Oh No! A Healing Crisis

Today is Day 6 of my juice cleanse.  I felt good this morning, but now I have a headache. Don't worry, I'll be fine. I'm not going to quit my fast or anything, but I am going to take it easy for the rest of the day.

On a cleanse like this, what I am experiencing is normal.  It's called a healing crisis.  My body is pulling fat, toxic fat, from my body for fuel which also released a bunch of toxins from the fat into my body.  Now those toxins are being dumped into my bloodstream and my body is struggling to keep up with them which is why I have the headache.  I read about this in a few of my books and what I learned is that this is totally normal.  In fact, I totally expected it.  I just didn't know when it was going to happen or what symptoms I would have. 

So what are the symptoms of a healing crisis and how to you alleviate the symptoms?

From my understanding, when you have a healing crisis you may have a headache, body aches, sore throat, acne, itchy skin, constipation, diarrhoea, tiredness, lethargy, or a runny nose.  Thee are other symptoms, but the ones I listed are the most common.

To help your body out when you have a healing crisis, you should rest. It's the best thing to help the body repair itself.  It's like when you are sick and the Dr. prescribes REST as part of your healing plan.  So when I am done with this blog, I will hang up my work hat and lie down to take a nap.

Another thing that helps with a healing crisis is to drink more juice and water.  I will definitely be drinking more water later before and after my nap.

So that's where I am at today.  A little tired and having a bit of a headache, but I'm still juicing it up. 

Juice on, juicy fruits :)

Oh and here is today's video.

The Toxic Fat Has it

Day 2 went down without any incident.  I juiced for the day and felt pretty good.  Because I am loosely following Joe's Cross's Reboot plan, I had a small dinner last night.  Today I woke up feeling pretty good and I've had my juice and tea.

Today's Juices

Red Cooler

1/2 of a Watermelon

1 Lime

Easy Green

2 Cucumbers

5-6 Chicory Leaves

1 Apple

Now why am I doing this? Consuming 60 days of nothing but fresh fruit and vegetable juice. I gotta tell you that I have several reasons for doing this feast.  One of the main reasons is toxic fat.  I am toxic and I have toxic fat.

See, last year when I started researching food and nutrition, I was blown away by how toxic our food is.  Not unprocessed food like fresh fruits and veggies, but the processed garbage that  they put in boxes and label as healthy.  It's NOT healthy.  It's concocted to make us never feel full or satisfied and it's laden with toxic crap like high fructose corn syrup, MSG, ribonuclotide, BHA/BHT and a whole bunch of other stuff that was designed to stimulate our brains to want more more more.

AND the kicker is this, those toxins, they get stored in our fat cells because our poor bodies can't rid ourselves of them fast enough!   So we eat the crap food with the crap toxins and our bodies go into overdrive to protect us and store the toxins as FAT. Yucky TOXIC FAT!  Quick, get it off of my body!

Don't believe me, check out these articles.

Toxins In Food

Ribonucleotide and The Ribo Rash

List of Food Toxins

So it seemed apparent to me that my fat was not necessarily my fault.  My fault was eating all that garbage filled with toxins.  The more I learned about this stuff, the less I wanted to eat it. I was seriously so blown away after learning about this stuff that I immediately started to add more and more healthy foods to my diet like WHOLE fruits and vegetables.  I started to check the food labels and if it had 'natural flavoring' or 'yeast extract' listed, I didn't buy it.

And now I am doing a juice fast to help rid my body of this toxic fat once and for all and heal my body.

If you'd like to learn more about the toxins in our foods, I recommend these books

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