Should You Juice Detox?
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Speaker 1:And this podcast is gonna help you live a healthier, more fulfilled life, hopefully, giving you some wisdom to take away every single day. So I'm gonna shut up now so you can get on with listening to the next episode. Good morning, We are going straight into business this morning, so you better be on your walk, you better be sharp, and you better be listening. So first thing, sort of comment in the Facebook group. I'm not having to go with this person.
Speaker 1:I'm just doing this because I think it's a very important topic actually asking, I'm gonna go on a juice cleanse or a juice detox because I got a holiday in a week. Should I bother tracking this in the macros app? There'll be loads of ingredients and I'm not sure it's worth, you know, I'll be able to do it. So the second half of that is, know, we can disregard it doesn't matter. The first part is important.
Speaker 1:Why are we or this person or you looking to go into a juice detox or the juice cleanse aka crash diet aka extreme methods a week before holiday? So like we need to address that don't we? So you know that popped up and we've all been in this position before because I can sympathize, we've all been there, we're a week from holiday, one event we're look our best for and we think, oh I wish I'd just be a bit lean, wish I could lose a bit more weight, wish I could look a bit better. And the thing is we've already put the work in until that point. When you're a week out there's nothing much you can do, right?
Speaker 1:Unless you are a bodybuilder, physique athlete who is above 5% body fat, what they call peak week is very important because once you're that level of body fat, a small manipulation to your carb intake, water intake, salt can make all the difference to how full or dry you look on stage and stuff like that. They're very like if you go on the internet and look at the bodybuilding stuff about peak week, that's for people who are super duper diced and shredded. I've done it once in my life and it is actually mental how small changes can make a difference there. But only because there's no fat there in the first place. So it's all about like muscle fullness and looking dry and getting more.
Speaker 1:It's not exactly a healthy thing to do, right? But we think that when we're in the normal day to day, all of us normal human beings who are just trying to look good on holiday, doing something peak week style isn't really going to do much for you. So I can sympathize, we can all sympathize. The thing is when we get to this part, we're desperate. And when we're desperate, we do desperate lunges.
Speaker 1:We lunge too much forward. We do that extra thing. And that's where things go to shit. That's when we start to do things that really cause long term damage. K?
Speaker 1:Because logic goes out the window. We feel desperate. We want results before we go away. We all wanna look best on a holiday. So from this angle, I can see why that options start becoming reality.
Speaker 1:I can see why people think us. Hell for a week, lose a few pounds, extra few pounds, look better for the look better for that photo, maybe it's worth it. But it's never worth it. Doing these types of diets right only plays to our hopes in the bad sense. Reason gets thrown out the window, wisdom is miles away, you can't even see wisdom when you're in this state, you don't want know what wisdom is, you don't care about it right and we put all the hopes in this thing working But deep down, we know it doesn't.
Speaker 1:Okay? So what do we do here? We go off plans, persons on the macro app. We're gonna do long term sustainable slow and steady one day at a time results, but this is the opposite of that. So they find a growth plan, panic, go extreme.
Speaker 1:We think it's the only option left or so we think it's the only option left. We start another yo yo diet style phase. We go back to old habits. Reinforce them. We wanna get away from these.
Speaker 1:But what we're doing with this, we're reinforcing the fact that we must go extreme before any major event in our life because we need to get that extra bit off. Right? Think of it like in terms of exam terms. You could you know, if you, did the work throughout the year, by the time it gets to the exam phase, you're pretty much ready. You might wanna do a bit more at the end of the week, maybe just sharpen up a little haircut.
Speaker 1:Do you know mean? A little bit, little bit that, little clean shave for men on their face. And then, you're fine. But for people that don't revise Get Ready All you try and cram it all into the last three days, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes most time you don't and it fails. So we wanna get away from the habits of leaving everything last minute.
Speaker 1:So we want our lifestyle to reflect. We want to kind of radiate our lifestyle at all times of the year, essentially. So we don't wanna be in a place where we think we have to do any types of crash diet at all. So we need to stop reinforcing that we need to follow unrealistic plans to get results we want. So all of you need to stop doing that.
Speaker 1:I think it's one of the most detrimental things you can do. And we reinforce the fact this is a magic detox bullshit and it's all water weight that goes off anyway and we need this to get us to our goals. It's got to be a secret method. It's got to be something secret. How are these people looking like down all day?
Speaker 1:I'll tell you how. Some of them would be miserable for twelve weeks and do like a bodybuilder time cut. Some of them have done years of hard work moderate eating and stuff they just look that like that year round. Most of them mix it up both plus editing plus angles plus everything okay, that's what happens. So you don't look at these folders in Instagram, even holiday looking, you know, like you think of 10 or tens and looking amazing because it's not the reality of the situations anyway.
Speaker 1:Right? It's never worth doing. I know our brains work on habit. Remember that. So when we reinforce these things, we're reinforcing that behavior.
