Do you find yourself constantly seeking out diet advice or jumping on board with the newest weight-loss program? Do you feel like your thoughts are consumed with what to eat or what not to eat? Do you wish you could be free from the non-stop chatter of the monkey-mind, obsessing about how your health or your body is not enough?

My mentor, Mark Sisson, states in a fabulous Outdoor article, “Body composition is 80 percent the result of your diet." 

A few years ago, I remember listening to a friend talk about starting a sugar cleanse and thinking, “Oh, I could never do that!”

At the time, I didn’t give myself the space to ponder:

“What if I could do a sugar cleanse?”

“What if a cleanse helped end my sugar addiction?”

If you read last week's post, you might recall that I believe sugar is the most common obstacle preventing people from achieving optimal health. I thought about another prevalent obstacle as I viewed a youngster on the Malecón sporting an "Espresso then Prosecco" t-shirt: alcohol.