Boost Your Health With Rainbow Of Fruits And Veggies - Detox smoothies

Favorite detox ingredients: apples, cayenne, ginger, lemons, apple cider vinegar, pineapples, cucumbers, celery, bananas, grapefruit, coconut water, chia seeds, aloe vera juice, beets, watermelon, cantaloupe, carrots, kale, spinach, kiwis, blueberries, spirulina, and oats. Detox smoothies may be warming and spicy, electrolyte-rich, lowcalorie, zesty, enzyme-rich, hydrating, alkalyzing, and rich in cleansing fiber and/or rich in green foods, which are usually quite dense in nutrients and nurturing to the body.

Nutrients to pay attention to include fluid-balancing potassium and water-soluble vitamins like vitamin C and B-complex— these need to be replenished more frequently, especially when you are drinking a lot of liquids. Detox is possibly the most important stage in any wellness journey. It represents a starting point.

You are detoxing not just in a diet/foods-you-eat sense but in an emotional and physical sense too. Now is the perfect time to really analyze your current state of wellness and set realistic goals and a roadmap for how you plan to achieve those goals. Your goals can be as simple as improving your diet by adding one smoothie a week—or as multifaceted as including goals for exercise, stress management, work/life balance, and more. Our modern-day environments and activities produce plenty of wear and tear on our bodies via stress, pollution, poor dietary choices, lack of sleep, and overindulgence in alcohol, processed foods, and more. Detox is your chance to start over and begin rebuilding your body from the inside out through plant-based, nutrient-dense foods.

Detox is a time to revamp, rethink, and break through any wellness roadblocks in your life. Tune in to the signals from your body and honestly assess what you are putting into it. Alcohol, refined sugar, refined carbohydrates like white flour, caffeine, dairy, and other animal products if you are not vegan, chemicals in the form of artificial sweeteners and colors, and other wellness robbers can be minimized during this stage. Detox can actually make you feel worse before it makes you feel better.

Yup. Compare it to when you get a deep tissue massage and the massage therapist tells you to drink plenty of water for the next few hours and days to help flush out the toxins that may have been released into your system from the massage stimulation. Those freed toxins could make you feel kind of crappy before they exit your body. So try not to be discouraged if you feel especially tired or grumpy the first few days or weeks of your journey. Embrace the power of positive thinking. Thank goodness for our body’s natural detox systems.

Staying hydrated by drinking plenty of purified or spring water or coconut water is the best detox habit you can practice. Hydration encourages your body to stay in a productive detoxification mode. Listen to your body’s natural cues for hunger and thirst. Detox is a time to get reintroduced to and reacquainted with your body and become reawakened to the awesome, magnificent machine that it is. Listen, learn, and practice being present in the moment—especially when you are eating and drinking.