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Originally Posted by impaul99 
Here's my opinion in short:
30 Day Trials Don't Work.
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When you do start eating healthier, the body will for example release stored toxins from your fat cells and put them back in your blood for the liver to filter out. This has the same effect on you as the first time you ate the toxins. So for example if you ate a Big Mac a year ago and the body couldn't handle the toxins in that big mac due to lack of nutrients, it stored the toxins in your fat cells to be removed at a future time. Now that you start feeding your body a healthy diet, the body will slowly try to release those toxins which puts them back in the blood.
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This is a great clarification / addition to the "detox" concept. It explains why a diet could be better than my current one, while I have no benefits. The word "detox" implies that the symtoms, like headaches and bad breath, correlate with toxins
leaving the body. But this could also be the just the adaptation to the new diet, like Steve suggested on his blog. And than the toxins leave slowly over a long time, drowning my benefits... So if I belief this that puts me in a more difficult situation, since this means I can no longer rely on my personal evaluation of a diet as long I have toxins in my body. If it is true that I'm full of toxins from things a ate in the past, then I can only rely on others for what to eat. If we all have the same body, I should look to science. If we are all different, than I'm screwed, since I can never find out which of the food are "toxic" to
my body....
I could be cutting everything and feel bad forever because the time delay is to big.. So this puts me back at square one.
You trust science for diet advise. In your example a Big Mac has toxins, which are those, and are they the same toxins for everyone, or is the meat bad for John and the bun bad for Joan? (And the fry for Nick, the iron for Jamie, the onions for Jack.. etc)
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Originally Posted by impaul99 So, that's the first flaw of 30 day trials. You experience MINIMAL benefits during the first 30 days. |
I agree with your examples in general. And you say that the 30 day trial is good way to trick your ego. If you view it only as that and don't hope to get benefits during the trial, it at least gets the habit started. That is how I use it. I think you are a good constructive critic of Steve's work, giving us that little extra detail.
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Originally Posted by impaul99 Why not do more research on diets and nutrition so that you can get a feel for what is healthy and good for you and design a diet for yourself that you can follow for 6months or a year at least, and ideally for life. |
I guess I'll have to. If I want the best diet or be sure I have the best one now, I need to know more. I think its great you are becoming a nutritionist. I will not go that far, but I think I will look into it to at least be sure. Any suggestions on where I could start? Any scientific basic nutrition books at college level that you liked?
BTW, the before-after pics of that guy is awesome! Thank you for everything!
