Start Your Healthy Life Style With A 3-Day Detox Diet

If you want to improve your health, a detox program could be your answer. Majority of us are not aware of the adverse effects of modern lifestyle to our overall health.

We have impurities in our bodies as a result of the food that we eat and the environment that we live in. These impurities have to be eliminated in our system or they would cause us to get sick. This is why we need a detox program. They can get rid of the accumulated free radicals in our body, facilitate the renewal of our cells and strengthen our immune system. 

Starting your detox program with a 3-day detox diet can be the beginning of your healthy lifestyle. For three days, you will start to get rid of the major toxins that have accumulated in your system. After the initial three days, you may not want to go back to a careless lifestyle and you may want to take more control of what you eat and what activities you indulge in.

Although you may be able to lose some weight and recover your strength in this 3-day period, you need to have a more established goal to really get healthy. There are generally three reasons why people undergo a detox program. Some people do it to lose weight while others do it to eliminate toxins in their body and some do it as the start of their diet program. Whatever your reasons, you have to be convinced of it and establish it firmly in your mind in order for you to succeed.

Toxin Cleanse
To rid of your body of all the accumulated toxins and harmful substances is a good enough reason to start a 3-day detox diet. The foods that we eat are generally high in sugar content, are fatty and are processed with chemical additives to make them taste better and last longer. Our bodies are designed to eliminate them only up to a certain extent. Your body’s elimination system will get overworked if you continue eating this unnatural food. With this 3-day jumpstart, you have to increase your liquid intake in the form of clean water and fresh fruit juices, from 8 to10 glasses per day. You also have to avoid eating the normal food that pollutes your system. Your liquid intake will help flush out these toxins.

Lose Weight
It is possible for you to lose from 5 to 10 pounds in three days by doing a 3-day detox diet program. If you are overweight and want to lose some pounds quickly, this is an effective way. But if you just do it as a quick-fix, you will find your weight coming back a few weeks later. The danger is you will fall into a diet cycle of losing some pounds, gaining it back again, and so forth. That’s why a long range goal is more effective if you want to really lose weight.

Start of A Healthy Lifestyle
This is a long range commitment to put your health of first importance. You can get rid of your body toxins but what you do afterwards is what makes the big difference. A 3-day detox diet followed by small changes in your daily diet combined with regular physical exercise will start you on your way to good health. What you are working on really is your attitude. A small beneficial change, repeated time after time, becomes a habit. You are beginning to develop the good habit of eating only the good, natural and organic food and avoiding processed and unnatural food. The toxins in your body will be continuously eliminated and you will be less sickly. Your health will go on improving and you will have more energy.

A Sample 3-Day Detox Diet
During your 3-day detox diet, start your morning by drinking a cup of warm water with ½ lemon squeezed in it. This drink will stimulate your gastric juices. Your meal for the day should include the following:

• One cup of whole grain brown rice, or amaranth or buckwheat.
• One serving, each meal, of fresh fruits and vegetables.
• You can make a salad of the fruits and vegetables but use only natural virgin oils or vinegar for your dressing.
• Take two doses of a liver or kidney tonic during the 3 day period. This will help in the detoxification.
• Drink 8 to 10 glasses of water per day, this may include the fresh fruit juices.
• Before going to bed, drink a cup of herbal tea.

Do not overlook the part that physical exercise plays on your health. If you have a medical condition, seek the counsel of your physician first. But if you are just the average person, it will be good if you could have a 30-minute walk in your 3-day program.