Detox Diet, anyone went on one?

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Anyone been on a detox diet? I'm trying to combat my skin problem (been spotty since late teens and never went away, I'm 28 now!).

I've just never really made salad and stuff before, plus I have an enormous appetite so I'm wondering what people really eat and stay fulfilled. All the detox diets I looked at online seem to be weight related as well which I do not need to worry about at all! Skinny as I am.

I'm just fed up with my skin condition which daily face wash products does nothing in helping, and I've got dark patches on my back that no longer "flares up" nor have they cleared for the last few years :S

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Just realised that since I rewrote my original post to cut down the text, I cut out a few key things:
- I don't plan on going on a full detox diet really, but I wanted ideas of what "filling" meals detox diets offer to get some ideas. I plan on perhaps preparing 3 salad lunches a week and 2 sandwich lunches for work for instance.
- I do cook dinner a lot, but it's mainly pasta bake with Lloyd Grossman sauce, meat, cheese and mushrooms etc.
- I've always been skeptical about the detox diet thing - but felt that my diet's probably particularly "unhealthy" which in terms of weight issues isn't a problem, but felt it might contribute towards my skin problems. I subsequently felt open to trying some detox diet meals mixed into my meals to see what happens.

So yeah, I plan on going on a more "healthy" diet, but I'm curious about what detox dieters eat for ideas.
 
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Detoxing is unhealthy. You shouldn't cut out entire foodgroups.

Pick a healthy BALANCED diet and stick to it permanently. Don't binge on something for 6 weeks then forget about it until the next time.

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As for your salad question, they can be filling. The key is to mix it with something you enjoy (hence balanced). I grab a chicken each week, cooking it will last 5 days in the fridge easy. Then i throw together lettuce, raw spinach leaves, red onion, pepper, cucuumber and carrot, with some cooked bacon and chicken, and maybe some balsamic dressing if i'm feeling wild, or some worcester sauce. It's filling and tasty.

Just cut down on the bad stuff, don't cut it out completely. Change cooking options for instance. Fry your chips? do them in the oven. Fry your bacon? grill it. There almost always a healthier way to prepare any item of food.

If you have time, I'd also suggest preparing as much from fresh as possible. Fresh food comes with non of the rubbish that you get in pre-packed or even pre-cooked food. Someone posted in the gym rats thread a bread roll with 24 ingrediants. 24 ingreds in bread? it's just fat and preservatives and emulsifiers. Baking a loaf of bread is easy and way, way tastier. Cuts out all the bleach, fat and preservatives they put in packed loaves.

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dont use bagged salad mix. it's full of chlorine.
 
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If you drink booze then replace it with water. You will soon get a much noticable difference
 
I don't detox because I have a perfectly good pair of kidneys to do that for me.

If you want to make a difference to your diet then you should look at eating a more balanced and healthier diet as a long term goal, not as a quick fix.
 
DampCat said:
Detoxing is unhealthy. You shouldn't cut out entire foodgroups.

Pick a healthy BALANCED diet and stick to it permanently. Don't binge on something for 6 weeks then forget about it until the next time.

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As for your salad question, they can be filling. The key is to mix it with something you enjoy (hence balanced). I grab a chicken each week, cooking it will last 5 days in the fridge easy. Then i throw together lettuce, raw spinach leaves, red onion, pepper, cucuumber and carrot, with some cooked bacon and chicken, and maybe some balsamic dressing if i'm feeling wild, or some worcester sauce. It's filling and tasty.

Just cut down on the bad stuff, don't cut it out completely. Change cooking options for instance. Fry your chips? do them in the oven. Fry your bacon? grill it. There almost always a healthier way to prepare any item of food.

If you have time, I'd also suggest preparing as much from fresh as possible. Fresh food comes with non of the rubbish that you get in pre-packed or even pre-cooked food. Someone posted in the gym rats thread a bread roll with 24 ingrediants. 24 ingreds in bread? it's just fat and preservatives and emulsifiers. Baking a loaf of bread is easy and way, way tastier. Cuts out all the bleach, fat and preservatives they put in packed loaves.

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dont use bagged salad mix. it's full of chlorine.
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Good advices there, it's along the lines of what I was thinking, but as I mentioned in the edited original post - I want to try to mix the detox diet into my eating habits to see if it really makes a difference. I do know that I'm really low on the fruit and veg with my current diet.

I homecook a lot actually, pack lunch and cooked dinners besides the odd chinese and fish and chips when I'm lazy. Still, I don't think I cook healthy meals!

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If you drink booze then replace it with water. You will soon get a much noticable difference
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Don't really drink much besides the odd weekly pint, don't smoke either, which is why I think my diet's the main area I need to tackle. Although I do suspect maybe I'm not drinking enough water - I've been drinking sainsbury's "not from concentrated" juice a lot lately though.
 
Drink more water. Eat a balanced diet and try to work out if any particular things make your skin worse - for one friend of mine, it's citrus (so no orange juice etc) and for another it's dairy (she stopped drinking milk). Different people are affected by different things - coffee is another big one. Go and see a dermatologist, maybe.
 
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I'm a bit of a crusader about this, so here I go again.

Drink loads of water every day. This is one of the most important things an otherwise healthy person can do on a daily basis to improve health, skin, energy levels and feelings of wellbeing.

Depending on bodyweight we are talking 4,5,6 or even 7 pints of water per day, spread out over regular drinks during the day. I aim for a pint every 3 hours starting with the most important one when I first get out of bed. It's a pain and I rarely hit my daily target completely.

If you use water to replace alcohol, fizzy drinks, tea and coffee so much the better. If drinking large daily amounts of water a tiny amount of mineral salt (NOT TABLE SALT) in every drink may be necessary to prevent problems with excreting too many vital minerals. An eighth of a teaspoon per pint of water is probably enough.

Best to start with a few pints per day and work up gradually. Ease back a little if you are trotting off to the loo excessively or start to feel peculiar.

Google "Dr Batman" and get his books from the library for more info. This is not snakeoil peddlar stuff.
It has to be said his books are quite hard reading - he doesn't really understand the concept of dumbing down his ideas for the mass market :(

Basically he is saying that many people in western countries are permanently unintentionally dehydrated due to our lifestyle causing the body's biochemistry to permanently enter a kind of a coping with drought state. It is well known that a person's skin can improve dramatically simply by increasing water intake. Dr Batman is saying that similar changes take place with increased water consumption throughout the body.

Personally I have never never felt better than I do since I started taking more water. There are knock on effects like weight loss due to reduced desire for snacking for me too.

Just remember that water is completely harmless unless you drink silly amounts say - 5 litres in one go - people have died doing this in drink all you can type charity events rarely.

And on the food front a golden rule to improve diet and skin is "Don't eat food if it is hot and yellowish :)"
 
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EffBee said:
It is well known that a person's skin can improve dramatically simply by increasing water intake.
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It can, but I've yet to see any conclusive proof that we are generally dehydrated, or even that dinking lots of water can improve your skin. There are studies that go in either direction.

You should drink enough water to ensure that your urine is the colour of light straw. As long as you are doing that you are plenty hydrated and your kidneys are doing a good enough job of detoxing you.

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And on the food front a golden rule to improve diet and skin is "Don't eat food if it is hot and yellowish :)"
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No more mashed swede?
 
EffBee said:
Google "Dr Batman" and get his books from the library for more info. This is not snakeoil peddlar stuff.
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hmmm..

http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/batman.html

I agree that drinking water and keeping yourself hydrated is a good idea, I tend to drink quite a bit of water on a daily basis, but his claims on his website appear to have no founding from any decent research.
 
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