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Before starting on a colon cleanse for weight loss, it’s important to make a bit of a plan for how you’re going to approach weight loss in general. Starting a colon cleanse while beginning marathon training and cutting your daily food intake to 800 calories a day will definitely assist you with losing weight, but you’ll also likely hurt yourself in the process as you didn’t go about things intelligently. Colon cleanses can be an excellent weight loss tool, but as part of a weight loss plan everything must be approached properly to ensure success.
To your body, losing weight is just a question of mathematics. Your body really doesn’t care how many calories it gets as long as it gets the carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and related amino acids and vitamins necessary for health. Everything else will either get stored (causing you to gain weight) or expelled in your waste. If you consume too few calories your body will let you know by being hungry, fatigued and likely ill.
It’s been shown in hundreds of studies that a pound of body weight is equal to about 3500 calories. Whether you reduce your diet by 3500 calories in a certain timeframe or you exercise more frequently to burn the additional calories off - if you want permanently lose weight, you’ll need to ensure that you’re taking in fewer calories than you’re burning through your metabolism and exercise.
The best way to handle things would be to see a nutritionist or a physician before you start any dietary or exercise plan. A professional can help assess your current caloric intake versus your exercise and metabolism, and make recommendations of what steps you’ll need to take to help make the math work on your side.
One of the beneficial parts of exercising is that you don’t just burn calories when you’re performing the exercise. Your heart and metabolic rate will remain “up” for at least an additional few hours, sometimes even up to the next day depending on how hard you worked out. Your body needs to repair everything after your workout, and it will consume energy and calories to do so. Also, you’ve probably heard “muscle weighs more than fat” - muscle also burns more calories than fat. As you build out your muscle from exercising, your basal (or “resting”) metabolism will rise and you will burn more calories doing things like sitting around and sleeping.
Stop worrying about how fast you want to lose weight and worry more about committing to hitting your weight loss goals. You’ll feel a whole lot healthier for it!
First, I think it’s important to ensure that we start off with a clear idea of what I mean by “juice fasting”. Here’s a bit about juice fasting from Wikipedia:
Juice fasting is a type of fasting and detox diet in which the practitioner consumes only fruit and vegetable juices. Being available only in digestible carbohydrates, these foods are digested rapidly as the juice digestion process expends only a small amount of energy.
Additional reasons for undergoing juice fasts include religious reasons, losing weight and attempting to wean oneself from unhealthy habits, i.e., smoking, drinking soda, overeating, caffeine addiction, etc. Some more serious participants use juice fasting as an alternative to conventional medical practices, i.e., as a healing technique for pain, cancer, depression, arthritis, severe infections that failed antibiotics, autoimmune diseases and many other supposedly incurable diseases.
I think that accurately sums up what juice fasting is, and the “why” someone would want to juice fast… the reasons are many. I personally completed a two-week juice fast a few years ago and while I don’t think I will do it again, I will tell you that it was a life changing experience.
There are very few strange feelings your body can have that can compare to the feeling that you get when your digestive system shuts down. Literally, after about a day or two (depending on your body) of having no food in your stomach to process, your body will shut down your digestive system and begin working on other things. This is where the proponents of the juice fast say that all of the magic happens.
The theory is that because we go from meal to meal to meal with very little downtime for our digestive system, we don’t give our bodies much time to focus on regular maintenance tasks that are necessary for our well-being. Promoters of caloric restriction as a means to live a longer life look at things this way as well. The more we eat, the more our bodies have to work at processing food instead of bodily maintenance.
If you want to try a juice fast, you can easily do a one, two, or even five-day juice fast without suffering any ill effect on your body. Almost everyone has adequate stores of fats that can be broken down for energy, and the fresh fructose and other sugars you get from the juice will ensure your brain stays functioning properly.
Note that you can’t just go out and buy a few cans of V8 and call it a day. Juice fasting requires a high speed food juicer, as well as copious amounts of fruits and vegetables. Instead of eating a meal, juice up a combo of fruits and veggies and drink the juice. The juice cannot be stored, as the enzymes you release in the juicing process basically begin digesting the nutrients in the juice. So juice your fruits and veggies, drink the juice within 10 minutes, and come back for another helping in a few hours.
You can also pair a juice fast with a colon cleanse, however you will need to ensure that you start eating again as soon as you feel very hungry (you will know when this is, I assure you.) I’d recommend PureCleanse Detox for its high nutritional content - click here to read our PureCleanse Detox review.
