Day 21: Never Stop

In life, we often lose sight of what is important and focus on what is convenient. Instead of eating healthy we eat fast food and TV dinners. Instead of working out we plop in front of the TV and never move. We must focus on what is truly important. Our health should be at the top of that list because without it nothing else matters. If we are not alive it is hard to enjoy anything else the world has to offer. Just ask a person diagnosed with terminal cancer what they really wish they had..... It wont be more money. We all need or bodies to be healthy and nourished. This is why it is so important to eat right, exercise, and keep a positive mental attitude. These are the things that really allow us to have a long, happy, fulfilling life.

How does this all relate to the cleanse? As the cleanse ends, we must remember that even though we don't have to take up the vegan lifestyle we need to continue to live healthy. Our body only runs well with good nutrition. So keep up the trend, stay healthy, exercise, and keep growing everyday. We can never stop if we really want to achieve in this life.

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Day 20: One Day or Halfway

For those of you who are doing the 21 days congratulations you only have one day left. For those that are adventuring on to 40 days.... Welcome to the second half.

I hope that at whatever level you are taking it, you have found a new place of enlightenment. You have found new strength that you didn't know that you had and started your body clean and fresh this new year.

As we continue on we will be here for support, diet help, and fitness. Please reach out and let us know how you are doing and the miracles that are happening in your life. We want to be a part.

Day 19: Bringing Mind and Body Together

Today I went and did some hot yoga at Moksha Yoga Cincinnati. This is the second time that I have done hot yoga, it is amazing. It is def a time to release ask the cares of the day and focus on nothing but your breathing and sweat lol. I was a little nervous doing this while on the cleanse because of the lower calories but I didn't have any issues. I felt great physically the whole time. About 3/4 of the way through the 75 min class I started thinking its hot and hard to breathe, I need to get out of this room. But I loved ever sweat soaked minute of it.

How many of you have noticed a change in your mental status? Has your outlook improved? Do you find yourself thinking about things more positively? Are you dreaming again? Let us know we want to hear your story.

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Day 18: The Sponge

I have been feeling great the last couple of days and have really increases my training back to what it was before I started the cleanse. My body has fully adjusted to have no meat and is really processing foods as it should. I have energy that lasts all day and I feel amazing. I am really looking forward to the next 22 days and watching what doors will be opened in that time. I am believing that some miraculous things are going to happen in these next several weeks.

I mentioned earlier in the cleanse that we needed to become more like little children. I was watching my six year old son playing on the computer last night sand found myself amazed at the fact that he is growing by leaps and bounds. Just a few months ago he would not if even understood the concepts and buttons to press to control the game. Now he is playing like a champ and selecting his own games and loving playing them. It made me think about the fact that children are like sponges, they suck up ask the energy and knowledge around them and are continually growing. What happens to us as adults? We lose that drive and desire to learn, to grow. So many of us get stuck and dry up like crusty old sponges. If we want to become more successful we must get to a place where we start growing and learning again. The trick is to get past our own pride and stubbornness. So learn something new today, pick up a new hobby, read a new book, just learn and grow any way you can.

Day 17: Leave Your Baggage At the Door

My day has been very productive. I am working on putting a program together for the youth that I work with dealing with goal setting and success in life. This is a direct result of the time that I have been spending during this cleanse to enrich myself and work toward helping others. Like I have mentioned before this cleanse is not just about changing the foods we east but it should be a time to start over, to renew and refresh or lives. Often we just need to press the reset button in our lives and begin again. The great thing is that we have tomorrow to do just that.

We all carry baggage with us that boggs us down and holds us back. We struggle with or past, our current situation, the mistakes that we have made, etc. We can course to allow those things to haunt us and keep us from receiving the abundance in life that we deserve out we can choose to leave our baggage at the door and step into tomorrow fresh, without fear or hinderance. This is probably one of the most difficult things to do but it us absolutely necessary if we are to live our lives in freedom. We have to let go of the things that hold us back? Ask yourself, what is holding me back? What am I afraid of? Who do I need to forgive? Make your choice today to live each day as a new opportunity to make something great, see the difference it will make in your life.

Go train hard.

Day 16: The Freedom of Forgiveness

Sunday is my one day of the week off. I absolutely take the day off, I just relax all day long. Today I took time to read, play video games, and watch movies. We all need time to rest. It is a great stress reliever to just have a day filled with nothing. We struggle through our days running from one place to another, arguing with one person out another, and filling our days with busyness of all kinds.

One of the greatest stresses that we face is our own personal relationships. We hold resentment for other people because of perceived wrongs that they have done to us. These wrongs may be actual or perceived, it doesn't matter it effects our attitudes and lives the same. We have to remember that when we hold anger and resentment towards others the only person that it hurts is you. The other person is not effected at all. In most instances they don't even care. Its just like drivers who struggle with road rage and are screaming at other people on the road. The other person can't even hear you so the only people really effected are you and anyone else in the car with you, and believe me the people in three car with you don't want to hear it.

The best way to break free from the stress of resentment is to forgive those people you are holding it for. We tend to make this harder than it needs to be. When we forgive someone the only person the it effects is us. It is more for our piece of mind rather than theirs. It us all about letting go of the anger and giving ourselves the time to heal. So who do you need to forgive today? Let it go and feel the freedom of forgiveness.

Day 15: As Little Children

If you followed the meal plan with the 21 Day Kickstart, you had an amazing spicy Thai soup. It was absolutely delicious. I have really been amazed at how good the vegan meals have been. There really has not been anything that I have not liked. I think it is amazing how much our taste change when we take out all the processed food and start eating fresh foods. We can actually taste the spices and individual flavors. All the preservatives and chemicals in our foods deaden our taste buds and inhibit their flavors.

As I was reading, Jon Gordon's book Energy Addict, I read his portion about having the energy of a child. I also remembered how the bible tells us that we need to become like little children. Children are so innocent, so trusting, and so energetic. We need to model that and hold on to that as long as we can. One thing that we find is that children are much happier than adults. Gordon points out that children laugh over 400 times a day, where adults only laugh about 25 times a day. So if you want to be happier and more energetic..... Be like a child, laugh and enjoy life, have fun and love everyone you can. If you can do that you will live a much more successful and fulfilled life.