The multiple celebrations of Christmas make it difficult to cleansing diet. After company celebrations, Christmas Eve and Christmas, New Year’s Eve fills the glass: dinner, drinks, an excessive night of partying and a breakfast to welcome the year can be an explosive cocktail for our body, especially with the excesses that have accumulated in December.
Therefore, it is recommended that on January 2 we take a break and try to regain some stability in our meals… at least before the roscon de Reyes arrives again.
The nutritionist, dietitian and pharmacist Elisa Escorihuela warns that “détox” or purifying diets are not the most favorable option since it seems that they will solve our eating problems in a short time. That is why his maxim is “prevention is better than cure”. “It is clear that these days we celebrate the celebrations around the table and the temptations are many, but it is best to be cautious and not commit great excesses, since they will not only negatively affect our scale, but are also bad for our health. ”, he reasons.
But if you have already sinned of liquors, sweets and sausages, the expert leaves some tips and a diet to recover our body from excesses.
Diet for New Year
Breakfast
- Tea with lemon or coffee with milk.
- Assorted vegetable omelette or toasted wholemeal bread with tomato and olive oil.
- Piece of fruit.
Midmorning
- Piece of fruit or fresh cheese.
- Meal.
- Canon and walnut salad.
- Chicken wok with vegetables.
- Piece of fruit.
Snack
- Orange, apple and pear smoothie (wash the fruit, cut and mash everything with the skin and half a glass of water).
Dinner
- Salmon with sauteed green asparagus.
- Kefir or yogurt.
Ten tips to take care of yourself from January
“The beginning of the new year is the ideal time to consider a challenge, whether it be improving your diet, quitting smoking, exercising or losing weight,” says Escorihuela.
Here are some of the tips she recommends following starting this month:
1- Dare to practice some physical activity or exercise.
2- Plan your food and your purchase. The moment of purchase is paramount, do not get carried away and make a shopping list of the things you are going to need.
3- Empty your fridge and pantry of unhealthy foods.
4- Enter five pieces of fruit and vegetables a day.
5- Remember legumes and eat them at least once or twice a week.
6- Whole foods will be a great ally to keep your blood sugar levels constant.
7- Add oily fish to your diet (mackerel, salmon, sardines, tuna…) to keep cholesterol at bay, as well as nuts (not fried) and avocado.
8- Use olive oil, if it is extra virgin better.
Drink enough water.
If you need help, go to a professional, a dietitian-nutritionist who will accompany you until you achieve your goal in a healthy way. And…run away from miracle diets!
Escorihuela assures that “it is not a matter of being on a diet, it is a matter of eating well”, which does not mean that at Christmas you have to eat only “breast and lettuce”. From Nutt, her nutrition consultation in Valencia, the expert tries to convey that gastronomy and health are not at odds but that “they are two sciences that are condemned to walk hand in hand and, in fact, they can do so with great harmony” .
