What to eat for my cleanse
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Another very reasonable and balanced approach can be found at www.dietaryguidelines.gov0
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If you are tryig to eat healthier and not trying to do a "cleanse" and you love meat, eat it!! Eggs are very good for you. Brown eggs tend to have less cholesterol. We eat salmo like its going out of style too. Although I can't stand the frozen bags of fish. Grill with salt and pepper and a little oil so it doesn't stick. Yum! Rutabega can be very hearty and delicious in soups or cooked in fresh greens. Also turip greens with the turip root cut up is good. I cook with lean ham but I'm sure there is something else you could use.
Vegetables roasted or grilled in aluminum like potatoes, mushrooms, onion, bell pepper, tossed in lemon juice, fresh dill and a little ex virgin olive oil, salt and pepper is very good.0 -
Hi! I read some of your food diary and I feel if you simply change your way of eating your body will be cleansed and much happier. You eat a lot of processed foods and a lot of calories every day. I recommend lean meat like chicken (baked or grilled), fish (baked or grilled), and lots of fresh fruits and veggies. Salads with very light dressing or even lemon juice for dressing. WATER and NO sodas. Eating these things vs what you are now will cleanse your body.
Yes, that is what I am trying to do. Thank you! I know my faults and I am trying to fix them.0 -
Thank you everyone for your input. It has been very helpful especially the external links.
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Another very reasonable and balanced approach can be found at www.dietaryguidelines.gov
Thank you! I will check this website out!0 -
Have you ever eaten quinoa? It's a gf, grain. It cooks like rice and is good hot or cold. My family loves it with vegetables and a little salt. Most regular grocery stores carry it in the health food section. It's a great product for everyone regardless of health goals. Full of protein and fiber...
I have never had it before. Is it hard to cook? I will have to go look at the grocery store to see about it then. I have to make a trip to get some brown rice and orange juice anyways...0 -
Leave it to me to be "that guy". :bigsmile:
Isn't it....Simple Green?What are you trying to clean? I like simply green
I love Simply Green! That stuff gets stains out of EVERYTHING.
Yes, but I didn't want to correct him. I knew what he was talking about.
LOL! You guys are so funny!0 -
Hey!
So personally, I am a big fan of the cleanse I did last June called "Clean" (http://www.cleanprogram.com/)
It's No
gluten, red meat, processed food, eggs, unnatural sugar, caffeine, alcohol, dairy, nightshades, corn, soy, or "mucous forming foods" like bananas.
You also have two liquid meals a day -- not juices though, high cal/protein smoothies or soups. There are a million recipes on the site and in the forums and the community there is amazing. It's very difficult and 3 weeks long, but you feel great after and it really helps jumpstart your eating habits. I felt cleaner afterwards and lost about 8 lbs, most of which was water weight.
The biggest things I gained out of it were learning that I don't need to eat a million things a day to feel full, I can eat a lot less and still feel healthy and full. Also, I learned a lot about how gluten makes me feel and to this day I still avoid gluten, dairy, processed foods, soda, and red meat as often as possible because I feel healthier when I do.
Do not buy into their talk about how you have to buy a kit to do the cleanse though. It does make it easier, but I personally didn't like the idea and did it entirely naturally. I did however buy some of the supplements that they recommend, I'm not sure that I felt any different because of them though and they were expensive.
I highly recommend doing Clean!!! Research it for a while and read his book, it really helps you understand the diet and why you do it.
Good luck! Feel free to add me if you want!0 -
Ugh, no cleanses, those are actually terrible for you.
Why would you give up eggs? Eggs are one of the healthiest foods on the planet.
As long as you have a liver, and at least one kidney, you do not have any toxins in need of "cleansing."
If you want to eat healthier than you are currently eating, just start eating healthier. That's all there is to it.0 -
I did a liquid fast and detox. I used GNC Maximum Greens Super Green Formula Complete and Maximum Fruits Complete Powder with juice to sub for my meals for one week. Then I slowly added raw fruits and veggies the next week and the next week i went to cooked veggies n fruits then the next week i gradually added lean meat like chicken n fish. It was a while before I added other meats and it worked great.0
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I would suggest food.0
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I never understood the "cleanse" craze. Kinda reminds me of the crap (no pun intended) that obssessed people like Rev Sylvester Graham, a self proclaimed diet guru and creator of the Graham Cracker and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg creator of Corn Flakes. Both did make worthwhile contributions to the American diet, but many of their reasons for doing so were somewhat "flakey" to say the least. Same principal, different era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060620172553AAigy5V
As another posted said, your body rids itself of toxins every day and a I don't believe a restrictive diet has anything to do with the process. Just MHO on the matter.
