Kick-start your weight loss with a detox diet
July 31, 2007 by Carolin
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Want to loose weight? Or just want to stay healthy and avoid for example allergies. Either way it’s important to help your body to cleanse and remove toxins.
Following a detox diet is a much easier than fasting. The big, essential difference is that with a detox diet you can eat food, detox food.
Do a body detox to:
- Help your body to cleanse and remove toxins
- Loose weight
- Get more energy
- Kick-start a diet program
- Kick-start a healthier life
Getting started
The first time you might consider a 36-hour detox: start after dinner day 1 and stop at breakfast day 2.
If you are used to eating healthy then start with a 3-5 days detox.
A really good detox continues for 10 days.
Prepare a couple of days in advance with avoiding coffee, black tea and alcohol.
Be prepared
A body detox can cause headaches, skin rashes, eczema, body odor and tiredness when the toxins leave the body. Listen to your body and take it easy. Do not attempt to detox if you are sick. If in doubt, consult with your physician first.
How to do it
Its really easy. East all you want of the detox food listed below and drink a lot of water.
Detox food
Fruits
Apples
Apricots
Banana
Cherries
Grapefruit
Grapes
Lemon
Melon
Orange
Papaya
Pear
Pineapple
Plums
Strawberries
Vegetables and other
Avocado
Beans
Broccoli
Buckwheat
Cabbage
Carrots
Chickpeas
Cucumber
Fennel
Garlic
Ginger
Goat cheese
Lenses
Oats milk
Onion
Organic dried fruits
Parsley
Pumpkin
Quinoa
Raw, natural nuts
Rice milk
Root vegetables
Salad
Seaweeds
Seeds
Sesame seeds
Tomato
Watercress
Whole rice
Fat yogurt (10%)
Drinks
Freshly squeezed juice
Herbal tea
Herbs
Tea (green, white and red bush)
Water
Fats
Cold pressed vegetable oils
What to avoid during detox
Alcohol
Black tea
Coffee
Dairy
Eggs
Fish
Hydrogenated oils
Meat
Nicotine
Pain killers and any drugs that you can live without
Poultry
Processed foods
Refined food (white rice, white sugar, white bread, soft drinks, white flour)
Salt
Seafood
Sugar
How to quit your detox
During the first two days after your detox eat a mixture of your regular diet and your detox diet. This might be hard if you long for your “normal” food but it’s important so please stick to it.
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Is it wise to be drinking tea with caffeine in it on a detox? i know white and green are quite low in it but it is still there. red tea is of course caffeine free.
It very important to drink a lot of water during a detox.
Not tea can replace the cleansing function of water.
There are many herbal teas that are caffeine free that you can drink. For example red tea.
Green and white tea are low in caffeine and they help the body to detox. They increase the level of increase detoxification enzymes (GST enzymes).