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The Ultimate Free, Easy & Effective, 7-Day-Cleanse · Blush

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  By this point in the winter, most of us are feeling kind of
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  blah and sluggish and just looking for a way to feel
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  better. I know I am.
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  So I came up with a little seven day cleanse for myself that is
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  free. It's easy, it's accessible, it's
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  not self punishing, it's actually quite fun and most
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  importantly, it's really, really effective and it has lasting
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  results. This isn't like a stupid juice
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  cleanse where right when you're finished you just like, gorge
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  yourself and you completely undo everything you did.
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  No, no, this one is sustainable and has lasting results.
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  Like I said, this is really, really easy.
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  It's literally just three things that I plan on doing every
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  single day. Number one is walk.
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  And when I say walk, I'm talking walk a lot.
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  So I think that if you're kind of newer to this, I would aim
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  for 230 minute walks, ideally outside.
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  But if that's really not accessible, by all means do it
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  inside. If you're more advanced you can
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  bump it up. I personally am going to aim for
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  a 60 to 90 minute walk in the morning and in the evening.
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  Now this is going to be a bit of a challenge time wise to fit in,
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  but if I make it a priority I can totally do it.
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  I mean I've managed to watch like 5 hours of Bravo every
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  single day for the past few weeks so I really see no reason
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  why I can't squeeze it in an hour and a half of walking every
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  single day. And when I say walking, I don't
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  mean like walk to the grocery store and then browse the aisles
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  and stop every 5 seconds. I mean you're continuously
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  moving the whole time. Not only does this just like
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  Depop you so much, but it's really good for your mental
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  health. It's really clearing.
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  It helps ideas flow, it helps you figure out things.
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  And it's really, really, really good for lymphatic drainage.
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  And that brings me to the second thing I want to do every single
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  day, and that's doing lymphatic drainage on my self.
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  I'm going to aim to do it twice per day.
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  Ideally I'll do the full shebang twice a day, but if I don't have
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  time for the full shebang, I'll do the more abridged version.
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  So let me explain exactly what I mean by that.
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  So #1 is just opening the lymph nodes.
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  And this is how I was taught to do it.
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  And by taught to do it, I mean partially by judging me tea,
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  partially by my dermatologist and partially by a lymphatic
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  drainage masseuse on TikTok, but also partially by a few
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  different certified lymphatic drainage masseuses that I've
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  interacted with in real life. So number one is you want to
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  touch the lymph nodes on your collarbones.
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  I know I demoed this on an episode from last year, but I'm
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  going to do it again. So if you're not watching on
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  video, I just have my I. What do they call it?
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  Like my pointer, my index finger, and my middle finger
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  from both hands on the top of both of my collarbones.
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  And the first thing that I'm going to do is just pull the
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  skin lightly back and forth. The lymph nodes are right under
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  the skin is my understanding as someone who has no medical
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  training and very little knowledge of like, what the fuck
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  lymph is, you know, fun times, you know, who doesn't want to
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  take advice from me? So I'm just pulling the skin
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  back and forth. And then I might do a little bit
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  of light tapping and then some light circles.
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  Again, you're not trying to get deep like a massage.
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  You really want to keep it very surface level.
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  So then after the collarbone, I go to my face and it's kind of
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  like where my jaw meets the ear, that area.
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  So you can make this like kind of Star Trek V situation, which
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  by the way, I feel like I have to start watching Star Trek
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  because I don't know if you've heard, but she's into sci-fi
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  now. So you do kind of a Star Trek V,
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  which I can do perfectly with my left hand, cannot do with my
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  right hand. I don't know why.
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  If you're not watching on video, my ring finger and pinky like
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  cannot stay together for some reason.
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  That's fun. Anyway, so that goes around.
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  So the like index and middle finger go behind the ear, the
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  ring and pinky finger go in front of the ear and you just
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  kind of tug up and down a little bit.
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  And then same thing with like doing the taps.
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  And I bring the taps down to the jaw to like down along the
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  jawline and then do the same circles.
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  And I also will do some circles right by my nose too, and then
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  go to the armpits. The same sequence, the tugging
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  back and forth, the tapping, then the circles and then the
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  belly. So actually do it a little bit
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  differently on the belly. I like to lie down for this
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  portion if possible. If not, then I just improvise.
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  And I put my hands right above my belly button and I take a
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  really deep breath into my belly, like make it balloon out
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  like I'm nine months pregnant. And then I exhale.
