Cleanses don’t work but you might get the “jump start” feeling by going three days with nothing but fruits and veggies and a little lean protein.

Eat all your calories in the same 10 hours. I basically eat between 9:30am and 6ish pm. (I do drink coffee iwth an ounce of soy milk early in the morning though.)

I cut out all rice and pasta and potatoes for 3 months but did not lose any weight doing that, so now i eat them again but in very small amounts.

The point is to eat food that makes you feel full and not constantly eat. My green smoothie of avocado or spinach with banana made with Greek yogurt fills me up from 9:39am til lunch, at about 12:30 pm. A bid salad for lunch; no 2 salads are ever the same for me. i love making them creatively. Dinner is practically a snack.

This should get you started. You will soon learn the foods you cannot control yourself over, and you will learn not to buy them anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:No cleanses, no diets, no fads. Start cooking all your meals and make your snacks from scratch. Like... completely from scratch - not "semi-homemade." That will go a very long way, and give you skills for long term progress.

OP here. Making things from scratch is never my problem. I’m a great cook and have way too many emotional attachments to food. I know myself. You can call it a fad or gimmick but I NEED something to help me clear out all the crap in my body. I am polluted.

PP who recommended Noom. Some of the "homework" in the app (which is fed to you in small bits every day) focuses on emotional attachments.

If you really want to do a "cleanse" do the Whole 30 - it gives you a good framework of rules, and gets you off sugar, gluten and junk in general. But it's not going to drop you a bunch of pounds that will come right back on as soon as you start eating.

Try Noom. I had been trying to drop the last 10 pounds of baby weight for 2 years. I've been using it for about 5 weeks now and have lost 5 pounds. The daily "homework" reading (in the App), plus group coaching, one-on-one coaching (all virtual) and counting calories has been incredibly helpful. I was eating WAY too many calories, including on the Whole 30.

I agree with the intermittent fasting. It's easy. You just don't eat for 16 hours. 8 of those hours you're sleeping. It's simple but effective. Try to eat healthy the rest of the time.

Anonymous wrote:No cleanses, no diets, no fads. Start cooking all your meals and make your snacks from scratch. Like... completely from scratch - not "semi-homemade." That will go a very long way, and give you skills for long term progress.

OP here. Making things from scratch is never my problem. I’m a great cook and have way too many emotional attachments to food. I know myself. You can call it a fad or gimmick but I NEED something to help me clear out all the crap in my body. I am polluted.

No cleanses, no diets, no fads. Start cooking all your meals and make your snacks from scratch. Like... completely from scratch - not "semi-homemade." That will go a very long way, and give you skills for long term progress.

OP here. Thank you for the whole 30 recommendation. I’m going to do it! That sounds like a great kick-off plan. Plus, from the bit of reading I’ve been doing it sounds like it might be good for joint health. Bonus.

Anonymous wrote:Do the Whole 30 as a reset. No products to buy.

I was going to say this. To make it easy Google whole30 shopping list. It gives you an easy reference for what you can eat. I lost 25 pounds in 6 weeks.

Do the Whole 30 as a reset. No products to buy.

OP - you don't need a cleanse, unless psychologically you feel this will help jumpstart you.

I would recommend including intermittent fasting in your new eating regimen. It's actually the easiest way to lose weight, in my opinion.

The way I do it is to stop eating completely around 6 or 7pm, and I don't eat again for another 16 hours. Then when you do eat, just eat clean. Veggies and lean proteins - which can be easily achieved by eating salads. Just throw a bunch of good stuff in there - avocados, sweet peppers, beans, lean chicken. You'll be full for hours. Drink a ton of water. Rinse and repeat at dinner!

the key is to "Simplify and Automate" your eating so that you don't have to think too much about it.

I have no advice right now, but I love the irony of the low carb poster talking about cleanses being a marketing ploy. Is there any bigger Ploy than the low-carb diet.

The best thing you can do to start keep the foods you love, but eat a lot less of them. Eventually, you can learn to make better decisions calorie and nutritionally.

Go to Dr. Anchors or BeLite and get some appetite supressants for a quick start.

Cleanses are a marketing ploy. The easiest and healthiest way is going to be a very low carbohydrate diet. This does not mean enormous amounts of protein, most of your calories should come from fat.

It's official. I'm fat. I have gained 45 pounds over the last 12 years. I have to get it off and keep it off. I feel miserable. I'm 48. I have a personal trainer to help me. But addressing my diet it a bigger issue, frankly. I'm ready to change my eating habits. To kick it off, I'd like to do some sort of cleanse diet. I google and the choices are overwhelming. Everything from expensive prescribed plans to that nutty vinegar and tabasco one. Could anyone point me to some good resources or an actual cleanse program that they'd recommend? Thanks.