The Ten Day Lemon Detox Diet!
June 16, 2008
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Tags: Day, Detox, Detoxify, Diet, Lemon, Loss, Ten, Weight
So I officially decided today: From July 5th to July 15th I’m going to do the Lemon Detox. It flushes all the built up crap out of your body and helps with cravings for things like snacks and nicotine and alcohol. It can help you lose weight and has some major health benefits for your colon and kidneys! I could really use this with my snack cravings… I’m rapidly gaining weight. Plus, you’re supposed to feel really good and full of energy afterward! Here’s how it’s done:
The ingredients for the lemonade:
One 2-liter drinking jug filled up with filtered water.
One large lemon (preferably organic).
1/3 to 1/2 cup of grade B maple syrup (or grade C if available). This is not the same syrup sold for your pancakes. It is usually only found in health food stores like Whole Foods or online.
Four or five taps of cayenne pepper (hotter is supposed to be better)
So you mix all this up and every time you get hungry, you drink some. You drink about three to five jugs of this every day, and NO FOOD IS ALLOWED FOR TEN DAYS. Drink as much as you need to satisfy your hunger. Then, every evening, you drink a mild to strong brew of Senna tea. This is basically like a laxative to help wash out all of the toxins in your body that the lemonade is loosening out of your stomach. Lastly, every morning, you mix two tablespoons of sea salt into a 12 to 16oz glass of water and chug it all down really fast. I don’t know exactly what this is for, I’ll have to look it up, ha ha.
After ten days, your body should be rid of all it’s nasty toxins!! For the next few days only eat light things… fruits, soups, and (two or three days later…) whole grain breads.
If you want to do this with me, (we can offer each other some serious moral support) leave a comment here with your email address (I won’t have it posted if you don’t want me to), I’ll email you from my Yahoo account and we can do it together!!! I’m so excited! Remember, I’m doing it from July 5th to the fifteenth… so you can eat all the crap you want for the fourth of july before you starve yourself. Happy eating people!
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lisa | June 20, 2008 at 2:31 am
Hey i’m definitly goin gto do this diet thing i’m gonna get the stuff tomorrow since my vacation cruise is june 30th and i need to shed some pounds lol
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Zoe | July 3, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Ha! These are the exact dates I was planning to also try this detox diet – right after the big 4th celebrations. My yoga instructor did this about a week ago and I started thinking it was something I should do too.
Here is what Wikipedia said about the salt water: “Since there is no intake of solid food, special precautions are taken to avoid constipation. Laxative Senna tea, which is optional, is taken every night, and in the morning a quick drink of 4 cups (1 Quart) lukewarm water with 2 teaspoons of fine ground sea salt serve as a top-down enema. This passes through the digestive system extremely quickly, usually causing defecation in 30-60 minutes.[3] Many individuals don’t require the laxative tea as long as the salt water has the desired effect.”