The actress is keen to lose a little winter weight in the New Year, but she refuses to have a crack at the infamous Master Cleanse fast, which she tried a year ago.

"I like to do fasts and detoxes a couple of times during the year, the most hardcore one being the Master Cleanse I did last spring. It was not what you would characterize as pretty. Or easy," the ‘Sun’ quoted Paltrow, as saying.

So now, Paltrow has signed up a detox diet specialist to help her shed the pounds.

In a blog on Goop.com, she writes, "As I do not wish to subsist on lemon water in the middle of winter, I asked my doctor, a detox diet specialist, for the guidelines he uses to achieve a good detox that is not as hallucinogenic (in a bad way) as the Master Cleanse.

"What it came down to was this: you can detox easily and effectively while you continue to eat as long as you are cutting out the foods and other substances that interfere with the detoxification process."