Salt Water Flush

I did a salt water flush yesterday. Not quite sure why. I just heard about how it can be good to detoxify your body or something and thought, “why not”, because I’ve done it before while on a fasting/restricting/clean eating kick.

 It worked and everything but now I feel headachy and bloated, which isn’t exactly what I was going for.

Every time I do stuff like that I always wonder what possessed me to do so, because it’s not like it was even necessary.  I just have this weird thought that I’m holding all these toxins and that it is going to stop me from losing weight, so I need to do a cleanse. I also rationalize this thought with the fact that people lose weight while on cleanses and when doing detox diets.

 Now, I know that the main reason these actually work is because these cleanses are generally fairly low cal and because it works to empty the stomach and the colon, so obviously someone will weigh less by the end of it. *Note: I’m not trying to discredit cleanses

Let me also mention that I have a very strong science background, and have taken university courses on human anatomy and physiology so I feel even more ridiculous for all of my crazy thoughts related to cleanses, and more generally, food and weight.