some magazine wisdon
05/18/04 ~ 1:11 p.m.
so, when i go to the gym, i ride the bike and do the elliptical, and i like to have a magazine to read. i tend to bring my own since i don't always like the choices they have. i subscribe to 3 magazines, but sometimes i don't have any new ones to read. so yesterday at lunch i bought the recent issue of glamour, since it had katie holmes on the cover and you all know how i loved dawsons's creek. anyways.
so i'm pedaling on the bike, and i flip the page and see a refreshing picture of a person floating in clear blue water, and an article entitled, "Detox diets: Should you try one?"
holy cow! i had no idea i was following some fad. david's friends did it, so we decided to give it a try. but apparantly we're sheep. baaaa.
anyways. i read it, and i came across some interesting parts. they made me almost drop my jaw. why hadn't i read this article a week ago? or maybe, just maybe, listened to my coworker? so here goes:
"...juice fasting for days on end can actually be risky, doctors told Glamour. "Yes, you'll drop a few pounds--because you're eating so few calories," says Pamela Peeke, M.D. "But your body doesn't know that you're deliberately not eating, so it goes into famine mode." A day or two may not be harmful, but within five to seven days, your metabolism will 'set' itself to burn fewer calories each day, which may make it harder to maintain a healthy weight in the future. If you continue on a liquid-only diet for 10 days or more--an idea advocated by the creaters of The Master Cleanser, during which you drink nothing but water with lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper--you may lose vital electrolytes that keep your body functioning."
heh. that's exactly the fast we were doing. and isn't that what my coworker told me? but here's more good stuff:
"You are not a sewer system," says Madelyn Fernstrom, Ph.D., director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Weight Management Center. "It's just not true that you need to cleanse your body by flushing out toxins." ... If there's one part of a cleansing plan you can follow, it's what comes after the inital week or two...a balance of lean protein, complex carbs and lots of fruits and vegetables is the diet almost every expert says is the healthiest way to take off weight. So when you begin your next shape-up campaign, remember to use your common sense along with your willpower. If eating nothing but lemonade with maple syrup sounds absurd, that's because it is."
*ahem*
so, all i'm going to say is that i'm glad we stopped after 2 days. yeah.
and by the way, i'm going to cross post this in my diet diary, just in case any of you read both. just saving you some time.
~holly~
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