P.S. No offense intended to the OP.0 -
Have a look for books by Michael Pollan.
He suggests: "eat food, mostly plants, not too much".
By "eat food" he means avoiding the things that come in boxes in the supermarket that pretend to be tasty strawberry (or whatever) flavoured something but really are just a bunch of highly process sugars held together with fat and liberally laced with salt.
It sounds like you are looking to change some poor eating habits into better ones - why not set yourself a goal of cooking your own meals from actual ingredients (like meat, fish, chicken, nuts, eggs, fruit, veggies, lentils, beans etc)? Challenge yourself to try a new recipe every day, pick up a veggie or fruit that you haven't had before from the supermarket and google a recipe for it, focus on home cooked food made from food, not supermarket stuff made from boxes.
This way you will experience lots of new foods, get new recipe ideas and be eating really healthy stuff.
Don't go down the "clease" path - there is no need to try to get toxins out of your body, that is what your kidney and liver and other bodily systems are for. Just give your body good food to work with, do a bit of exercise and you'll feel great!0 -
I did it as a drastic cleanse bc of dx of irritible bowel syndrome and i was having a lot of nausea diharrhea and constipation. Stress made it worse and the medications agrrivated it. So I got so sick I was desperate. So I stopped the meds and prayed did a cleanse for the first week and when I got back into my regular diet my symptoms were gone. But I would have not done so drastic if i was not so ill at the time. Supplements and vitamins are always good to use ... I also used some protein replacement shakes at times.0
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Have you ever eaten quinoa? It's a gf, grain. It cooks like rice and is good hot or cold. My family loves it with vegetables and a little salt. Most regular grocery stores carry it in the health food section. It's a great product for everyone regardless of health goals. Full of protein and fiber...
I have never had it before. Is it hard to cook? I will have to go look at the grocery store to see about it then. I have to make a trip to get some brown rice and orange juice anyways...
It's very easy to cook. You can actually add some into your rice. Then just learn to play with it by adding veges and herbs0 -
The only thing cleanses clean out is your wallet.0
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I think it is ok and it works well if done for a reason. My reason was that I had a severe motorcycle accident in 2003 and was on so much medications related to the incident. So in 2008 I did a cleanse. But my mother is radical she believes that anytime you a sick a laxative or enema will make you better. i told her i had a sinus infection and she said im sorry take a laxative ... lol.0
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No offense dear, but the fact that you have absolutely zero understanding of what diet it is that you want to follow and are unable to clearly articulate the parameters of your new eating habits( or your desired outcome) I am flabbergasted as to why you feel like a group of strangers on the internet can tell you what to eat.
I honestly give this advice with kind intentions. You need to do some more research about what it means to eat healthy and attempt to create a plan on the knowledge you have learned. It's confusing for us all because there is scads of conflicting information out there; however, you have to have a baseline of knowledge to even begin to make a decision. Best of luck to you!0 -
Thats Good advice heidi0
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I work for Gastrointestinal Doctors and they say there is NO ADVANTAGE to doing a cleanse. It is all just a gimmick to make you want to buy stuff. Think of it as a FAD diet they are trying to sell you. Your Gastro Intestinal tract has to have bacteria in it to work properly.
Just start eating cleaner; you dont have to do any number of days of being totally off certain foods.and eat certain foods for a cleanse. you should Cleanse your body of the bad things you are eating that are keeping you from losing weight or feeling better or whatever the reason is you are here on MFP0 -
Have a look for books by Michael Pollan.
He suggests: "eat food, mostly plants, not too much".
By "eat food" he means avoiding the things that come in boxes in the supermarket that pretend to be tasty strawberry (or whatever) flavoured something but really are just a bunch of highly process sugars held together with fat and liberally laced with salt.
It sounds like you are looking to change some poor eating habits into better ones - why not set yourself a goal of cooking your own meals from actual ingredients (like meat, fish, chicken, nuts, eggs, fruit, veggies, lentils, beans etc)? Challenge yourself to try a new recipe every day, pick up a veggie or fruit that you haven't had before from the supermarket and google a recipe for it, focus on home cooked food made from food, not supermarket stuff made from boxes.
This way you will experience lots of new foods, get new recipe ideas and be eating really healthy stuff.
Don't go down the "clease" path - there is no need to try to get toxins out of your body, that is what your kidney and liver and other bodily systems are for. Just give your body good food to work with, do a bit of exercise and you'll feel great!
that is a good idea thanks and that is what I am trying to do. I guess "cleanse" has a negative connotation in a lot of people's minds. I am trying to limit my diet of these highly processed foods but it is so hard bc they are convenient and have been a daily part of my life for many years.0 -
Hey!
