The 7 Day Detox Diet - IX. An Extended Diet Plan

An Extended Diet Plan

After the seven day detox diet, you can expect to feel healthier, more energized, and you would have lost those few extra pounds! It’s a great feeling and I’m sure you want to keep it, to sustain it, and to prolong it as much as possible. But our seven day diet is designed exactly for just that – seven days – and it’s not healthy to maintain an all-liquid, partial liquid, or unbalanced diet every day. What you can do is modify the seven day detox diet into something more feasible for long term eating.

A break from red meat and vinegar and dairy has great effects short term but that doesn’t make these food dietary villains, not in any way, shape, or form. In fact, after the detox diet ends, we encourage you to slowly reintroduce them into your diet. 

That means you should definitely have that raspberry vinaigrette for your salad or cheese with your omelette. Mayonnaise? Yes, in small amounts which means you can have that mayo honey

mustard dip you’ve been craving. Milk? Yes! And lots of it. But what you should avoid doing is eating food – any food – that have been overly processed and preserved.'

As long as you’re preparing your own meals mostly from basic ingredients, then you’re doing a good job of keeping that healthy run that you’ve been having for the past seven days. That means no fast food, no bag of chips, no microwaveable dinners, and no bottled fruit juices or salad dressings. You don’t know the amount of preservatives and artificial flavors that go into a bottled salad dressing. They’re best avoided and they’re very easy to prepare. In fact, I’m willing to bet that the dressings – and other meals – that you prepare will taste much better simply because you’re using fresh ingredients and you have room to experiment.

Can you eat white rice and white pasta? Yes, but it’s best to limit yourself to half a cup for rice. And white-flour pasta? It’s actually a good kind of carb and you’ll do great to choose pasta for your meals, especially with sauces you’ve prepared yourself. You start getting into trouble when you buy those ready-made pasta sauces and foil-wrapped easy bake garlic breads.

And finally, the most important part of extending that all-good feeling of the seven day detox diet – ditch the sodas, the bottled fruit juices, the powdered juice mixes and iced teas. They bring you nothing good and are always over-sweetened.

With the seven day detox diet, you’re already on the right track. If you keep at it, you’ll be feeling much healthier, more energized, and – thanks to the endorphins released by great food and a complete set of vitamins, minerals, and fiber – you’ll be much happier for it. Good luck!

This is an excerpt from the book:  The 7 Day Detox Diet