After the Nourishment Cleanse - Living a Healthy and Nourished Life
- Jun 6
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 7
Having completed the Nourishment Cleanse program, even once or if you've done it with us monthly, you should be feeling a good deal healthier, lighter, and more energetic than you did before. The idea from now on is to avoid a build up of toxins in your body by sticking to healthy nourishing meals and making them part of your daily routine. You can also keep your exercise and daily rituals, as you continue to look after your body. If you can avoid a constant diet of junk food, alcohol, and caffeine, and manage stress effectively, you shouldn't need a drastic detox regime in the future. Instead a monthly or quarterly cleanse could have greater benefit than a drastic detox regime.
Reintroducing Food After the Nourishment Cleanse
When reintroducing food into your regular diet, it's best to tackle one particular group at a time; this way you can work out if a particular type of food is triggering or nourishing for your body. Keeping a Food and Lifestyle Journal for a week. Make a note of any symptoms of digestive imbalance and/or potential issues (e.g., stress, poor sleep, certain foods) related to these symptoms.
Note down what you ate and drank, your mood, your physical activity levels, sleep quality, and activities. Pay close attention to how certain foods make you feel, do you feel tired, or get headaches after eating sugar, or intolerances to certain foods like gluten or dairy.
It is important to understand how certain foods impact you.
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How to Nourish for Life
Once you have experienced the health benefits of a nourishment cleanse and activated your detox pathways, and become accustomed to a new way of eating, you can easily incorporate the main principles that will serve you for life. Planning is key here.
Stock up
Keep your pantry stocked with nourishing ingredients that will enable you to prepare healthy, and nourishing meals, even during busy weeks. Spices, legumes, grains (brown or wild rice), quinoa, seeds & nuts, canned beans. In the freezer, keep a supply of frozen berries, edamame beans/peas - these are great plant-based protein sources.
Plan Ahead
Plan your meals for the week and make a list before you go shopping, to avoid buying unhealthy foods. Buy your fruit and vegetables loose rather than packed, consider joining a local CSA or visiting a farmers market - the soft plastics they are wrapped in contain hormone disruptors that mess with your body's natural rhythm and can lead to inflammation and chronic disease.
Healthy Gut Nourishing Foods
Eat healthy fats, like avocado, flax seeds, and olive oil at least daily for essential fatty acids for good metabolism, cognitive health, and to naturally balance hormones.
Include whole Soy - organic, unprocessed, such as tofu, tempeh, soy milk, edamame, and miso as part of a balanced and nourishment plan - all excellent sources of plant protein and shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer and several other types of cancers, fibroids, and even inflammation. Soy is helpful for bone health, heart health, and menopausal symptoms. NOTE - avoid soy protein isolate, and steer clear of non-organic soy as well.
Probiotic rich foods, such as yogurt, miso, kimchi, sauerkraut, olives, pickles, etc. contain gut friendly bacteria are key to stable energy and good sleep even after a cleanse. I always keep a jar of olives or pickles in my fridge, easy to add to salads for extra crunch and flavor.
Prebiotic rich foods, such as green apple, green bananas, asparagus, dandelion greens, Jerusalem artichokes, garlic and onion, etc. contain gut friendly bacteria. Think of prebiotics as food for your good guys (beneficial bacteria in your gut). Happy Gut - Happy Life.
Low Glycemic fruits like berries; blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, contain large amounts of antioxidant nutrients, balance hormones, like insulin that plays a key role in healthy aging and recues risk of metabolic disease, like diabetes.
Enjoy a bowl of berries daily for nourished and healthy life GET EVEN HEALTHIER!
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