Give us this day our daily bread—free of strontium, mercury, and lead.
—ANONYMOUS
Congratulations! You just completed the most challenging phase of the entire Fat Flush Plan. Now it’s time to step up to the next phase of Fat Flush. You’ll continue to lose weight and maintain your cleansing momentum—but at a slower pace. To accomplish this, you will be making a couple of changes.
First, you will replace the cran-water with pure spring water or purified bottled water. Since water is the most natural and gentle cleansing agent, the six glasses you’ll have in addition to the water in the Long Life Cocktail and hot water–lemon juice mixture will help your kidneys continue their filtering tasks. In this way, your liver can begin to metabolize its own waste products without having to do the work of the kidneys. As you know quite well by now, metabolizing stored fat into energy is the liver’s most important function. More water is the ticket to accelerating your liver’s metabolic removal of stored fats, resulting in healthy weight loss.
But don’t worry, you’ll still be drinking unsweetened cranberry juice from phase 1, which helps to target cellulite. This time you’ll have it in a half-and-half ratio with water in the Long Life Cocktail. The Long Life Cocktail still will be taken twice a day (on awakening and before bed).
The next change you’ll love. You’ll be adding one or two “friendly carbohydrates” back into your diet. And this means that you can have toast—from real bread! There are two or three breads I recommend in the Master Shopping List (Chapter 9). The first is a wheat-free, yeast-free spelt bread, made from sprouted grains and legumes, called HealthSeed Spelt. Sprouts (from grains and legumes, such as organic lentils, millet, barley, and soy) do not have the same biochemical components as mature plants. Although there is spelt flour in this bread and spelt is related to wheat, it contains less gluten. Thus, most wheat-sensitive individuals can tolerate it quite well. While these sprouted breads are not carb-free, the fact that the allergenic component is neutralized probably accounts for the fact that most individuals can handle a slice without gaining an ounce. In fact, I bet you will really look forward to biting into its chewy consistency and nutty flavor. The bread has flax, pumpkin, and sunflower seeds—providing the crunch value Fat Flushers seem to crave the most on the program.
Another choice is the Fat Flush Tortillas, which many of my readers have used happily for years. Free of added sugars, fats, and yeast, the Fat Flush Tortillas are a delicious friendly carb option for carb conscious/hypoallergenic/vegetarian dieters everywhere. These nutritionally moist and nutty flavored tortillas are made with six organic sprouted grains and legumes (wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt) based upon the biblical verse contained in Ezekial 4:9.
You have to decide when and how you are going to expand your new friendly carb choices. After working with literally thousands of Fat Flushers, I can say from practical experience that your best bet is to add back just one friendly carb (such as a slice of toast in the morning) one day at a time and then track your weight responses in your Fat Flush journal. That way you will be able to pinpoint whether the addition of this single slice of sprouted toast is creating any negative response, such as gas, bloating, sleepiness after eating, or headaches.
Then add another friendly carb in the second week, noting your responses. These carbohydrates are the ones most unlikely to precipitate insulin response or weight gain. And they are also considered to be moderate on the glycemic index, which rates foods based on their effect on blood sugar.
For that second week, you may gradually reintroduce one of the following friendly carbs into your Fat Flush diet. I suggest beginning with just ¼ cup, journaling your reactions. If you experience any of the negative responses mentioned earlier, or if your clothes are a bit tight, then cut out that particular food immediately. You can choose from a sweet potato, green peas, cooked carrots, butternut squash, or acorn squash.
DAILY INTAKE: Flaxseed oil, 1 tablespoon twice daily
DAILY INTAKE: Up to 2 whey servings, up to 2 eggs, and a minimum of 8 ounces of cooked lean protein.
CHOOSE FROM: All varieties of fish (including no-salt added or well rinsed canned), seafood, lean beef, lamb, or skinless turkey or chicken; also tofu and tempeh which may be consumed no more than twice per week. Use organic and grass-fed meat whenever possible. Choose hormone-free, unheated, undenatured, lactose-free, high-protein whey powders (like the Fat Flush Whey) with about 20 grams of protein per serving and negligible carbohydrates.
PURPOSE: Protein raises metabolism by 25 percent and activates the liver’s detoxifying enzymes.
DAILY INTAKE: Up to 2 per day
PURPOSE: The omega-3–enriched eggs not only are delicious but also are brimming with antioxidants (e.g., lutein and zeaxanthin) for the eyes and brain, and cholesterol-protective phosphatidylcholine and sulfur that support your liver’s cleansing process.
DAILY INTAKE: Unlimited (unless otherwise noted), raw or steamed
CHOOSE FROM: Asparagus, green beans, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, Chinese cabbage, carrots (one), cucumbers, daikon, Jerusalem artichoke, fennel, eggplant, spinach, escarole, collard greens, kale, mustard greens, romaine lettuce, arugula, radicchio, endive, parsley, onions, chives, leeks, Swiss chard, yellow, orange, green and red bell peppers, jícama, mushrooms, okra, olives (3), radishes, mung bean sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, tomatoes, watercress, red or green loose-leaf lettuce, zucchini, yellow squash, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, garlic, spaghetti squash, and sprouts (alfalfa, broccoli, radish, and mung bean)..
