7-day cleansing diet - anyone done this??

mrswibbs

Came across this last night and wanted to share, for feedback and opinions…

SEVEN-DAY CLEANSING DIET--From the Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Washington for overweight heart patients:

This 7-day diet plan can be used as often as you like, but I would suggest possibly only doing it once a month, at the most. As a matter of fact, if followed correctly, it will clean your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well-being you never thought possible. After only 7 days of this process, you will begin to feel lighter because you will be lighter by at least 10 pounds, possibly as much as 17 pounds, and you will have an abundance of energy, as well. (I don't know if this much weight loss is really possible or if it would even be good for us to lose it this quickly; but, maybe it's because it's a "cleansing" diet. I think we do hold a lot of weight in our intestines... Yuck! I guess that's why we do cleansing diets, right???) Continue this plan for as long as you wish and feel the difference in both medical and physical disposition.

T-J MIRACLE SOUP (You eat this soup as much as you want along with the other foods for each day.):
6 large onions, 2 green peppers, 4 whole tomatoes (fresh or canned), 1 head of cabbage, 1 large stalk of celery. Season with dry onion soup mix. Cut vegetables and cover with water in a large pot. Boil for 10 minutes, cover, lower heat and simmer until the vegetables are tender. T-J Miracle Soup can be eaten at any time when you feel hungry. East as much as you wish and as often as you like. This soup will not add calories, so eat all you want. The more you eat, the more you lose... Enjoy! Yum, yum...

FIRST DAY--ALL THE FRUITS EXCEPT BANANAS: Your first day will consist of all the fruits you want except bananas. For all you melon lovers, this is the day for you. Two fruits which are lower in calories than most other fruits are watermelon and cantelope. Should you eat the melon, your chances of losing 3 pounds in the first day are great. You may also have T-J Miracle Soup today.

SECOND DAY--ALL THE VEGETABLES: Eat until you are stuffed with all the fresh (raw, steamed, or cooked) vegetables of your choice. Try to eat green, leafy vegetables, and stay away from dry beans, peas, and corn. These vegetables are good for you, but not now as you are trying to reduce your calorie intake. You may also have a large baked potato and T-J Miracle Soup today.

THIRD DAY--FRUITS AND VEGETABLES: Same as day one and day two including the T-J Miracle Soup, except for no potato.

FOURTH DAY--BANANAS: Eat as many as 8 bananas and drink as much as 8 glasses of skim milk on this day, along with T-J Miracle Soup. Bananas and skim milk blended together in a blender is very good way to enjoy this day. Bananas are high in carbohydrates and will lessen any cravings for sweets.

FIFTH DAY--BEEF AND VEGETABLES: You can have 10 to 20 ounces of beef and six tomatoes on your fifth day. Try to drink at least 8 glasses of water in order to wash away any uric acid in your body. You may also have T-J Miracle Soup today.

SIXTH DAY--BEEF AND VEGETABLES: Eat until your heart is content with beef, vegetables, and T-J Miracle Soup. No potato.

SEVENTH DAY--BROWN RICE, FRUIT, AND VEGETABLES: Enjoy brown rice, unsweetened fruit juice, vegetables, T-J Soup.

I like the sound of this so I'm thinking of giving it a try; it sounds pretty healthy to me...
Any thoughts…?
Thanks peeps xoxox :flowerforyou:

sojojoshua

Ive done this diet in 2003 and lost 5 kg in a week (thats about 10 pounds or slightly more) ofcourse I used to exercise as well.

DreaMartinez

I never have, but think I want to try it!

taiyola

I've always liked the idea of doing a cleanse, but not sure if I yet have the willpower to stick to it! Just vegetables for a day yuck! But the fruits would be no problem, haha.

I could try a 3 day cleanse of just eating fruits and veggies, incorporating the veg in smoothies?

Shawna0101

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greeneyed84

Sounds very interesting!

kelley4123

I have used this quick fix a few times before a special occasion, it does work.....but as soon as you stop the weight comes back on! although maybe if you do it for a week and eat healthy and exercise the other 3 weeks then start again it may be successful!
Beware! you will really get sick of the soup!

Bearface115

i did this and it was HARD AS HELL! only bc i got sick of the fruit and veggies only and i got light headed the 2nd day. BUT i lost 3-4 pounds that week, so it was potential, but becareful not to make yourself sick and if you have to eat a piece of card or bread, just do it bc your health is more important!@!

TAMMY_76

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mejustmichael

bump because i want to try it.

greeneyed84

For those who've tried this, do you keep the weigjt off after or do you gain it back??

Dawntodusk

I've done it, but don't recommend it unless you have an event or something and you need to squeeze into that dress. I used to do it every 6 months or so, and would lose 7-10 pounds each time. BUT, obviously I gained the weight back, and I also did not feel very good the first 3 days. The best thing about it is that it will wean you from a sugar/carb addiction, so if you're going to do it, I suggest you don't go back to eating sugars and refined carbs when you're finished because that is the only long-term benefit I can see from it. Good luck!

mrswibbs

For those who've tried this, do you keep the weigjt off after or do you gain it back??

By what people have said so far, you do put the weight back on after you've finished the 7 days - still, I like the idea of the detoxifying benefits of this.

sojojoshua

u will gain back the weight, if u go back to ur old eating habbits (junk, more than calorie needs, emotional eating etc) otherwise u can keep it off... coz I kept off those pounds I lost for more than a year.....after that I got pregnant... so gained weight....

slimha

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Kjarlune

For those who've tried this, do you keep the weigjt off after or do you gain it back??

By what people have said so far, you do put the weight back on after you've finished the 7 days - still, I like the idea of the detoxifying benefits of this.

