7 Reasons You Need A Spring Cleanse This Year

Samantha
Aug 16, 2015
4 min read

It's edging ever closer to springtime in Australia, and we all know what that means for those who are health-conscious: detox time.

So how do you know if you might need to hit the reboot button on your body? Here's a few reasons you might consider one:

Junk food has become the centre of your daily menu. Sometimes, we all have a slip-up. A junk food weekend with mates, a pizza for dinner when there was already a healthy dinner in the fridge, caving on a craving for chips or chocolate - this is just living a human, balanced life. But if you find that junk food is featuring in your diet more than healthy food, now is the time to get it under control. A cleanse plan with a solid nutrition guideline can help you boost your health and get the balance back in your life.
Your clothes have become just a bit too snug over the wintertime. Wintertime is hibernation time - snuggling by the fire, sipping a nice big hot chocolate, indulging in nice big serves of warming foods, and spending more time napping than exercising. And usually that leads to a sneaky couple of kilos adding to your waistline. Now that spring is upon us though, it's time to switch up your habits and fit back into your clothes before summer is upon us. No better way to do that than with a fantastic nutrition plan and personalized exercise regime!
Your idea of hydration is coffee followed by a couple of Cokes, and a glass of vino before bed. Caffeine and alcohol aren't always your enemy. However, if they are the main source of your hydration, you are putting a large strain on your liver, kidneys and immune system. A cleanse will help support these to work at their optimum levels again, and have you feeling hydrated and energized in no time.
The most exercise you're getting is the walk from bed to the couch and from the car to the office. Wintertime is always the time where your walking, gym and hobbies go out the window. Walking is no fun when it's pouring with rain, no matter what your dog tells you. The gym requires you to change clothes, which is far too cold to do for anything other than bedtime, and your dancing and yoga classes are too far away to brave the cold. The good news is, the weather is starting to warm up, and now is the time to build a new routine. A cleanse that incorporates a personalized exercise program to suit your needs is a great way to do this - you'll be back to a gym bunny in no time!
Your immune system isn't up to scratch, your skin is breaking out, and you feel tired all the time. You never quite see the change, but somehow after a dose of antibiotics, a bout of gastro or a few weeks of stress and poor sleep, you're suddenly catching every cold that walks past you. Your skin starts to break out like you're 15 years old again. And you just cannot get out of bed in the morning with a spring in your step - you feel it's a victory just to get out of bed at all! A holistic cleanse will help boost your immune system, clear up your skin, and leave you with more energy than ever.
You need a way to reboot your life and make a change - for health, emotional or mental reasons. We all have our signs that it's time to hit the refresh button - sometimes it's after a breakup, or after a family member makes a snide comment about our eating habits, or when your friends seem to be making way more headway into life than you are. Where better to start the reboot than with your health? After all, getting your health under control gives you energy, passion, and leaves you looking and feeling fantastic. This is when a good nutrition and exercise plan will launch you into a new phase of life.
You're looking for a way to break bad habits and establish healthy new ones. We all have bad habits - eating a tub of icecream at that time of month, getting pizza each week when we've have a few too many drinks, staying up too late and feeling exhausted for work. The good news is, none of these have to stick around if you don't want them to. The best way to break a habit is to replace it with a new one. A good cleanse will help you build new habits that are achievable and sustainable.