Ultimate Detoxification: An Intensive Detox Program of Morning Fruits And Vegetables At Every Meal

In my previous post, I went over a simple detox diet recipe for easy weight loss success that I thought a lot of people would cringe at the thought of doing because the sheer act of abstaining from meat might be incredibly unbearable. And I also clarified that eating a vegetarian meal does NOT mean you can have all the starches you want along with a very low intake of vegetables, a common habitual eating pattern taking place everyday among vegetarians. Today I am going to reveal a detox diet plan that is more extreme than the starch-vegetable detoxification routine that was covered in the prior post. I must warn you that you should avoid this extreme form of detoxification in cold weather especially in the Winter.

And you are probably wondering how extreme can this particular weight loss detox diet be for one cold winter day. Let’s just say that if your body is cold, you obviously would need to put warm food into your body. And contrary to what you may think, your body burns more calories during the winter than in a very hot summer. I know what you are thinking. In the summer, you are sweating bullets. And most of you would equate sweating to losing weight because you lose maybe a little water weight . This is due primarily to habitually poor water drinking habits. Most people would rather go under hydrated than to have frequent urination tendencies. I tend to drink less water prior to watching a long 2 and half hour movie at a theater because I hate to be interrupted with a bathroom urge during a very good movie.

That is why weight scales in my opinion should be tossed out. Weight scales do more of a disservice to those people who are weight loss results oriented. Most people don’t realize that their main objective is to lose inches off their waist and not water weight. Loss of water weight is not a accurate measure of true weight loss.

I remember my experience as a Certified Personal Trainer at 24 Hour Fitness. On many occasions, I found myself shaking my head in disbelief when I see one of my clients sweating profusely….then getting off the gym treadmill to get on the weight scale right away and get incredibly happy when they lost two pounds. They think they lost it immediately as a result of excessively sweaty exercise. At that time as a personal trainer at 24 Hour Fitness, I congratulated them for a job well done and confirmed with them that my personal training was indeed effective, and why they should continue to hire me as a personal trainer to help them achieve their weight loss goals much faster because I am the “fitness expert…. the typical 24 Hour Fitness sales pitch… But deep down inside, I knew the weight loss was pure water weight. But as a personal trainer, my job is not ONLY to help client’s achieve their weight loss goals, but also to sell them personal training packages and top selling weight loss supplements that I DIDN’T believe in.

You do not need weight loss supplements for effortless weight loss. And also they do more harm that good. Weight loss supplements are just perfect for fitness models that want that extra lean vascular look when they do a photo shoot. Just like the way professional body builders look when they grace the covers of magazines.

Let me repeat once again. If you are on a weight loss diet, you should toss out your weight scale and replace it with a measure body fat caliper that measures how much body fat you lost. Or even better, I remembered on many occasions recommending my clients to use the looseness of their pants around the waist as an indicator of weight loss progress. And also even better, how they look in the mirror will tell the true story. If you think you look better today than a week ago, then you know you lost inches off your waist. Many pounds lost in the form of fat is what you should be concerned about. Not lost water weight.

Now enough of my rambling. Now let’s get to the good stuff now regarding an intensive detox program that require you to abstain from meats and starches completely just for one day. So for only one day, you are only allowed to consume fruits and vegetables… and all the juices and water you want. This is a high quality colon cleansing routine without having to starve yourself. As a matter of fact, you can eat as much as you want. Just remember not to overeat or under eat. Eat to be satiated.

Remember I said not to try this fruit and vegetable detox on a very cold day. The reason is because your body needs more warm foods at that time, and you can possibly get sick from lack of body heat. In this scenario, cleansing could weaken you. According the principles of Chinese medicine, during the cold winter months, your body needs to go through a rebuilding phase. What I mean by that is that your body needs foods that build strength. Chicken is considered a strength food. It is characterized as a Yang food. Yang foods warm the body. Most vegetables and fruits are considered Yin foods and they cool the body. People who suffer from inflammation have a bad case of overconsumption of too many Yang foods, like chicken and steak. These people need to eat more Yin foods. Yin and Yang is all about balance.

