I started a detox in the Summer and have decided to keep doing it forever! I gave up wheat, dairy, alcohol, salt, sugar, caffeine and meat. I now follow this mostly, but do eat fish, an occasional wine if the opportunity comes up.
You get REALLY weird withdrawl symptoms for the fisrt few days, so do it when you are off work! I lay on my bed for 3 days, unable to move! I had bad bad headaches. Then I got better and felt really energised. Then I had bad skin and what was basically all my snot (sorry) coming out. I used up 20 hankies a week! But it wasn;t a cold- it was the toxins coming out.
Now I have FAR better skin, I can breathe through my nose (which I didn't used to be able to) and my asthma is tons better. I don't ever feel bloated, my joints don't ache, and I have lost 2 stone.
I TOTALLY recommend detoxing. I did the Carol Vorderman one- 28 days initially, but you won't want to go back afterwards!!