Seven-Step Detox to Fight Post-Holiday Weight Gain

After weeks of excessive binging, raging parties, family drama, sleep deprivation, and noggy drinks, you may see a rather haggard creature staring bleakly back at you in the mirror.

Although it’s not uncommon to pack on five pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, most people gain one or two pounds during the holidays. That may not sound like a whole lot of weight, but the real problem is that people never lose the weight they put on during the holidays.

Over a lifetime, even modest incremental holiday weight gain often leads to obesity and related health problems such as hypertension, stroke, Type II diabetes and other maladies.

If you’re one of the many Americans who has had one-too-many sugar cookies, here is a seven-step detox to cure your post-holiday weight gain, legendary bloat, and molasses-like blood.

But before we begin, kudos to you for checking out this article. Just by reading you’re taking an important first step to get your body on the right track for the new year. (Also, happy almost new year!)

So let’s get you that much-needed post-holiday detox, eh?

Step 1: Icebox Cleansing

Toss your holiday leftovers. They’re stale anyway. Besides, you don’t even like fruitcake.

Step 2: Detox

If you feel especially bloated, it is likely due to the sugar, refined carbs and salt you’ve been sucking down at holiday bingefests.

Extreme detoxes aren’t necessary after the holidays (or ever, really). As such, I’m not going to tell you to sip your meals out of a straw for the next six months.

However, it’s important to clear your body of excess sugar, salt, and toxins that have built up over weeks of holiday abuse. Excess salt causes fluid retention and puffiness; refined sugar causes spikes in blood sugar (and associated cravings); and excess alcohol and caffeine cause dehydration.

After weeks of pounding sweets and carb-loaded goodies, your liver and muscle glycogen is likely topped out and you’re retaining water causing bloating and puffiness. Cutting your carbs will allow you to jettison the unneeded water (and weight) rapidly. Eat plenty of filling protein and healthy fats instead.

After being bombarded with salt, carbs and sugar over the holidays, your body’s balance – and cravings – will be out of whack. The only way to make these cravings go away is to wean yourself off of sugar and salt, so cut the cookies and corned beef, champ.

Step 3: Nourish

Detoxing is all about getting the bad out and the good back in. To truly purify your system while restoring essential vitamins and minerals, fruits and veggies are an absolute necessity.

Aim for a variety of produce to ensure that you’re getting all the vitamins and minerals you likely ignored over holiday break.

Cucumber, celery, lettuce and kale are terrific options to cleanse the body and restore health.

Grapefruit is a metabolic stimulant and helps with appetite control; grapes and coconut water are high in potassium (which is essential in maintaining normal kidney function); cantaloupe is high in digestive enzymes; and avocados digest slowly and help maintain blood sugar.

Need a quick fix? Get your day started right with the infamous green smoothie.

Step 4: Sweat

Sweating is a natural method for the body to rid itself of toxins and exercise increases blood flow and metabolism.

While you may be chomping at the bit to punish yourself at the gym and work off all of the extra flab in one marathon session, don’t do it. Nothing will be accomplished in a day.

The key to success is finding activities that you enjoy and sticking to them.

Prioritize your enjoyment and results will follow.

Step 5: Boatloads of Water

Shaq-like hydration is essential to post-holiday detoxing.

Guzzle water every morning, throughout the day, and before bed.

Pure water helps flush out toxins and helps your body eliminate waste. And lord knows you have plenty of that. Garbage in, garbage out.

Step 6: Ignore The Scale

You know what it will tell you, and the news won’t be good.

As you may know, I am no fan of scales. Too many people obsessively weigh themselves in the morning, after big meals, after a BM, or after a good horoscope.

Put your scale on the shelf and measure your health by how you look and feel. Really.

Step 7: Soothe

The body can efficiently expel toxins through the pores of the skin. To speed this process, take a bath with 1 cup of Epsom salts which will naturally draw out toxins. Exfoliation will also hasten the detoxification process.

Treat yourself to a deep tissue massage which helps release stored toxins. And massages rock.

The Post-Holiday Detox is Yours!

That’s it! You’ll be pampered and peppy in no time.

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