So personally, I am a big fan of the cleanse I did last June called "Clean" (http://www.cleanprogram.com/)
It's No
gluten, red meat, processed food, eggs, unnatural sugar, caffeine, alcohol, dairy, nightshades, corn, soy, or "mucous forming foods" like bananas.
You also have two liquid meals a day -- not juices though, high cal/protein smoothies or soups. There are a million recipes on the site and in the forums and the community there is amazing. It's very difficult and 3 weeks long, but you feel great after and it really helps jumpstart your eating habits. I felt cleaner afterwards and lost about 8 lbs, most of which was water weight.
The biggest things I gained out of it were learning that I don't need to eat a million things a day to feel full, I can eat a lot less and still feel healthy and full. Also, I learned a lot about how gluten makes me feel and to this day I still avoid gluten, dairy, processed foods, soda, and red meat as often as possible because I feel healthier when I do.
Do not buy into their talk about how you have to buy a kit to do the cleanse though. It does make it easier, but I personally didn't like the idea and did it entirely naturally. I did however buy some of the supplements that they recommend, I'm not sure that I felt any different because of them though and they were expensive.
I highly recommend doing Clean!!! Research it for a while and read his book, it really helps you understand the diet and why you do it.
Good luck! Feel free to add me if you want!
So, what specific health benefits did your derive from this "cleanse"? And the point of avoiding "mucus forming foods" is?
I had a look at the good doctor's website, long on anecdotes, short on data and specific benefits. (expensive products)
Gwyneth Paltrow says:
“As I write this, I am finishing the amazing three-week long Clean detox program... I can report that it worked wonders”
I'm convinced!0 -
He was pulling your leg, simply green is a line of household cleaner.
Specifically what toxins are you trying to "cleanse" your body of? Removing toxins etc from your bloodstream is one of the functions of the liver. These other "cleanse" and "detox" programs (unless you're getting off drugs) are nonsense and a waste of money. There is some evidence to suggest that periodically fasting for a day or two may actually be good for you but as long as you're drinking enough fluids and eating enough fibre you're good to go (no pun intended).
Oh gee! Yeah, I heard of the brand simply green before. I was thinking it might also refer to something else. Bleh! I guess I am trying to eat better but sort of jump starting my system but doing a cleanse if that makes sense. My diet is horrible and I want to eat more natural food and whatnot. I just want to do this for its duration. I hear that it makes people feel so much better! My food diary is viewable (I am not sure if its public to all or friends only though). I should drink more water. I average like 6 cups a day.
I do get a lot of fiber though but I am not sure if it is coming from the right source. What I mean is that it is best to get fiber from it's main direct source like vegetables and fruits versus highlyl processed fiber bars, cereal, or even those fiber powder you sprinkle in your drinks and food, lol.
Not sure why you would cut out eggs to do this. Eggs are really good for you. I would suggest eating raw or lightly steamed veggies, fresh fruits, lean meats and dairy. Try to avoid processed foods or anything with more than 4 ingredients on the label.0 -
He was pulling your leg, simply green is a line of household cleaner.
Specifically what toxins are you trying to "cleanse" your body of? Removing toxins etc from your bloodstream is one of the functions of the liver. These other "cleanse" and "detox" programs (unless you're getting off drugs) are nonsense and a waste of money. There is some evidence to suggest that periodically fasting for a day or two may actually be good for you but as long as you're drinking enough fluids and eating enough fibre you're good to go (no pun intended).
Oh gee! Yeah, I heard of the brand simply green before. I was thinking it might also refer to something else. Bleh! I guess I am trying to eat better but sort of jump starting my system but doing a cleanse if that makes sense. My diet is horrible and I want to eat more natural food and whatnot. I just want to do this for its duration. I hear that it makes people feel so much better! My food diary is viewable (I am not sure if its public to all or friends only though). I should drink more water. I average like 6 cups a day. I do get a lot of fiber though but I am not sure if it is coming from the right source. What I mean is that it is best to get fiber from it's main direct source like vegetables and fruits versus highlyl processed fiber bars, cereal, or even those fiber powder you sprinkle in your drinks and food, lol.
Not sure why you would cut out eggs to do this. Eggs are really good for you. I would suggest eating raw or lightly steamed veggies, fresh fruits, lean meats and dairy. Try to avoid processed foods or anything with more than 4 ingredients on the label.
Yeah, that is a good idea. You're right. Processed foods is out of my diet! Well, I will try. As I typed that I just realized I ate something highly processed. FAIL!
I had a Special K Protein Meal Bar strawberry flavor after my gym workout. I needed something with protein to retain muscles and I am on a school campus and I have class and it's a waste to go home and back on campus and parking is horrible! Sorry that was unnessary information.0
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