We all have times when we need fast weight-loss results.
There might be a special occasion on the horizon, and that dress or waistband is just too tight.
Or perhaps your weight-loss efforts have reached a plateau, and you just can't seem to shift those stubborn pounds.
Others may need to get rid of a few extra pounds that have crept on after Christmas, a holiday or an excessive weekend.
Or maybe you just want to take the first steps to weight loss and you need a kick-start with the weight coming off fast.
These initial motivations are all part of human nature, and there's nothing wrong with that.
If vanity - wanting to look and feel better - is the primary driver for you to take action, well good on you.
A healthy diet can help you do just that.
Whatever your reason, your efforts will be rewarded: you'll lose weight and inches and feel better.
What really excites me is that for the vast majority of people who've tried it, following a healthy and balanced diet has been a great kick-start to their long-term weight-loss efforts.
With just 24 hours of effort to get your started your body will look and feet better.
Optimizing Your Energy As well as helping you lose a little weight and a few inches, the 24 Hour Diet can actually help energize your body too.
A long, hard winter or a really heavy stint at work can leave you feeling lethargic and wanting to lighten up on all levels.
A full detox can be a grim chore.
But you don't have to go through such extreme measures to feel lighter and brighter.
A simple detox cleansing program can increase your vitality, bolster your immune system and leave you with healthy habits to live by all year long.
Detoxing is a perfectly natural process.
In fact, your body detoxifies itself as it goes about its business.
Think of it as a well-organized sanitation system: the lymphatic, respiratory and urinary systems, gastrointestinal tract and skin work in combination and, ideally, in harmony to neutralize and eliminate potentially harmful outside substances such as pesticides, food additives and airborne allergens.
From inside the body there are free radicals and metabolic wastes to deal with.
For example, the hydrochloric acid in our stomach kills bacteria; our colon readies wastes for expulsion; our skin secretes toxins via sweat; and the tiny vessels that make up our lymphatic system act like garbage trucks shuttling fluids, fats and waste throughout the body, channeling them to our liver.
The liver is often described as the key to life as it constantly filters and purifies the blood and decides which substances the body needs and which it doesn't.
All this activity begins at the microscopic level of our cells and with a tiny protein molecule called glutathione.
Just as we identify rubbish by placing it in our dustbins, glutathione binds with harmful wastes, labeling them up for expulsion from the cell.
Normally the body adjusts levels of glutathione according to the amount of toxins present in the body.
However, there are limits.
As we are exposed to ever-increasing levels of toxins, our bodies need to work harder.
Glutathione gets used up more quickly and faster than we are able to replace it.
If too many harmful agents accumulate, the body is unable to expel them.
The mercury your liver can't eliminate may well end up in your hair, while destructive hormone-like substances called xenoestrogens may make a home for themselves in our fat cells.
This 'body burden' can result in immediate problems like fatigue, headache and lower back pain.
Over time, some experts believe it may create conditions ripe for disease.