Ways to Detox your Body and Lose Weight

There are so many ways to detox and cleanse the body, sometimes it’s difficult to understand which method is the right one for you. It’s important to remember that when choosing your method or methods of detoxing to listen to your body. Often times when you are introducing a lot of nutrients, and changing your diet it can be a huge shock to your system. So be sure to consult a doctor to further what is the safest route to go for you personally. In my experience, if you are able to incorporate an eating detox with daily exercise, it is one of the best ways to shed pounds! In this article your will learn about my top 3 ways to detox your body and lose weight naturally. These cleanses are great because you are simply shifting your eating habits allowing the body enough energy to still exercise and shed pounds at the same time.

Sugar Detox Cleanse

Doing a sugar detox is the easiest way to detox your diet without making too many adjustments. In a sugar detox you will remove all refined and processed sugars from the diet and will also forego natural sweeteners like honey, maple syrup, cane sugar and other sweeteners during the detox.

Sugar disrupts the blood sugar levels in the body leading to crashes and cravings that can never be satisfied because the body will always be asking for more sugar a s it is an addictive substance. When cutting sugar from the diet, you may experience
irritability or some mild to moderate side effects during the first few days of detox.
This is normal as the body has become accustomed to the intake of a large amount of sugar in the Western diet and will need time to adjust to a new whole food diet without added sugars. During this detox you can drink herbal tea and be sure to d rink plenty of water to stay hydrated and prevent headaches.

Doing a sugar detox is the first step in cleansing the body and eliminating cravings. This detox will make the following detoxes more accessible because the body will be cleared of its sugar addiction. Breaking the dependency on sugar is the first step to successful detoxification.

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Whole Food Cleanse

One of the best cleanses you can ever do is a whole food cleanse. Whole food cleanses are also considered elimination style diets. There are different variations and strictness levels of these elimination diets, but all involve eliminating all processed and junk food and eating a 100% clean diet. While this can be a short-term reboot to clean your body of all that junk we ingest on a daily basis, it is recommended as a lifestyle change that will nutrify your body and leave you feeling healthy and energized.

What is Clean Eating?

One of the best and easiest ways to turn your health situation around is by eating a clean diet. And eating a clean diet doesn’t just mean eating less packaged foods, it means eating a diet where you only eat whole foods.

What Eating Whole Foods Means

Eating whole foods means you don’t consume anything which is processed, and that all the ingredients you start with in a recipe are the real thing. Anything that is a whole food will not have any ingredients that are chemicals, or that you don’t recognize.

You want to consume these foods as close as possible to their natural state, or the way you would find them in the wild. Anything with added sugars, fats, or chemicals is not considered a whole food.

Eat More Fruits and Vegetables

The easiest way to embark on a whole foods only diet is by loading your diet with lots of fruits and vegetables in their natural state. Instead of reaching for chips or crackers for snacks, reach for carrots, or raw almonds.

If you live a busy life and often rely on fast food for meals, consider meal prepping salads, or roasted vegetables which can easily be warmed up in the microwave when you arrive home from work.

Cook at Home

One of the number one features of a whole foods, clean eating diet, is you will eat at home significantly more than you eat out. This is because restaurants add lots of non-whole food ingredients like oils, spreads, fats, and sugars to their dishes.

Cooking a fresh meal every night is clearly best, but if you don’t have time, embark on some whole food recipes which you can prep in advance on your days off and enjoy them throughout the week.

General Guidelines for Whole Food Cleanses

• No sugar of any kind or foods with it – honey, syrup, etc.
• No artificial sweeteners
• No grains of any kind or foods that include them – rice, wheat, corn, and all others
• No legumes – includes all beans, such as pinto, red, lentils and no nuts
• No dairy of any kind
• No junk food
• No processed food
• No packaged food
• Nothing from the shelf aisles
• Nothing baked or sweets

What Does that Leave to Eat?

• Fresh fruit and vegetables
• Meat, seafood, chicken, and fish
• Natural fats
• Eggs
• Spices, herbs

Overall, eating clean isn’t easy, and this is because most packaged foods are packaged for your convenience. But eating clean, whole foods, is a critical component to living a healthy lifestyle, and one of the ways to detox your body and lose weight successfully.

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Fruit and Veggie Cleanse

Completing a fruit and veggie detox is one of the most accessible detox protocols to undertake.

• Practicing a fruit and veggie detox involves eating only fresh whole and organic fruits and veggies without grains.
• Fruits and veggies of all kinds are included in the detox and can be eaten raw, steamed, baked or otherwise.
• It is recommended to lightly steam veggies rather than eating them completely raw and cold because this gives a jump start to the digestion.

When eating cold and raw foods the body has to work to bring the foods to a warm temperature in order to break them down and assimilate nutrients.

It is important to take small bites and chew fruits and vegetables thoroughly to start the digestive process through the saliva and to prevent swallowing too much air when eating. Eating slowly and mindfully allows connection with the meal and also allows the body to register when it is full.

A fruit and veggie detox is one of the best ways to detox your body and lose weight because it will leave you feeling more fulfilled than some of the lighter cleanses. The fruit and veggie detox is a good introductory detox on its own or can be used in the pre-cleanse phase for a smoothie or juice cleanse. This can prepare the body for a deeper detox or is the perfect introduction to detoxification diets!