Time for detox - What should I eat?

Try the Matt Roberts detox diet, an adapted version of which is in the article below. It basically means cutting out alcohol, coffee, tea and processed foods for 3 weeks and omitting carbs in the evening in week one. You may experience headaches during the first week as your body reacts to the cleansing process but you can eat what you want as long as it's healthy.

I did this detox 4 years ago when I was feeling tired and lacking in energy after the festive season and I felt great afterwards.

I hear ya! When i indulge after the holidays I go on either a soup and salad diet for awhile or a yogurt, cottage cheese and fruit diet! Both are very effective at curbing hunger while giving your digestive tract a break from all those huge portion complex carb holiday extravaganzas! Good luck!

Steamed rice, steamed veggies of all kinds, fresh fruit, whole wheat bread toasted. peanut butter, water with lemon juice or hot herbal teas with lemon juice, tomato juice with (you guessed it) lemon juice. Bran or oatmeal cereal. Try to avoid refined sugar, use applesauce, fresh blueberries., sliced peaches and pears, you get the idea, Nothing fried , maybe some poached eggs or poached fish or tuna for protean.. Nothing heavy like gravy..

Grains: DO eat whole grain and whole wheat breads and pastas, cereals,and crackers, and brown rice.

DONT eat white or refined breads, pastas, sugary cereals, buttery or msg laden crackers, or white rice

Veggies: DO eat any type of veggie steamed, raw, sauteed in olive oil, or broiled

DONT eat any fried or breaded "vegetable" for example carls jr's fried zuchinni

Fruits: DO eat any type of whole natural fruit, no sugar added dried fuit, froozen fruit, or 100% fuit juice

DONT eat fruits with added sugar (caramel apples, any other type of fruits with added sugar like in trail mix)

Meats: DO eat turkey, chicken, fish, eggs, peanutbutter, and leanish beef, beans, and nuts

DONT eat chicken skin, processed beeefs and pork and hot dogs and such

Dairy: DO eat no sugar added yogurts, milk, unprocessed cheese cheese

DONT eat any artificially colored "yogurt" or processed cheese like nacho cheese

DO eat the appropriate servings of each food group and a sufficient number of calories

Prunes are very good for cleansing out stomach and colon