10 day detox

mmm i would say be careful on that one. im currently on a 10 day detox and trim but you must eat food and just be calorie aware and you mix it with water 1 lt which has made me drink it and even found i go further and drink at least another 1lt oh thats 4 glass' of water per lt oh sorry lt = litre (just in case you weren't sure i don't know what you use there) its all healthy natural products and there is a maintanince program after the 10 days you can do which is drinking it still but not as much in the lt . they call that a 15 day mantanince plan and after 45 days of it you can do the detox again so far i have heard all good things about it. but im guessing you probably wont have it over there its called 4321 detox and trim looks to be an Australian product. really have to be careful with these things and check it out well even go talk to a doctor or pharmacist good luck but they are right the old fashion way is the healthy way im just doing this to have a clean out and kick start to my plateau

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Restricting ANY food group from your diet for 10 days can have severe consequences, if it isn't done under the care of a licensed, practicing MD then I would say run away from it. My wife did a liquid diet for 2 weeks when she was in college, ended up shutting down her gall bladder for good and having to have it removed. Now she has serious trouble processing extra fat in her system.

Look Mary, again I won't tell you how to live. But Seriously, our bodies have evolved over millions of years, in that time they have learned the hard way, how to fight off infection, cleanse itself of toxins, and fuel itself efficiently. YOU DON'T NEED TO HELP IT! The body does just fine on it's own. If you eat a healthy, nutritious diet, and exercise regularly, your body will do all the work for you, it may not be as fast as a crash diet, but it will work for the rest of your life.

This is just my opinion, but I really hope you take it to heart, these things can be dangerous!

Wouldnt' do it if I were you. Really the only safe way is like banks said. Exercise and eating the right foods is the safest way to do your body right!!!!

thanks GIG. BTW, I LOVE that picture of your kid, the one where he looks like the heat miser with his hair all sticking up. I LOL'ed!

This is going to sound gross, but after looking into it, you can get the same effects of a cleanse/detox by either taking fiber tablets or getting an enema.

Cleanse for weight loss NOPE. I do several cleanses a year for various reasons. I always consult with my DR before and after a cleanse. It isn't a fast process to go into our out of and that is without knowing the cleanse your friend is doing. There are hundreds of NATURAL ways to cleanse everything from parasites to build up in the colon. This topic os close to me because my mom who has the physical age of a 43 year old (yup they can do that now lol) just went through a scary trip with her colon and intestines. She was placed on a medically supervised 7 day cleanse (yup they do that now as well) in order to allow her intestines to heal, to balance the healthy bacteria, and to literally shut down the hardworking digestive system in part so that it could heal only digesting liquids.
Most health conscious and most vegetarians and most Muslims and Catholics, Bhuddist, and so on do some form of cleansing and fasting. You can do a cleanse that leads into a fast for health reasons but it isn't something you can do without medical guidance and maybe that you can do at all depending on your health. I have done parasite cleanses (ooh don't ask and most importanly DON'T LOOK) the reason these concepts have existed since the dawn of time is because before we had drugs people got sick. There is some heck a LOT of validity to hollistic medicine and finally the medical profession has begun to embrace it AGAIN. One common thing is that a fast or a cleanse should NEVER be used for weight loss. Spiritual, health, or to prepare for surgery or testing yup.
The way say a parasite cleanse/detox works is it introduces natural foods that create an unfriendly environment for tape worms, anal (yup gross) parasites, and all the other creepy crawlers that live in and on our bodies to thrive. Ergo they exit stage left...
There are also high fiber detoxes for those impacted (don't think I need to explain that one lol) and others. There are prescription detox too, like as someone posted used to prepare for colon exams or pre-surgery.

Do you want to do a detox? Do the ultrametabolism cookbook detox. You eat all your meals. It tells not to do the juice thing. It teaches you how to detox by not eating chemicals and cooking healthy.
I have been doing it and love it. You need food.