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Detox in seven days for healthy and glowing body ready for your wedding day


You can make a difference to the way you feel and look in just seven days. Our week-long detox is designed to help clear your system of impurities and help restore your body with the essential nutrients it needs. If you have the time (and you haven't left the dieting too late) then you can try a 2-3 day detox every month in the run up to the wedding. This way your body will be used to the cleansing process and fewer breakouts will occur.

While on the diet you should try to cut down on caffeinated tea and coffee as much as you can, opting for herbal or fruit teas instead. Make sure to chew your food well as this aids digestion and helps your body rid itself of waste. You should also try to drink around eight glasses of water a day. The recipes are simple and delicious, and best of all you're allowed a glass of wine each night if desired. A week from now your body should have shed many of its impurities and you should be feeling full of energy.

Day one
Breakfast - Fresh fruit, either as it comes or made into a fruit frappe or fruit salad. Eat as much as you like, but chew well so you get all the goodness out of every bite. If you are hungry later have another couple of pieces mid-morning as well. If you choose melon as your fruit then don't mix it with other fruits - eat it on its own or leave it alone.
Lunch - Fresh spinach salad with toasted rye bread spread with chopped black olive paste.
Evening meal - Poached salmon with mayonnaise, steamed broccoli with mushrooms, a lentil, chickpea or alfalfa salad with olive oil, lemon and Worcester sauce dressing.

Day two
Breakfast - As day one
Lunch - Avocado, tomato and mozzarella salad.
Evening meal - Stir-fried vegetables with brown rice and watercress salad.

Day three
Breakfast - As day one
Lunch - Sweetcorn soup with a big watercress salad and fennel.
Evening meal - Melon to start. Grilled chicken with mange tout, carrots and baby onions.

Day four
Breakfast - As day one.
Lunch - Large bowl of crudités with cottage cheese, mayonnaise or garlic dip.
Evening meal - Spicy fish kebabs with mixed green salad and giant mushrooms grilled in lemon and garlic.

Day five
Breakfast - As day one.
Lunch - Bulgar wheat (or wholemeal pasta) salad with carrots, raw beetroot, parsley and chives.
Evening meal - Jerusalem artichoke salad with light vinaigrette dressing. King prawns grilled in olive oil and garlic, braised fennel, and endive.

Day six
Breakfast - As day one.
Lunch - Baked potato with chopped tomatoes, onions and avocado with fresh basil and olive oil.
Evening meal - Grilled mackerel with steamed broccoli, carrots and swede. Mixed salad.

Day seven
Breakfast - As day one.
Lunch - Autumn vegetable soup. Radiccio and chopped egg salad with avocado dressing.
Evening meal - Crudités. Grilled chicken breast, with a selection of baked vegetables - onion, parsnips and leeks.

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