Here are a couple more links with regards to juice fasting. Be sure to come back and let us know if you decide to try a fast, and how it went!
http://altmedicine.about.com/od/detoxcleansing/a/juice_fasting.htm
http://www.juicefasting.org/
Scientific and psychological factors aside - losing weight is just plain tough. But the question is - why? Why is weight loss such a challenge? Well, in my experience of asking this question, I’ve managed to successfully get a whole ton of various answers from different people, depending on their upbringing, social background, education, and more. Here are a few answers that stuck out to me:
1) There’s no convincing reason to bother losing weight - hearing this from more than a few people managed to stun me pretty significantly. One would think that the health risks of being overweight and obese - diabetes, heart disease, and a whole host of other illnesses - combined with the general social stigma would be enough to just flat out convince people that being overweight or obese isn’t the way humans are supposed to live. It seems, however, that is not the case. Depending on the local and national culture, weight and physical appearance can be something that’s just not thought much about. Compare the drastic physical differences between the average American and the average Scandinavian, for example.
The lesson here: If the people around you are overweight, and you’re overweight, you’re probably going to be less inclined to bother losing your additional weight. If you want to lose weight, try hanging around with fit people!
2) Weight loss is just too tough - I hear this one time and time again… that going from overweight/obese to a healthy weight or even to physically fit is too much of a challenge for people to undertake. My perception on this topic, for the most part, is that many people who decide they want to lose weight don’t have a realistic plan of action for doing this. There are a lot of factors in weight loss and weight control, including diet/calorie intake, level of physical activity, nutritional supplementation, and overall health management, just to name a few. Planning this out can be an extraordinary task - part of the reason some of the colon cleanses you see on this site like PureCleanse Detox and the Ultimate Colon Cleanse are so popular is that they handle much of the supplementation and internal health stuff for you, so you can focus on other things. You need to form a weight loss plan to ensure that you’re able to stay on the path to success.
The lesson here: If you want to lose weight, seek the help of a trainer and/or a personal coach to help you plan SMART goals, and be sure to do the things that your body and mind require for you to stay motivated. Don’t deny yourself of rewards and celebrate your success!
3) I’m perfectly happy with the way I am - if this is the case, and you TRULY are and are not just telling yourself this because of fear, laziness or another reason, then all the power to you. You have every right to enjoy life the way you want to.
The lesson here: Just remember that in the future, you might have to cover some additional health costs due to your lifestyle choice, and your ability to enjoy things like travel and other stuff later in life may be compromised.
What do you think? What are some of the factors you’ve seen or heard about why it’s so challenging to lose weight? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
One of the questions that I get asked the most is: How often should a person do a colon cleanse? Is once a year enough, or twice a year… or should you be cleansing monthly? The answer is that the needs of your digestive tract are unique to your body, and only you can dictate how often you need to be cleansing.
There are many factors that play in to the amount of waste that will back up in your system. First, you have to consider the amount of dietary fiber you consume. If you consume quite a bit of fiber, then you’re likely to have smooth passage of waste through your body on a regular basis. However, if you’re the type that likes to eat processed/junk foods (aren’t we all) or the type that eats a lot of white flour foods with few raw fruits and vegetables, you may not be getting enough fiber. And that can raise the need for you to cleanse and rinse out your digestive tract.
The next item you need to worry about is your regular water intake. If you keep yourself well-hydrated, then your body will have enough water to ensure that your digestive system is functioning properly. Actually, part of the function of your colon is to reclaim water from your waste, so having a healthy colon will even help keep you hydrated! Once again though, if you are the typical North American that drinks a good deal of caffeine and doesn’t have a very regular water intake, you probably are doing more harm than good to your digestive tract.
From personal experience, I would worry much more about cleansing too much than cleansing too little. I do take cleansing supplements regularly to keep my system as healthy as possible… and I try to eat as healthy as I can. If you’re doing a colon cleanse every month, every two months, etc… you should be safe. Just be sure to keep yourself hydrated and eating the proper foods while you’re on your cleanse and you will be fine.
Another issue is that are so many good products on the market for colon cleansing that one can suffer serious option fatigue picking through them. You can read our colon cleanse reviews here for more information and user testimonials of cleanses. Pick yourself one and get your cleanse on!
Do you have any stories of colon cleanses to share? Be sure to let us know in the comments!
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