About Fat Flush Diets
Fat flush diets are intended to cleanse the liver of toxins. Many weight loss experts believe that the liver loses its ability to digest fats as it becomes overloaded with toxins from the things we eat and drink. In order to derive permanent, positive results from a fat flush diet, you must understand exactly what you are undertaking and how to implement your diet.
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Function
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Fat flush diets are intended to help you clean out your liver and improve its function. The results will be a better metabolism, a lower level of water retention and eventual fat loss. Fat flush diets are a long-term commitment, but over time most people who stick to them do lose a fair amount of weight.
Types
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There are several types of popular fat flush diets. The most common is a quick but temporary fix. It requires you to forgo margarine, alcohol, sugar, oils or fats, grains, bread, cereal, starchy vegetables, dairy products and most spices. This is the first of three stages of other fat flush diets, and it is a radical change for most people. After two weeks of this, most people have lost some weight and return to old eating habits. Truly effective fat flush diets actually require several months to a lifetime's worth of dedication. If you have a weight loss goal, then you can prolong the first stage described earlier and then add fruits and vegetables back into your diet slowly. Finally, you can add limited carbohydrate items like brown rice. This continues for multiple months until you have lost all the weight you want to lose. The most effective way to use the fat flush diet is to alter your eating habits permanently to exclude most starchy carbs and sugars.
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Time Frame
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The fat flush diet can take a few weeks or many months to complete. If you fully commit to the diet, then it is a permanent lifestyle change. If you just want to lose weight quickly, then you can do the first phase of the diet for a week or two. Longer-term goals require more extended efforts. Because the fat flush combines a healthy diet with liver cleansing and metabolism boosting, it is hard to say how long it might take you to lose a given amount of weight.
Benefits
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The fat flush diet has a multitude of beneficial health effects. Because of the drastic change in your diet, you will probably start losing weight pretty quickly. Also, this diet does help limit your intake of toxins so it will help your liver and your body as a whole. Over time, it boosts your metabolism and can even clear up your complexion.
Misconceptions
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Many people think that because the diet is called the "fat flush diet, it will be a quick fix for their weight problems. While you may start to lose weight fairly quickly, this diet does not actually flush fat out of your system. It actually makes your liver work better, which improves your metabolism as a whole. Also, the focus on natural foods will help you lose weight, but it generally does not work wonders overnight. You might lose about five pounds during phase one if you stick to the diet, but even that is not guaranteed.
Warning
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When you are making a major dietary change, you should consult a physician or a dietitian to make sure that you are not altering a part of your diet that you need. For example, getting carried away with a fat flush diet and prolonging the first phase indefinitely can lead to serious problems with malnutrition and can even cause your teeth to fall out.
Considerations
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While there are many success stories that attribute their weight loss to this diet, most physicians do not recommend it. This is not because the diet itself is particularly unhealthy, but because there is not a great deal of evidence indicating that actual detoxification of the liver occurs to any significant extent.
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