Day Ten: The Last Day.

Lemon Aid Cleanse Article Fourteen (from Kristen's blog)

This is the big day for me. I have reached my personal goal of ten days but have decided to go a little longer. Yes... I am hooked. I love this energy I have and the spiritual connection is rockin'! I am very pleased with my weight loss results! I can visibly see my tongue getting clearer each day (doesn't that sound so totally kissable?) I am really trying to not become a germ/toxin freak but...

We must detox in order to be clean. Otherwise it just seeps out in very unpleasant ways. Ya know? Again, another testimony for "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT".

It is true that those that eat better have an easier time on cleanses such as these. The same is true for a pack rat cleaning out his/her closet compared to someone that is organized and tidy. Who do you think will have an easier time? It' s just that simple. Packing the wrong foods into your body on a daily basis will create a mess that can disrupt your life way more than a messy closet.

In fact, the wrong choices can lead to painful and expensive diseases that require much more maintenance than healthy living could ever require.

A man told me last week that he was "sick and tired of being sick and tired" and that's why he signed up. A buddy of his told him that he couldn't join him on this cleanse because ten days was too much time to commit to something such as this. "Too much time?" he replied, "Do you know how much TIME I have sat in doctors' offices? stood in line for prescription drugs? laid in bed hurting?"

He told his friend that he didn't have the time to NOT do this cleanse.

Right on... I remember feeling this way when the store front was open and skeptics would walk in and say "how expensive" organic food was and how it just wouldn't fit in their grocery budget. But then I'd see them packing their buggies at Publix with processed pizzas, doughnuts, pop tarts and other NOT-REAL-FOOD groceries into their grocery budget.

Getting more food for your money isn't necessarily the best route to take. Sure it might look good when you tally up at the end of the month but how much money was lost to over the counter meds for pain relief of symptoms that just might have been caused by this inexpensive junk. (body aches, reflux, constipation, acne, headaches, insomnia, flatulence, infertility, runny noses, cough... just to name a few)

The quality of food that we put into our bodies is just as important as the quality of gas we put into our cars. When our cars break down, we have choices that are at least not life threatening but what do we do when our bodies finally crash?

I had a conversation yesterday morning with a friend that has a local organic farm. She quoted someone by saying, "Other than sex, food is the most intimate of all." She is so right. I thought of that all day. Breaking the bread with someone, choosing to put life sustaining fuel into your bodies together, is most definitely intimate! After all, it is our temple.