Now that every one has eaten, drunk and made very indeed, it is time to count the cost. Or should we make that count the calories. Unless you are uber-dis-ciplined , you will have put on a least a couple of kilos over the party season. Not that i blame you. With all that champagne and wine, not to mention deep-fried snackes on offer, who could possibaly resist? Not me, for sure, and the results are all too visible around my waitline. And as I look around me, I can see that everyone seems to be exhibiting the same signs of excess. Perhaps that is why this time of the year is marked out as detox time. As everyone tries ard to shed the pounds they gained over the last month in a week's time, drastic measures and clearly called for. It's not enough to just cut down on the ca;ories by exercising portion control and increase the time you spend on the treadmill. Yes, that would work all right, but it would take fo far too long. What everybody looking for is instant results - and that means one fad regimen or another. The most popular of them is the fruit and vegitable juice diet. In this you begin your day with a glass of waterin which coriander seeds have been soaked overnight (this helps in water retention). then it's a glass of warm water with a juice of lemon squeezed in it. Follow tjis up with a glass of - this is the worst bit, things will get better after that. Lunch can be rather sumptuous in comparison. You are allowd pomegranate, orange, watermelon - but remember no added sugar. Tea - time brings a glass of thin buttermilk made with double toned milk (no salt or sugar). And dinner has to becompletel abstemious, with just a glass of beetroot juice with a dash of ginger and if you are fainting of hunger at this point, a banana shake made with one banana and yogurt made with double-toned milk. If you haven't died of boredom-or even malnutrition - in the first week, you stand to loos at least three to four kilos. But before you adopt this regimen, keep in mind that you may just lose your mind as well. A slightly more workable variation of this diet is when you are allowd all manner of raw foods- no cooked stuff on pain of death, So, you can have as many vegitables as you like so long as they are raw (and i defy anyone to eat a raw potato). Cucumber ,cauliflower, cabbage, carrot, radish, zucchini, pepper it's all on offer, cut up into bitsized pieces to be devoured with just a sprinkling of salt, no sauce or salad dressing allowd. Fruits are also on the table, but must be consumed in moderation because of their high sugar content. Stick to papaya, watermellon, pomegranate, all kind of berries, but nobananas or mangoes. All this raw food is supposed to speed up your metabolism and add digestion, so you end up expending more calories than you have consumed. Result: a slimmer waistline in three days.If all sounds comming out (ghaas-phoos) completely unappetising, then perhaps the soup diet would work for you. This involves making a huge cauldron of cabage soup with a tomato base, spicing it up with every herb you can think of, and having a huge bowl of it whenever you feel hungry. You can suplement this with the the odd servingof raw vegitables or fruits and drink copious amounts of water. This will fulsh out your system(yes, a trip to loo) and help you lose those unsghtly tyres in a week. If you are an inveterate meat eater then the time-honoured Atkins regime would be right up your street. This menas lots of red meat in a high protein regimen that eschews carbs altogather. So, eggs are fine, but no toast, cheese is okay but no crackers, and fish are fine but no fries. Keep this up long enough and ketosis will set in and the weight will miraculously fall away even if you arteries get completely clogged in the process. So, which one will it be for you? As for me , I think I'm just going to make peace with my holidy fat and invest in some loose black sweaters instead. As the sgoes, it's only appearances that matter,
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