You may have never thought of it in this way, but we fast everyday – from the time we go to sleep each night until the time we wake up each morning. Some may fast longer, by not eating a "mid-night snack" or perhaps skipping break-fast. But everyone of us fasts for at least a few hours each day.
Our bodies use this time to "clean house". They expend the energy, that we aren’t having to devote to other activities, to clean as much junk and waste out as possible. While you are sleeping, your body is busy sweeping and de-junking the "house" you live in. In the morning it’ll be ready for all that "trash" to be taken out.
The best way you can do that is with pure water. If we don’t get the pure water in to flush the "trash" out, and we shift gears using our energies to go about our daily business, all that trash will just get scattered about the house again – I mean reabsorbed into our body’s cells.
In this month’s Me and My House musings newsletter I expanded on this need for drinking plenty of pure water further, but here I want to talk about what we can do to break our fast, to help our body continue this process.
The best way we can continue to transport the "old piled up junk" out of our bodies, (after we’ve drank at least one big glass of water, preferably with fresh lemon juice in it,) while still providing nourishment and energy that we need for the day, is to eat (or drink!) fresh fruit. Fresh fruits are very cleansing, and will help that process of cleaning our bodies.
In Good for You – Naturally! we recommend fresh fruit all morning, and possibly even into lunch – nothing but fresh fruit. Your first fresh fruit of the day can ideally come in the form of fresh, raw fruit juice, that is juice that you have extracted from fresh, whole, raw fruits. This will provide many nutrients that your body needs in a concentrated form, and help your body continue to "clean house", as well as provide energy to get you going for the day, and not start using your energy for the day in digesting food.
This is the best break-fast you can have.
Try it! Your body will LOVE it!
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Lisa,
I have looked a lot into this raw way of eating and even ate this way for a while. Now that I’m pregnant I have found I need more protein than I’m used to eating just to keep the nausea at bay. Beans are okay but sometimes it doesn’t seem to be enough, so I eat red meat and chicken and it has helped greatly. Any suggestions?
Hi Anna-Marie,
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. My Dr. recommends first thing for morning sickness, 3 day “juice fast” – as little or much as your want of fresh juices and no solids, to cleanse the system, saying most morning sickness is “extra ordinary housecleaning” (detoxifying) to make a healthier environment for baby. (“Follow this practice whenever morning sickness occurs.”) After that, as much fruit as you desire throughout the morning to avoid nausea.
As for proteins and fats, he highly recommends fresh avocado, at both lunch and supper each day, raw nuts and seeds 1-4 ounces of each per day, (and, only if desired, broiled or baked fish or chicken 1-3 times per WEEK).
Other pregnancy recommendations are:
2-3 glasses of fresh fruit and vegetable juices every day, preferably between meals. Add celery and lettuce to each glass.
Snacks – as often as you are hungry. Best snack is raw or dried fruit, and celery as often as possible, and fresh juice.
Ideas taken from: Pregnancy, Childbirth & Children’s Diet by Dr. Joel Robbins.
Hope something here – or somewhere -is helpful.
Yes thanks so much. I’m enjoying these posts a lot. I probably have many more questions as I read back through the posts… lol
Thanks!
I had gotten so lax at posting here. I tend to go in spurts. I have SO much more I hope to share. Like I said, my Gift list primary is TIME!
Ask away. That’s usually the best way to get me to post 🙂
Really good and really interesting post. I expect (and other readers maybe :)) new useful posts from you!
Good luck and successes in blogging!