When the holiday season ends, our bodies often need to recover from all the excesses. It's highly advisable to rejuvenate in order to regain vitality. For this purpose, there is a simple detox program to follow to eliminate fats and toxins accumulated during the holidays.
The body often signals distress after the holidays. The complexion becomes dull, hair looks lifeless, fatigue sets in, and irritability prevails. To help you regain balance, a detox diet can be considered. This diet is divided into three phases aimed at purifying accumulated toxins. However, the goal of such a regimen is not weight loss but rather to cleanse the body from within, ultimately aiming for vitality and health.
Detox After the Holidays: Sorting Through Your Fridge
A detox diet entails dietary rules and optimal lifestyle habits. To avoid indulging in holiday leftovers, it's necessary to sort through your refrigerator and keep only the products that are good for you.
Here's a list of foods you can consume as much as you want: fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. These three groups of foods are rich in vitamins, antioxidants, and fibers, perfect for cleansing the body and optimizing digestion. Substitute red meat with lean fish such as cod or turbot, which should be steamed to minimize calorie intake. An essential rule to consider: stay hydrated! It's recommended to drink 1.5 liters of water every day in all its forms: broth, herbal tea, regular tea, etc. If possible, opt for "detox-special" herbal teas and mineral waters low in salt but rich in magnesium to avoid fatigue.
What to Exclude from Your Diet?
Here's a list of foods to exclude from your diet to lose weight after the holidays: fatty, salty, and sweet foods. You must bid farewell to sodas, sweets, as well as cold cuts, red meats, butter, or oil. Additionally, it's advisable to refrain from consuming alcoholic beverages between December 25th and New Year's Eve to allow your liver to regenerate. Isn't this also a great opportunity to quit smoking? To purify your body while adding flavor to your dishes, you can use aromatic herbs to season all your meals. So, don't hesitate to use thyme, basil, sage, parsley, or rosemary. With their high chlorophyll content, herbs provide vitality to the body and are perfect allies for flawless and fresh skin!
Digestion: How to Restore Your Acid-Base Balance?
The acid-base balance is crucial for optimal body function, especially to prevent health issues, digestive problems, and fatigue. The acidity of the diet is naturally too high to be properly assimilated by the body. To compensate, we recommend consuming foods with a high content of alkalizing minerals (with a basic pH, opposed to the acidic pH of non-alkalizing foods) such as calcium, potassium, and magnesium.
Moreover, green vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, and green beans, or whole grains are flawless allies to restore optimal acid-base balance. However, these should be consumed in moderation. It's also important to note that dairy products and raw vegetables such as tomatoes, asparagus, or watercress, which are extremely acidic, should be avoided. On the other hand, fruits can be consumed in moderation, as they have a high sugar content (very acidifying). Only lemon can be consumed as much as you like due to its alkalizing benefits.
For a week, we recommend following a lemon diet. Diluted in a water bottle to sip throughout the day, used as seasoning on fish, or in salads, lemon is not only a detox ally but also aids in weight loss. Indeed, it helps regulate the digestive system, which is a crucial dietary phase.
Take Plants and Detox Supplements
To optimize the detox cure, you can give your body a boost with dietary supplements and natural remedies composed of plants. It's worth noting that foods such as meadowsweet, bladderwrack, and horsetail are significant detox allies. They have an appetite-suppressing effect by stimulating thermogenesis and lipolysis, they also act as fat burners. With a silica intake, they also help firm up the skin. Moreover, they significantly increase diuresis through a draining action, significantly optimizing renal water elimination. Finally, a last tip: artichoke greatly aids digestion, and magnesium is perfect for relaxation. In short, there's plenty to do!