- Frugal breakfast . Skipping breakfast is always a mistake, even the day after a lavish and excessive dinner. Breakfast during these weeks can be more frugal and light, but it's not worth skipping. It helps replenish our energy and ensures that when we sit down to eat, we have a normal appetite and less anxiety.
- A light yet exquisite menu . It should combine low-calorie foods (vegetables, fruits, fish, etc.) with simple preparations and add a sophisticated touch to the traditional recipe: an original sauce, an exotic food, an inviting presentation.
- Purifying foods as part of your diet. They stimulate the purifying organs (liver, kidneys, intestines) and relieve discomfort from overindulgence, such as a heavy stomach, bloating, flatulence, or headaches. Foods that tone the liver include vegetables with a slightly bitter taste (escarole, endive, artichoke, cardoon, eggplant, dandelion and milk thistle infusions), while vegetables and fruits, such as celery, asparagus, borage, apples, or pears, activate the purifying action of the kidneys.
- Fiber-rich foods help evacuate and relieve a bloated stomach. Compote mixed with dried fruit and prunes, bran-based yogurt, drinking water, and taking a long walk all help achieve this goal.
- A yogurt a day promotes better digestion.
- Starter salad. Raw foods are rich in enzymes, which help the body digest food better.
- Sprouts in salad. Soybean, alfalfa, wheat, or barley sprouts contain enzymes that counteract gas.
- Share leftovers. Sharing leftovers with friends and family is a trick to avoid overeating the rest of the day.
- Sugar-free desserts and coffees . Rather than opting for saccharin-type sweeteners, the healthy advice is to accustom your palate to the natural flavors of foods, including the slight bitterness of coffee and tea.
- Walking at least an hour a day helps improve digestion by preventing calories from accumulating in the body. You don't have to do it for a full hour; instead, you can split the walk into two half-hour periods, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon.
The amount eaten the day before and the day after extraordinary meals is a point of support to compensate for excesses.
The day before the big lunch or dinner you can consume:
Breakfast : Green tea, yogurt with bifidus, oat flakes, prunes, and apple compote.
Food : borage or celery broth, borage with pumpkin, steamed hake with ratatouille and whole-wheat bread, and digestive infusion (chamomile, licorice).
Snack : bifidus yogurt.
Dinner : borage or celery broth, pumpkin cream, onion and brown rice, and whole-wheat bread with fresh cheese and honey.
The next day:
Breakfast : green tea, natural fruit salad (pineapple, papaya, banana, pear, apple), orange juice and bifidus yogurt.
Food : vegetable broth, cardoon with artichokes, asparagus and clams, bifidus yogurt.
Snack : grapes, chamomile infusion.
Dinner : midday vegetable broth, full salad (escarole, endive, pomegranate and chopped nuts), whole wheat bread and relaxing infusion.