With all the cheese and cracker plates, festive cookies and fruitcakes on the table at holiday parties, it can be difficult to make smart choice, but Pasquella isolates the real soiree sinner!

“You really want to avoid any processed foods,” she cautions, “basically anything that’s in a form other than Mother Nature made it in, as they contain lots of fat, added calories, sugar, oils and chemical additives and preservatives.”

Instead, she suggests sticking to fresh food cooked without a lot of oil or sugar.

If you have a craving for a holiday treat, substitute it with a healthy alternative.

The diet guru personally loves pecan pie, but instead indulges on a handful of cinnamon-spiced pecans to curb the craving.

Not to be confused with other hard-core cleanses, the SoCal Cleanse is meant to be used as a continuous cleanse and not as a quick-fix detox – and this seems to be Pasquella’s mantra on all things-diet related when it comes to those New Year’s resolutions.