detox/juice/short term intense diet

Better off starting off on the right foot and making sustainable changes that you can keep up for life. Detoxes are unnecessary; you have a liver and kidneys for a reason. Use your money towards actual food, since those detox/juice products are generally very overpriced.

A seven pound gain could just be from going heavy on the carbs at this time of the year based on my experience.

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luciloo2 wrote: »

I've been off the wagon for a few months now and probably put on about half a stone (I don't own any scales). I really feel like I need a week of intensive detox or juicing or some sort to get me back on it and feeling really good again. If I have something to follow I will do it to the letter. I know if I just try to do it myself (which I have the knowledge to plan) I won't stick to it. Has anyone done anything similar before that's worked well for them? I don't want to pay a lot of money for it and don't expect to loose a lot of weight, I want to do it purely for a motivational point of view. I've even considered doing the clean 9 but its very expensive! Would appreciate any ideas any of you may have

I believe that if what you call " detox " will provide you with the psychological push to get back on program, by all means do what you think makes things easy or even possible for you. I am sure if you google a bit you will find something that fits your taste and pocket book.
Apart from that I personally feel that you just need to decide to get back on track, plan something that suits you considering the necessary calorie deficit and then just go.
Good Luck for 2015 !

GaleHawkins wrote: »

A seven pound gain could just be from going heavy on the carbs at this time of the year based on my experience.

Uh no. Carbs do not cause magical weight gain. Weight gain comes from eating calories over your maintenance.

Check out Clean Eating magazine's website cleaneatingmag.com and click meal plans. I think they have a two week eating plan that you can download and try to give you some ideas of what to eat and still stay under 1800 calories a day.

We aren't being negative, we're being honest. You use the word "detox" and talk about "juice cleanses." The first once is a fallacy and the second is just asking for trouble. Most diets like that just get rid of water weight, which comes right back on once you're eating regularly, which just provides reason to be discouraged. You don't need to do anything special, and there's no such thing as a "kickstart" for your body.

People are trying to save you time and money along with steering you in the right direction. Just because they aren't telling you what you want to hear doesn't mean they are being negative.

If you really need some type of eating plan, you are probably better off using Google to find something.

They aren't good for your mind, either. Humans don't do well when they're starving, which is what will happen when you're on a very low calorie diet. Just eat better. You'll feel better about yourself.

So you're gonna try to do stuff you're gonna hate, just to be healthier? Yeah, this isn't going to kickstart anything. You just aren't ready to change. When you are, you will.

Don't think that you can force yourself to do something better for yourself, by forcing yourself to do something stupid and potentially harmful to do it. That's like trying to make a snowball by blowing out the side of a mountain with dynamite... instead of just making it one flake at a time.

*gets out bingo card*

I fell off the wagon for damn near a month, and then I did this magical thing ... I started logging my food again, staying within my goals, and exercising lightly. I've already lost 3 pounds of water weight. Yay for my body doing it's thing!

if you are serious about wanting to do a juice cleanse, look up Joe Cross for suggestions. the juices will be fairly high in sugar, low in fat, and low in protein. despite the fact that cross did it for months, it is NOT a healthy long term solution. what i suggest instead is to incorporate vegetable (not fruit) juices, one or two servings a day, to flood your system with the micronutrients it needs to heal itself (if necessary) plus eat a very healthy diet of adequate protein, healthy fats, and low-glycemic carbs.

you'll find everybody here has strong feelings about a few things:
-detox/cleansing is a useless waste of time and money
-the only way to lose weight is by caloric restriction and what you eat to get those calories don't matter.

i found juicing to be a great help to me. basically, i'm not going to eat a whole head of lettuce. a whole bunch of spinach, a couple sticks of celery, 3-4 carrots in one day (because i would get sick of chewing). by juicing i get a whole bunch of nutrients (along with, admittedly, sugar and almost NO fibre) that i would not otherwise have eaten. that's pretty much all juicing is good for. green smoothies (where you use the whole leaf instead of just juice) are good in that they include the fibre.

ps. what's a stone? i know what a pound is and a kilogram.

I went to vegas for 3 days and detoxed by eating everything and anything. Now my body is ready for any food I throw in it.