Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It! (51 page)

It’s best to transition
for the week before you start. Consider it a wean week. After all, you’re still a new colt learning to balance. No need to hit the racetrack day one. Choose a day to start and try not to begin during a time when you have lots of parties, weddings, birthdays, or the like. Though this is an easy way of life, you want to get the hang of it before prancing into an environment that’s unsupportive of the new and improving you.

Get your cabinets, crisper, and appliances ready, line up your supplements, dust off your sneakers, make a massage appointment, buy an enema bag and research colon hydrotherapists in your area, get a fancy journal that inspires you, dig out a kitchen timer for your daily meditation practice, and review
chapter 7
for other tips on God pod maintenance.

• Slowly remove coffee if you haven’t done so. Cut back to one cup per day and review my tips for transitioning in
chapter 3
.

• Cut back to no more than two alcoholic drinks per week and choose organic red wine.

• Hydration creates happy cells. Make sure you’re drinking enough purified water. Stuff’s gonna start to rumble—flush it out.

• Reduce your meat consumption to no more than 3 to 4 ounces twice a week.

• Phase out dairy and gluten. Include no more than two or three servings of each over the course of the week.

• Completely cut out processed sugar and refined carbs.

• Double up your intake of greens this week and dip your toe into the juicy world of juicing.

A healthy, happy day rolls something
like this … Pop open your peepers early. Brush your teeth, drink a large glass of purified water, and get your ass to the meditation cushion! Deal with your chaos for about fifteen to twenty minutes and follow it with green juice and other God pod maintenance (like dry brushing, neti, rebounding, yoga, etc.). Ideally you want to consume only liquids till noon. That means green juice, green smoothies, purified water, and teas. Keep in mind that you can have several servings. If that’s not enough for you, no worries, solid foods are definitely an option.

Lunch and dinner follow the 60/40 to 80/20 ratio. In simple speak: Slightly more than half of your plate should be covered with alkaline veggie dishes (salads, steamed or lightly sautéed greens and veggies). Got it? Take a look at the following menu sample for creative ideas. After that I leave the chow in your capable hands, and I’ll deal with the emotional gunk! On the seventh day of each week, you will have the opportunity to
fast—remember, this is optional. Review
chapter 6
if you need a fasting refresher.

Here’s how seven days might look for you. Again, this isn’t a prescription, so you don’t have to follow it to the letter. Remember that you can always amp up portion sizes when you like; the fun thing about this way of eating is that volume is okay! It just means more alkaline goodness. For some, this actually might seem like a lot of food! If you’re used to a cup of coffee and a cracker, then heck yeah, feeding yourself an abundance of alkaline goodness might be hard at first. Listen to your body and adjust accordingly. As for dessert, I don’t recommend planning on having it each night. But on nights when you really need a sweet treat, opt for 70 percent dark chocolate, a serving of seasonal fruit, or chocomole (see recipes in appendix).