Can you Lose Weight Too Quickly?
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!
There are many factors that play in to the amount of waste that will back up in your system. First, 
Tip 1 – Walk or take transit to work: This one is the easiest. If you’re within an hour’s walk to your workplace, then skip bringing the car at least a couple days per week. If you’re not that close or you need to ensure that you can minimize your time spent walking… you can always take transit. Believe it or not, even the walk to the bus stop and back on both ends of your trip will add up. If it’s a mile in total from your house to the bus stop and from the bus stop on the other end to your workplace, you’ll add 20 miles a month of walking in to your routine. Very easy!
Having a healthy daily intake of dietary fiber is an important part of keeping your colon healthy. Dietary fiber (we’ll refer to it as “fiber” from here on out) is the part of plant foods such as fruits, vegetables and grains that pass through your digestive system and colon without being digested. As fiber passes, it absorbs water and helps keep all of the food and waste passing smoothly through the intestines. A person without a good intake of fiber is going to have some… difficulty with their natural daily processes.
In my last post, I talked about some of the benefits that colon cleansing will bring to your health. Here’s some information on the minor “side effects” that you might experience during your cleanse.
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