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For a while we’ve heard of how good Green Tea can be for weight loss. Today’s review is for Liquiboost - a fully liquid weight loss cleanse. How does it stack up? Read on…
When we first caught wind of Liquiboost, I was immediately a bit skeptical - both about the product itself (it’s a liquid!) and its claims. Right at the top of the Liquiboost website they guarantee that users will “Lose 5 1/2 pounds in 7 days! Guaranteed!” I found this a bit astonishing at first, and knew that we had to get a trial of this product and cover it here on My Colon Cleanse Reviews.
The free trial of Liquiboost is only good for 10 days, so you need to make sure you start taking it the day it arrives to gain the most benefit before you have to decide if you are going to keep the bottle. The website was very easy to order from, and the shipping and handling charge was $9.95 - or you could RUSH for $12.95. Since I’m a pretty upbeat guy, I chose the RUSH service, and the trial bottle of Liquiboost was here in a couple of days. Easy.
Taking Liquiboost is much different than the traditional “take a capsule with water a couple of times a day” method - but not by much. With Liquiboost, you mix a capful of the Liquiboost product with a 16 ounce glass of water. You can take it either once a day, or, if you’re really in the mode to shed some pounds, twice a day. We had our test subject take it once a day for two days, and then twice a day for 5 days to make sure her system could handle Liquiboost with no problems.
So - did Liquiboost work as advertised? In short - YES! In detail… yes and no. First, our test subject Melissa found that Liquiboost was first and foremost an energy product, and secondary, a cleanse. So, she found it gave her a huge metabolic boost and also put her in the bathroom a couple of extra times a day.
Her exact quote: “I’ve had to duck out of a couple of meetings to use the loo, and it’s definitely the Liquiboost. It’s having an effect on my insides, I can feel myself dropping weight below my stomach that has probably been sitting around there a while.”
We should also note that the formula of Liquiboost - green tea, kola nut, and nopal cactus, are intense energy boosters so you should probably avoid having a high caffeine intake for the duration of your cleanse.
Melissa managed to lose four pounds in the first week of using Liquiboost, which is out of this world. We actually advised her to stop as that’s a pretty incredible rate of weight loss, so finishing off the entire month supply could have had her losing a bit too much weight too quickly. No guarantees, of course, that you’ll lose weight this quickly but Liquiboost certainly seems to come close to delivering on its hefty guarantee!
The bad news is that Liquiboost is ONLY available to residents of the United States. (For those of you in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand or Ireland, click here to read our review of PureCleanse Detox which is our #1 recommended colon cleanse.)
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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/
Does Colotrim stack up well against its numerous competitors in the colon cleanse arena? In this review, we’ll check out Colotrim, its formula and how well it works for weight loss.
In my quasi-expert experience, I would say that popularity-wise, Colotrim is around the middle of the pack. I’ve heard of it through a number of different web sites and publications, and it seems to have some pretty good reviews. Aside from the typical formula and nutritional additives, Colotrim adds in some herbs that are pretty unique in function and serve to make for a great cleanse, including Fennel Seed, Cascara Sagrada, and Golden Seal to name a few.
Colotrim was also awarded a 5-star award from the National Nutraceutical Board for its ability to provide an excellent colon cleanse, and for their highly regarded customer service.
Colotrim’s founders recommend that you take the supplement for at least three months to see the greatest results. In the interest of time, we had our test subject (our good friend and reader Allan, pictured below running his 5k race!) take Colotrim for a month while working out and trying to lose weight. Here’s what Allan had to say throughout the testing during the month of April:
Hello there everyone. First I’d like to thank Jason for the opportunity to share my experience and for providing me with a free bottle of Colotrim colon cleanse to kick start my dieting. I am an older guy in my 40s that finally decided I needed to do something about my beer gut to make sure I am around for my kids and future grandkids as long as possible. When I was talking to Jason about this, he suggested trying a colon cleanse and agreed to bankroll me if I would share my experience for this blog! So, here we are.
I took Colotrim through the month of April, 2009. Taking Colotrim is pretty straightforward – you take a few capsules of what looks like ground up herbs each day with your morning and evening meals and… that’s it. Literally, that’s all I had to do, which is great for me because I like things that are easy. I was also changing my eating and working out at the gym so it wasn’t ALL easy but that’s life I guess!
