Cleansing for Weight Loss
Despite what traditional medicine says, toxic build-up can cause weight gain and may interfere with conventional weight loss efforts.
Now that you’ve heard of nutritional cleansing, let’s talk about cleansing for weight loss. Cleansing approaches the body from a fundamentally different perspective than calorie-restricted diets. Instead of counting calories and eating less, a cleanse helps you to eat the right foods and supplements so your body can purge toxins and wastes that accumulate in the organs (such as the liver) and in adipose tissue or fat.
Conventional understanding of weight gain and loss tell us that the body stores fat when fed excess calories and breaks fat down for energy when food is scarce. According to this model, body weight is based on a person’s unique metabolic rate and how much food is consumed.
Holistic professionals present an alternative model in which it is that chemical
toxins in our food (pesticides, preservatives, MSG, artificial colors and flavorings) and other poisons in our environment other than calories, make people fat.
Our bodies are well equipped with complex systems to drain toxins and metabolic wastes through the skin, kidneys, lungs, liver and colon. But, with exposure to food additives, synthetic personal care products, and chemicals in our water and air, the human body can be overloaded with chemicals.
Most of the toxic load is stored in the liver (around the midsection). Think of the men you know with the “gut”. Unfortunately, it’s not just men. Dr. John Grey, the author of “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, has titled this “liver gut” and talks about how even young girls today, who may be thin all over, have “liver gut”.
If weight gain is the body’s way of dealing with toxins so they can’t harm you, does it not make sense that a weight-loss diet that does not help the body to purge these stored toxins will only be a temporary fix?
Weight loss can’t last without some form of cleansing because the toxins that were stored in the fat tissue circulate in the blood stream and other systems of the body. The result of this can be headaches, fatigue, achiness, pain, dizziness, moodiness and other symptoms. for optimal functioning, the body wants to segregate these toxins that it cannot remove, which is why people regain weight after most diets.
If you are interested in clearing out the toxins polluting your body and achieving real, lasting weight loss, do some cleansing for weight loss. Along with that, here are some other tips:
- Stop eating/drinking diet products! These products do not promote health and are loaded with artificial sweeteners and flavorings which only contribute to toxins in the body!
- Eat nothing white. White bread, white flour and white sugar are all bleached and heavily processed. Again, they contribute nothing and rob the body of nutrients! These are your enemies!
- Stop eating artificial sweeteners. They may be “low cal” but for your body, they are even worse for your health and weight than white sugar.
- Don’t starve yourself. Starving yourself only slows down your metabolism. Eat raw foods, lots of fruits and vegetables. Use a lemon cleanse to keep your metabolism up with natural, easily processed sugars and lots of enzymes (make lemonade with real lemon juice and stevia). This will assist the body in breaking down the fat and old toxins.
- Go organic! This will lessen the amount of pesticides you are putting in your body.
- Add these foods to your diet: lemons, extra virgin olive oil (uncooked, as salad dressing) virgin coconut oil, apple cider vinegar, and wolfberries (gogi berries). These foods will promote healthy weight loss and cleansing.
- Replace refined sugars with healthy sweeteners such as agave and stevia. These help balance blood sugar levels, support the pancreas and do not promote weight gain.
Cleanse with some superior nutritional/cleansing products such as Isagenix. 
You can take your health to a whole new level!
