Doing The Wrong Detox For The Wrong Season

Doing the wrong detox for the season is a mistake I see beginning and seasoned detoxers make all the time. I especially notice this in January and February, when everyone’s just set New Year’s resolutions and they’re determined to drop the weight they gained over the holidays. However, doing a juice cleanse in January and February can set you up for DISASTER for the rest of the year.

The problem with doing an all juice or all salads cleanse in the winter is that your body is aware that it’s winter! On a cellular level, your body’s primary purpose is to keep you healthy and strong enough to make it to the next day. In winter, the body’s goal is to keep you safe and warm. When you deprive your body of sufficient calories, fat and protein when it’s in winter survival mode, your body will mis-read what’s happening and assume that you’re starving. When your system is in starvation mode, your body does everything it can to hang on to every last calorie and every last bit of fat to keep you from dying. So what does this mean? When you’re on a juice cleanse in cold and dark winter months, the body slows down your metabolism and does everything it can to keep you alive. BUT, and this is the scary part, when you start eating REAL food again it takes a while for the body to realize that you are no longer starving, and that means it continues to hoard those calories and keep metabolic burn at a low rate until your body feels safe enough to come out of starvation mode. So not only do you cause a problem for your system WHILE detoxing if you’re doing the WRONG kind of detox for the season you’re in, but you also will create a metabolic problem for weeks AFTER.

What to do instead: Green juices and smoothies ARE a really powerful tool when it comes to detoxing, but they are best used in spring and summer detoxes. So when you’re looking for the RIGHT detox for you, be sure to look for one that understands the role SEASONS play in developing the detox that will be best for the time of year.

I’ve discovered that for myself and for my detox clients that doing an extreme detox once a year is not particularly effective. In fact, I’ve found that what usually happens is, despite the best of intentions, many people start these detoxes and then cheat through most of them or give up halfway through. I’d rather have you dedicate 5 high quality days to yourself and to detoxing your body a few times a year and really stick with it rather than having you do one 21 day juice cleanse where you’re miserable and suffering and you end up eating a whole pizza halfway through because you’re so hungry.

This is why I developed my 5-Day Detoxes.

These detoxes are really perfect for beginners who have never detoxed before, and for people who have noticed they have a hard time sticking to more extreme detoxes and cleanses. If that sounds like you,click here to find out more about a detox program tailored for our winter season.