Speaker 1:And how can you ever be free if this is your mindset? If your mindset is thinking that being two pounds lighter for your holiday is gonna make a holiday better, of course it doesn't. Or will it give you one day one day where you go and maybe have that photo and then you have drinks, you have food, you enjoy the paella, you enjoy the sangria, you enjoy whatever you want. Then day two, you're like, fuck. You know what mean?
Speaker 1:Don't care. I'm enjoying the food. Right? So why do we think that there's the connection between our holiday becoming what it should be plus two pounds extra fat loss or whatever you want to get from the last week? Right?
Speaker 1:Who are we doing this for? Because we're certainly not doing it for ourselves because this is really detrimental to our mental health. We're not doing it for ourselves. Who are doing it for? So you need to really ask yourself this question because it's a very important one.
Speaker 1:Are you doing it for others? Are you doing it for social media? And it's fine, this is the world we live in, but we have to be aware, to be we have to open up and say, right, you know what? I just wanna look good for social media. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I wanna look good for a picture. It's fine. That's great. You will look good as long as you are glowing and smiling and happy, radiating joy. That's when you look good, not when you have done a week of torture and now you've got no food in here, you've got no nutrients in here, you've got no carbs in your muscles, you are completely drained.
Speaker 1:Now you're going on holiday thinking that's made you better, but it's not. It's always in the back of head. Your mind is literally thinking about it twenty four seven and not about enjoying what's in front of you on holiday. Right? And holidays are not and should not be predetermined by our weight in terms of how well they turn out.
Speaker 1:Right? Just do our best. Go the slower route. We're building healthy habits. That's what it's all about long term, not for one bikini shot.
Speaker 1:We're building for the long term. We're building the lifestyle and mindset where we don't get pulled left and right at like basically what society and Instagram expects from us. Because that's not freedom. You are a slave. You're a slave if this happens.
Speaker 1:So we make progress every day, small steps. Are you where you wanna be right now? No. But it doesn't matter you are making progress. Over time we're gonna lose fat, we're gonna gain some muscle and the most important thing we protect our mental stillness.
Speaker 1:This is the crown jewel of the journey we're on. We must protect this at all costs and as Ryan Hawley's created a book about this, he's called it Stillness is the Key. Right? And nothing is worth throwing away our stillness and tranquility. It's hard to resist but we don't wanna throw this away.
Speaker 1:Don't fall into trap of doing forcing things last minute. Let go of the impossible as well. There's things in your mind like I think I could do this by this time, and it's not possible. And then you're fighting, you're struggling against something that's impossible to win. Think of how think of stupid that is in a in a sense.
Speaker 1:You're making a you're making you're your own mind. You don't have infinite energy. Your mind doesn't have infinite energy. You are literally in civil war in your mind. And you're just you're utilizing your resources for no reason when it could have been used for better things, building better stuff for you and your life and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Right? If you take things one day at a time to build healthy, flexible lifestyle, you won't need to worry about getting ready for a holiday and trying to force a few pounds off in a few days. You'll always be ready, content and happy with where you're going. So direction is what matters a turtle, progress equals happiness. It's one of the reasons a turtle was so passionate about the community, the tools we're building.
Speaker 1:We focus on the mind. We focus on learning philosophy, reading books, the ancient type philosophy, not the new type. Mental health workshops, mindset stuff, imposter syndrome, self sabotage. We, like, cover all this stuff, and I think this is what makes us slightly different to other people, other companies. It's like we know that this is the important stuff.
Speaker 1:Like, oh, you wanna lose weight. That if that's a metric we're after, then go ahead on this crash diet. That's not what we're gonna do. That's not our metric. No metric is holistic health, well-being, joy, radiance, all this stuff that's gonna make you a better person and have a better life.
Speaker 1:All of it comes together in a package, isn't it? And I think that little rant hopefully helps. I don't know if it does, but I think it's I just don't want anybody to think they have to go on a crash diet for anybody. Don't. Please don't do it.
Speaker 1:Please don't do it. And I got an Instagram post coming soon about crash diets and some research on it. I'll cover some of it now quick before I finish this voice note. But crash diet is just a way of losing weight fast. It's typically water weight.
Speaker 1:A recent study showed that people who follow the crash diet for two years after the diet, eighty three percent eighty three percent of them gained back more weight than they initially lost. So nearly every single person that did a crash diet not only did they gain their weight back they gained more. Think how mental that is guys come on shake it, shake your head. You're literally doing self harm by going crash diets you're literally going backwards not just physically, mentally, mentally even more so. There's no medical definition for crash diet really.
Speaker 1:It's just like red flags, red flags. Okay. So red flags for crash diets, know, and what they're do to you they're gonna make you boring and miserable. Who wants to be around boring and miserable people talking about when they're gonna lose another pound of fat just for the holiday? Right, you don't want to be grumpy moody tired.
Speaker 1:Right. You need to have energy, radiance, joy in your life and that shouldn't be switched for a pound of water weight. Think of it, it's not rational at all. Crashlytics damage your health right. Your dieting is very taxing on the cardiovascular system and it can deplete your body with vitamins and dehydrate you.
