Taken from Yoga Journal
A week prior to your detox, observe your dietary habits. You may want to write down what you eat. Then choose three things—caffeine, sugar, and chocolate, for example—that you want to avoid or limit during the days leading up to the detox. It's important, too, to replace the "bad" stuff with more healthful choices; simply removing foods from your diet can leave you feeling deprived.
For the three days of the detox, you could eat just whole foods, grains, fruits, and vegetables, and ingest no stimulants in order to give your body a break, relax the liver, detox the kidneys and adrenals, and enhance digestion. If you eat meat, you might want to try a vegetarian or vegan diet for a few days. If you already eat mostly whole foods and have a balanced diet, perhaps you want to move in the direction of eating fewer grains and beans and instead dine on vegetables, fruits, and juices only.
Here is a suggested menu plan that anyone can follow.
Day 1
Breakfast: Water with lemon, Cooked quinoa, flax oil, nuts or seeds (for protein), and unsweetened dried fruit.
Lunch: Herbal tea, Kitchari,Steamed collards with lemon miso tahini dressing
Dinner: Half a melon or a bowl of mixed fruit,Broccoli, kale, onions, and chickpeas sautéed in olive oil,Baked sweet potato
Day 2
Breakfast: Water with lemon, Fruit smoothie or a large bowl of fresh fruit with yogurt, flax or hemp seeds, and spirulina
Lunch:Salad of mixed greens with grated or boiled beets and lemon miso tahini dressing or flax oil and balsamic vinegar Leftover quinoa tossed with any chopped raw vegetables and flax oil and balsamic vinegar, Black bean stew
Dinner: Carrot-ginger soup, Steamed spring greens with flax oil, Brown rice, Herbal tea
Day 3
Breakfast: Water with lemon, Leftover kitchari, Sauerkraut
Lunch: Kombucha, Leftover baked sweet potatoes, mashed, Mixed salad with grated carrots, sprouts, and lemon miso tahini dressing or flax oil
and balsamic vinegar, Leftover black bean stew or carrot-ginger soup
Dinner: Ocean veggie stir-fry, Leftover brown rice, Herbal tea
Snacks? Of course! Enjoy them between meals or as needed to stabilize blood sugars.
Almond milk, Fresh fruit, Homemade fruit smoothie, Baked beets, Vegetable juices, Oatmeal, Raw carrots, celery, cucumbers, and radishes, Steamed broccoli or other greens with flax oil, Salads with lemon miso tahini dressing.
* You can always substitute these with local veggies or fruits. Enjoy!
