Does colon hydro-therapy really help you lose weight?
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The word hydro should be an alarm to you. This is just a scam. Of course you could lose the weight, but it would be water weight (hydro - get it?) and you would gain it right back if you didn't die. You need water in your body to live.\nDiet and exercise. There's no other way.
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Firstly, a significant diet change aimed at weight loss will automatically cause you to lose excess water from your body tissues before you ever lose any fat cells.\n\nSecondly, what kind of a diet are you on? For instance, an "all meat" diet will make you urinate more frequently mainly because meat protein raises the acidic levels in the blood, and your body in its effort to maintain a balanced PH level, will be in a continual state of "flushing out".\n\nKnowing nothing about you or the type of diet you are on, all I can highly recommend is that you get enough good carbohydrates (primarily in the form of vegetables & fruits) into your system everyday. \n\nAside from that, though I can't tell you what to do regarding the taking of diuretics, I need to point out that this is not natural to the body and so will certainly have some side-effects.\n\nFinally, many years ago I too used to retain water and it turned out that, ironically, I wasn't drinking enough water and so my body, believing it was in some sort of drought period, struggled to hold on to every drop of it.\n\nHope this helps - good luck with your diet - be healthy.
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You do NOT have to "drink lots of water" to lose weight!!  That's a myth.  No basis in science.
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Diet pills and diets don't really help you lose pounds. You just lose water weight. One thing that really helped me with losing weight was drinking plenty of water, eating lots of vegetables for digestion and eater frequent smaller meals. That way your body isn't stressed out and holding onto extra weight because it thinks you're in starvation or stressful times.
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I agree with the other answers out there.  However, there's a misconception out in the world that drinking a lot of water will magically make you weigh less.\n\nIt certainly will help in your diet plan, but it is not a cure all.  It will certainly make you feel fuller and you'll burn some calories processing the water. However, I read that you'll burn a whopping 60 calories a day extra if you drink a 2 liter bottle of water every day. That's 4 pounds in a whole year (excluding exercise to and from the bathroom).  Probably not the goal you were shooting for.\n\nYour best bet to weigh less is exercise and healthy eating.  There's no magic method or pill.   Use a web site such as http://www.fitday.com to determine how many calories you need to eat and burn throughout the day.  It's free and they don't spam.  Check out magazines like Men's Fitness, Men's Health, Shape and Fitness to learn about exercise routines and healthy eating tips. \n\nThe bottom line is: educate yourself about your body and what goes into it. Practice what you learn and the weight loss will follow.\n\nGood luck.
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I dont think ppl understood the dont answer if you dont know part, what you were may help you lose water weight, its not there to burn your fat, the weight you lose is the water in your body.
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I don't believe in that, show me someone who has lost the weight from hypnotherapy.  What happened to diet and exercise?  That's really the only proven thing that works with no side effects.
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no there are multitudes of solutions from pharmisudics to health and diet... genetics and thyroid treatmens are a safer and more effective medical type treatment, however more costly and less accepted by insurace, try a healthy sport or active type lifestyle  alternative first not only is it cheaper but developes a sense of accopmlishment that lives on past the weight loss making it easier to retain your chosen weight rather then regaining it, definately stray away from weight loss drinks without active workouts as the weight reforms after giving it up "remember that the fatty cells you deplete of water must be burned as well otherwise they retain water again rappidly after dieting making a month of work reappear three days after dropping the diet....     Look at pictures of gbypass procedures months after the treatment, the fat vanishes leaving massive ammounts of skin that can only be delt with by plastic surgery, again expensive and hard to get coverage for....  exercise releaves some of this problem as the skin is not retained quite as abundently...   most of all GOOD LUCK and dont give up, YOU CAN DO IT...
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weight loss with steam is only temporary. you sweat losing water weight. when you drink fluid the weight comes back.it cleans your pours but as far as weight loss. serves very little purpose
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Nope, they ALL have side effects. Go see your GP though, they can probably help you find something that will aid weight loss without any side effects that will get in the way of your life!
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I've been taking it and have not noticed any weight loss, but I don't take it regularly.  I also take green tea pills, chromium picolate (SP?) and was taking Hoodia.  No real loss or changes.  I did hear a doctor on tv saying that everyone, everyone should take a multi and a fish oil. \n\nI have experienced weight loss by cutting back on beer (my vacation and de-stresser) and eating 1/2 a grapefruit every day, plus fresh lemon juice in my water.\n\nAs far as depression...talk to your doctor.  I know everyone says that, but do it.  Talk to him about weight loss too.  If he says to change your diet..and nothing else, see another doctor.  LOTS of folks have depression.  LOTS.  Your doctor has heard it many times and won't think you are a nut for saying it.  There are lots of meds for it, so you have options.
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Tea in general (or water!) "aids digestion", and if you like it, Pu-Erh will do so too, though no better or worse than any other beverage as far as I can tell.  There are some studies indicating it may help lower cholesterol, but there is no magic drink that can aid 'weight loss'.  The only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume.  Eat less, exercise more.
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Not tried it.  Look at studies:\n\nWhite Kidney Bean Extract Induces Weight Loss\nKEARNY, N.J.--Phase 2, a concentrated starch neutralizer extracted from the white kidney bean, proved effective for weight loss, according to final results of a clinical trial released by Pharmachem Laboratories Inc. on Dec. 10. The study, which the company noted is being considered for publication, involved 50 subjects who were randomly assigned to receive Phase 2 or placebo for eight weeks. Subjects taking Phase 2 lost an average of 3.8 pounds, which was approximately 200-percent more than the loss experienced in the placebo group, according to the company (www.pharmachemlabs.com). And, subjects taking Phase 2 also lost 1.5 inches from their waists, which was 43-percent more than the reduction seen in the placebo group. \n\n"One of the most surprising results of the study was the impact that the starch neutralizer had on triglycerides, a form of bad cholesterol," said Jay Udani, M.D., medical director of the Integrative Medicine Program at Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles. "There was a dramatic 26-point drop in triglyceride levels, on average, for patients taking the starch neutralizer, while those on placebo averaged only an 8-point drop in triglyceride levels."
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Really; this is probably fairly safe - who can tell, there are so many poisins in the owrld. However, it will not be effective when trying to loose weight. It simply binds to water nd fat, making you feel artificially bunged up/full and taking away all the good fats you eeat in your diet. you should just eat less and excercise more. Unless you really wanna look like a model/arnie swarzneggar in which case you should go see a proper gym person who will really give some roids or something, or amph etc.
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No, water helps you lose weight.  If you have pockets of fat that you can't get rid of, despite exercise and eating healthily, it could just be due to not consuming enough water.  Therefore, make sure you have 8 glasses per day.  Also, if you have a glass of water with your meal, it makes your feel full sooner and you eat less.\n\nhttp://www.freewebs.com/spiritualhealing
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I've had it done a few times (lots of details in my blog, below).  I stopped going only because I couldn't afford it--$70 every time.\nI did feel a lot better, a light lighter, my clothes were looser.  A friend of mine lost serious weight (a whole size) after a couple of treatments.\nThe theory is that if there's a lot of old waste built up in your intestines that it can cause illness, so if you flush it out periodically you're starting over "clean" as it were.  The gentleman I used to go to started doing it because both his parents died of colon cancer.
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The theory behind Acupuncture for weight loss, is that it may help to curb appetite, depress cravings, rid excess water, and stimulate the pituitary gland to burn off extra calories. Scientific studies do not seem to strongly support this notion at present however