Natural Ways to Detox

28 Ways to Detox by Bembu.com

1. Replace a meal each day with a detoxifying smoothie.
2. Turn to organic foods when possible.
3. Get a good and intense massage.
4. Drink far more water.
5. Replace the morning coffee with green tea.
6. Get in more exercise and sweat it out.
7. Try acupuncture for a truly balanced body.
8. Eat more fiber in its most natural form.
9. Try fasting for a day or two.
10. Get in more sleep each night.
11. Avoid obvious environmental toxins.
12. Turn to probiotics to get rid of the bad bacteria and welcome in the good kind.
13. Try yoga for a new type of exercise and meditation.
14. Learn to incorporate superfoods into each meal.
15. Cut out simple carbohydrates, white sugar and flour, and any fried foods.
16. Learn to properly manage your stress.
17. Turn to home remedies for illness rather than antibiotics.
18. Adapt to a truly healthy lifestyle and try to eliminate daily medication wherever possible.
19. Increase circulation by massaging pressure points and skin brushing.
20. Promote elimination through proper diet and hydration.
21. Opt for a diet rich in whole foods that are free of additives and preservatives.
22. Learn to meditate and incorporate this into your life each day.
23. Eliminate common sources of toxins such as excessive caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and processed foods.
24. Turn to natural herbs and holistic medicine to give your body what it needs.
25. Become a juicing expert and incorporate key nutrients into your day through this process.
26. Perform a full body cleanse every month to get rid of any toxins that have built up.
27. Avoid second hand smoke or any other harmful toxins that you may come into contact with.
28. Learn to truly take care of yourself and listen to your body when something is or is not working.

Click the following link to learn important details about each of the 28 ways to detox… http://bembu.com/natural-ways-to-detox-your-body

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Weight Loss Inspiration

This is for people who are trying to lose weight and need a little motivation. Just repeat 🙂

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Mini Motivational Workout Tips #2: There Will be Bad Days

Here’s an important fat loss fact that you need to know: More exercise does not necessarily mean more results. Furthermore, it’s completely normal if you don’t feel like going to exercise all the time. “I learned that sometimes you have to drag your ass to the gym, even if you don’t feel like going,” Kim says. “And while the workout may be slow moving and uninspired at first, once you’re there it’s super easy to finish.” As you go through the motions, go in with an open mind knowing there will be good and bad days. Your job is to approach both the same way, and make the best of the situation.

Credit to: http://www.livestrong.com

 

Healthy Dairies Week 2: Battle of Eating Healthy & Exercise (March 3 – 9)

March 3rd

Woke up at 7am. Baked 2 salmon (Olive oil, peppered with salt and rosemary herbs), shared 1 half with my sis. Used the half of salmon to make taco with/cheese (browned in oven). Used the other whole salmon and stored it with watermelon to eat later today. Then made a parfait(8:15). Overcooked the taco in the oven 😀 (9:15am). Finished eating by 9:50am. Read a little of the Bible. Then went to bed around 11am or 12pm. Woke up 2:30pm. Started cleaning room up. Took a break from cleaning up my room and began eating salom w/watermelon.and water (7:15pm). Finshed eating 7:45. Back to cleaning 8:15pm. Finshed cleaning 11:00pm then take out trash. Started braiding hair. Took a break at 12am and ate parfait but didn’t like it so ate spaghetti and bread instead. Finished eating (12:50am) Braiding hair again. Finish 2am. Went to be, too tired to workout.

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March 4th

I didn’t get anything completed today and I relaxed off my diet a little. I had bread with tea and chips this morning. Then for lunch, during work, I had goldfish with a wheat bread tuna sandwich. I plan on working out tonight 3 miles preferably. I worked hard today at work so I think that made up for the chips and bread I ate early morning. I also finished braiding my hair, so I’m happy about that. Tomorrow I will stick more to the plan.

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March 5th

I got very lazy today and didn’t do anything I had fried chicken with fried wedges and a dr. pepper. I have go to do better for myself! The positives that came from today are:  I did manage to make myself a necklace and pair of earrings. I also decided that I will no longer be making jewelry or anything for anyone except maybe family. Another decision I made is that I want to learn how to make dresses. I only wear dresses so it would be great if I learned, I would save so much money just like I do with jewelry now. I haven’t bought any jewelry from a store in 2 years :D.

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Match 6th

Woke up around 6:40.  Cleaned up: made bed, took out trash. Moisturized hair with texturemenatural product, love it! Cooked some asparagus. Ate asparagus with low fat orange yogurt around 8:11am. The asparagus was disgusting so I only ate the yogurt. Afterward I made myself a lunch wheat bread turkey sandwich w/cheese, spinach and mustard (because mustard fights off cancer) and then I added some pineapple to the side.

I’m not sure what I will be eating for dinner but I usually get hungry around 8pm or 9pm…I may just eat some fruit or yogurt with a little granola sprinkled at the top.

I have a appointment at 10am at school. Started getting dressed at 9am, did oil pulling.

