Well well, what do you know. We have another “detox” diet sensation on our hands. This time the claims to the fast weight loss are pretty staggering – 1 pound for every one day you are on the diet, hence the name “21 Pounds in 21 Days” given to this detoxification-based diet. It might as well be called out for what it is, which is an all liquid diet. It’s easy to drop weight very quickly on all liquid diets, as most people who’ve been on them can attest.
The problem is, you never really feel satisfied, and often times the claim that after three days you won’t need or want solid foods is true, but it’s because your body’s survival mechanisms are kicking in, making you feel a bit euphoric and introspective and peaceful, as a mechanism to protect the mind against starvation, which is essentially what you are doing to your body when you go on extreme “detox” diets like this. In case you can’t tell, I’m not really keen on these types of extreme diets where you aren’t really getting a whole lot of substance for days on end.
21 Pounds in 21 Days is a diet where you essentially are eating all liquids, a lot of pureed veggies and other types of detox drinks, but you are also taking in protein, which I suppose is a good part to the diet as opposed to other liquid diets like the infamous Master Cleanse, which is merely a concoction of maple syrup, cayenne pepper and lemon to keep your blood sugar up.
It also requires a coffee enema and taking various digestive enzymes with the diet. You get a kit to do the diet, so I’m assuming that some of these products come with that kit. You are supposed to lose one pound every day, and the diet is designed by people who should know what they’re doing – one’s a naturopath and the other is a registered nurse and colonic therapist (I’m assuming this means she administers colonics).
The detox products offered on their site include berry and veggie drinks that are supposed to help you maintain your results, and boy are they highly priced, but hey, if they work and they make you feel healthy and more importantly satiated and content as a natural weight loss remedy, then I guess that’s your prerogative.
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