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In this story I will share with you my favorite 4 out of the 12 micro habits that MaryRuth Ghiyam writes about in her new book ‘Liquids Till Lunch: 12 Small Habits That Will Change Your Life for Good’.

I know who MaryRuth Ghiyam is because I take some of her vitamins. She is the founder and creator of MaryRuth Organics, which is hugely popular in the clean supplements space.

This book is a collection of 12 simple dietary and lifestyle micro-habits that exponentially increase your vitality and health when you put them into practice.

Let’s get right to it.

1. Chew your food until it’s liquid before you swallow.

Oh my God, why don’t I ever do this?

I have been known to wolf down a hamburger in 3 bites like my big mouthed father in a minute flat. It’s no wonder my digestive tract is screaming at me now that I’m in my 40s. I know this.

I am so impatient about food. In asian cultures there is a thing that is known about single people who eat standing up which is that they die earlier than everyone else. They say to sit down and then rest after you eat too.

I’m the person who wants to leave the restaurant immediately after finishing my meal. Let’s go!

But, I should revise that last part. I used to be that person. I have already retooled my fooding but this last little tidbit was such a gem. Such easily forgotten advice in the rush of everyday life.

Do it. Chew it. Liquify it. Then swallow it. Thank you MaryRuth. My mother should’ve slapped me years ago for never doing this.

2. Eat at set times in the day, specifically around noon, 3 o’clock, and 7 o’clock.

This means that your digestive system will benefit from structure and scheduling. All the hormonal and molecular processes your body automates for you can run more efficiently.

Your body likes structure. That structure and reliability frees it up to do the deep inner work of healing and repairing. When you graze all day and keep inconsistent eating schedule, your body basically has to drop whatever it’s doing at any given time and handle your digesting instead.

That’s not efficient at all. If you eat on a set schedule your digestive system will be prepared to start digesting at just the right time everyday.

For me, this micro-habit translated to controlling the out of control stomach acid I have been experiencing this year. I’m looking to give my body the instructions to produce that acid only at those useful, predetermined times.

I had to stop writing this article actually at 3pm because the eating alarm I set on my phone went off. I stopped, I ate, and now I’m back.

So, as you can see, your eating window is (roughly) noon to 7pm. That means the rest of the time is essentially intermittent fasting, which you may have heard of.

Intermittent fasting has many benefits including reducing how fast you age, but as far as this habit translates to weight loss, you’re creating a few hours in the morning to burn fat instead getting bogged down energetically by digestion.

3. Ingest only liquids until lunch (noon)

When they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, they should say, make sure it’s liquid. It gives your body a gradient to build up to that hard digestion of solid and cooked foods later in the afternoon.

The morning time is a great time to take your vitamins, liquid vitamins like MaryRuth is famous for, because they are easier on the stomach.

She also drinks celery juice in the morning which I believe she picked up from the Medical Medium, though she doesn’t mention Anthony William in her book.

He wrote a book on celery juice and it’s become a popular morning routine for many people who are trying to overcome mystery illnesses and cure skin diseases as well (among other things).

In the morning I have started drinking celery juice again now too and soon I will add another juice to my routine which is cabbage juice. It has worked for me in the past to overcome stomach ailments and I’m going to re-incorporate it.

I also have been taking a spoonful of Leaf of Life which I juiced from a plant my neighbor gave me. I had never heard of it before until last week so I have only been taking it a few days. It is supposed to be very healing for your kidneys and liver but most people know about it for curing respiratory illnesses.

I also drink a couple of the coconut smoothies from Trader Joes which I am currently obsessed with. Have you seen them? Yes, this is a picture of the top veggie drawer in my fridge. Please don’t judge me.

Then noon rolls around before I know it and I’m eating my first plate of solid food. So far so good.

4. Get 15 minutes of sunlight every day.

This is another one of those no-brainers that is easily forgotten. Most of us work indoors so unless we smoke (I don’t) we usually stay inside at our desks or stations for 8 hours.

Then family commitments or night school or whatever it is that probably keeps you indoors, keeps you indoors. Even if you have a routine where you go to the gym after work, you’re still inside.

So, 15 minutes of full sun, without sunglasses, is what you need. Besides the natural vitamin D that you get from the sun, there are a host of other cellular processes that rely on the light of day to function properly.

We are living beings and we need sun for our health. Btw, did you know that your body won’t absorb vitamin D unless the sunlight passes the iris of your eye? That’s why you need to take your sunglasses off for a few minutes.

I remember talking about this a year or so ago with my friend Sean who is a surfer and I was telling him at the time that I wasn’t feeling my best. He said I needed to make sure to get out in the sun and get fresh air and feel the breeze and walk barefoot. I agreed, of course, but alas I didn’t work it into my routine.

Now, when I pick up my son from daycare, I go right to anywhere convenient nearby that I can go for a walk with him for a little while before we go back home for dinner and to be indoors for the night.

I haven’t been doing that long but again, so far so good. Micro habits.

There are 8 other habits to read about

I won’t give the chapters away since I don’t want to steal any of MaryRuth’s well deserved thunder. The rest of them are equally as important. I already had many of them worked into my life one way or the other so they didn’t stand out as much for me. But for you they might be a fresh kick in the butt.

So I hope you check out the book. Here’s a link to the Audible book so you can take a closer look and read the Amazon reviews which are also very good. If you prefer to smell your books, turn pages and hold the physical book in your hands, I understand too.

Important: The audiobook is listenable

The book is 7 hours and 10 minutes long and narrated by Sandy Rustin. I like to mention the narrator since it’s an audiobook. It just never matters how great the content is if it’s unlistenable due to the reader.

In this case, Sandy has a listenable voice that actually had me thinking it might be the author, since I have never heard MaryRuth talk before.

Buy the hard copy book if you prefer, of course. I didn’t do that because my toddler doesn’t let me read paper books and that’s just my life right now.

A little more about me if you’re interested

To give you a few sentences of background info about me, I have cured myself of various things including chronic illnesses a few times over the years with food and nutrition and because of that I have become somewhat of a patient expert in various health conditions.

This year I contracted some horrible stomach thing and I have been fighting it on and off for too many months. Recently off, but then my son brought home a belly bug from school and it set off an inflammation cascade again.

So in a bedridden state last week I listened to MaryRuth’s new book hoping for some insights that might help me fine-tune my issues and pull me from my well of abdominal despair.

I did enjoy it very much and will add it to my list of favorite health and wellness books that I keep here. I will post updates in the future regarding any specific effects and gains from incorporating her advice so follow me if you’d like to glean the results.

Thanks for reading!

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