Weight Loss Tips

What is The Lemonade Diet?

I’m not sure why, but there’s been a growing interest in the lemonade diet lately. Maybe people are curious, or maybe they’ve heard how well it actually works, so today we’ll take a closer look at this “diet”. We’ll explain what it is, how it works, and some cautions you should know about too.

First of all though, this is not technically a diet in the common sense of the word. The Lemonade Diet is more of a juice fast, or body cleanse instead. Because literally, you’re living on lemonade for the entire time. You are not eating food of any kind - not even soup.

The Lemonade Diet is also known as The Master Cleanse. It was originally created by the now deceased Naturopath Stanley Burroughs. The diet was created to help rid your body of toxins that build up when you don’t exercise or eat right. It’s supposed to help clear and clean your body’s digestive tract, kidneys and liver, while carrying out all the bad stuff that’s settled in over time.

Some say this diet works so well, that most people can lose two pounds of fat each day without any harmful side effects. In fact, one of the reasons it might be gaining in popularity is because of the success a few famous people have had with it.

Now the actual recipe is simple but specific. You’re supposed to make lemonade a certain way. And you’re supposed to actually make it - not buy or mix it.

1. Two tablespoons of fresh lemon juice. This is approximately 1/2 of a lemon, and it should be fresh squeezed or organic.

2. Two tablespoons grade B maple syrup. If you’re diabetic and/or you’re doing this to lose weight, you may need to reduce the amount of syrup used.

3. A pinch of cayenne pepper, approximately 1/10 of a teaspoon. You can skip putting this in your lemonade and take a capsule three or four times a day instead. I’ll warn you though: Taking cayenne capsules on an empty stomach burns.

Mix the above ingredients into a 10 ounce glass with distilled or spring water. The water can be hot or cold. Then drink it.

Do this six to ten times each day (6-10 glasses of lemonade each day).

Now that is the basis of the lemonade diet. The entire thing involves a couple of other steps though. Namely: You want to eliminate waste from your body, so you’re supposed to use laxatives. Not just any though. You’re supposed to drink a laxative herbal tea in the morning and evening, plus you’re supposed to do a “salt water bath” for your insides.

The salt water bath will make you need the toilet for an hour or two after drinking it. Mix two level teaspoons of uniodized sea salt into one quart of warm water. Drink the full quart first thing in the morning - unless you need to leave the house within two hours. This will cleanse your entire digestive tract… which means you need to be close to the bathroom.

You can drink as much water or unsweetened herbal tea as you’d like throughout the day in addition to your lemonade. The lemon juice and maple syrup actually have all the nutrients your body needs, and the cayenne pepper will help boost your metabolism so the fat is burned faster.

If you decide to try this diet, it’s very important to follow the proper steps. Most important is coming off the diet properly. When you go for extended periods of time without solid food, you have to slowly introduce it back into your system. Usually you start with soups and other liquids first, slowly move to soft foods like jello, then gradually move back into normal eating from there. Trying to eat “normally” after having been on the fast for awhile will make you very sick.

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