PURPOSE: These fibrous and colorful phytonutrient-rich vegetables will help speed your liver’s cleansing and provide valuable carotenoids.
DAILY INTAKE: Start with small increments (even half a serving), and work your way up gradually to the following portions, especially with the starchy vegetables:
Week 1, Phase 2: One serving per day
Week 2, Phase 2: Two servings per day
CHOOSE FROM: 1 slice sprouted-grain toast, 1 Fat Flush Tortilla, 1 small sweet potato, ½ cup green peas, ½ cup cooked carrots, and ½ cup butternut or acorn squash.
DAILY INTAKE: Two whole portions daily
CHOOSE FROM: 1 small apple, ½ grapefruit, 1 small orange, 2 medium plums, 6 large strawberries, 10 large cherries, 1 nectarine, 1 peach, 1 pear and 1 cup of blueberries, blackberries, or raspberries.
PURPOSE: Nature’s natural cleansers are high in enzymes and minerals (e.g., potassium) and low on the glycemic index.
DAILY INTAKE: Drink 6 glasses of plain water per day for a total of 48 ounces per day, or you can continue to follow the cran-water protocol from phase 1 on page 55.
DAILY INTAKE: Taken twice daily: on arising and before bed.
PURPOSE: To increase elimination and balance hormones.
HOW TO (NOTE NEW RECIPE FOR PHASE): Mix 1 teaspoon of powdered psyllium husks or 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseeds into a 7-ounce glass of water diluted with 1 ounce of unsweetened cranberry juice or 1 teaspoon of cranberry juice concentrate. (Or, you can continue to follow the Long Life Cocktail recipe from Phase 1 on page 55.)
DAILY INTAKE: To taste
CHOOSE FROM: Cayenne, dried mustard, cinnamon, ginger, dill, garlic, anise, fennel, cloves, bay leaves, coriander, parsley, cilantro, apple cider vinegar, and cumin.
PURPOSE: Metabolism boosters
1 cup of organic coffee at breakfast (see Chapter 9)
DAILY INTAKE: Flora-Key or Stevia Plus
BEFORE BREAKFAST: Drink one 8-ounce cup of hot water with the juice of ½ lemon.
BREAKFAST AND DINNER: Take supplements rich in fat-burning gamma-linolenic acid (GLA).
CHOOSE FROM: Straight GLA supplements contained in the Fat Flush Kit from black currant seed oil providing 90 mg per capsule (taking 2 capsules twice daily) or GLA supplements from black currant seed from your favorite health food store.
CONTINUE WITH: The Dieters’ Multi (with or without iron) for balanced multivitamin and mineral supplementation during detox. The Weight Loss Formula containing liver-supporting herbs like milk thistle and Oregon grape root for liver support; carbohydrate controllers like chromium, and fat burners such as L-carnitine, methionine, choline, inositol, lipase, and lecithin, or:
A balanced multivitamin and mineral supplement for broad-spectrum general nutrition insurance plus a weight loss formula containing liver-supporting herbs such as dandelion root and milk thistle, craving controllers such as chromium, and a fat burner such as carnitine, methionine, choline, inositol, lipase, or lecithin.
As mentioned in Chapter 4, Uni Key Health Systems (see Chapter 12) distributes a Fat Flush Kit that can be used in phase 2 as well as in the Two-Week Fat Flush. You can also choose to put together your own combination of supplements, but many of my clients find it easier to use the Fat Flush Kit.
Use phase 1 as your foundational program, building on it with the phase 2 food list (see Chapter 9, “The Master Fat Flush Shopping List”). Here are some simple examples of how to “upgrade” breakfast and lunch for the Ongoing Fat Flush. You also may want to use the dinner menu ideas from phase 1.
Make this your basic Fat Flush breakfast staple. Have fun and alternate or even combine allowed fruit to equal one portion.
Use ½ tablespoon of the flaxseed oil instead of the 1 tablespoon the recipe calls for, using the remaining ½ tablespoon to drizzle on your sprouted-grain toast. Your breakfast would go something like this:
• Blueberry Smoothie
• One slice sprouted whole-grain toast with ½ tablespoon flaxseed oil and a dash of cinnamon
(Don’t forget to include your GLA 90’s, 1 Dieters’ Multi and 1 Weight Loss Formula from the Fat Flush Kit)
or
• Scrambled Eggs with Vegetables
• One Fat Flush Tortilla with ½ tablespoon flaxseed oil
INSIDER TIP
Remember to divide your remaining flaxseed oil requirement for lunch or dinner in half.
4 ounces of broiled salmon
Leafy green salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, and lemon juice cup
½ your choice of carrots, peas, sweet potato, or squash with a
touch of ginger and ½ tablespoon flaxseed oil
(Don’t forget to include 1 Weight Loss Formula from the Fat Flush Kit)
Once you are sure you are not going backward but continuing forward with your steady weight loss, add back another ¼ cup of your colorful friendly carbohydrate per week.