Exiting the toxins

“Exiting the toxins”

 
“Before you begin the game, it’s the toxins that you’ve to drain.”

To improve health and overall well being before starting a weight loss diet, what deserves your keen attention is detoxification. You’ll come across plenty of detox products like detox tea and laxatives available in the market to serve the purpose. But, I am a nature lover and love to do things naturally, whether it’s weight loss or the pre-game of detox. Our body’s elimination system involves a lot of organs; liver, kidneys, digestive system, skin, and lungs. With detoxification, you’ll start feeling light even before losing any weight. It will just be like an energetic spark to shoot up the spike of your want for weight loss. Depending upon your preference and personal choice, you can take 1 or 2-weeks for the detoxification phase. Let’s begin:

• Stop taking refined sugar. Take only natural sugars like that from fruits. Add citrus fruits to your routine for they contain Vitamin C, a very good antioxidant that helps in detoxification. It will help you get rid of free radicals.
• Identify bad carbs and remove them from your diet. Carbs can be good as well as bad. Identify the ones with low carb content and high fibre content. Take only those. No white bread, pasta, spaghetti. You can take cereals and grains.
• Cut down alcohol intake. Do not add a toxin while being in the detox phase. During weight loss, you’ll get wine to address to your cravings. 
• Do not take any soda or sweetened beverages. Eat fruits.
• Drink plenty of water. It will help drain the toxins easier and faster.
• I do understand the cravings for processed foods and sometimes it’s the need of the hour when you don’t have time for cooking. But, it is these processed foods from where the actual toxins arrived. The changed lifestyle is, of course, the reason for lifestyle diseases. When you get everything ready to eat, you do not even want to walk to the kitchen. If you’ve been living this lifestyle for long, it can be hard to give up but if not today, then when? With each passing day, you’re putting your health at stake. 
• If you love sprinkling more and more salt over a dish, then please cut it down. Salt is necessary but in optimal amounts. 
• Sleep at least for 6-7 hours to let your body help out with the work you’ve taken up. The body works while you sleep. But don’t sleep just after dinner. Keep at least a gap of 1.5-2 hours between dinner and bedtime.
• If you are physically active, it’s pretty good. But, if you are not, then start with a mild walk of 10-15 minutes before resorting to any weight loss diet.
• Sweat more than you normally do. You can try some sauna where you can sit for just 10 minutes a day. This will compel your skin to excrete the toxins.

Let’s move to the next phase of diets and here the game begins. We will start with different diet plans and with considerations that which diet is suitable for which kind of purpose or population.