21 Day Sugar Detox or 21 Day Reset?
How many people do you know who try a diet or a new eating plan as going “Paleo” or “Gluten Free” then return to old eating habits a week later or less?
Our society is always on a mission to look and feel amazing by losing weight so then we go on a new diet, lose weight, feel great then lose our discipline then return to old eating habits. We are always in this weight loss-weight gain cycle. Why do we do this to ourselves?
As a coach, trainer, podcaster and competitive athlete for over twenty years, I understand the struggle and the challenge of sticking with a new eating plan and setting up restrictions. What is sugar detox anyways? Why do we need to be on a diet?
A typical sugar detox program involves a food elimination plan to focus on eating real food as vegetables, healthy fats and quality animal protein. The goal is to learn how to eat real food that is not factory made or filled with processed foods and excess sugar. We should be aware by now that sugar is evil…it is an addictive as any drugs but how do we get off the blood sugar roller coaster?
Ideally we want to become fat burning machines and not being sugar burners. How do we break the addiction to sugar?
For starters we do a new eating plan but eliminate the mindset of a “DIET” or “DETOX”. Instead of focusing on what you can’t eat…focus on what you can eat, cook and enjoy! When we choose to a “detox” or “Paleo” plan we are really eliminating foods that cause spikes to our blood sugar (insulin-fat storage hormones) and foods that cause inflammation in our bodies. What we do want to eat is food without labels or an ingredient list that you can’t understand, read or pronounce. That leaves us with food our bodies were designed to eat…healthy organic colorful vegetables, healthy satisfying fats, quality source free range grass fed meet and pasture eggs. Load up on real food with healthy filling fats and you will full for hours, lose the cravings for overeating and stop spiking your blood sugar levels.
But how do we stick with a new eating plan? What if we tried a new way of eating and preparing food but quit in a week? Then we need to dig a little deeper. I call this the WHOLESTIC Approach to improving fat loss, health and performance. Changing our eating habits for a 21 day sugar detox may not be the ONLY solution to losing weight and getting healthy.
Let’s look at WHOLE picture why you are struggling with sugar and why you are overeating…
Are you operate with high levels of stress each day and anxiety?
1. Do you enjoy your work and workplace?
2. How is your quality of sleep each night?
3. Do you exercise and move each day?
4. Do you do strength training with cardio intervals?
5. How is your gut health? Bloated belly? Poop color check. Digestion issues?
6. Are you drinking water each day? Half your body weight in ounces per day?
7. Do you feel happy and live for each day rather than waiting for the weekend on Monday?
If you are struggling to lose weight and feel great then perhaps you need not only to do a 21 day sugar detox but look at doing a “21 Day Reset” program. Let’s not diet or detox… but reset your body and mind by working from the inside out. Work on the WHOLE person with the WHOLESTIC Approach to become a fat burning machine and say goodbye to the blood sugar roller coaster in 2016! We want to work from the inside out and find the root cause to our challenges, struggles or symptoms. Let’s determine the root cause and work on your areas of opportunities to improve fat loss, health and performance… or mort important just feel amazing and energetic from the inside out with my “WHOLESTIC Method”.
Coach Debbie Potts
Fitness Forward Studio, LLC
NASM CPT, CHEK HCL, USAT Coach
118 105th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
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