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  And as I exhale, I kind of tug this my skin up and put some
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  pressure. So I'll do that a few times and
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  then the same like tug back and forth, tap and circles
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  situation. And then lastly, I go to the
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  line in the groin, like where the leg meets the cunt or the
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  leg meets like the fupa area, like the line if you look at a
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  Barbie doll, like where the seam is that line.
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  And I do the same three things again, the pull, back and forth,
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  the tap, tap, tap, and the circle, circle, circle.
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  And that's the abridged version that's just opening up the lymph
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  nodes. I think this is really, really
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  nice to do before walking too, because then as you walk, you
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  really stimulate those lymph nodes, the groin lymph nodes a
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  lot. So once like everything is open,
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  I've heard, I don't know how accurate this is.
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  I've heard this from a few doctors, but then I've also
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  heard somewhat conflicting information.
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  But I've heard that ultimately everything dumps out from the
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  collarbone lymph nodes. Now the reason, what do I say?
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  I have heard that from a few doctors, but I've also heard
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  people say like no like the three most important areas are
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  the collarbone, the midsection ones that are like around your
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  sacral chakra and the groin ones.
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  I don't really know. So for safety, I'm just like
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  doing it like this. I don't fucking know.
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  Now if I do the full, what did I call it?
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  The full shebang? The full shebang I follow the
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  opening by then dry brushing. So with the lymph, this is what
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  I've been told by several people now, so I feel like I can verify
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  this. You want to start from the top
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  and work your way down, but always move in an upwards
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  motion. So the first step of this is to
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  dry brush. So I have a special dry brush
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  just for my face. It's like designed for the face.
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  So I go like the forehead, I brush up towards the hairline,
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  do the entire forehead and then the face just kind of like go
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  out like think like from nose to hairline and that kind of
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  motion. Like think like from the bottom
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  of the nose, like up along kind of the cheekbones that that kind
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  of motion. Same thing all along the
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  jawline. And then I actually this is the
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  one thing I do differently. The neck I go down and both the
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  back and the front of the neck I go down and then and the hands
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  all go like from wrist to elbow, elbow to shoulder type vibes.
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  I don't I might do like a little Oh by the way.
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  Then I switched my body. Dry brush after that.
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  That's the plan. So then like, brush whatever
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  armpits, yadda yadda yadda, Do some circles or whatever the
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  fuck are on the belly, I don't entirely know.
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  And then go up the legs, right? Go from knee to groin and ankle
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  to knee. And then the last step, if I'm
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  doing the full shebang, is full body guasha again, starting the
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  same motion, starting from the forehead and working the way
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  down in the exact same order. And then I might just do a
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  little a little bit more light tapping and rubbing on the
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  collarbone, lymph nodes and then go for the walk.
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  That's my plan. I mean, we'll see.
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  This is the plan I've set for myself.
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  And then the last part of this seven day cleanse is to hydrate
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  very aggressively. Now I wanted to give a quick
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  disclaimer. I'm someone who's used to
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  drinking an insane amount of water and beverages and I do
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  fine on it. But I have had incidents of
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  being too hydrated before and it's quite scary.
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  It feels highly unpleasant and I also know people who have
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  literally died from hyperhydration.
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  So when I say this, take it with a massive grain of salt.
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  In fact, literally take it with a massive grain of salt because
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  I want you to add a electrolytes to your water so that you don't
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  do this. And also, when I say hydrate
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  aggressively, I don't mean in one sitting, I mean throughout
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  the day. So let me make that very, very
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  clear. Do not just drink like 1 to 2
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  liters of water in a row. You're not going to do well and
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  it could be dangerous. So let me get this out there.
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  And also if you're someone who doesn't hydrate very well now,
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  don't aim for a gallon a day. That's crazy.
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  I personally, I'm going to aim for about 4 liters a day, but
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  I'm used to being a very hydrated person so it works for
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  me and I move a lot and what I eat a lot of fiber yadda yadda
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  yadda. Now for someone who's already
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  like pretty wellnessy, who's pretty like well hydrated,
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  etcetera. If you were to do the Suns, I
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  would if you think it's safe for you and please consult with the
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  doctor. I would aim for three to 4
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  liters of water or fluids that aren't something like alcohol,
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  like a beer doesn't count. Or also I would exclude your
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  coffee and matcha from this or anything caffeinated quite
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  frankly because that can dehydrate you slightly.
