Christmas knocks on the door but you feel bloated e out of shape and you are not ready to face the holiday lunch. Despite this 2020 requires a more sober and less crowded celebration, there will certainly be no lack of succulent dishes and greedy delicacies, a real tour de force for coronaries and cholesterol. But tackling everything with a little extra lightness is possible and even advisable. Hence the importance of a mini routine depurativa able to rid the body of waste and toxins accumulated throughout the year.
Particularly after such a period tiresome and stressful from an emotional point of view and with evident repercussions on the body itself. If many have rediscovered the passion for fitness home and do-it-yourself exercises, others instead preferred to wait for better times comfortably curled up on the sofa. With lots of goodies and delights at your fingertips, transforming the food in a consoling remedy.
Cleansing yourself before the holidays, here’s how
Not a real diet and not even a low-calorie and particularly restrictive diet, but a moment of pause from toxins and foods that can burden the body. You can face a mini wellness path useful for purifying the body, for detoxify it from the waste accumulated due to a wrong lifestyle and an incorrect diet. Here comes a break detox in anticipation of the Christmas celebrations, just a couple of days to refresh the body and, why not, a to lose even a few pounds. Do not expect exaggerated weight loss but enthusiastically welcome the idea of cleansing the body of what is weighing it down, both physically and mentally. Feeling lighter and more energetic also helps the mind itself, putting order in the balance internal parts of the body.
A quick path to be faced for a few days that makes use of the presence of a series of food combinations healthy, able to facilitate proper purification. Here’s how to deal with it.
- Breakfast: you start the day by sipping on an empty stomach a glass of warm water with lemon juice, followed by a fruit salad with red and blue fruits to be mixed with low-fat yogurt and oat flakes.
- Snack: a fresh squeezed orange juice, perfect for health
- Lunch: a light soup without potatoes or a raw vegetable salad with the addition of natural tuna, corn and seasoned with lemon juice and spices.
- Snack: dried fruit, preferably almonds with the addition of pumpkin seeds.
- Price: brown rice with sautéed vegetables or a cream of chickpeas.
This purifying break is very short and you can replace food with alternative products, for example by drinking green tea or coffee for breakfast with yogurt and fresh fruit. You can also replace the fruit juice for a snack with low-fat yogurt or with a centrifuged of vegetables and fruit, embellished with a few slices of ginger fresh and turmeric. For lunch and dinner, the perfect substitution with vegetable puree or fresh and lean fish steamed without condiments, if not spices and aromas.
Effective alternatives and recommended foods
L’water it must never be lacking, an essential resource for eliminating toxins and annoying things stagnation of liquids in the body, draining it more easily. Better to prefer seasonal fruit and vegetables, able to facilitate diuresis and deflate the abdomen, perhaps to combine with spices and aromas to create delicious and satiating centrifuged. Space for purées, velvety soups and highly healthy soups, a real cure-all against the seasonal cold and perfectly invigorating. Putting aside all those foods, condiments and high-calorie drinks that could burden the health of the liver and stomach, but leaving room for herbal teas and infusi detox able to activate the metabolism. A little meditation or mindfullness they will be able to complete the general picture, also freeing the mind from anxieties and anguish, so as to rebalance the breath and thoughts.
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