Detox and low GI diet plan
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Nutritionist Anita Ellis has teamed up with Vitabiotics' Dietrim vitamin supplements - designed to help your body maintain an optimum level of body fat to lean muscle - to create a week long detox and low GI diet plan to get you started on a healthier, leaner lifestyle.
The theory behind diets based on the Glycaemic Index is that foods with a low GI value slowly release sugar into the blood, providing you with a steady supply of energy, leaving you feeling satisfied longer so that you're less likely to snack. In contrast, foods with a high GI value cause a rapid - but short-lived - rise in blood sugar. This leaves you lacking in energy and feeling hungry within a short time, with the result that you end up reaching for a snack. If this pattern is frequently repeated, you're likely to gain weight as a result of constantly overeating.
Top tips
Try to eat organic produce if you can Avoid all trans fats and ready-made or processed food Ensure that you do not miss meals Drink at least 2.5 litres of water or more Drink only bottled mineral water (low sodium) not tap If possible avoid all alcohol, coffee and tea Occasionally swap low fat dairy products for soya and rice milk options enriched with calcium Switch to yeast free bread. Choose: rye, soya, wholegrain, linseed or bran
On awakening
Kick-start your metabolism by drinking two glasses of lemon water; squeeze half a lemon into a glass add boiled water that has been allowed to cool a little. Add to this grated fresh ginger, one dessert spoon of cool oil or flaxseed oil and freshly ground cinnamon, clove or nutmeg.
Breakfast options
All-bran, sultana bran or oat bran with soya milk and blueberries or strawberries. Grilled tomatoes and poached egg drizzled with extra virgin olive oil. Bowl of muesli (if time preferably home made) add brazil nuts or walnuts, almonds, dates, sultanas, apricots, blueberries and top with pumpkin seeds. Serve with soya milk or freshly squeezed fruit juice. Four tablespoons of soya or bio yoghurt with mixed chopped fresh fruits. Grapes, kiwi, mango, melon, pears, mandarin. Porridge made from millet with water or soya milk topped with mixed seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, linseed), lecithin granules, apricots, blueberries or apple. On the go: apple/orange, seed and nut bar. Fresh juice of beetroot, carrot, fresh ginger, celery and apple or orange, apple, celery or apple and ginger add mineral water or orange, grapefruit and ginger or oranges and one lemon.
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