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  I'm not saying to not have caffeinated things, I fully plan
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  on having caffeinated things still, but I'm also going to
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  increase my non caffeinated beverages.
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  So the beverages I would have are water with trace minerals,
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  coconut water in moderation. I'm not going to have like 3
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  liters of coconut water. That doesn't sound like it would
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  be a good sustainable health and Wellness plan.
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  Aloe juice, water with lemon and mint like making little small
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  waters and herbal cheese like nettle, chamomile, hibiscus,
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  lemongrass, verveen, ginger, whatever it may be.
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  So personally, the way that I want to do this is wake up, have
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  a couple of glasses of water immediately with trace minerals
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  in it and take my morning supplements and stuff like that.
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  And then do my other morning beverages, which I'll do some
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  glutamine in water. I'll do creatine in water.
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  I have my coffee or matcha that I make with my high protein soy
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  milk and coconut water, but I'm not even counting that in my
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  hydration. And then the next thing I would
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  have is make a big pot of tea if I need more caffeine.
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  Sure, I can have like I like a Gen.
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  Mycha a lot these days, which is a Japanese green tea that has
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  toasted puffed brown rice in it so God.
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  But if I'm ready for non caffeinated things then I'll
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  make a pot. I like making Sobacha tea a lot.
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  It's buckwheat tea. It's so fucking good.
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  I swear it smells like a cake. I can't explain it.
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  It is so delicious. That's one that I really love,
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  but I could do other things like some of the other ones I listed
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  and just keep making pots of tea throughout the day, drinking
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  lots of aloe juice. Another way that I think makes
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  this really pleasant is making yourself a giant pitcher of spa
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  water every morning and working your way through it.
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  You could also make like a big like a gallon size.
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  For a while I went through a phase where I was making a
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  gallon sized of nettle infusions every night and then in the
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  morning I would strain it and just drink it throughout the
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  day, whatever approach you want to take.
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  And then after meals I want to have like a glass of hot water
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  or just some kind of like verbane tea.
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  I think is really beautiful going back to I think it was
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  last week's Blush or two weeks ago's Blush Kitchen, the Verbane
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  tea. Yeah, lots of options like a
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  nice lemongrass. I want to keep a lemongrass
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  decoction in my fridge at all times, a really condensed one,
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  and then just add a little bit of hot water to it, whatever.
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  This is also critical if you're doing the lymphatic drainage,
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  you need to be hydrating to actually get the lymph out.
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  And also if you're walking a lot, you're going to need to
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  replenish that. So that's my personal three-step
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  self LED detox cleanse plan to get hot again.
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  It's easy. I mean, technically the only
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  thing you would possibly need to pay money for is a little bit of
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  herbal tea, which quite frankly you don't even need.
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  You could just like fucking drink a lot of top water.
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  OK, Then you'd have to buy the trace mineral drops or whatever.
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  I mean, we're talking about like, at most of this whole
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  extravaganza is going to cost you $10.
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  Like, could it get any better than that?
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  It's accessible to everyone. I don't think we need these
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  like, stupid preplanned cleanses or juice fasts or what, like
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  these crazy supplements or like to go away to a retreat.
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  I think literally this is all it fucking takes.
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  Like, it's so easy and it's gonna be effective.
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  I promise I'm going to do it and I'll show you my results anyway,
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  make sure you go check out Thursday's Blush Kitchen.
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  This one is actually so I have noticed my weight will
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  fluctuate. I don't want to say a lot
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  because it's not like it fluctuates by a crazy amount,
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  but it's really not steady. I'm just so used to having times
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  where I feel really thin and times where I feel really
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  bloated and I'm really fucking sick of it.
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  I want to have it. Like I'm not saying I'm not
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  going to have days where I'm bloated or whatever, that's
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  fine. But it like I don't need to be
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  like changing my clothes sizes, you know what I mean?
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  Like that feels like too much fluctuation.
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  So I did a lot of research on people whose weight tends to
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  stay consistent and who are specifically consistently
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  healthy and what they do differently.
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  And I found some really interesting stuff nutritionally.
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  And so I developed some recipes inspired by that.
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  So these are basically recipes that are going to help me have a
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  more steady body weight and I'm I'm really excited to share them
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  with you. And they're actually like really
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  fucking delicious recipes. So I think you're really going
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  to love that episode. Definitely make sure to check it
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  out and we will chat next week. Bye.