Detoxing?

Momma2fourunder5
Momma2fourunder5 Posts: 98 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Happy Friday wonderful MFP peeps!! Quick question for you...how do you decide if you need to detox? And if so, what does that involve?? Just wondering b/c I have been working out 4-5 times a week and logging my food for over a month now with no loss :( Trying not to get discouraged, and just wondering if detoxing would help? idk....Ideas???

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  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    Happy Friday wonderful MFP peeps!! Quick question for you...how do you decide if you need to detox?

    Given normally functioning liver and kidneys you do not need to detox or cleanse, at all.


    And if so, what does that involve??

    It may involve drinking a bunch of blended up vegetables, it may involve wasting money on a useless product from an MLM type of system, it may involve limiting your food intake to an arbitrary list of items that has no rhyme or reason to it.

    It WILL involve creating a large caloric deficit and it will probably involve a lot of toilet paper.
    Just wondering b/c I have been working out 4-5 times a week and logging my food for over a month now with no loss :( Trying not to get discouraged, and just wondering if detoxing would help? idk....Ideas???

    If you have not lost anything in a month I would examine your total calorie and macronutrient intake and I'd start by suggesting that you purchase a food scale and measuring devices and take the next month to weigh and measure EVERYTHING to minimize tracking errors.


    EDIT: And your thread may indeed earn you PM's from people on MFP who will then tell you that I don't know what I'm talking about, followed by their website where they will gladly sell you a product that will cure your weightloss woes! :bigsmile: :bigsmile:
  • hamiltonba
    hamiltonba Posts: 474 Member
    Looking quickly at your diary, you consume a lot of calories and a lot of carbs......
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
    Happy Friday wonderful MFP peeps!! Quick question for you...how do you decide if you need to detox? And if so, what does that involve?? Just wondering b/c I have been working out 4-5 times a week and logging my food for over a month now with no loss :( Trying not to get discouraged, and just wondering if detoxing would help? idk....Ideas???

    1) do you have a liver? Y or N
    2) do you have kidneys? Y or N

    if Y to 1) and 2) goto 3) else see doctor immediately

    3) do your kidneys and liver work? Y or N

    if N to 3) goto doctor immediately else YOU DO NOT NEED TO DETOX
  • drmerc
    drmerc Posts: 2,603 Member
    Happy Friday wonderful MFP peeps!! Quick question for you...how do you decide if you need to detox? And if so, what does that involve?? Just wondering b/c I have been working out 4-5 times a week and logging my food for over a month now with no loss :( Trying not to get discouraged, and just wondering if detoxing would help? idk....Ideas???

    1) do you have a liver? Y or N
    2) do you have kidneys? Y or N

    if Y to 1) and 2) goto 3) else see doctor immediately

    3) do your kidneys and liver work? Y or N

    if N to 3) goto doctor immediately else YOU DO NOT NEED TO DETOX

    What about heavy metals?
  • Momma2fourunder5
    Momma2fourunder5 Posts: 98 Member
    Thanks for the responses!! Since I do have well functioning kidneys and a liver I guess I will stop looking into the detox idea :) That is why I asked!
  • drmerc
    drmerc Posts: 2,603 Member
    Thanks for the responses!! Since I do have well functioning kidneys and a liver I guess I will stop looking into the detox idea :) That is why I asked!

    :happy: Faith in humanity restored

    I'm sure you'll do well in your fitness goals
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    Thanks for the responses!! Since I do have well functioning kidneys and a liver I guess I will stop looking into the detox idea :) That is why I asked!

    Good for you for listening to something that may not have been what you wanted to hear. Stick around here for a while and you'll see plenty of cases where someone will ask for an opinion and arbitrarily reject answers that they don't like.

    *applause*
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    This thread is so full of WIN!!! :bigsmile:
  • Momma2fourunder5
    Momma2fourunder5 Posts: 98 Member
    Looking quickly at your diary, you consume a lot of calories and a lot of carbs......
    Maybe I'm wrong here - but I try and keep my NET calories around 1200 a day. So on the days I burn 400 or 500 calories exercising my calories are going to be up around 1600 or 1700....am I wrong in my methodology here?
  • drmerc
    drmerc Posts: 2,603 Member
    Looking quickly at your diary, you consume a lot of calories and a lot of carbs......
    Maybe I'm wrong here - but I try and keep my NET calories around 1200 a day. So on the days I burn 400 or 500 calories exercising my calories are going to be up around 1600 or 1700....am I wrong in my methodology here?

    Nope it looks like you're doing great
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,273 Member
    Looking quickly at your diary, you consume a lot of calories and a lot of carbs......
    Maybe I'm wrong here - but I try and keep my NET calories around 1200 a day. So on the days I burn 400 or 500 calories exercising my calories are going to be up around 1600 or 1700....am I wrong in my methodology here?
    No, but be careful that you are not over estimating your exercise calories or under estimating your input...

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