After the first few days I had a good idea that Colotrim was working as I was going to the bathroom more often than before the cleanse, and I don’t mean to take a leak. It snuck up on me at first and I had to make a mad dash to the men’s room at the gym, but once I knew what to expect I wasn’t too worried about it. After the first week, I was down four pounds from the Colotrim and the exercise, which was great in my eyes.
I kept taking the Colotrim for the rest of the month (I think I missed taking it twice since I had a couple of extra capsules left at the end of 30 days! oops) and at the end of April when I ran this race in the picture, I was down an epic 9 pounds. I definitely thank Colotrim and Jason for some of my success, and since I have quite a few pounds to go (as you can see in the picture!!) I ordered another couple of months from Colotrim to keep going on the cleanse.
If you decide on Colotrim, I recommend that you drink a lot of water as you will be in the bathroom a bit more regularly and you don’t want to get dehydrated. Also, I highly recommend you try to eat as healthy as possible to help with the weight loss! The more salad, apples and bananas you get in you and the less soda and chips, the better.
PS Here is the picture of me in the race!! No laughing at me.
Thanks again to Jason and to Colotrim! – Allan Deschamps
And thanks to you, Allan, for a most excellent review of the Colotrim product!
As with most cleanses, the folks at Colotrim offer its new customers a completely free two week trial – you’re only on the hook for $5 for shipping. If you decide in the first two weeks that Colotrim isn’t going to work for you, you can simply return the Colotrim and you won’t be charged anything.
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In our PureCleanse Detox review, we mentioned that there are a number of active ingredients in PureCleanse Detox that have effects that extend beyond your typical colon cleanse and/or weight control supplement.
I’ve seen some questions and confusion about what these various herbs in the PureCleanse Detox formula can actually do for those who are looking to lose weight and do a colon cleanse or detox cleanse, so I figured I would take some time to explain about these various ingredients and what their effects are on your body.
Chromium Polynicotinate - one of the most important factors for weight loss is controlling and effecting the consumption of - and the body’s metabolism of - glucose, or sugar.
Chromium Polynicotinate
Ideally, individuals will only consume a limited amount of pure glucose in the form of sugars or “simple” carbohydrates such as white flour and white rice, but this assumption is pretty unrealistic when it comes to the typical North American.
Chromium is an element that plays a role in the body’s metabolism of glucose by helping the body to produce insulin, which stabilizes blood sugar levels. Chromium also plays a part in the synthesis of fats and proteins in the body. Chromium Polynicotinate, which is included in the PureCleanse Detox formula, is the most effective type of chromium one can consume. Chromium Polynicotinate binds elemental chromium to vitamin B3 or “niacin”. This makes the included chromium more easily absorbable in the body.
Garcinia Cambogia Extract - Garcinia Cambogia is a small fruit that grows mainly in India and southeast Asia that looks much like a tiny pumpkin.
Garcinia Cambogia
Garcinia Cambogia extract has been included in many different weight loss products over the years, due to its ability to suppress appetite and spur the body’s fat-burning system into a higher gear.
Garcinia Cambogia extract is comprised of hydroxycitric acid, which works to inhibit an enzyme in the body called citrate lyase. Citrate lyase is an enzyme that assist the body with converting extra carbohydrates into fat. The Garcinia Cambogia extract included in the PureCleanse Detox formula helps to block this enzyme, which causes the body to burn off the extra carbohydrates through a process called carbohydrate oxidation. Garcinia Cambogia has also been shown in animal studies to reduce appetite, which can reduce food cravings and the desire to snack.
Gymnema Sylvestre Extract - Gymnema Sylvestre is a herb that is typically grown and cultivated in India, and has been used as a treatment for many illnesses including diabetes, for over two thousand years.
Gymnema Sylvestre
Gymnema Sylvestre has been shown in studies to reduce blood sugar levels, and also to actually reduce the taste of sugar in the mouth, which can really kill sugar cravings.
Most scientists that have studied Gymnema Sylvestre have agreed that the active ingredient is gurmenic acid, which has been shown to help various body illnesses such as hypoglycemia, obesity, high cholesterol, anemia and digestion issues.
It is for all of these benefits combined that this extract finds a great home in PureClease Detox - not only does Gymnema Sylvestre extract have an effect on the digestive tract, but it also assists the body with controlling sugar cravings and reducing blood sugar levels.
Hopefully that sheds some light on why PureCleanse Detox has been getting such rave reviews with folks. As a reminder, folks in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland and Ireland can get a 100% free trial of PureCleanse Detox to see if the cleanse is right for you. Here’s the link:
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