Jodi Brown

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Detox Daily -6 EasyTips to Keep Your Body Clean

There are lots of theories and opinions on detoxing. Lots.

I approach detoxing like I approach a lot of shit in my life, one small step at a time.

What does that mean? Garbage in, garbage out. Detoxing should be a daily practice.

Keeping up with the toxins on a regular basis rather than forcing the body to go thru a huge and stressful detox is much more gentle on the system.  Letting them build up over time won’t play out well for you in the long run. Really…it wont.  I have done “event type” cleanses in the past. I did a huge one when I started on this initial health journey and because I have got to CHEW, I chose to do a raw food cleanse, not a liquid one. For the life of me I’ll never understand how anyone can go for days without eating food. Gah. I love to eat. I love me some smoothies but I really like to chew, too.

When we actively participate a big detox, we can generally count of feeling crappy for a few days. Flu like symptoms, headaches and exhaustion reign supreme. Why? Because the body is dumping a bunch of toxic garbage into the blood stream and that stuff doesn’t just disappear, the body has to clean it up and move it out. The toxins make you feel run down and the process is WORK for the body, hence the exhaustion.

When I began my autoimmune diet I also started a huge candida protocol to kill of candida that had reared its ugly head in my system…again. To achieve this my doctor gave me a prescription drug called diflucan and I took it for 60 days. In hindsight, bad call. Really bad.

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Blending VS Juicing – Is either better?

blending vs juicing

Should I squeeze the crap out of my fruits and veggies or liquefy them?  That, my friend, is the $2 million question.

You all know that I am not an advocate of p-e-r-f-e-c-t.  I think that we all need different things at different times.
We change.
Our health changes.
Our environments change.
You need to be able to change with what’s happening around you. The answer to this question depends solely on where YOU are in your health journey.

People frequently confuse my passion for green smoothies with juicing.  They are two entirely different practices. Here’s what I think you need to know about both.

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Pain Should Motivate Change

Pain should motivate change.  Does it always?

Nah…

You’ve heard me say these two things repeatedly.

  1. Pain is a great motivator.
  2. We have a tendency to be re-active rather than pro-active.

When pain comes, it usually gets our attention… or it should.

The body has some pretty amazing built in mechanisms.  Very few people get sick without having some sort of symptom(s) that give them a signal that something is amiss.  We either feel physical or emotional pain (built in to get our attention) and when we do we have two choices — act or ignore.

Sometimes there are circumstances in our world that instigate a brief change and we are able to do some assessments on our own to see the connection between an action and a subsequent reaction.  But when things linger we should go to see a professional (especially as we are aging) to make sure that things aren’t drastically off center.

When you have pain your body is TELLING you there is a problem.  Taking a pill to “relieve” that pain should only be something you do for the short term (like a day or two).

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Blenders – My 2 Cents

In the late 1990’s I spent a few months on the Caribbean island of St. Eustatius (a/k/a Statia).  I nicknamed it the dust bowl of the Caribbean because there was not much happening there with only about 2,200 residents.  It was arid, not very pretty, the sand was black (too hot for my liking) and the food availability was brutal. As you might imagine the import of foods for such a small community was pretty shitty. Shopping at the supermarket was a joke.  Little to no fresh foods, mostly frozen and processed staples.  Few people grew anything on the island.  There were some tropical fruit trees but overall, FRESH food was nearly non-existent.  Hell I even had difficulty finding fish to buy.  No joke.    There was one bakery on the island and if you didn’t get down in time to grab a loaf of bread, you got none.  Period.

I remember coming back to the Boston area after this trip and walking into the supermarket and being completely overwhelmed in the bread isle.  There was an ENTIRE aisle of bread to choose from.  There must have easily been 60 choices of bread, rolls, buns and such.

I thought, “Really?  Do I need this many choices?”  Do we really need this many choices for
a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g?

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Weight Loss History

My weight loss history has been, like many, all over the freaking place.  Weight is a huge issue, especially for my lady friends. So let’s talk about it for a minute.

Here’s the single most important thing you need to know, regardless of what any reality TV show tells you.

75% of weight loss happens at the TABLE, NOT at the gym. 

If you really want to reduce your weight you must change what goes in your pie hole.   Diets are designed to help you lose weight, not make you healthy, so yes…you will likely lose weight if you go on a diet.  If you don’t stay on your diet, you WILL gain all the weight back.  Simple.  If you want to KEEP it off, you need to change your lifestyle…permanently.

Currently, I am thinner than I have ever been in my adult life.  Truth be told I haven’t weighed this little since probably junior high/early high school.  No joke.  When I started this auto-immune recovery protocol my weight plummeted, and I actually got down to 125 lbs, which in my opinion is much too thin for a person my height,  I’m 5’ 10”. I’m at about 135 now and could stand to gain another 10lbs in order to look at bit healthier, so yeah…I’m trying to gain weight. I never thought those words would come out of my mouth.

weight loss history
Ben & Jerry are no longer my desired choice for weight gain

How did I get here?  It’s been an interesting path.

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