank heavens for that,
Lorri

Hey...People like you are the people I want to talk to when I think of diet. I can't make any sense out of starving and depriving yourself just to gain something (fit body). I believe it can create a negative impact as what Lorri said:

"Diet means deprivation, and our brain plays horrible tricks on us like hoarding when it senses deprivation. In addition, diet alone does nothing to get rid of the fat in our body that is attributable to the brain protecting us against toxicity.

I believe moderation is the key. Live happy and keep healthy. Everything in moderation.