Don’t Use Laxatives to Lose Weight
People believe that laxatives cause weight loss. Technically they are correct. The use of a laxative causes the body to flush the lower intestines of waste; this causes you to not weigh as much and feel lighter. The problem is that this does not actually help your body lose excessive body fats; it merely ships out the waste faster than your body is intending to get rid of it. The side effects are dangerous and life threatening; they range from laxative addiction, dizziness, mineral deficiency, and other nasty problems that come from addiction. It is simply an untrue statement that you can use laxatives to lose weight.
Laxatives due have a proper medical use and that is where they should be used and not for off label treatment. The need to clean out the colon or get the bowels moving when you are constipation is a good reason to use a laxative. What a laxative does is to force the intestines to flex and spasm, pushing out the built up waste. Forcing the body to do that when it doesn’t have the calories to burn or when it isn’t ready can cause very painful bowel movements that could cause long term damage.
Laxatives are often called body cleansers and other types of detoxification; this is another advertising scheme to make you think they are a miracle cure that will cause you to lose weight. While a laxative does clean out the colon, it is not doing much for the accumulated junk that is everywhere in the body from a diet based around cheeseburgers from a fast food restaurant. Consulting your physician about using a laxative as a diet plan is the easiest way to learn about why the idea is terrible.
Using a laxative will give you the feeling of losing weight, because you are expelling waste from the body unnaturally, you will even feel a bit lighter, which can be good for self-esteem. The problem happens when you stop taking the laxatives the completely opposite happens. There will be temporary weight gain, water retention and a feeling of being fat. The weight gain is only temporary and as your bowel settles back into its normal routine the excess weight will go away. Using laxatives to lose weight is just a bad idea from every angle and something you need to desperately avoid. There are plenty of easy, healthy ways to lose weight; you just need to educate yourself.
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