For years on end I wondered why my body keeps accumulating fats when I’m eating less and less and even feeling hungrier than ever. So I started to do some serious research on this until I stumbled across the materials that talked to us about detoxification and its importance. Because I feel this is the thing that helped me the most, more than any other diet I have tried, I will attempt to describe you all the benefits a detox diet can bring a person, and all the things that truly touched me and made me understand that I really need one.

The world we are living in is overloaded with toxic substances that get in our body when we breathe eat and drink water. Even our body is producing residue that must be eliminated to keep us healthy and maintain our vital force. A body that is correctly and healthy fed will eliminate those toxic residue naturally through the lungs, skin, kidney and colon. But it’s quite obvious that my body as well as yours hasn’t been fed as it should’ve for many many years. And in this case, the toxins will accumulate.

Does any of this sound familiar to you? Because they did sound all too familiar to me: tongue residue, unpleasant mouth smell, headaches, dizziness, the constant need of sleep, a serious decrease in energy levels, negative thoughts, irascibility, hypertension, bad digestion … I was shocked to know that all these things are also a sign of a urgent need for a detox diet, next to the fact that I was obviously overweight.

Apparently, because of the incorrect alimentation, of the food rich in starch I was eating of aliments excessively prepared and with way too many calories as fries, meat derivates and fast food that I used to love and eat every day, there will be a thin plate of residue left on our colon that in time will solidify. At the same time, putrefaction and fermentation processes will occur in the colon. Both sides of the story affect the body. I even read that if we fail to detoxify when needed, we are actually poisoning ourselves with intestinal toxins, and this is causing us to lose the race with longevity.

After reading all these depressing facts that seemed to have no answer and were only making me aware of how much harm I have already done to my body by eating all the time prepared food and very fat meat, I finally reached the solution. I needed to take a detox diet immediately. But detoxifying once is not enough, especially after years of not caring about this. This is a thing that needs to be done periodically between 2 to 4 times a year, for one to two weeks.

Here is my detox diet check list, which proved not to be such a hard thing to do and also managed to raise the efficiency of further weight loss diets I have tried:

• Never eat anything fried these two weeks.
• Aliments that are preserved in some way are also a big no no.
• Nothing bought out of the hypermarket that contains additives (E – substances)
• No meat or any other meat products
• Instead of sweets I was eating fruits
• No white flour. Instead, I ate cereals and black bread
• At least two liters of water a day
• No sugar, coffer, alcohol and sodas
• Instead of sugar, add honey
• Instead of coffee I decided to drink green tea, because I am a caffeine addict
• I drunk lots of natural juices and teas, all made in my home by my wife, and not bought from stores
• Before bed, I had to drink a glass of plain water with a honey spoon and the juice of a half a lemon: a delicious lemonade in fact
• I ate lots of fresh yogurt, without preservatives
• I did daily easy exercises, as walking for half hour or running for ten minutes, but mainly walking
• One day in each week of the diet I ate only non-cooked food: fruits, vegetables, nuts, cereals and milk, teas