When you look at going on a detox diet plan, there are a lot of strategies you can choose from. Phil and I have tried many different cleanses, although we didn't always see them as cleanses at the time.
A few of these diets might be excellent as cleanses and long term to maintain your health, while others are best set aside as short term cleanse. On a detox diet plan, the more changes you make, the more changes you can also see as a result. However, that doesn't mean extreme changes are necessary, while simple changes will give you simple results.
Simplify Your Diet
Simplifying your diet for a short period can have some great benefits as a cleanse. Stick to fresh fruits and vegetables (raw or lightly cooked by steaming or baking without oil), whole grains (sprouted and/or cooked), raw or sprouted seeds, and legumes (sprouted and/or cooked).
Avoid baked goods, bread and nuts as well as mixing too many different kinds of foods together, like proteins with fats and starches, or fruits with everything but leafy greens.
Vegan Diet Plan
A vegan diet plan can be a superb detox, although it might need to follow the rule of removing processed and refined foods in your diet. Some of those unhealthy foods are also vegan, but they are still reasonably toxic to your body. For a cleanse, emphasize on fresh vegetables and fruits. If you're already in a vegetarian diet plan, try eliminating dairy even just for a while - a few days to one week is great.
You can be amazed at the lightness you will feel and the symptoms you can remove by taking a short break from dairy.
Mono-Diet
Mono-diet is generally used to refer to a diet of eating strictly one type of food all day. Lots of people have mono-diet in macrobiotic way, just sticking only to brown rice, and sometimes with some vegetables or miso soups.
Raw Food
A detox can also be done with raw foods, or all green veggies, or all fresh fruits. These aren't exactly mono-diets, but follow the same approach of drastically simplifying the diet. Raw foods includes plenty of fresh produces, legumes, raw/or sprouted seeds and nuts.
Liquid Diet
A few people chose to take a detox approach with eating only liquid foods, like plenty of pureed vegetable soups or smoothies the whole day. These are a little different from juice fast, since you're having the fiber and bulk of the whole foods.
Alkalinity
These detox diet plans have one thing in common - they focus on foods that would alkalize the body. Since Western diets are high in acidifying foods such as grains, meats and diary, it actually makes sense that the most popular detoxes involves the reduction of that acidity. Alkalinity in foods takes place to coincide with all the foods that are least congesting and most detoxifying.
The most essential point in following a detox diet plan is to set your own rules beforehand, whatever the detox plan you decide to choose. It helps you stick to the entire process so much easier, since you don't have to think about the entire details - whether or not to eat this or that. You should still stick with the rule though, wait for your stomach protest hunger before you eat, since it means that it's now ready to digest more foods.
A few of these diets might be excellent as cleanses and long term to maintain your health, while others are best set aside as short term cleanse. On a detox diet plan, the more changes you make, the more changes you can also see as a result. However, that doesn't mean extreme changes are necessary, while simple changes will give you simple results.
Simplify Your Diet
Simplifying your diet for a short period can have some great benefits as a cleanse. Stick to fresh fruits and vegetables (raw or lightly cooked by steaming or baking without oil), whole grains (sprouted and/or cooked), raw or sprouted seeds, and legumes (sprouted and/or cooked).
Avoid baked goods, bread and nuts as well as mixing too many different kinds of foods together, like proteins with fats and starches, or fruits with everything but leafy greens.
Vegan Diet Plan
A vegan diet plan can be a superb detox, although it might need to follow the rule of removing processed and refined foods in your diet. Some of those unhealthy foods are also vegan, but they are still reasonably toxic to your body. For a cleanse, emphasize on fresh vegetables and fruits. If you're already in a vegetarian diet plan, try eliminating dairy even just for a while - a few days to one week is great.
You can be amazed at the lightness you will feel and the symptoms you can remove by taking a short break from dairy.
Mono-Diet
Mono-diet is generally used to refer to a diet of eating strictly one type of food all day. Lots of people have mono-diet in macrobiotic way, just sticking only to brown rice, and sometimes with some vegetables or miso soups.
Raw Food
A detox can also be done with raw foods, or all green veggies, or all fresh fruits. These aren't exactly mono-diets, but follow the same approach of drastically simplifying the diet. Raw foods includes plenty of fresh produces, legumes, raw/or sprouted seeds and nuts.
Liquid Diet
A few people chose to take a detox approach with eating only liquid foods, like plenty of pureed vegetable soups or smoothies the whole day. These are a little different from juice fast, since you're having the fiber and bulk of the whole foods.
Alkalinity
These detox diet plans have one thing in common - they focus on foods that would alkalize the body. Since Western diets are high in acidifying foods such as grains, meats and diary, it actually makes sense that the most popular detoxes involves the reduction of that acidity. Alkalinity in foods takes place to coincide with all the foods that are least congesting and most detoxifying.
The most essential point in following a detox diet plan is to set your own rules beforehand, whatever the detox plan you decide to choose. It helps you stick to the entire process so much easier, since you don't have to think about the entire details - whether or not to eat this or that. You should still stick with the rule though, wait for your stomach protest hunger before you eat, since it means that it's now ready to digest more foods.
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