The 21-Day Essential Guide to Healing Your Mind, Body and Spirit

The 21-day cleanse in which you cut alcohol, caffeine, sugar, gluten, and animal products. I am a vegan myself, I do not attempt to hide my opinion that everyone should adopt a vegan lifestyle, but the point of the cleanse is not to necessarily become a vegan (technically, vegan+ since you're giving up more than just animal products). The point is for you to allow your body to detox of all these things which we know have adverse effects and recalibrate.

You need the family's cooperation (at least your partner's) and you need time to do all the food prep involved with vegan recipes. (Admit it, there's a lot more!) Thankfully, my partner and I live in a place with incredible produce and we're walking distance from a Whole Foods, so really, there has never been a better time for us to give this cleanse a try.

I haven't done the cleanse yet, and I'm shooting for 2 weeks instead of the full 3 (although we'll see how well we do), but the girlfriend has finally agreed to it, so it's just a matter of picking our start date.

If you are interested in vegetarianism/veganism, or are interested in just trying to eat only the most natural and wholesome foods you can for a short period of time.

For more on this topic -- and I highly recommend you learn more than just what I have written on this -- check out Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Eating Animals, everything by Mark Bittman, and the documentaries Vegucated and Food, Inc.