Speaker 1:A study in the International Journal of Obesity suggests that your dieting alters fat tissue and decreases glucose tolerance which could increase your risk of diabetes and heart disease. So this is some serious stuff guys and it's nothing I'm messing about. Crash diets are mostly caused by water weight loss. It's not fat loss okay. Every gram of carb you consume, boil you retain three grams of water.
Speaker 1:So you drop the carbs obviously drop a lot of water, get piled back on and think I've gained all the fat. No. This is not the mindset to be in. You're gonna be in hell if you think you're what you're gaining fat up and down just because water is going up and down. They also lead to micronutrient deficiencies.
Speaker 1:Okay? This detox juice one would definitely has to led to this. Macronutrient deficiencies also because it would have just been carbs and fibres. So we need nutrients guys. There's a lot of you.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of people out there who've got deficient in some nutrients and it really causes issues in their life. Now think of being deficient in many nutrients at the same time by your own doing. Some people's bodies can't make something. Alright? And the thing is they're not sustainable as well.
Speaker 1:So you're doing something short term harm and then it causes, you know, just no results basically. So that's what I wanna drill into all of you now. Going into Christmas period, autumn, Halloween first, obviously, and, you know, guy forks, fireworks, and then we got Christmas. If there's any event you got coming up you wanna look peak for, just put in the work slowly over time. Right?
Speaker 1:You know, I'll always remember this lesson as well when I went on speed awareness course. Yes. Yes. I did speed once. Yes.
Speaker 1:I did. And I was on the newspaper in Wales. They actually publish your name in the newspaper, mind? '84 is now with Tumble speeding down the road. Oh, shut up.
Speaker 1:Okay. Sorry. Did. Anyway, went to speed awareness course. And they did this kind of lesson about one car in traffic.
Speaker 1:So there's two cars, this normal traffic, and one car's flying through traffic because he needs to get somewhere. Right? He's flying through traffic, weaving in and out, going dangerous speeds, left, right, overtaken, undertaken. And then the other car's just going to the speed limit. Right?
Speaker 1:And it isn't normal traffic. I think it was something silly, like, after, like, 30 miles or something, these two drivers, there was literally less than a minute difference in their arrival time or something. It blew my mind. I was like, wow. So person a who was speeding and then taken going crazy for the 30 miles only saved a minute, but he put himself at risk, other people at risk.
Speaker 1:Right, everybody at risk. Burned his tyres out, tyres would have gone, they would have done worse, fuel efficiency would have been down, everything's worse because of the panic. Another person kill, chill, calm, obviously there's gonna be traffic lights here and now you're gonna stop, start, eventually get the same destination. Okay, So that lesson sticks to me, and it's like kind of like what you do with when you're trying to force a prep preparation for a certain event is like you go all out like driver a, you wear things out, you put yourself in danger. You do this all for minimal minimal gain.
Speaker 1:Because if we lose one pound of fat a week, right, that's a 500 calorie deficit roughly. When we go into more of a deficit than that, you're only gonna lose a bit more fat in a week. And it is as you get into a deeper deficit, there is a lot more struggle happening, damage in a sense. It's not as if you know you go a bit harder that you lose, like, 10 times your amount of weight. It's never that amount more, same as our traffic analogy.
Speaker 1:It's never as much more as you think. So we might as well slow it down, take the moderate approach, being enable us to eat more food, enjoy ourselves, and let our mind folks and other stuff that matters and not about if we can lose an extra three or four pounds here and there. Makes sense? Are you with me? Have you just switched off?
Speaker 1:Hopefully, that resonates and hopefully the person in the comments listening and it's not to have a go at you. I swear it's not to have a go at you. It's a really important lesson. I hope you listen to this advice because it's vital that you do in a sense. Otherwise, there's more stuff you can go wrong, like eating this all stuff as well.
Speaker 1:So guys, enjoy your day. Do your one big thing. What is it? Let me know. Get it done.
Speaker 1:If there's things in the back of your mind that needs to get just get them done now, and just feel better for basically small task go for a walk. Lovely day yesterday. I hope all of you got your steps in and, on that note guys I will stop bambling about but remember to live one day at a time please in this day of silo, this magnificent day you've got coming up, what are you gonna do with it? What are you gonna do with this day? Hopefully you need to listen.
Speaker 1:And that is it for today's episode so hopefully you took something away from it, if you didn't here's what you need to take away, stop wasting time on social media. Stop wasting time gossiping. You've only got a day to live. Today's the only day you ever have. So if there's anything to take away from this podcast, even if you can't understand the word I say, even if you didn't resonate with the wisdom I try to deliver, this is a reminder of you daily to live one day at a time.
Speaker 1:Give your moments meaning today and don't be fooled by thinking you've got unlimited amount of days but if you can make the most of today I'm telling you you'll have a fulfilled life so enjoy your day and hopefully I'll see you back tomorrow. Do daily to live one day at a time. Give your moments meaning today and don't be fooled by thinking you've got unlimited amount of days. But if you can make the most of today, I'm telling you, you'll have a fulfilled life. So enjoy your day and hopefully, I'll see you back tomorrow.
