Help me lose weight

[Torm]

That's a far cry from bloodletting, though...

True, true.

That doesn't change my point....

I didn't think it did. I just thought you might find it (and the other stuff on that page, for that matter) interesting.

Many of them repel more than bugs...

True again. But Teatree Oil smells pretty good, too - better than the pesticidal junk in the bug killer sections of stores.

 

[Pbartender]

They're ready to understand - they're just waiting for us to provide evidence beyond the individual-sense-proof (is there a better word for this, please?) that I was talking about yesterday.

Exactly... It's called empirical data.

Take 300 people. Leave 100 alone to eat their normal diet. Put 100 on your average low-fat, low-calorie diet, and put the last 100 on yor lemonade fast. After 40 days see how they're all doing, and compare.

That's what I want to know.

A single point of data and second-hand anecdotes are not very convincing... Especially when posted over a fan-based roleplaying game web-site.

 

[Desdichado]

I didn't think it did. I just thought you might find it (and the other stuff on that page, for that matter) interesting.

Indeed, later today or the next day when I've got more time, I intend to poke around there for some reading...

 

[Eolin]

Instead of being a lazy, over-anxious slug who smokes, drinks and eats garbage*, and only occasionally "cleansing the body of this accumulated waste" by injesting nothing but a lemonade-potion for a week and a half, why not just relax, eat better, eat less, exercise more and not accumulate the "toxins" in the first place?

It suggests you not be. And I think everybody here would agree you not be. But even if you're just eatning normal foods you're going to accumulate toxins. Sure, if you eat a lot of detox foods you'll have a lot less toxins (imagine that), and reducing such things is almost always good for you. So ... yeah. It is suggested that you do this every six months or so to give the digestive system a nice break, and clean yourself of all the crap you've accumulated. Of course, that link should also say that if you go back to eating crappy things, you'll gain back the weight and the crappy things will be a part of you.

 

[Pbartender]

Eolin... Are also taking the herbal laxative tea, as it suggests?

 

[Eolin]

I coudn't find a tea, but I've got fiber laxative pills.

On about the third day, I could distinctly feel my kidneys. It was bizarre. I'm not altogether sure what that was about.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I coudn't find a tea, but I've got fiber laxative pills.

Make sure you take your fiber every day, it'll help keep you regular.

 

[Desdichado]

Make sure you take your fiber every day, it'll help keep you regular.

Yeah, to me that's the best solution for "cleansing my body of all the crap I've accumulated."

 

[Torm]

Instead of being a lazy, over-anxious slug who smokes, drinks and eats garbage*, and only occasionally "cleansing the body of this accumulated waste" by injesting nothing but a lemonade-potion for a week and a half, why not just relax, eat better, eat less, exercise more and not accumulate the "toxins" in the first place?

I know you weren't talking to me, but since I use something similar: I don't smoke, I try to eat well for someone who LOVES food, and I drink water whenever it is available and good. But stuff builds up anyway, like sediment. So the occasional Pipe Cleaner does the trick.

 

[Torm]

On about the third day, I could distinctly feel my kidneys. It was bizarre. I'm not altogether sure what that was about.

It may mean that you want to be careful: Grandma always said that a pipe cleaner now and then was good, but that too much could cause you kidney problems. She told us this because Pipe Cleaner is good enough to drink just for itself, and some of the grandkids would.