Lemonade Diet

Posted by admin on May 23, 2009

The Lemonade Diet or Lemonade Fast is essentially a 10 day fast where you drink nothing but a “special” lemonade. It is described in the book Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs. Although it was not orginally intended as a weight loss diet, it has been promoted as being able to achieve dramatic weight loss.

During the ten day period you drink nothing but the “special” lemonade; this is supplemented by a herbal laxative tea before bed and a salt water flush in the mornings.

As a weight loss programme, this is likely to lead to a relatively large weight loss due to the diet containing so few calories; however, this is not without its problems as consuming so few calaorie is likely to cause headaches and lack of concentration. Another point of concern would be the salt water flush, the dangers associated with consuming too much salt are well documented, so it is difficult to believe that this can actually be healthy.

Although it was not originally intended as a weight loss programme, its promotion as such places it firmly in the category of a fad diet.

I’ve been asked numerous times what the recipe is for the lemonade diet or lemonade fast. I’ve partially included it on day 1 of my experience with the lemonade diet. However this doesn’t have all the details such as how to make the Salt Water Flush or what type of tea one should drink at night.

If you’ve never heard of the lemonade diet

, basically it is a 10-day fast where you drink nothing but a special “lemonade” drink. It is one of the best known methods for cleaning out your intestinal and colon walls. Although not intended as a weight-loss diet, it is effective at helping you balance your body and “rebooting” the metabolic process - which often results in weight loss (I lost around 10 lbs on this). *If you are looking instead for primarily weight/fat loss I would highly recommend the Burn the Fat [see picture to the right] program. I had a lot of success with its principles.

Well here goes:

Lemonade Diet Recipe

For at least 10 days, drink around 10 servings/day of the following:

• 2 Tablespoons (1 fluid ounce) fresh-squeezed lemon or lime juice NOT BOTTLED JUICE!! (approx. 1/2 lemon),
• 2 Tablespoons (1 fluid ounce) organic Grade B maple syrup,
• 1/10 Teaspoon or more cayenne pepper (hot red pepper), and
• 1 Cup (8 fluid ounces) purified or spring water, NOT fluoridated water.

(This is what I did) This is the equivalent of taking an empty gallon water jug and filling it with:

• the juice of 5 lemons
• 1 1/4 cup of organic Grade B maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
• 10 cups of water

Shake it all up and you got your days’ serving!

Salt-Water Flush Recipe

Upon rising drink a mixture of:

• 2 level teaspoons of uniodized sea salt to a…
• quart of lukewarm water

Herbal Laxative Tea (You can find this at most grocery stores)

Each evening drink an herbal laxative tea to help with elimination - preferably right before bed.

That’s it! Do that for at least ten days for a complete intestinal cleanse. If you haven’t read my experience with the 10-day lemonade diet, check it out here. Or if you just want to read about the final results you can go directly to the 10th day of the lemonade diet.