The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast (56 page)

At some point during your detox experience, you may find yourself thrown off your plan by unanticipated circumstances, distractions, or stresses. If so, just be gentle with yourself. Acknowledge whatever happened and return to the 10-Day Detox Diet without judgment, shame, or blame. Think of it like the soothing voice on your GPS that, when you take a wrong turn, kindly says, “Make your next possible U-turn.” Just come back to the tools you’ve discovered here.

I recommend doing the full 10-Day Detox program again to hit the big reset and get yourself back on track. Now that you have experienced this once, you know that you are only a few days away from wellness and happiness! It is available to you anytime. You have learned the skills; you now have a permanent road map that is yours to keep. If you are human, you will get lost or go off track from time to time. Now you know the way home.

My weight went from 176 to 167 during the ten days, and I intend to keep this going. I’ll evaluate every thirty days for the next three months, to determine when to move into the next phase. At that point I’ll start adding in small amounts of starchy veggies. But no matter what, I will keep this good feeling going, hopefully for the rest of my life. Constant awareness, making it a habit, and putting this into practice every day will keep me on the road to success.

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KATHY THOMPSON

Want to continue to get the benefits of the 10-Day Detox and add beans back to your diet to see how you respond to them (some people with diabesity can’t tolerate beans because they contain enough starch to spike blood sugar as well as lectins that create inflammation and weight gain).

Have advanced diabesity (based on the comprehensive diabesity questionnaire that you can find in
The Blood Sugar Solution
or at www.10daydetox.com/resources). You can also learn more about diabesity and how to stay healthy in the long term by reading
The Blood Sugar Solution.

Follow the same daily guidelines as laid out in
Chapter 7
, “Your Daily Practices.”

Continue to eliminate all gluten and flour-based products (including gluten-free), dairy, and all forms of sugar and sweeteners.

Continue to avoid processed foods.

Avoid grains, starchy vegetables, and fruit (other than ½ cup of berries or kiwi in your morning shake).

Avoid inflammatory beverages (regular and decaf coffee, alcohol, soda, and juice).

Include as many nonstarchy vegetables as you want in all meals and snacks.

Include 4 to 6 ounces of protein (eggs, fish, chicken, lean animal protein) or ½ cup beans or legumes per meal (see next page for more on beans).

Have one serving of a healthy fat (e.g., ¼ avocado or 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil, walnut oil, sesame oil, extra virgin coconut butter, or nut or seed butter such as almond or cashew) with every meal.

Continue with your daily practices: thirty minutes of exercise, supplements (the same ones as on the 10-Day Detox), Take-Five Breathing Break, UltraDetox Bath, journaling, tracking results, hydration, and seven to eight hours sleep.

Use your favorite recipes from the 10-Day Detox or experiment with some new ones from the “Advanced Plan” section of
The Blood Sugar Solution Cookbook.

Continue to take the same supplements that you have been taking during the 10-Day Detox. Additionally, you’ll need to add a few more nutrients and herbs to further stabilize your blood sugar balance and improve insulin sensitivity. These herbs are often available together as combinations. I’ve listed the dosages below, or you can order the 10-Day Detox Step-Up Pack, which includes all of these, at www.10daydetox.com/resources (or you can order both the 10-Day Detox Supplement Pack and the 10-Day Detox Step-Up Pack combined in one package; this is called the 10-Day Detox Combo Pack).