I am not sure about detox benefits....A cleanse should typically clean out your system so that would mean no sugars including fruit, no real carbs. Veg and meat. If you are doing a cleanse would you not want to clean out bacteria etc too? Just wondering...Everything I have read states bacteria thrives on fruit and sugar...Just a thought.

JohnnyNull

Your body cleanses itself. You don't need this.

Serenifly

geez I dug up a goodie eh! haha

starting this on Sunday - will take next sunday off (cuz I'm at a wedding! lol) then will do it again for 1 more week - just doing it while I'm 'out' of Cardio cuz I broke my big toe two weeks ago and have already put on weight from lack of running ... need a jump start

Serenifly

ps. my 'Event' is a Budoir Photoshoot for hubby! making him a 2012 calendar!

chrisyoung0422

I may have to check this out. It does not seem all that hardcore but I sure believe you would get sick of the soup...

Shawnalee0703

I've always liked the idea of doing a cleanse, but not sure if I yet have the willpower to stick to it! Just vegetables for a day yuck! But the fruits would be no problem, haha.

I could try a 3 day cleanse of just eating fruits and veggies, incorporating the veg in smoothies?

Lots of green juice cleanses! :-D I juice at home.. YUM!

Eskimopie

This diet is really popular on some anorexic boards. I wouldn't try it. Just another form of a crash diet.

mrswibbs

This diet is really popular on some anorexic boards. I wouldn't try it. Just another form of a crash diet.

Gosh REALLY!?!?!??
Hmmmm….
From my point of view, I don't see how following this 'diet' for a week would turn anyone into an anorexic…but if you already had anorexic tendencies, I can see how it wouldn't be particularly helpful, and why it would indeed be popular on those sites.
However this would be a very temporary thing, and I am sure there are benefits to detoxing every once in a while…. I would NEVER dream of keeping to this diet for a sustained period of time… My motivation, if any, for possibly doing such a cleansing diet, would be to do precisely that: cleanse, get back to basics, also potentially using it as a kind of 'fast' in a spiritual sense, but I know many people wouldn't understand that particular perspective.
We'll see… :bigsmile:

Eskimopie

Oh I don't mean it would turn anyone into an anorexic, unless like you mentioned, that they were on the edge anyway. Just that based on my experience, anything that anorexic people are into is probably not the healthiest eating plan around...and something like the Sacred Heart Diet (which I'm pretty sure doesn't actually come from a hospital, its a variation of the Cabbage Soup Diet) is another crash diet that doesn't really have any cleansing effects and someone would be better served by cleaning up their day-to-day diet and maybe doing some juicing instead,

Rockin33

Let us know how it goes.

fitzgirl17

I have tried this twice. The first time I lost about 7-8lbs the last time 4-5lbs. It is a good diet, but it is hard at first. Once you are done, you don't want to put "bad" food into your body. Hope this helps

cobracars

Although your scale may show you are lighter, you haven't burned off any fat. Your fitness is the same. You would still have the same Body Mass, you just dropped a bunch of waste material.
Its like taking off your shoes before you step on the scale. The shoes weren't actually part of your weight.
Better to stick to normal healthy foods instead of so-called 'miracle' teas and such.
You could get the same benefit by gulping down a bunch of laxatives.
Same weight loss, same neutral affect on your nutrition.
Just my opinion.

CLA2801

I don't think this diet is unhealthy by any means.

But I can almost assure you that, once you start eating normally again (even WITH cal counting), that most of the weight is going to come back. So while it's fine if you want to 'slim down' for an upcoming event---wedding, vacation, etc---don't expect the weight loss to be permanent.

brityn

My hubby and I just did a 3-day cleanse. It was very difficult. I'm all about nutrition. So, all these hot water with vinegar and honey cleanses don't seem safe to me. This one seemed sound. We had a smoothie for breakfast that consisted of a green apple, celery, spinach, ginger, lemon juice and a tsp. honey. Then 15 almonds and a pea protein shake. then for lunch a combination of steamed quinoa and millet, 15 more almonds, a pea protein shake and the rest of the green smoothie we had at breakfast. At five we had a piece of fruit and another pea protein shake. Then for dinner the same thing we had a lunch just minus the almonds. Before we went to bed another pea protein shake. We did this for three days then continued onto a strict lean and clean diet. No refined carbs. (we only eat millet/quinoa, fruit and almonds for carbs) lean protein (ck breast, fish, fat free cottage cheese, pea protein shakes) good fats (2 tsp. olive oil a day, almonds and fish oil capsules) non starchy veggies (broccoli, artichokes, squash, onions, asparagus, etc) we do this six days a week then take sundays off. You'd be really surprised how much you literally can't cheat on sundays. We'll indulge a little, but your body doesn't want the crap after it hasn't had it in so long. We're sticking to this through the summer. After the heat subsides I'll start back on my heavy running and may add a little more carbs in, but I feel great and we are seeing really good results.

chantel111184

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TheKitsune6

"This soup will not add calories, so eat all you want. The more you eat, the more you lose... "

I'm already skeptical of "cleanse" diets but the moment I saw this line I knew that not only was it bogus, it was an outright lie. Not to mention that the directions mention corn as a vegetable? Corn is a grain, not a vegetable.

This obviously did not come from a hospital - you will lose weight doing a diet like this but only because you will be depriving yourself of the calories from other foods. There is no science to back up how this "cleanses" you, or anything specifically pointing out that the weight you lose stays off or why it's so important to lose weight from your intestines. If you want to do it as a diet then by all means, but please be careful of passing off junk like this as a scientific cleanse without providing any real scientific fact or reasoning and please be careful