New Year Detox Diet: Try This 2 Day Detox Diet

If you’ve had a spell of rich food, more alcohol than usual and late nights over the holiday season why not try this easy 2 Day Detox Diet to help restore your energy and vitality?  Although Spring is the traditional time to detox many people feel more motivated to do a New Year Detox Diet.

Instead of following a longer and more restrictive diet that may lower your immunity you can incorporate a few healthy diet changes into your life to naturally support your body’s detox system and kick start your health.  Following a 2 Day Detox Diet once a month will ensure you feel and look great and boost your energy

2 Day Detox Diet

Prepare

• Plan to do the detox over a weekend or when you are not working or have any other commitments. Arrange a a long weekend if you can so you can rest and relax.

• For a week before the detox ease into it by focusing more on whole grains, vegetables, fruit, wild fish, free range or organic chicken, organic eggs, beans, pulses, seeds and nuts.  Avoid fatty meat and fried food.

• Ensure your meals are 75% vegetables + 25% meat, fish or eggs. Try to have a variety of different colored vegetables. Steam or stir-fry them to keep the nutrient content high. Use herbs and spices instead of salt to make them tasty.

• Reduce your regular tea and caffeine in coffee, colas, and other beverages and drink green tea, clean water and fresh vegetable juices instead. If you normally drink a lot of tea or coffee take even longer to wean yourself off it to prevent withdrawal headaches during the 2 day detox diet.

• Stop drinking soft drinks with with high fructose corn syrup and and try to avoid alcohol.

• Look for alternatives to bread and other wheat based products. White bread, white pasta, white rice, cookies, and cakes trigger a rise in insulin levels and causes blood sugar balance problems which often results in sugar cravings and weight gain.

• Use brown rice, millet, oatmeal, quinoa or amaranth instead.

• Cut out processed foods, sugar and foods containing it and artificial sweeteners.

• Reduce dairy products but you can eat live natural unsweetened yogurt. Use rice or almond milk instead.

The 2 Day Detox Diet consists of mainly liquid meals for breakfast and dinner with a solid meal at lunchtime.

Day 1

On rising

Lemon Detox Drink:

Blend together the juice of 1/2 small medium organic lemon with 8 oz water, 1 tablespoon organic flax oil,  small piece of peeled and grated ginger root to taste until well mixed. Sweeten with a few drops Stevia or apple juice if you have to.

Breakfast

Wait at least 30 minutes after drinking lemon Flax Detox Drink and then sip a Green Smoothie.
Make it from 40 % fruit and 60% green leaves if you can.  Place diced fresh fruit in the blender and add a variety of green leaves and enough water to make the blades turn easily. Blend on high speed until very smooth in a high powered blender.

Snacks

Keep drinking herbal tea, green tea, or pure water throughout the day and eat raw veg, fresh berries, a handful of almonds or another green smoothie for snacks.

Lunch

Choose from:

• Steamed, low mercury fish with vegetables or large vegetable salad

• Stir fried vegetables with buckwheat noodles

• Bean or lentil dish with wholegrain rice and vegetables.

• Plain roast or poached chicken breast with large vegetable salad or steamed vegetables.

Mid afternoon

Snacks as above.

Dinner

Choose from:

• Raw soup

• Cooked vegetable soup

• Green Smoothie

• Fresh vegetable juice

You can find some tasty recipes for Cabbage Soup here:  Cabbage Soup Detox Diet Plan

And some Detox Soups here: Detox Soups for Winter Cleansing

For Green Smoothies try these: Tasty Recipes For Detox Smoothies

 

Day 2

As above.

You can follow this 2 day detox diet plan for longer if you like.

If you’re diabetic, pregnant or breast feeding you should get the advice of a health practitioner who is knowledgeable and experienced in detox before going on a detox diet.

Detoxification is not just about diet so here are a few things you can do to help.

Brush Up

Give your lymphatic system a treat and do some skin brushing. Your lymph system carries waste away from your cells. Using a firm, natural bristle long handled brush, starting at your feet, brush your body all over using long sweeping strokes towards your heart. Brush your abdomen with gentle circular clockwise movements.

Detox bath

Relax and ease tensions in a detox bath. Epsom salts helps to eliminate toxins from just under the skin.

Move your body

Spend half and hour each day doing some exercise. Yoga, stretching, rebounding on a mini trampoline or brisk walking will help to rev up your circulation.

Your energy levels may fluctuate during the detox so rest when you are tired.

A detox is a good time to kickstart healthy eating so once you have finished your 2 Day Detox Diet ease back into eating solid foods but stay on a healthy diet. Aim for eating at least 7 servings of fresh fruit and vegetables every day and eat a wide variety of colors.

Once you’ve done a 2 day detox you might feel like doing a longer one next time. Check out my 14 Day Energizing Detox Plan