If you indulged a little too much this holiday season follow these strategies to detox.
The holidays are a time for self-indulgence; we eat big meals, buy gifts for ourselves as a treat and for others to show that we care. A major downside of the holidays though is the copious amount of high-calorie food and drinks.
Holiday food is typically heavy, high in calories, full of sugar and fat, and can leave you feeling bloated and sleepy. It’s hard not to eat when any house you go to will have delicious meals, cakes, sweets.
Before you know it your munching on something every couple of minutes. After these special days reset your body with a detox and help your body recover.
Meal Plan
First off, you need to have regular a meal time, during the holidays you’ve nibbling on something during the whole day and now you need to get your body back to eating at specific times. Eat a well-balanced breakfast that will contain one third of your daily calorie need.
Try adding vegetable soup to your lunch and dinner. For lunch try eating lean protein with fresh vegetables and avoid foods with white processed flour.
Make your dinners light and avoid food high in calories. Reduce food portion sizes and opt for soup and less processed food.
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Light Fresh Foods
Eating fresh foods will fill you up without that heavy feeling in your stomach.
Also, they are full of vitamins, nutrients and fibre that will help your digestive tract.
It is important to realise that you need to cut down on the spices for some time, as well.
You can make a fruit or a veggie salad without adding a lot of salt, oil or spices because the natural juices will be the dressing.
To motivate yourself order a fruit hamper for a healthy meal, keep the hamper and keep adding fruits while keeping it in plain sight and close reach.
Alcohol
Since alcohol dehydrates the body you need to drink plenty of water to make up for it and you can add lime or lemon juice to the water to help.
Eat veggies and fruits like tomatoes, ginger, bananas, spinach and asparagus to revitalize your liver.
Avoid processed foods high in sugar because you don’t want to add more work for your liver. Blueberries, raspberries, blackberries not only detoxify your liver but your whole body as it contains fiber which helps digestion.
Burdock effectively cleans the blood from toxins, but though you can buy burdock teas to get the effect you want it is suggested that you eat the burdock root.
Artichokes contain acid and antioxidants that also stimulate bile production and is said to aid to liver cell regeneration.
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Teas
Teas will not only cleanse your body, but they will also help you get enough water and are delicious. More or less any type of tea has its own benefits so you should drink them as much as you can.
For example, milk thistle has shown to help the liver cleanse itself and some evidence suggests that it helps boost the production of liver cells.
Dandelion is thought to help with bile production which helps detoxify the liver. Triphala tea aids in bowel movement so it can help with that heavy feeling after a feast. And mint tea helps with bloating and calms you down.
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17 Replies to "Post-Holiday Detox"
Julie
Twitter: jmdenouden
January 8, 2015 (10:44 am)
It is so amazing to me how even just getting back to eating regular meals at regular times instead of the seemingly all-day food fest that occurs during the holidays makes me feel 1000 times better!
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Diatta
Twitter: DSTPRL
January 8, 2015 (5:32 pm)
You are right. We all tend to overindulge during the holidays which IMHO is ok as long as it isn’t all year long.
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Jen
Twitter: prettylilgrub
January 8, 2015 (12:11 pm)
I like this approach to “detox”. I’m not a proponent of traditional detox diets but this is great, just healthy balanced eating. That’s what it should be 🙂
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Diatta
Twitter: DSTPRL
January 8, 2015 (12:12 pm)
I agree Jen. No wuick fixes – just common sense eating.
Farrah
Twitter: fairyburger
January 8, 2015 (6:41 pm)
“For example, milk thistle has shown to help the liver cleanse itself and some evidence suggests that it helps boost the production of liver cells.”
Ahhh! Thank you for that! This is wildly coincidental, but while I was at my preceptor’s office yesterday, I saw that one of his patients was taking milk thistle and was wondering what the hecks that was for/what it did! 😛
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Diatta
Twitter: DSTPRL
January 8, 2015 (9:35 pm)
Oh that is very coincidental Farrah.
Lara
Twitter: uptite_mamas
January 9, 2015 (5:59 am)
You are so right about sticking to a meal plan and trying to eat at the same times every day. That’s what gets me every holiday season and admittedly on weekends. I had been drinking tea on and off, but just recently started drinking it every day. I’m hoping I see some positive effects soon!! Thanks for the reminders.
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RFC
Twitter: runfastermommy
January 9, 2015 (7:15 am)
I’m in full on detox mode right now. All of the Christmas cookies and alcohol make me feel awful!!! Thanks for these tips, going to go brew some tea right now!
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Diatta
Twitter: DSTPRL
January 9, 2015 (9:20 am)
I brought my tea to work.
Deborah
Twitter: deborahbrooks14
January 11, 2015 (4:29 pm)
I’ve been detoxing since New year as well. I over indulged big time over the holidays. I am not giving up dairy though feel like I need the calcium and protein being a vegetarian. Good luck!
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jill conyers
Twitter: jillconyers
January 18, 2015 (2:31 am)
Great tips. I don’t drink and the rest I do routinely. Looks like I’m on the right track 🙂
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Caryn
Twitter: PrettyWellness
December 28, 2015 (8:49 pm)
Hot yoga is my favorite detox!
Tori January 2, 2016 (9:31 am)
I definitely find that planning is the KEY to everything when trying to get back on track. I often find that it’s times when I don’t have my refrigerator stocked with healthy lean proteins, fruits, and veggies, that I default to ordering take-out because it’s easy. Too much of that over the holidays with all of the traveling!! Now I need to get back to home-cooked meals!
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