For the rest of the day I ate my turkey sandwich with fruit. My mother bought me a McDonalds bacon eggs and cheese sandwich, I was tempted to eat it so I ate half…I should of just thrown the rest away but I left in the fridge. Then when dinner time came I made myself some shrimp and organic rice. The shrimp was good but the organic rice was YUCK! So I ended up eating the rest of the McDonalds sandwich with some goldfish crackers.

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March 7th

Woke up at 5:29am. Stayed in bed until 6am debating whether or not to workout. Finally began to workout but didn’t feel comfortable (my sister was up, I try to work out when she is asleep) so I only got 1 mile of Leslie sansone in around 6:40. I’m just happy I made an effort to workout.

I have lot of math hw to do, as you can see from my to do list this week, I haven’t completed any of the math proportions lol. So I will be surprised if I get to finish my other mile today.

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March 8th

I only slept 3 hours today because I was so busy with math hw. I have a test today that I was stressed about. Ate pretty good today. Didn’t get a chance workout because I had at test in the morning but on the way to school I ate some yogurt with granola. When I got out went home started cooking curry then while curry was cooking I ate some more yogurt. Ate curry for the rest of the night with watermelon. Curry came out bad because I didn’t have the right ingredients.

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March 9th

Stayed up all morning. Attempted to cook some coconut pancakes but failed, I had too much coconut flour and it tasted heavy instead of light. So instead I’m eating yogurt with granola and beef jerky. I prepped my watermelon with turkey sandwich for later on today. For lunch at work I plan on having a tuna sandwich from my job. Then when I get back home I plan on diving into the bed and going to sleep then when I wake up I will probably eat my turkey sandwich.

-Jazzie

Good & Bad News: Working Out, yes! Eating Healthy, no!

This is something I feel very passionate about and sensitive toward because I am trying…I’m having a VERY hard time eating healthy. It’s bad enough I find it hard to avoid those, oh so good junk foods. The other day I attempted, I started out good making myself some eggs with a baked potatoes but then I didn’t know what else to cook because my plan was to eat tuna sandwiches with cheese but I forgot the cheese (I bought them today :D)! SO I began snacking! Then on top of that the people in my household make it even harder for me to eat healthy. I went out and spent $40 on some food that I planned to prep and cook. I bought some salmon, tomatoes, herbs (rosemary, basil, thyme), carrots, potatoes, almond milk (which im scared to drink lol), chicken breast, cheese, etc. I bought all of these things because I planned on cooking myself something healthy while learning more techniques and ways to cook. So anyway my sister who likes to throw away everything she didn’t by, goes through the fridge and decides, “Oh I didn’t buy these herbs and they look old, so let me throw them away!” Then my mom goes in the freezer and says,”Oh! Salmon! Let me waste my time and FRY all of them and leave only 2 left because everyone likes fry food! That’s what they were obviously purchased for!” Then my sister goes in the freezer again,”Oh! Salmon! I didn’t buy them nor do I contribute anything to the household especially money and I don’t give a flying fuck! Let me take the last 2 salmons and cook them because I’m on a imaginary diet that I keep ruining every 30 minutes junk food…yay me!”

That’s what keeps happening to me every week lol….

As for my workouts..I feel very confident in them. I do cardio only. I never liked weights or the idea of them plus I do not wish to spend money on them. I know for sure with working out…it’s just like my hair journey, you have to find what works best for you. Not everything people usually do will work for you. My daily workout will revolve around Leslie Sansone Dvds…I downloaded them for free and I bought one just for the abs belt lol. With Leslie Sansone, I lost weight doing her dvd’s last year, her workouts that I use consist of walking at home…I forgot the positive results I got from her other than losing weight. One negative was that my butt began to look flat. So after every workout I did of Leslie Sansone, I did squats and leg sit ups…i saw some results but I realized that I am not strong in squats. I would do only 20 day/night squats a day and one week i over did the squats and i couldn’t walk straight for 2 weeks nor could I work out. So from then on I limited my squats to 5 – 10 a in the morning and 5 -10 at night because…I’m scared that will happen again.

My workout now:

-20 to 40 Wall push ups (I’ve never been good at  actual push ups but after doing these for a while..I will.)

-40 to 60 Standing Trunk Twist  (video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haWuH3LRFI4)

– 5 to 10 Squats

-15 Leg touches or sit ups

-Rotated workouts with Leslie Sansone throughout the week: 15minute workout (TODAY) = 1 mile walk, 30 minute work out = 2 mile walk, 45 minute workout = 3 mile walk….the 3 mile walk is NO joke! If you are not prepared or fit prior to it, you will feel some soreness after words.

If anyone wants to join in on the leslie sansone videos I will be uploading the ones I use on dailymotion so join and subscribe! I will be uploading other videos too from youtube..I’ll credit them but I just would like to have some good easy workouts just in case anyone else wants to join me 😀

http://www.dailymotion.com/journeytolong

-Jazzie