A beautiful Fall season is the right time not only to an easy detox of our mind to make it happier, but also to balance our body.  A natural cleanse and a few exercise secrets will allow you to enjoy winter with less stress.

Fall Detox

To reach our body balance, and we call it a metabolic balance, we have to change our food and nutrition preferences, experimenting and making choices based on our bio-individuality.

As we know, processed foods contain chemically derived ingredients our bodies don’t know how to read. It creates metabolic disaster-imbalance.

Coupled with chronic stress and low level of exercises blank (no nutrients) food contributes to chronic inflammation which in  leads to imbalance in female hormones in our body.

Toxic chemicals in the water we drink and the air we breathe also affect our metabolic imbalance and contribute to inflammation in our body which leads to illnesses.

Fall is the right time for an easy fall natural cleanse detox with seasonal whole foods. We have to incorporate in our diet as many as possible seasonal, local and freshly harvested:greens (kale, dandelion, beet greens, etc.), vegetables (fall squashes, beets, carrots, cauliflower, onions, garlic, zucchini, pumpkin, etc) fruits (avocado, apples, pears, kiwi, watermelon, etc.) beans (mung beans, lentils, etc.) nuts (walnuts, pistachios, pumpkin seeds).

They all are full of fiber and help elimination which is the most important part for any gentle detox/cleanse you can do yourself.

Don’t forget to enjoy local harvest in juices and smooths to drink in the morning and as a snack.

You can always use some fruits and vegetables for homemade cleansing detox recipes or rejuvenating facials (tomatoes, avocado, grapes, watermelon, apples, pears, etc.).

Exercise Shortcuts

We are moving towards Winter, and it means that the days are getting shorter and shorter following naturally after the many long days of light.  But there is no excuse for us to exercise less because we don’t have time. Why? Well, we always can find exercise shortcuts:

* park your car as far as possible;

* take stairs whenever you can;

(this is a picture of famous Potemkin’s Stairs from my native city Odessa, Ukraine. I used to walk up

all 192 steps).

* get up every fifteen minutes to stretch and deep breathe which helps reduce stress and detox;

* dance / move / jump / stretch in the kitchen while you preparing a meal;

* use more bending and stretching any time you clean the house, do gardening or talk on the phone (you can do the whole working out routine while text massaging).

We have to learn how to prioritize our health, our relationships, our jobs, etc., to sort them out and start a wonderful journey to wellness – journey that will help us to get back our happy mind and healthy body.

Let us be smart, patient and full of a sense of humor if we want to feel and look fabulous this fall.

Breathe,smile and be happy.

© Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition and Relationship Expert

NaturalCounselor.com