If you want to lose 10 pounds in 1 week then try doing a personal detox. If you can manage to not eat for ten days or so you will lose 10 pounds in 10 days.
Going through detox is like giving your body a vacation. It allows healing and rebalancing to begin in our body. You need to sometimes work to make this happen. Many of us find it very difficult to give up sugar, nicotine, caffeine, alcohol and chemicals.
Still steeling your will to go through a detox might be necessary especially if you are getting that wakeup call about your health. It is absolutely necessary in this day and age to take responsibility for yourself. It is only thing you can do to prevent disease and ensure that you will live a long and happy life.
Many people do not experience any physical problems at all but some people really do. If you do it means you are physically addicted to whatever you have eliminated from your life – it could be anything from cigarettes to booze to sugar!
The good thing is these symptoms pass in just a couple of days. Many people become cranky and lethargic. It is very common to get headaches.
Some people have insufferable cravings for sugar when they go on one of these fasts. Caffeine addicts can also have a hard time. Both caffeine and sugar are really hard to withdraw from if you have been consuming them every day for a number of years.
Simply put, what you are doing in this cleanse is eliminating common craving triggers and giving your body a break from artificial food-borne stimulants and depressants. This gives your physicality a chance to find its own natural balance.
One of the most famous books ever written about a detox was about balancing the body’s alkalinity through fasting. This book, written in 1i40 by Stanley Burroughs is called The Master Cleanse and it has been the basis for many fasts and cleanses since.
Burroughs purported that consuming no food at all and drinking a concoction made from lemons, maple syrup, cayenne pepper and purified water for a period of days (as long as you can stand) is the key to getting rid of acid wastes in the body and restoring them to a healthier alkaline state that does not support disease. Ideally you were to stay on this diet for as long as forty days to achieve optimum results.
Of course this type of cleanse, also known as the Lemonade Cleanse is not that practical or effective for most of us. First of all the detoxification process that comes along with this approach can be very uncomfortable. Second of all many of us cannot survive more than a couple of days, never mind forty days, on next to no calories a day at all. However if you are morbidly obese this type of approach to weight loss might be your only hope.