Due to the length of this post, I will go more in detail on Yin and Yang foods on how it relates to health beauty and weight loss.

Preferably on a warm or hot day, you can have as many fruits or juices in the morning. Remember to eat and drink them on an empty stomach leading up to lunch time.

Then you can have as much salad as you want. I don’t know about you, but I like to go to Fresh Choice where they have an eat-all-you-can-eat salad bar. On this particular day of cleansing, I would pig out on salad. Put whatever dressing you want. The cleansing nature of vegetables would offset the fatty nature and slight toxic effects of the dressing.

I know you are probably worried that you will probably go hungry in two hours. My answer to your concern is not to worry. If you are hungry, you can have more salad. If you don’t feel like eating salad again, have more fruit if you want,,. that is fruit on an empty stomach. Vegetables only stay in your stomach for about two hours. So if you had lunch at twelve noon, you will probably be hungry around two in the afternoon.

And I forgot to mention that you can have soup if you want. But make sure the soup is vegetable soup only. Have as much as you want.

Now dinner comes around. You are probably tired of salads right now. Instead you can have some sauteed vegetables. If you are not good at cooking vegetables to make them taste deliciously palatable, you can go to vegetarian restaurants and order a vegetarian dish. Remember no starches period!!

Since I am Buddhist, two times every month, I celebrate a very special vegetarian day of Buddhism worshiping. On this particular sacred day, I cannot eat meat for a whole day. This is the day when I go to the Buddhist temple where my dad works to have a very delicious Buddhist vegetarian dish called ( Jie in Cantonese…rhymes with “guy”).

When you go to a Chinese restaurant next time, ask for Jie (rhymes with “guy”). It is a combination vegetarian dish consisting of a wide assortment of vegetables you have never heard of or seen…like chinese mushrooms ( a wide variety ), bamboo shoots, snow peas, Wooden Ears (Mook Yee, in Cantonese), Mung bean noodles and more…Please note that Chinese Mung bean noodles are vegetables despite their obvious noodle-like texture. What the Chinese have done was grind up the mung beans into powder and convert them into noodles. Mung beans are a natural detox food in case you didn’t know which is a way more healthier than starchy pasta.

Sometimes when I do a one day cleanse on vegetables at very meal especially raw vegetables like salads, I would feel slightly chilly even on a warm or hot day. You must let your body be the indicator when you need some cooked food. If you feel cold even on a warm day, then you need more cooked vegetables than raw vegetables. When I mean cooked food, I mean cooked vegetables. And Jie (rhymes with “guy”) is the perfect Buddhist vegetarian dish I never get tired of because it’s cooked. You can never get tired of cooked food. If you ask me to give up meat and live on vegetables for the rest of my life, I will never get tired of Jie. I will get tired of eating salads but never tired of Jie. As I am writing this post, I am drooling at the thought of eating Jie tomorrow.

So next time when you go to a Chinese restaurant, ask for Jie. You might have to go to an authentic Chinese restaurant to get that dish. Most fast food Chinese restaurants serve the typical foods that we are all familiar with like Chow mein, chop suey, fried rice, and etc.

So if you decide to go to a Chinese cooking school, learn how to cook Jie and I guarantee you will probably entertain the idea of becoming a part-time vegetarian for the rest of your life.

There you have it. I told you it wasn’t that bad to go for one morning on fruits and the rest of the afternoon on vegetables at every meal. And on this day alone, you probably would have consumed more vegetables and fruits than you ever did in your entire life. This is the most natural form of colon cleansing without laxatives or colon cleansing products.

On the next post, I will cover a type of detoxification that I dread and I have never undertaken. Neither has my sister. But my sister’s friends undergo it twice a year for seven days. It is called the liquid fast cleansing diet. I will just touch on it briefly on how to do it effectively without feeling starved. So stay tuned for my next post.

Billy Loi