How do I detox please?

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I found after 2 days of returning to my regular healthy food for about 1300 cals a day and NO processed sugar (my only sugars were from a daily apple or whatever was in whole wheat bread or brown rice) I felt soooooooooooooo much better not being so run down that all the sugar over the month of December caused. I re-started December 27th, feeling good resisting the remaining temptations and ½ bottle of champagne is already logged for Dec 31st and fits in well.

If you want to do something for a couple days, just do the grapefruit diet. Its very easy, if you eat enough protein and real eggs and bacon you'll still hit 1200 so it’s not a VLCD and you'll loose lbs. Just make sure it’s not diet grapefruit juice. The low-cal stuff has no carbs and considering that’s your only carb on the diet, you'll crash after day 2 or 3 exhausted – I learned that the hard way, lol!

a few years ago I did a fast (for religous reasons) that lasted 40 days, I gave up caffeine, anything made with flour or grains (like rice & oatmeal), sugar, dairy, meat and all processed foods.
I ate: veggies & fruits mostly, beans, nuts, potatos & sweet potatos & fish, honey, olive oil oh and unsalted unbuttered popcorn in that 40 days I went from 172 to 157. I felt awesome, my skin looked great, however because I was doing it for religous reasons and not for health reasons I didnt keep it up and gained it all back lol

I have a few events coming up in the next couple of weeks and after that I'm going to do 2 week detox in which i will basically do the above for the 2 weeks and after that I'll add in dairy & grains (and caffeine!!) and keep that up for another few weeks and add back bread and sweets in February.

I'm doing the same thing starting Jan. 1st for two days. My plan is nothing but organic fruits and vegetables, water, and decaffeinated green tea. I haven't really given much thought to raw or cooked but I'll probably do mostly raw.

The term "detox" irks me. Mostly because people give it the wrong connotation. If you want to help your body out by giving it a mega dose of vitamins and minerals, I have no problem with that, but for the sake of people who don't know the difference between eating super clean and healthy, and a "detox" I'd probably suggest not using that term.

That pet peeve out of the way. I see nothing wrong with gorging (metaphorically speaking) on a very high fiber, mostly veggie and some fruit diet for a couple of days. this won't really have any impact on your digestive track except for maybe speeding up some of the process, but it can't hurt with helping to normalize your body chemistry. Especially if the holidays caused your body to go out of balance (commonly people overdo sugars and sodium on the holidays, which can leave your electrolytes out of balance and with lots of extra blood sugar)

Please note that doing this will only really do one thing, and that's help to balance out your nutrient balance, I.E. it'll probably sort out any vitamin deficiencies you have, but be aware, ignoring meats and grains can also leave you short on a few vitamins unless you're very careful. Specifically things like iron, zinc and copper can be neglected in this way specifically because meats provide many of these trace metals and they are necessary. Also Vitamin B12 can be lacking. So make sure you meet those requirements if you do it (short durations of this aren't that huge a deal, like 2 or 3 days, but longer can be a problem)

So my advice would be, make sure you get enough calories (it can be difficult this way), and make sure to examine closely, the vitamin and mineral content of the foods you do eat to avoid any deficiencies.