One of my clients, Amy, is a bank manager who had been eating an unhealthy junk-food diet to comfort herself because of emotional problems connected with a failing relationship. When she started her cleansing program, her abdomen was extremely distended, her skin had a yellowish tinge, and she had a strong body odor. Her eyes and her whole body were puffy from water retention. As she changed her diet and started to clean out her system, her skin color changed noticeably. After a couple of months on my program, she had rosy cheeks again, and she even began to change the color scheme of her wardrobe and makeup because her complexion had improved so much. She had previously been very embarrassed about her offensive body odor and had been using a lot of deodorant and perfume to conceal it. As she began to detoxify, her natural scent became fresh and clean.

Although Amy’s original purpose had been to clean the toxins out of her system, she also experienced remarkable weight loss. During the second week of the program, she began to notice that she was urinating a great deal and was starting to lose the bloated feeling that had accompanied the water retention. Moreover, as she eliminated the foods from her diet that had been so difficult for her body to digest, her energy began to come back, and she wanted to resume regular exercise. As she stepped up her exercise, of course, she lost more weight.