Poor Gwyneth Paltrow. She has been stricken with a horrible disease that makes her over weight, but only she can see it. The worst side effect? It attacks the little part of the brain where common sense dwells, telling her to do horrible detox diet after horrible detox diet.
She took to her blog to share the details:
“It is that time of year, folks. I need to lose a few pounds of holiday excess. Anyone else? I like to do fasts and detoxes a couple of times during the year, the most hardcore one being the Master Cleanse I did last spring. It was not what you would characterize as pretty. Or easy. It did work, however. As I do not wish to subsist on lemon water in the middle of winter, I asked my doctor, a detox diet specialist, for the guidelines he uses to achieve a good detox that is not as hallucinogenic (in a bad way) as the Master Cleanse. He actually thinks that the Master Cleanse can be dangerous because the liver is not supported by the nutrients it needs.
What it came down to was this: you can detox easily and effectively while you continue to eat as long as you are cutting out the foods and other substances that interfere with the detoxification process. Make sure you check with your doctor before you start any detox. Drink A LOT of water. I created this menu plan for a seven-day elimination diet. The shakes and juices are meant to be liquid meals that help decrease the amount of work your digestive system has to do. I will be suffering along with you to kickstart my year a bit lighter. Good luck to us all!”
Thanks, Gwynnie. I need all the help I can find to get over my silly notion that my body is fully capable of detoxing itself, thanks to some funny things called internal organs, and that weight loss should not be suffered through. How could I have made it this far in life being so misinformed? Perhaps I will start going to your doctor, because any doctor that recommends forced starvation and not following a healthy, well balanced meal plan obviously knows his stuff.
For shame.
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