The Love Cleanse is a comprehensive system designed to help you transform your health and happiness through food. Low level symptoms that many of us learn to live with including: Low energy, weight gain, IBS and digestive issues, chronic pain, mood imbalance and much more are often caused by foods.
We begin the process with a health evaluation form that identifies all of these symptoms, typically between 20-60 per client. These symptoms will be tracked throughout Phase 1 and Phase 2 of The Love Cleanse Ultimate and Love Cleanse Mini Programs. If you choose one of the Love Cleanse Ultimate programs, you will be assigned your own personal Love Cleanse Counselor who will guide you through a process of discovering how foods are impacting these different areas of your life. Your counselor will review your daily updates and make recommendations and observation to help you discover food intolerances.
If you choose The Love Cleanse Mini, you will be given the tools to do this tracking on your own in a self guided format.
Identifying how foods are impacting your life, will allow you to transform your life – each and every day through the foods that you eat.
Read below for more information on How it Works.
The Pre-Cleanse Phase
Upon choosing a start date and signing up for The Love Cleanse one of The Love Cleanse Ultimate or Mini programs, you will receive an initial Pre Cleanse Welcome Packet, via email, which contains written Pre Cleanse Recommendations and Instructions. Shortly thereafter you will receive a Health Consultation Form. The Health Consultation Form is comprehensive and helps us to identify all of the low level symptoms that are often created by food intolerances including: low morning energy, afternoon slumps, low overall energy, IBS and digestive issues, weight gain, seasonal allergies, irritability and worry, chronic pain, hormone imbalance and much more.
This information will be used to create a customized daily symptom tracker that will later be used to determine food sensitivities, ideal carbohydrates and proteins threshold along with discovering what your body is telling you through your cravings.
If you choose one of The Love Cleanse Ultimate programs, you will be assigned your own personal Love Cleanse Counselor who will guide you through a process of discovering how foods are impacting different areas of your life. Your counselor will review your daily updates and make daily recommendations and observations to help you discover food intolerances and how your energy, weight and digestion is being impacted by foods.
If you choose The Love Cleanse Mini program, you will be given tools and instructions to do this tracking on your own in a self-guided format.
Also in the Pre-Cleanse Phase, there is a webinar based orientation in which we will go through your cleanse kit along with a daily schedule, shopping list, recipes and step by step instructions to make the process simple.
There are some pre-cleanse requirements everyone should adhere to including no artificial sweeteners for 1 month prior to Phase 1’s kick-off, and no caffeine for 7 days prior to Phase 1. Withdrawal from both of these concurrent with starting a cleanse program is neither pleasant nor safe. In addition, caffeine withdrawal during the program interferes with the ability to test the impact foods are having on your body because it is overshadowed by low energy and headaches from caffeine withdrawal. Caffeine can be reintegrated later in Phase 2. Many find surprising benefits such as weight loss and increased energy from removing diet sodas. In addition, you will begin a high fiber/high protein plant based SuperFood supplement that you can pick up at your local health food store. This will initiate the cleanse process allowing for a more graceful transition into Phase 1 and easing gas and bloating.
In addition, anyone who currently eats a high amount of processed foods or fast foods will want to begin with The Processed/Fast Food Detox program. Upon successfully completion of this program, you will be eligible the begin The Love Cleanse Mini or one of The Love Cleanse Ultimate programs.
Phase 1 – Cleanse and Elimination Phase
Phase 1 is a 7-day food based cleanse and food intolerance elimination program. This is NOT a fast. You are eating 3 healthy alkalizing meals each day. In addition, you will be consuming freshly prepared juices, shakes, teas and supplements.
In Phase 1, you will hit the reset button and will initiate a cleanse process through deep nourishment of your body.
If you choose one of The Love Cleanse Ultimate programs - on Day 1 of Phase 1, your personally assigned Love Cleanse Counselor will begin working with you to track your symptoms and make daily recommendations. In TLC Ultimate programs you will also eliminate 10 major food groups that are common food intolerances.
If you choose The Love Cleanse Mini program – you will have the tools and customized tracker to do this tracking on your own. In TLC Mini, you will eliminate 5 major food groups that are common food intolerances.
Depending on which version of the program you choose, we will meet between 2 to 3 times either in person or in group webinar and will cover some of the following:
•The Acidity/Alkalinity principle – the most important concept you can apply to look and feel better
•How to test for food sensitivities
•How to order while eating out
•What to do while traveling
•How to stop listening to other experts and access your inner expert
•How to determine your unique carbohydrate threshold
•How to determine which protein sources your body prefers
•How to care for yourself through food on an ongoing basis
•Which supplements to consider
•How to fill out your tracker to determine food triggers and optimize your health
In addition to daily shakes, teas, meals and supplements - you will consume 1 to 2 freshly prepared Love Cleanse juices each day. If you choose the Love Cleanse Concierge’s Cleanse, these will be delivered to your home along with lunch and special hummus snack. If you choose the Self Pick Up or Group version, these are prepaid and available for self pick up at Beets Café.
If you choose The Love Cleanse Mini and live outside of Austin you may order at your own local juice bar or will be given simple instructions for preparing your own juice using a blender.
Phase 2 – Reintroduction
Phase 2 is the reintroduction Phase in which you will methodically introduce a new food every 3 days to test for food intolerances which have been causing unwanted symptoms. If you choose The Love Cleanse Ultimate or the Self Pick Up versions, a customized reintegration schedule will be created for your reintroduction roadmap. If you choose The Love Cleanse Mini or The Love Cleanse Group versions, you will follow a pre-arranged reintegration schedule.
If you choose one of The Love Cleanse Ultimates, your Love Cleanse counselor will be reviewing your daily updates each day, Monday through Friday, throughout Phase 2 and will send you relevant feedback and guidance via emails. We track with each client, every day Monday through Friday, for 4 to 6 full weeks in Phase 2.
If you choose The Love Cleanse Mini, you will be given tools to self track and self monitor.
In Phase 2, you are also able to access your own inner expert as you use tools from phase 1 to tune into your unique carbohydrate threshold and best protein sources. Phase 2 is where the primary benefits of the program are realized. If Phase 2 is followed as designed, one can typically expect increased energy, weight loss, better sleep, improved digestion, diminished allergies, better mood and much more.
In order to see the best benefits, a commitment to your health is required. You will carry this information forward with you through the rest of your life. Once you go through the process, you will be able to eat with freedom and discover how to feel your best through the foods that you eat each and every day.
