I decided on the Purium cleanse to help jump start some weight loss and fitness in anticipation of a trip to Puerto Rico in 6 weeks. I had heard about Purium from a friend who did it and lost over 10 lbs of weight, only gained a few lbs back after the 10 day cleanse was over and said she was not hungry during the cleanse. This piqued my interest.
I've tried a lot of diets. You name it I've tried it. Nothing has ever worked for me in terms of keeping the weight off or in some cases me not following the diet exactly (Weight Watchers I'm sorry but I'm never going to count points). I'm also not a person of disposable means so I can't afford a lot of these diets where you have to buy their food. I'm also suspicious of foods in packets where I don't recognize ingredients or there are over 30 ingredients in one little packet of powder that you mix with water.
I was looking for a diet with fast results to help kickstart a longer and larger weight loss effort. Mentally I think fast results would provide the encouragement I needed. If I saw results immediately I would be more focused. Kind of like that dangling.
Now you know what I was looking for and what my mental state was at the time. Let's look at my concerns. Claims of fast results immediately send up warning signals, red flags and everything else. How is this possible?? I've been on other diets that claimed fast results with exactly no results. Would this work?
My concerns:
Then I did my research. First I checked out the site, read everything and watched all the videos. I hit Youtube and watched as many Purium cleanse user videos that I could find. I searched Google and read blogs of other people that did this diet. I bugged my friend incessantly about her experience.
I was hearing and reading that no, you aren't starving the entire time. I'd heard that before though with another shake based diet and I WAS starving the entire time on that. I was still suspicious of this one.
Probably weight will come back on, though not all of it and I will need to eat differently and focus on healthy eating to maintain and continue losing after the 10 days. Conclusion, I'm expecting weight to come back on but I can get rid of that weight and more with continued diet changes.
I'm expecting to lose weight and I really want to lose that 15-20 lbs that they advertise on their front page. But if you pay attention to the small print those are not average results, those are exceptional results. Average results are probably more in the 10 lb range.
Natural, safe, non gluten totally vegan ingredients. Nothing I didn't recognize or didn't approve above once I looked it up on wikipedia.
Apparently half your body weight in ounces (200 lb person drinks 100 oz) a day in water is the new standard. Don't drink this all at once or you risk water intoxication which is fatal. Look, I'm a hypochondriac so I was totally freaked out by this. I don't want to die on a diet. So I researched this point A LOT and I've come to the conclusion that this amount of water is safe. you need to to flush out the toxins and everything else in your body that purium cleanse is getting rid of. It's called cleanse fora reason. As long as the water is spaced throughout the day it's fine.
The side effects that I read and heard about were general malaise, some hunger, mental fogginess that's it.
Purium does provide guidelines for after the cleanse. But really I already know what I'm going to do which is follow a slow carb plan and incorporate more exercise. If I can afford the Purium super green shake then I will probably also buy a canister of that and continue to do one shake a day.
After analyzing all of that I went for it.
Part 2 coming soon.
I've tried a lot of diets. You name it I've tried it. Nothing has ever worked for me in terms of keeping the weight off or in some cases me not following the diet exactly (Weight Watchers I'm sorry but I'm never going to count points). I'm also not a person of disposable means so I can't afford a lot of these diets where you have to buy their food. I'm also suspicious of foods in packets where I don't recognize ingredients or there are over 30 ingredients in one little packet of powder that you mix with water.
I was looking for a diet with fast results to help kickstart a longer and larger weight loss effort. Mentally I think fast results would provide the encouragement I needed. If I saw results immediately I would be more focused. Kind of like that dangling.
Now you know what I was looking for and what my mental state was at the time. Let's look at my concerns. Claims of fast results immediately send up warning signals, red flags and everything else. How is this possible?? I've been on other diets that claimed fast results with exactly no results. Would this work?
My concerns:
- Will I be starving the entire 10 days?
- Will the weight pile back on once the 10 days are over?
- Will I lose any weight?
- What are the ingredients?
- Purium requires 80+oz of water intake,is that safe?
- What are the side effects?
- What happens after the first 10 days?
Then I did my research. First I checked out the site, read everything and watched all the videos. I hit Youtube and watched as many Purium cleanse user videos that I could find. I searched Google and read blogs of other people that did this diet. I bugged my friend incessantly about her experience.
I was hearing and reading that no, you aren't starving the entire time. I'd heard that before though with another shake based diet and I WAS starving the entire time on that. I was still suspicious of this one.
Probably weight will come back on, though not all of it and I will need to eat differently and focus on healthy eating to maintain and continue losing after the 10 days. Conclusion, I'm expecting weight to come back on but I can get rid of that weight and more with continued diet changes.
I'm expecting to lose weight and I really want to lose that 15-20 lbs that they advertise on their front page. But if you pay attention to the small print those are not average results, those are exceptional results. Average results are probably more in the 10 lb range.
Natural, safe, non gluten totally vegan ingredients. Nothing I didn't recognize or didn't approve above once I looked it up on wikipedia.
Apparently half your body weight in ounces (200 lb person drinks 100 oz) a day in water is the new standard. Don't drink this all at once or you risk water intoxication which is fatal. Look, I'm a hypochondriac so I was totally freaked out by this. I don't want to die on a diet. So I researched this point A LOT and I've come to the conclusion that this amount of water is safe. you need to to flush out the toxins and everything else in your body that purium cleanse is getting rid of. It's called cleanse fora reason. As long as the water is spaced throughout the day it's fine.
The side effects that I read and heard about were general malaise, some hunger, mental fogginess that's it.
Purium does provide guidelines for after the cleanse. But really I already know what I'm going to do which is follow a slow carb plan and incorporate more exercise. If I can afford the Purium super green shake then I will probably also buy a canister of that and continue to do one shake a day.
After analyzing all of that I went for it.
Part 2 coming soon.