Eating healthy can significantly improve your lifestyle and overall well-being.
But where to start ? It’s fine to say that you would like to start eating healthier, but it’s a long way to really make healthy choices.
Dieting does not mean that you have started your new lifestyle. But as there are so many fast weight loss diets, it’s hard not to succumb to the latest fad diet to try to feel fit and change your diet forever.
Why diets do not work?
It’s really simple, in fact: reducing everything you love only increases your cravings and you fall back into your old habits.
Our body works with many complex systems and the harmful toxins in our bodies can seriously threaten the functioning of these systems.
Unfortunately, we ingest toxins daily, ranging from pesticides and other chemicals to GMOs in our food and the air we breathe.
Therefore, the first thing to do before changing your eating habits is a detox to cleanse your body of all these toxins.
Why choose a detox?
Our body must manage the harmful toxins that accumulate in our adipose tissue. For our internal systems, this is the only way to rid the blood of toxins, to avoid getting them into vital organs as much as possible. But the fat has accumulated. It does not help to lose weight or lead a healthy life.
Now that these toxic substances are installed in our bodies, if we try to diet and count calories, levels of toxicity increase in our body, since toxins are released and not maintained by adipose tissue. And that encourages us to regain weight and an unhealthy lifestyle.
Beginning with a detox in order to adopt a healthy diet, you allow your body to get rid of these toxins and start on healthy ground. Your body will be balanced, will be able to evacuate the excess fats and will preserve you desires of junk food.
What foods to eat during a detox?
An easy way to start a detox is to make some delicious juices. Another good start is to drop sugary drinks that contain far too many ingredients. Instead, choose refreshing infused water to stimulate your detox.
It is an absolute necessity to remove from your kitchen all processed foods full of chemicals. Instead, put in your closets organic whole foods like nuts, fruits, vegetables, seeds, herbs and spices, fish, beans and quality meat.
How long to detoxify?
28 days is an ideal time, but you can try 3 to 28 days to get used to your body. Once you get into the habit of eating healthy foods, the transition to a nutritious diet will come a lot more naturally.
If you want to start changing your diet as soon as possible, a 2 to 4 week detox will be a good start. After initial cleaning, you should continue to detoxify once a month or every other month or a few times a year.