Holiday detoxThanksgiving is over and it’s time to REBOOT for the holidays! For most adults this means cleansing your previous eating & drinking indulges & recharging your body & mind with fresh food and beverages to tackle the upcoming holiday season.

 

In order to maintain your nutritional balance aka sanity of the holiday shopping, parties, family & work obligations, TAKE CHARGE of your diet and health with a healthy dietary detox. What this means to you is finding the best, local, organic market, restaurant or meal delivery service which offers a calorie-controlled program to jump start your personal best physique!

Getting Started

There are plenty of DETOX programs available in the 305, several new pop-up programs I will review in my #WelcomeToMiami Fitness blog in upcoming weeks that I discovered at the recent SEED Conscious Plant-Based Food & Wine Festival in Wynwood.

Regardless of your choice, suffice to say, the best way to DETOX to regain control, clarity, physical purity and renewal is to eat the right combinations of food & beverages for YOU—to keep calorie burn aka metabolism & energy levels high, lean muscle toned and overall health intact! Sounds logical, but most programs typically under fuel, poorly fuel or over fuel overzealous dieters with liquid sugar, albeit “natural” fruit sugars leaving “drinkers” heads spinning, faintish, guts hungry and workouts cut short.

Since DETOX programs often drastically change your calorie, nutrient & daily eating habits, the best place to start is with a medical checkup & a personalized program supervised by an integrative holistic medical doctor and licensed nutrition expert (LD/N.) Dr. Suzel Vazquez, MD Integrative Internist located in SoMia in the medical offices conveniently located above Whole Foods Market offers a 1 month medically supervised, nutritionally coached program which includes a meal plan PLUS supplemental shakes, probiotics and vitamins.

Healthy DETOX Strategies:

  1. Find out your minimal calorie needs called BMR or Basal Metabolic Rate, the minimum amount of calories you need before you start breaking down the body, muscle, and organs just to live and don’t eat less than that! You can easily lose weight FAST by following your BMR & exercising.
  1. Download the mobile app cTHRUNutrition at Apple or Android store FREE, your “Pocket Nutritionist” to get a quick BMR calculation, find foods and beverages that meet your personal dietary preferences & speak to your own personal nutritionist when you have questions.
  1. Commit to a 1 month period to follow the DETOX food program & scientifically formulated schedule of juices or shakes. Start TODAY if you want to get a head start on your 2016 resolution!
  1. Think beyond the DETOX. Consider your long term goals: Weight loss? More energy? Optimal health? Prepare for Miami Marathon? You can use this time as a head start on your New Year’s Resolution by working on eating, drinking & lifestyle habits that hold you back from being your personal best all year long— 
  1. Remove YOUR personal toxins whether it is too much alcohol, sugar, fat, processed foods or even diet soda; inconsistent exercise or poor sleep habits. Get rid of foods with added colors, chemicals, unhealthy fats; packaged junk or fried foods and snacks. Wouldn’t it be great to feel great & be your best for the long run in 2016!
  1. Infuse KEY Nutrients, vitamins and minerals, nutrients like omega 3s and fiber YOU’RE missing in your daily diet. Have your diet, body comp and blood evaluated by a nutrition expert and replace deficient macros & micros via the DETOX formula, meal plan or supplemental sources DESIGNED for YOU whether from whole foods or beverages and/or supplements AS necessary to promote & protect your body during the detoxification process, holidays and beyond.

Thanks to the #SEEDFoodandWine festival here are the names of some of the DETOX programs available, all I will review in the upcoming weeks. #PlantTheory #DirtEatClean #MannaLifeFood #JoyfulJuicing #temple_kitchen

If you know any other juicing or detox programs that you would like me to review, drop me a line by email foodfitnes@aol.com.

Cheers to a healthy DETOX, holiday season and Healthy New Year! 

BIO

Lisa Dorfman, MS, RD, CSSD, LMHC, FAND “The Running Nutritionist®” is a Miami-based, culinary sports & performance nutritionist for more than three decades for to Olympian, Professional, Collegiate & Junior athletes in the NFL, MLB, NBA, USTA, UST&F & US Boxing & to some of Hollywood’s Award winning actors/actresses & performers appearing in movies/TV & stage-Avengers, Gone Girl, Iron Man 3, Book Thief, The Glades & Miami City Ballet. Lisa served as Sports Nutritionist for the University of Miami athletic teams & Olympic Sailing Team Nutritionist for Beijing ’08. Chair of Miami Culinary Institute Advisory Board & former Director of the Graduate Sports Nutrition & sports nutritionist at The “U” Lisa has appeared on 20/20, Dateline, Good Morning America Health, FOX News, CNN, MSNBC and ESPN & featured in USA Today, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Men’s Fitness, Outside & Runners World magazines. She is a competitive runner and triathlete who has competed in more than 34 marathons (PR 2:52:32), Ironman USA Lake Placid, and hundreds of running and multisport races. In 2004, she competed for the United States on Team USA at the World Long Distance Duathlon Championships. The author of 8 books, her latest Legally Lean: Sports Nutrition Strategies for Optimal Health & Performance (2015) is available at her website www.LegallyLean.com.Follow Lisa at Twitter@FoodFitness or Instagram@LegallyLean.