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JustBlue
Well, since a few people have asked for info, here goes.
Cleansing is a good thing to do a few times a year to clean out all that bad stuff that we so enjoy eating.
Now you don't have to buy the cleanse, but the site does give you all info about the ingredients in the products so there is no guessing and no false claims.
If you want, you can always follow the eating guidelines alone and that should help to improve your health. I took the list of the foods to my dr and my specialist before even trying the cleanse, and I would suggest you do the very same thing.
Take a list of info from the site and also the food list to your own drs and make sure it's all good with them.
There are many different cleanses out on the market but many don't really tell you what's in them, or they are so mild that you wonder after why you wasted your money on it.
Below is the reply that I have sent to a couple people who have asked for info. The list of foods does not look as pretty as on the site, but you can get the idea of what you can and cannot eat.
Hi there,
I would be happy to help if I can.
The 12 day cleanse I do a few times a year can be found in specialty health food stores. Too often we make exceptions and have some food that we know is not good but we love it.
The cleanse is not easy, but it's worth it. I struggled but it pays off because you are killing the cravings for those sugars and you are cleaning out your system. Yes, you will be MUCH more "regular" than you once were. I was already eating alot of grains and fruits/veggies, so the coffee part was the hardest on me. My daughter who eats alot of convenience foods like burgers and stuff found that she had alot more flushing to do on her system.
My coffee problem? Not now. I had a coffee first thing on day 13 but I have discovered that I am liking fruity herbal teas more now.
My suger addiction? I don't miss it and find more foods too sweet for me now.
Sometimes, all it takes for us to lose a bit of weight or at least feel healthier is to cut out the lousy foods and introduce foods that we should have been eating all along.
Good luck with your 5-10 lbs.
Here's the site with info on it:
http://www.wrc.net/wrcnet_content/dietplans/d-tox_diet_12day.htm
For all their items, they list every single ingredient so you know what you are getting.
Also, the food list is huge but STRICT. You are basically cutting out ALL of certain items. If you look over the list of foods and feel that you can't do the cleanse, then don't bother getting the kit and waste your money.
I will tell you that I took the list of foods to my dr and also my liver specialist before trying the cleanse and they both gave me the OK. My liver specialist said I should follow the plan permanently.
Please don't call it a diet because it is more of a lifestyle eating change. Make it permanent.
Here's the food list. It's all screwed up by copy and paste but you should get the idea. There are tons of foods but when you see no sugars at all or no coffee, you want to freak! Well, I did.
20% of your diet from this column 80% or more of your diet should be from the following two columns.
Protein Foods, Acid Forming Foods: Starch Foods, Alkaline Forming Foods: Bulk Forming Foods, Neutral Foods:
Most Recommended: Fish (eat all you want even if over 20% of total diet)
Acceptable during program: Beans (dried), Beef, Coffee (black - maximum two cups a day), Grains, Eggs (whole), most Grains (whole); i.e., barley kasha, bulgur, oats, rye, wheat berries, Lamb, Lentils, Liver, Nuts, Oatmeal, Peas, Poultry, Pork, Prunes (cooked), Rhubarb (cooked), Rice (white - brown is in 80% column), Soy Beans, Tea (black), Tofu (plain, unsweetened only), Veal, Wheat Germ.
Not Recommended during program: Buttermilk, Cheese (dairy or tofu), Seafood (shell fish), Yoghurt. Most Recommended: Almonds, Millet, Buckwheat, Brown Rice.
Acceptable during program: Apples Apricots, Berries, Brazil Nuts, Cherries, Lemons, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Popcorn, Potatoes (baked), Pumpkin - Squash, Sesame Seeds, Soya milk, Tahini, Tomatoes (fresh).
Not Recommended during program: Bananas, Cantaloupe, Currants, Dates & Figs, Fruit Juices, Flour of any grains, Grapes, honey, Malt, Maple Syrup, Melons, Pasta, Pineapple, Raisins, Tropical Fruit.
Not Recommended at any time: Cakes, Candy, Ice Cream, Cereal (processed), Flour Gravy, Fruit Juices with sugar & pop/soda, Jams & Jellies, Oily nuts & Peanuts, Pies & Pastries, Sugar (white or brown).
Most Recommended: Chives, Garlic, Ginger, Onions (includes: leeks, green onions, shallots, ect.), Tea (herbal; without milk added), Water.
Acceptable during program: Arugula, Artichokes, Asparagus, Avocado, Beans (green), Beets or Beet tops, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Butter, Cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Corn, Cucumbers, dandelion, Eggplant, Endive, Escarole, Herbs for seasoning (i.e. basil, oregano, thyme, coriander, ect.), Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Mustard Greens, Okra, Oils (except peanut oil), Parsley, Parsnips, Peas (Green), Peppermint, Peppers (green & red peppers), Radiccio, Radishes, rutabagas, Sorrel, Spinach, Turnips, Vegetable seasoning (with out yeast), Water Cress.
Cleansing is a good thing to do a few times a year to clean out all that bad stuff that we so enjoy eating.
Now you don't have to buy the cleanse, but the site does give you all info about the ingredients in the products so there is no guessing and no false claims.
