Detox Diets for Fat Loss By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS Turbulence Training Are detox diets necessary for fat loss? Nah, not really. Although it can help someone that is eating Doritos everyday, but only if they take up some long-term healthy habits as a result, of course. A detox diet for fat loss won't suddenly reverse the bad health status of someone that has lived the Western Lifestyle for 40 years. It is what it is...2 days of not eating crap (although it's often 2 days or more - of not eating anything, which has its own detractions...). So detox diets might seem like a good idea, and might even give you piece of mind and help kick-start a new program, but just realize that they are not a quick fix to your health problems. The LONG-TERM FIX is dumping the Western Lifestyle, as I have said many times before. Besides, if you think you can actually remove all the toxins in your body, think again. It can never happen. Every breath you take, every move you make, you are creating waste products in your body. In fact, research studies have found that ALL of us contain surprisingly high concentrations of toxins in our blood, all due to AIR pollution. So no matter how "great" your detox diet, you'll never be able to combat toxins that enter your blood through your lungs. And many toxins are fat-soluble - meaning they are stored in our fat cells for months, and slowly released over time - not just 2 days. You'll never truly detoxify...but enough of the science class, let's get to the bottom line on detox diets... So is living on a juice diet for 2 or 3 days going to kill you? No. Heck, that's probably healthier for you than a weekend in LAS VEGAS.
But is it going to add years to your life? No, of course not. So unless a 2-day detox diet is really off the wall unhealthy, they are generally neither helpful nor harmful. All that matters is what you do on a consistent basis for the other 363 days of the year...year in, year out. If you pick up motivation for healthy habits from your "detox", then maybe it can help you. But if you go right off the detox and back to the Nachos and Bud, then what was the point at all? You know what I'm all about - lifestyle change. It's nothing radical, its nothing fancy or magical. If you want to succeed you simply have to make changes for good. You aren't going to make all the changes overnight or be able to stick to each one the first time you try it (Hey, I'm still trying to get better and healthier everyday, and I've been at it for all of my adult life). Hard truth: It might take you years before you perfect your healthy eating habits and kick your cravings. But as you do, you'll have the rest of your life ahead of you for highenergy living thanks to healthy eating. Eat well, live well, CB P.S. Want to know how to change your eating lifestyle? Get Dr. Chris Mohr's Fat Loss Nutrition Guidelines that comes with Turbulence Training.
Why Fat Loss Programs Fail Fat loss programs fail because we end up eating more and exercising less on the weekends. Monday to Friday you are a fat burning robot. Your fat loss program is kicking butt. You do a fat burning Turbulence Training workout first thing in the morning, eat breakfast, have a high-protein salad for lunch, a healthy afternoon snack, and then a sensible dinner. It all adds up to a pound of fat loss per week. Or so it should, if it were not for the 2 fat loss killers, Saturday and Sunday. Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine recruited 48 men and women and put them on a year long weight loss program. At the start of the program, subjects were already gaining weight on weekends while losing weight during the week. Why? Researchers say that subjects reported eating more on Saturdays, and exercising less on Sunday. During the year long research study, half of the subjects were put on a calorie-restricted diet while the other half was put on an exercise program. Both groupls lost weight during the week, but weekends stopped both groups of subjects from losing weight because both groups ended up eating more calories on the weekend. As a result, the researchers concluded that many exercise and diet programs fail because of weekend lifestyle behaviors. Here's what you need to do to stop your fat loss program from failing. First, identify all the problems that come up on weekends causing you to eat more or exercise less.
Second, brainstorm two solutions for each one of these problems. If you plan and prepare your weekends just as hard as you do for your weekdays, you'll continue to lose fat week in and week out.
Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS Author, Turbulence Training
About the Author Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit Turbulence Training
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