After all the imbibing this season, chances are you’ll want to detox. Many will reach for a quick-fix, the all juice cleanse or other liquid detoxes. Check out some of my daily detox tips that don’t require the starvation of an all-juice cleanse and will keep you feeling great year-round. Make these tips a part of your healthy lifestyle — your skin, hair, nails and belly will thank you!
2. 12 Ways to Detox Without Starvation
After all the imbibing this season, chances are
you’ll want to detox. Many will reach for a quick-fix,
the all juice cleanse or other liquid detoxes.
I don’t recommend them. Here are 12 of my daily
detox tips that don’t require starvation and will
keep you feeling great year-round.
Make these tips a part of your healthy lifestyle —
your skin, hair, nails and belly will thank you!
3. 12 Ways to Detox Without Starvation
1. Lemon and Ginger
• Start your day with a cup
of hot water with fresh
ginger and lemon
• The elixir wakes up your
digestive system and
prepares it for solid food
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2. Eat More Raw Foods
• Increase salads, green juices and
smoothies and blended soups –
these foods are generally easy to
digest and move through your
body quickly
• Raw means the live enzymes are
kept intact delivering life force
energy to your body
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3. Eat Leafy Greens
• Leafy greens are natural
liver detoxifiers.
• Lightly cook them by
steaming, blanching,
boiling, blending or juicing
to make them easy to
digest and keep their
nutrients readily available.
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4. Ultra-hydrate
• It may be obvious but it’s
worth the reminder.
• Lots of clean, fresh water
flushes toxins out of the
system.
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5. Avoid Sugar, Dairy and
Alcohol
• Try to cut these three foods
out as much as possible.
They contain toxins that
probably got you feeling
like you need to cleanse in
the first place.
• Don’t stress about it. Do it
at your own pace.
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6. Incorporate Simple Twisting Into Your Day
• Twisting activates the digestive juices and
squeezes the organs to stimulate digestion,
keep things moving and wring out the toxins
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7. Spice It Up
• Add spices into your daily cooking. These 4
spices aid digestion and naturally detoxify:
– Cinnamon
– Cayenne
– Turmeric
– Ginger
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8. Sweat It Out
• Sweating naturally excretes
toxins from the skin. Some
great ways to sweat:
– Exercise 30 minutes a day and
break a sweat
– Sit in a sauna or steam room
– Take a detoxifying, relaxing bath
with Epsom salts
– Take a hot yoga class
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9. Dry Brushing
• This is an inexpensive, natural
beauty regimen that stimulates
circulation and removes dead
skin cells to give you tighter,
brighter skin from the inside out.
• To learn more about dry
brushing, download my free
eMag, How to Be Holistically Hot
at http://bit.ly/HolisticallyHot
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10. Media Cleanse
• Traditionally, cleansing
and detoxifying was
intended to be a spiritual
practice for the mind.
• Consider taking a break
from computer, TV, social
media and gossip
magazines to reset your
mind and spirit.
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11. Know When to Sleep
• Sleep is important; not just how
much, but also when
• Get 8 hours of sleep but also be
sure to sleep between the hours
of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.
• The liver naturally detoxifies
itself between 10 p.m. and 2
a.m. and needs you to be at rest
to do so efficiently
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12. No More Grazing
• Try eating 3 meals a day
• Let your body rest and digest between meals
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BONUS TIP! Cook at Home
• Simply cooking more at home
can work wonders for weight
loss and digestion.
• Need help getting started?
Check out
the#CookatHomeChallenge start
ing January 1, 2013 and my Total
Reset Plan, a 4 week, virtual
meal planning service.
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