Junk Free June – how are you holding up?

We are now day 9 of Junk Free June.  Hopefully by now you will have past the stage of immense hunger, cravings, headaches, crankiness, fatigue and are moving onto feeling much more balanced and healthy.  This first stage of clean eating can vary from person to person depending on what your diet was prior to clean eating.  The most important thing is to ensure that you have balanced meals and are consuming adequate amounts of protein and fat so that it balances your blood sugars, increases your leptin (satisfaction hormone), and keeps your energy more stable for a longer period of time.

If you aren’t quite out of the woods just yet with this detox phase, hang in there, you will be.  Consuming more water will help to speed this process along.

For those that are feeling great, perhaps its time to no longer think about the deprivation that you are in with some of your favourite things, but instead including more healthy options into your lifestyle.  This can be anything from making more conscious choices with your meals, ie not just grilled chicken and steamed broccoli, but really getting into some delicious recipes and enjoying some beautiful, tasty options.  If you are already enjoying a variety of different meals, then why not look at some lifestyle options you can start working on.  How about focusing on that regular exercise, and not avoiding it in the winter mornings, or including a different form of exercise such as yoga or swimming.  Or, how about dedicating a short period of your day to some meditation.  There are plenty of apps to help with this and it doesn’t need to be an hour long chanting session.  Meditation can be 30seconds – 1 minute long if need be, but it just provides your body the chance to stop and recalibrate.  Essential for healthy recovery from exercise and a busy lifestyle.

Although we are participating in Junk Free June, don’t just limit yourself, make this a great opportunity to really set some great habits going forward.  If you are still struggling with the food, then just stick with that, until you feel you have mastered the change.

It takes 21 days to create a new habit, how many good habits do you think you can create in the next few weeks?