The diet consists of consuming 64-72 ounces per day of nothing but the following:
10 ounces water
2 tablespoons maple syrup (grade B - medium amber)
2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice or lime juice
1/8 teaspoon of caynenne pepper or as much as you can stand
At night any brand of detox tea or a salt-water flush
My client Johanna introduced me to this unique way of fasting as I have only done the 2 week pill system prior to this. Whole Foods has the book (about $7). At first the mere thought of going that long without food was scary and didn't seem possible or logical. The average person, not familiar with fasting, believes he/she will certainly die if he misses a meal. Your really suppose to follow it for 10 to 28 days. I chose to end mine at 5 days. I list details below stating why I ended it early.
Cleansing is basic for the elimination of every kind of disease. The purpose of cleansing , is to rid the body of the toxins. In the lemonade diet, the cayenne pepper acts to wash out the mucus loosened by the cleanse. The most important part of the cleanse or any fast is knowing how to come off of the fast, allowing the body to gradually adjust itself to handling solid food again. Tapering off the cleanse, with juices and broth for about three days is the reccommendation.
*The Master Cleanse" book states the following: "Basically, all of our diseases are created by ourselves because we have never taken the time to discover the true foods meant for man's use. We can create healthy bodies by using the right foods and eliminating highly toxic and mucus-forming foods.
Maple syrup = balanced form of positive & negative sugars. contains sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, iron, copper, phosphorus, sulfur, & silicon, vitamin a, B1, B2, B6, C and Panthothenic Acid (B5).
Lemon - loosening & cleansing agent.
Tonya's Journal Specifics - The Down and Dirty !
Day 1 (monday)
Feel great ! Amazing mental clarity and time saved from not preparing meals was used to get lots of work done at work. Awesome workout of weights and running sprints. Maybe this will be easier than I thought.
Day 2 (tuesday)
Tired! Changed it up and had lime juice in my "blend" all day which was a mistake because I felt hungry most of the day. I hate being hungry. Maybe it's not going to be as easy as I thought after all. My eyes burned all day and my left eye twitched all day. No exercise because I was tired and had to take son to ear appointment. I was a little grumpy as you can imagine. Had detox tea in the pm.
Day 3 (wednesday)
detox tea woke me up at 3 am with my stomach grumbling that resulted in a few trips to the toilet, ended up translating spanish from my child's information tag on a toy he received from his grandfather just to pass the time because i knew that only one bathroom trip was not in my body's plan. Can you say - "Not Fun!" and for more information than you probably want to know - the cayenne pepper was not so much fun coming out the other end. Exercise was cross training of high intensity bursts of rowing, running, and cycling totalling 20 minutes.
Day 4 (thursday)
Felt good, a little tired. did swimming sprints today, felt decent but swallowing a little salt water made my stomach feel like i could have another round of bathroom visits later, so i stopped after completing 20 laps. Had detox tea in the pm.
Day 5 (friday)
Felt bad, low energy. didn't think straight. had a facial and massage (with lymph drainage work) which made me Feel Awesome to get rid of some toxins. Decided to end the diet by days end and had some fresh orange juice and a few grapes. no exercise. Lost a total of 7 pounds in 5 days and didn't want to lose any more and felt that 5 days was long enough since I eat far healthier than most people. My normal diet consists of consuming no alcohol, caffinee, dairy, pork, or red meat. I take a whole food based vitamin that we sell at Energy Fitness, do a Protein Shake everyday, take a superjuice supplement called Monavie, and eat about 35 egg whites a week, plus veggies, and I love some cereal.
Day 6 (saturday)
Felt good. Orange juice for breakfast, soup for brunch and lunch. Rice protein shake in afternoon and detox tea at night. Stomach uneasy and just in knots. Exercise: hooked up bike child trailer and rode from house to gym (about 27 minutes) slow. extremely weak and begin to question my sanity of riding to gym to lift weights. felt better after workout and felt awesome on ride back home.
Day 7 (sunday)
Felt good. OJ for breakfast and rice protein shake as well. After early morning church I ate a gluten free, wheat free chocolate snack bar. Went to whole foods to grocery shop. everything looked good but now on a quest not to add wheat, gluten, and dairy back in diet (have intolerance and sensitivity to it). O.K. so when I got to car the dairy free choco-chips were delicious in about 3 handfuls. GOOD! Yummy! later I had the following: soup, air-popped popcorn, cereal . Ate too much, was constipated and trying to push it out (sorry for those details) Oh, the pain in my adbomen,, Arrrghhh!!!!
Over the next several days I gradually added Salmon, rice and eggs to my diet.
By the next Friday (1 week later after ending the fast) I gained back my weight. This is good news for me as I need to gain a little and because I was spending lots of time in the bathroom when I was consuming dairy, wheat and gluten as I was never absorbing the nutrients to keep a healthy weight for my size. That's right now I am on a strict diet of no dairy because of my lactose intolerance. I started slacking for a bit in the dairy-free department and eating blue bell ice-cream and skinny cow ice-cream sandwiches. I also eliminated Wheat & Gluten because I realized I have a sensivitiy to it. It causes me numerous trips to the bathroom, like 8 to 10 trips every day with some days worse than others. In my research about Wheat & Gluten I realized that individuals that do not tolerate these ingredients and do not change their diets can end up with symptoms like infertility and later in life osteoporisis. I feel so much better now that I am following this diet (way of eating) and would reccommend that you look at your own diet and relate what you eat and how it makes you feel. Food is suppose to be fuel and give you energy not drag you down because of its overprocessed and non-nutrient dense properties.
OVERALL: I would do it again but probably for only 3 days or so!
If you have any questions or want my professional opinion if this is right for you just send me an e-mail or post a blog and I will answer any questions you might have. Buy the book, it explains the pros of detoxing far better than I could ever give it justice.
Tonya Tittle, M.S., ACSM
Owner/Director of Training
Energy Fitness
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