Cleanse and detox my body

I tried the whole detoxify deal a few weeks ago. I did the 48-hour Hollywood diet where you are supposed to lose up to ten pounds by only drinking the juice for two days. The first day was really hard but the second was a lot easier. I felt really tired the first day and didn't want to exercise; however after the second day i felt fine. I think that it was just a big shock to my body at first. I wouldn't recomend doing it for over three days (any type of detoxifying). You lose more weight when you have the energy to do your workouts. It does make your body feel a lot better when it's over though and i did lose a few pounds quick!

yes yes, don't detox. I know many people extole detoxing but our bodies run a certain way for a reason. If detoxing was needed then our bodies would have developed the need to do it eons ago. rheston put up some good articles, check them out. Before anybody takes a drastic approach (not just to detox but to anything with the body and body chemistry), sit down and think about it. Shocking the body consists mainly of drastically changing either what we put in to it, what we do with it, or what we take out of it. Normal people not only don't need to shock their bodies, it's bad for you, as it creates undo stress which can release hormones that cause various base reactions by the body, everything from lethargy, to pain, to hunger, to depression, to organ failure (partial or full). That is one of the main reasons slow and steady works so well.
This isn't just something I cooked up to sound nice. These are facts stated over and over by the medical community that is based on years of both empirical and scientific theory based research and testing.

I agree with rheston.

The only time I did a detox, it was under the supervision of a Naturopath and it worked wonders but to do it alone, unsupervised...no way.