If you want, you can always follow the eating guidelines alone and that should help to improve your health. I took the list of the foods to my dr and my specialist before even trying the cleanse, and I would suggest you do the very same thing.
Take a list of info from the site and also the food list to your own drs and make sure it's all good with them.
There are many different cleanses out on the market but many don't really tell you what's in them, or they are so mild that you wonder after why you wasted your money on it.
Below is the reply that I have sent to a couple people who have asked for info. The list of foods does not look as pretty as on the site, but you can get the idea of what you can and cannot eat.
Hi there,
I would be happy to help if I can.
The 12 day cleanse I do a few times a year can be found in specialty health food stores. Too often we make exceptions and have some food that we know is not good but we love it.
The cleanse is not easy, but it's worth it. I struggled but it pays off because you are killing the cravings for those sugars and you are cleaning out your system. Yes, you will be MUCH more "regular" than you once were. I was already eating alot of grains and fruits/veggies, so the coffee part was the hardest on me. My daughter who eats alot of convenience foods like burgers and stuff found that she had alot more flushing to do on her system.
My coffee problem? Not now. I had a coffee first thing on day 13 but I have discovered that I am liking fruity herbal teas more now.
My suger addiction? I don't miss it and find more foods too sweet for me now.
Sometimes, all it takes for us to lose a bit of weight or at least feel healthier is to cut out the lousy foods and introduce foods that we should have been eating all along.
Good luck with your 5-10 lbs.
Here's the site with info on it:
http://www.wrc.net/wrcnet_content/dietplans/d-tox_diet_12day.htm
For all their items, they list every single ingredient so you know what you are getting.
Also, the food list is huge but STRICT. You are basically cutting out ALL of certain items. If you look over the list of foods and feel that you can't do the cleanse, then don't bother getting the kit and waste your money.
I will tell you that I took the list of foods to my dr and also my liver specialist before trying the cleanse and they both gave me the OK. My liver specialist said I should follow the plan permanently.
Please don't call it a diet because it is more of a lifestyle eating change. Make it permanent.
Here's the food list. It's all screwed up by copy and paste but you should get the idea. There are tons of foods but when you see no sugars at all or no coffee, you want to freak! Well, I did.
20% of your diet from this column 80% or more of your diet should be from the following two columns.
Protein Foods, Acid Forming Foods: Starch Foods, Alkaline Forming Foods: Bulk Forming Foods, Neutral Foods:
Most Recommended: Fish (eat all you want even if over 20% of total diet)
Acceptable during program: Beans (dried), Beef, Coffee (black - maximum two cups a day), Grains, Eggs (whole), most Grains (whole); i.e., barley kasha, bulgur, oats, rye, wheat berries, Lamb, Lentils, Liver, Nuts, Oatmeal, Peas, Poultry, Pork, Prunes (cooked), Rhubarb (cooked), Rice (white - brown is in 80% column), Soy Beans, Tea (black), Tofu (plain, unsweetened only), Veal, Wheat Germ.
Not Recommended during program: Buttermilk, Cheese (dairy or tofu), Seafood (shell fish), Yoghurt. Most Recommended: Almonds, Millet, Buckwheat, Brown Rice.
Acceptable during program: Apples Apricots, Berries, Brazil Nuts, Cherries, Lemons, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Popcorn, Potatoes (baked), Pumpkin - Squash, Sesame Seeds, Soya milk, Tahini, Tomatoes (fresh).
Not Recommended during program: Bananas, Cantaloupe, Currants, Dates & Figs, Fruit Juices, Flour of any grains, Grapes, honey, Malt, Maple Syrup, Melons, Pasta, Pineapple, Raisins, Tropical Fruit.
Not Recommended at any time: Cakes, Candy, Ice Cream, Cereal (processed), Flour Gravy, Fruit Juices with sugar & pop/soda, Jams & Jellies, Oily nuts & Peanuts, Pies & Pastries, Sugar (white or brown).
Most Recommended: Chives, Garlic, Ginger, Onions (includes: leeks, green onions, shallots, ect.), Tea (herbal; without milk added), Water.
Acceptable during program: Arugula, Artichokes, Asparagus, Avocado, Beans (green), Beets or Beet tops, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Butter, Cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Corn, Cucumbers, dandelion, Eggplant, Endive, Escarole, Herbs for seasoning (i.e. basil, oregano, thyme, coriander, ect.), Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Mustard Greens, Okra, Oils (except peanut oil), Parsley, Parsnips, Peas (Green), Peppermint, Peppers (green & red peppers), Radiccio, Radishes, rutabagas, Sorrel, Spinach, Turnips, Vegetable seasoning (with out yeast), Water Cress.
Please remember that you don't have to do the cleanse, you don't have to eat only what is listed, but you need to know that not making an effort with give you the same sort of results.
The listing of foods are amazingly healthy and will help you keep your system moving.
The foods not on the list or rather on the list but recommended to omit from your diet are items that clog up your system and are not healthy.
In the start, it's pretty hard for some people to take the sugar out of their diets and all that white bread and the dairy; you may even experience headaches and other discomforts.
But you know what? If you stick it out to beat those addictions, afterwards, you will find that sugar is too sweet, that you can taste the bad and the junk will taste just like junk.
It is at that point that you will know you have won.
The choice is yours. Get healthy or stick with the sludge.