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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles I see. The article does not link to any studies, although it does link to a "quack watch" site disputing the claims made in favor of "detox" diets. Anyway, the diet you adopted seems to have nothing obvious wrong with it, so I suppose the whole thing is a harmless diversion at worst. [As far as "acne cures" (mentioned in the Wikipedia article) go, I have found the most effective remedy to be very intense exercise like sprints or weightlifting. For some reason I have clear skin if I do these regularly, although I have no idea how that might work.]

You're sweating out the toxins that cause acne.

Maybe, but I find that doubtful since even if I run outside in the winter (while sweating very little), it seems to work.

We'll you'll be in tiptop shape. So did any pics get taken today?

lol, according to your plan or whatever, all i eat are toxins. LOL.

well, maybe not everything, but most of it i suppose.

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Originally posted by tubularbills lol, according to your plan or whatever, all i eat are toxins. LOL. well, maybe not everything, but most of it i suppose.

Its amazing how much better you feel after a couple of days on healthy sandwhiches and soups. Its nice!

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Originally posted by Frenchie We'll you'll be in tiptop shape. So did any pics get taken today?

I didn't get around to them... after work till now has been go go go for me. Hopefully tomorrow.

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Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie Its amazing how much better you feel after a couple of days on healthy sandwhiches and soups. Its nice!

but i feel healthy after eating a steak too

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Originally posted by Theresa Day One: · 30 crunches upon awakening · 300 mg iron w/ 500 mg vitamin C · one banana · mixed fresh vegetables (green/red/orange peppers, baby carrots, celery, cherry tomatoes) 0.436 Kg · three plain rice cakes · one green apple · two pieces of sugar free gum (completely helped subside sugar/coffee cravings) · half cup of live natural 1% yogurt · three tablespoons of oats · two tablespoons of honey · four large strawberries · fourteen whole roasted, unsalted almonds · 0.184 Kg of Tilapia Fish, fresh · two bottles of Nestle Pure Life 500mL water · one quarter lemon · fourty green grapes · 300mg of iron w/ 500 mg vitamin C · 45 minutes of vigorous cardio · 30 crunches before bed Observations: Eating easy to digest foods makes you get hungrier faster. My cravings for coffee and sugar were insane, but the gum really helped tone it down. I was asked to go to the bar tonight with a friend, and I declined and explained why. She laughed. Seems like people don't take these things very seriously. Fuck em P.S. To the previous post... no doctor told me to do this, this was a choice I made on my own because I wanted to clean out my body. Kthx

yeah one thing about your cleanse is you aren't getting any complex carbohydrates in...because the no wheat bread thing so that's why you're getting hungry quickly.

eating simple carbohydrates spikes your insulin levels and burns off quickly so you could get hungry again and get a little fatigued...

I think a lot of this is mental. I mean, right now I have this insanely strong desire to walk down to the store and get a nice hunk of chocolate cake.

LOL!

However, if I wasn't aware that I was "detoxing", I doubt I would want anything.

Hopefully the sugar and bread cravings dissipate quickly.

"Detox" is all a load of bollocks if you ask me, but good luck regardless.

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Originally posted by Theresa I think a lot of this is mental. I mean, right now I have this insanely strong desire to walk down to the store and get a nice hunk of chocolate cake. LOL! However, if I wasn't aware that I was "detoxing", I doubt I would want anything. Hopefully the sugar and bread cravings dissipate quickly.

Well, I'm a vegitarian so your "diet" has more types of foods in it than I eat naturally. I dunno about the detox shit, but you should really be eating like that anyways theres nothing abnormal about that diet... but you are american so blah blah blah let me stereotype and insult you as if my nation was any different.

Anyways um i think i was gonna say something useful or something.

oh yeah, tofu, quorn, soy etc, is not actually that good for you. Infact they should be very limited, as soy may actually be fairly bad for you. Look up some keywords about soy not being good, and you'll find a load of shit. Like anything it can be debated, but that stuff tastes like shit anyways.

i'd like to double post and add that soy products and tofu and shit will certainly have more toxins in it than wheat (which you are cutting out)
heres like a youtube video you might wanna watch if you're into that instead of reading.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjZs0DGW1Jk
he seems like a knob, but whatever. The only reason i'm going on about this is because I used to use soy to get protein alot when i dropped meat, so obviously its fairly interesting to me.