Starting with a Cleanse

My friend, Andy Mason, from Pittsfield, Kansas lost well over a 100 #'s last year using the Isagenic program, daily exercising and emotional release work.... He inspired me by writing a weekly blog, "Unzipping Your Fat Suit" about his efforts and successes. I have decided to follow his example and keep a written public record of experiences along the same vein.

As is true for alot of us I have started the new year affirming my desire to release more weight, improve my health, lower my cholesterol & blood sugar and get fit. So to assist and support me I have taken advantage of a special offer by one of the personal trainers at the gym where I work and have contracted for 8 sessions with her to get me started on my workout routine. Additionally she is a distributor for Synergy, Intl., (Ron Williams, award winning weight lifter and nutritionist)and I have decided to try one of their products, Argi-9, which is a natural derivative of arginine - an all natural supplement which helps lower cholesterol. Tomorrow there is a "Healthy Heart" party at the gym where for $30 they test your heart functioning and determine the developmental age of your heart. I hope it's at least within the decade of my chronological age or younger....

And yesterday at Cid's, the natural health food store in town, I bought an organic total body cleanse (sans the flu), detox patches for my feet (several people I know swear by them)and stocked up on brown rice, veggies, flax seed, ezekial bread, and organic fruit. I traded a session with a medical intuitive early in the week and basically, without getting too personal, she told me that a cleanse and healing diet would definitely be in my best interest. I naively thought that not eating much for 3 weeks and having the typical symptoms of the flu would have definitely cleansed me.... She educated me about the fact that that was only a "superficial" cleanse and did not get at the deeper level of toxins and the crud that builds up in all our intestines over the years - especially if we have ingested more than our fair share or refined carbohydrates. Who me?

Of course they all tell me to stop drinking coffee; start drinking green tea instead - and eat complex carbs (think whole grain), organic fruits and vegetables and essential fatty acids as well as filtered clean water. I plan to ease myself into this; doing it all at once would be a sure fire way to give up within 3 days. So I plan to approach the changes in a series of steps:
Step 1: workout at the gym 5x/week; alternating upper and lower body resistance training and incorporating cardio exercise via the treadmill/elliptical
Step 2: Eliminating refined carbs from my diet
Step 3: By then I should be prepared to do the total body cleanse

So now that means I'm off to the gym for my 30 min session of cardio....