Three Juices A Day For Seven Days
Long ago, I realized our children are our teachers. Of course we teach them at the beginning of their lives; trying to guide their early education, helping them find an occupation, which would sustain their lives, and then they leave home. Years later, after having their life experiences and being on their own, they return to our lives to help us see a new world through their eyes.
I’ve learned a lot from our two daughters, including how to be patient, tolerant and loving.
In recent years, both of our daughters have been teaching us how to become healthier. We have been learning how to control our cravings for less than healthy foods. Our younger Tamar, who has been a vegetarian since birth, started a small business some years ago, helping people embrace food and to eat more healthfully. She learned a lot about nutrition and developed delicious recipes, which she has shared with her mom, and I am lucky direct beneficiary of my wife’s culinary skills. Our oldest daughter, Alona, was the “rebel” in our family. When we became vegetarians over forty years ago, she continued to eat meat. But as the years advanced, she became more conscious about what goes into her body and started to learn how to maintain her health and weight. I have been trim most of my life, but lately my stomach started to stick out. I wanted to get rid of that extra five pounds. In my view, dieting for the sake of losing weight does not always work. What I needed was to change my lifestyle, the intake of food and to exercise regularly. Elfa suggested walking, daily. To that, I added regular workouts.
Meanwhile Alona influenced the change in our eating habits. Learning about her eating experiences, I decided to go on cleanse, by only eating apples for three days, which I wrote about it in September 2015. I felt great and I lost some weight. Then she suggested that we change what we consume in our daily meals. During one of her recent visits from Paris, she showed Elfa how to eliminate sugar and carbs from our diet (which I wrote about last week). We started eating lighter, eliminated bread and desserts and “miraculously” I shed nineteen pounds. Following that, I decided to clean the inside of our body. Alona convinced us to undertake a week-long juice fast, where we consumed juices three times a day, and also went on long walks (Consult with your doctor if you want to do that). The idea coincided with an invitation I got to teach two seminars in Monterey. We rented a house in Pebble Beach, and during the next week we just consumed delicious juices prepared from different varieties of vegetables and fruits. Elfa bought a book “The Juice Cleanse: The Seven Day Juice Diet”, which offered many recipes. During those days I kept working, teaching my seminars, meeting with new people, talking to my ongoing clients and my office. I also walked for three hours every day. I did not feel tired or hungry, or a need to take a nap. By the end, I had a lot of energy, and a cleaner and trimmer body. Upon our return, we gradually started to consume solid foods, but kept small portions with the intention to repeat this experience every other month, but for only three days at a time. My goal is to live a healthful and productive long life. Stick around to see how I am doing.
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P.S. During my walks I encountered a lot of blooming flowers and insects, who manage to sustain themselves on pollen.
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