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Eff-it I have one more weight question
What's wrong with doing a Cleanse? I kind of want to 
I am too scared to post this on F&B. I know there was a post about it recently however these fools are actually making me work.
I am too scared to post this on F&B. I know there was a post about it recently however these fools are actually making me work. "HOW many US citizens and ranchers have been decapitated in Arizona by roving bands of paperless aliens, and how will a requirement that I have papers on me make that not happen?"courtesy of SueSue
Re: Eff-it I have one more weight question
Ok that makes sense. I know a couple of people who have done the Clean one and try seem to love it. I thought the concept behind it was not only to cleanse the body but to get you out of bad eating habits in an extreme way.
BTW, I know my a$$ is grass when Gpointe sees this.......
Just don't post this on Health and Fitness. You will be epically flamed.
I imagine it's a good way to get your buttcheeks acquainted with the toilet seat intimately.
What they said ^^^
Really, all you're doing is restricting your calorie intake to a very small amount, and shedding water weight. Anyone would lose pounds that way. The problem is, once you go back to your regular diet you gain everything back.
If you're retaining toxins, you need to have your liver/kidneys checked out, not do cleanse.
You want to do something that will last. A cleanse is temporary and therefore the moment you stop the cleanse, you're right back to where you started without actually addressing and therefore resolving the core issues you had.
This reminds me, I need to start the Rascal Avoidance Club check-in thread for today.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DHehe, we had a rather large post about cleansing/detox/fasting last week here.
I'm on the anti side. I think all they do is manage to strip your body of nutrients, fluids, and electrolytes.
Your body cleanses itself already.
I do love how RAC posts come after Fat Tuesday.
I think there are merits to fasting but you don't have to do anything crazy. Fasting is also really cheap. All the cleanse and detox concoctions are likely a big waste of money and sounds like they cause digestive distress. One of the benefits of a fast is to give your digestive system a rest so that it has more of an opportunity to heal/repair itself.
Yes, our bodies are always cleansing and repairing anyway, but there's nothing wrong with making a more focused effort every so often, in the same way you'd take a vacation to relieve work stress or go to bed an hour earlier to be more rested.
One example of fasting is compressing your eating window. So say you quit eating at 8pm, you sleep, have a black coffee or tea for breakfast and then resume eating with a mid-afternoon lunch. That's an 18-20hr fast without much discomfort, especially if you're accustomed to using fat for fuel.
Another easy and cheap 'detox' is quitting sugar for a period of time (20-30 days seems like a common timeframe for this) to eliminate cravings for it. Some people choose to eat fruit during that time but otherwise no added sugars. Sugar (and things which readily break down into sugar like white flour) feeds pathogenic microbes so greatly reducing it can make for a healthier population of gut flora. This goes for your mouth, too, btw... reduced plaque formation and stinky byproducts of an unhealthy mouth are readily apparent. No mouthwash required.
i'd kind of like to do one only because i feel sofuking bloated lately. i don't want one of those crazy ones, just something that will help with that.
i think they call it "drinking water", right?
There are mini 2-3 day diets that are about losing water weight by just eating mostly veggie salads and protein. Sort of like the first stage of Atkins or South Beach. I don't really wanna recommend them outright but if your hard up to just try something its a natural way to go about it w/o starving or shitting yourself.
cut carbs and sugar for a couple days. That helps me a lot.
Cutting out the junk and trying to focus on fruits, veggies and protein are the only types of cleanses I like to do. Sometimes it helps to get your body off of the need to have something sweet or carby.
I like this!!
I cut out most starches for a period in college and felt fantastic. I dropped a decent amount of weight, too. However, I was a biological hazard to be around that first week--the gas was EPIC.
I have to do a "cleanse" every 3 years. It involves drinking nasty stuff that makes me want to vomit, a date with a toilet for the next 3 hours after each dose (better stock up on the treated wipes!), extreme cold as all my blood gets shuttle to other functions, shaking, cramping misery. Sure, it's only for a day/night, but it sucks balls.
Mine is prescribed, and I'd skip it if there wasn't a real medical reason. I don't see why anyone would pay for it. I feel like (nothing to) shits afterward, plus I'm so hungry I binge on unhealthy stuff.
If by cleanse you mean cleaning up your eating in general, yeah, do that. I know after I've been traveling all I want to do is eat green stuff for days. I don't consider it a cleanse, though.
uh, yeah.
The other ladies have said what I would have said and more nicely than I would have said it.
I will also reiterate what I said in text form. You cannot fuel your body for working out with one of those cleanses.
You know how we do
I guess I'm not so anti-cleanse, but I'm also not much of a regular. I think a good elimination diet cleanse (6 weeks - food involved) is a great thing to do each year or so. I know several people who have done this (I always have wanted to, but only stuck with it for a few weeks) and it kick-starts good habits to eat clean. I also know several people who have done it to identify foods that don't agree with them very well - not allergies per se, but that are more harsh on their skin/digestive tract.
As far as losing weight. I know that you can lose weight on it, but nobody I know has done it for that reason. It's more to restart their eating habits from junkie and high sugar to all natural and less processed foods.
Are you united with the CCOKCs?
I'm not usually over here, but I did a "cleanse" that was in Bon Appetit earlier this year. It wasn't a cleanse at all, and I think they did a disservice by naming it that, but it was a interesting and varied meal plan emphasizing whole foods to follow for a couple weeks. When I got back from vacation, I used that basic idea to make a meal plan for myself for the next week to get my eating habits and my body back on track.
It also introduced me to the idea of making muesli the night before for breakfast, which has forever changed my life. I love it so.