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Detox diet after the holidays: 5 mistakes not to make
Detox diet after the holidays: 5 mistakes not to make

Video: Detox diet after the holidays: 5 mistakes not to make

Video: Detox diet after the holidays: 5 mistakes not to make
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And in short, the countdown is running out: 3, 2, 1, detox diet!

After eves, births, santistefani, vigils and dinners, the time has come to say goodbye to partying and indulgence and put the digestive system and liver at rest.

Let's clarify: we are not talking about Slimming diet. Rather than following a gentler and yes, let's face it, healthier eating style for a few days, at most a couple of weeks.

Without mortifying the gourmand in you (and in us).

Therefore, it is good to adopt some common sense rules, but which are also of good taste as much as possible. Avoiding forcing and punitive regimes, as well as errors that risk frustrating the efforts.

Are you ready? 3, 2, 1, go!

1. Become Taliban

Detox diet
Detox diet

Among the advice on the net for the remise en forme of the new year there is even someone who recommends throwing all the fatty and caloric foods left over from the holidays in the wet.

Now, given that food waste is always execrable, are you really so slaves of the gluttony that you cannot manage a pantry where the last slices of panettone still tempt you, a net of walnuts, a full cheese bowl, some nice slices of cold cuts?

Rather, learn to manage them.

A small slice of pandoro for breakfast will be disposed of before lunch (especially if you get the good habit referred to in point 5).

Nuts have a lot of calories but also fats that are useful in countering the accumulation of cholesterol, so 2-3 almonds a day can only do you good.

As for gluttony, a curl (curl!) Of gorgonzola or a slice (slice!) Of salami will be the right reward after a day spent feeding you properly.

Because the motto must be: detox yes, depressing no.

2. Insist on alcohol

Champagne
Champagne

You know when they tell you that alcoholic beverages have empty calories, meaning no nutrients (well, apart from the antioxidants in red wine!) And that their disposal strains the liver?

Unfortunately, it is all true.

So, if you really have to make a foil, it should be to avoid libations, aperitifs and cicchetti and to limit the wine at the table (better red, see above) to one glass, only in the evening.

On the other hand, you still have to drink a lot. The 8 glasses of water a day that nutritionists recommend. And then, extracts and centrifuged, but also smoothies and simple fresh juices, so you don't need the latest generation appliances but are always a great way to take advantage of the benefits of fruit and citrus fruits.

The oranges are in their best period and in the juicer you can also pass some of the slightly dried mandarins that, perhaps, languish in the fruit bowl.

Thus, you will fill up on vitamin C, which is a powerful antioxidant and helps fight the negative effect of the so-called free radicals, substances that the body produces, among other things, when it is subjected to the stress of facing a diet rich in saturated fats and animal proteins, or metabolizing large amounts of alcohol.

And in short, I don't have to tell you that an orange juice is a panacea!

Drinking a lot is also the best way to favor the drainage of liquids through the classic plin-plin, so yes to herbal teas, but also soups, perhaps based on vegetable broth, dosing the salt in moderation.

3. Snobbare the gardener

detox food
detox food

In these weeks, he should become your best friend. Raw and cooked vegetables contain water (see above) and are therefore diuretic and purifying.

In addition, they provide vitamins and antioxidants (see above) and above all fibers, which restart the intestines that have become lazy from the banquets of the last few weeks.

Avoid with decision the first fruits and the now evergreen vegetables, such as courgettes, aubergines and tomatoes, which have never disappeared but these days are not very tasty and not very nutritious.

Instead, bet on seasonal vegetables: cabbage, savoy cabbage, artichokes, broccoli, celery, turnips, bitter roots, leafy vegetables, pumpkin are all varieties that do great good, cost little and can give life to gastronomically interesting recipes.

Yes also to legumes and their high nutritional proteins without the saturated fat content that "penalizes" the meat: penalize in quotation marks, because foods of animal origin must not disappear from your diet (who said that veg = detox ?) but be chosen wisely (as I am going to illustrate you in the next point).

We conclude with fresh fruit, which must never be missing: still citrus fruits, and then grapes, apples, pears, even exotic fruit if you like.

Eat plenty of it, but prefer it as a snack, mid-morning and mid-afternoon, rather than at the end of a meal.

4. Choosing the wrong protein sources

Hard-boiled eggs
Hard-boiled eggs

We have already said about the vegetable ones. But of course the major source of protein in the omnivorous diet comes from meat, fish, cheese and eggs.

Here it is necessary to act wisely and say no, decisively, to foods that are too rich in fat and processed (read, preserved). Prefer white meats to reds and bring at least 3-4 portions of fish per week, to fill up on Omega 3.

Choose fresh and lean cheeses, with the exception of parmesan and parmesan, precious for the contribution of calcium, energetic and digestible.

Indulge yourself, if you like, with eggs once a week, but with sweet cooking, soft-boiled or poached, rather than scrambled or in omelettes.

In short, here too, common sense rulez.

It could be useful to recover the basic principle of the old dissociated diet, so do not consume carbohydrates and proteins in the same meal but reserve the first for lunch (thus, the sugars will have the rest of the day to be properly assimilated and disposed of), the second for dinner, choosing digestible and lightly seasoned preparations.

5. Stand still

physical exercise
physical exercise

Are you back to work? If you can, leave your car at home (your city will thank you too) and get around on foot or by bike.

Can't / don't have the time? Find at least the one to do a brisk walk of about an hour once or twice a week. Tried by myself, in a month I lost a size.

Even if this is not the purpose of the detox diet, it certainly does not hurt.

The movement on the one hand burns fat and eliminates waste, on the other activates the metabolism. And when you return from the walk you can treat yourself to the famous curl of gorgonzola without feeling guilty at all.

Why, remember? Detox yes, depressing no.

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