Ok, I've had a few people ask me about this. I finished it the day before Valentines Day so I can't remember every single element of it. I thought for sure I had posted about it but I don't see it in my categories so I might have just mentioned it here and there.
Basically it is a juice fast, you may also have heard it called The Lemonade Diet, The Syrup Diet or the Cayenne Diet. Now, if you haven't figured it out already....this diet consisits of lemon juice, grade B maple syrup and cayenne pepper. There is a very small book you can buy that goes over any questions you might have, how to do the cleanse, and tips and advice. I had googled this SOOOOO much that by the time I did get to the book store I just sat in one of their chairs and skimmed through the whole thing in about 30 mins. The advantage to reading about it on-line is that you will come across MANY blogs that people have done to follow them through this. Also any advice, instructions, reasons, explanations, all of this is online for you and it's easy to find.
The only adivce I can give is to really prepare your self for doing this. Know that it is HARD, but that it is worth it. It's really big on washing the toxins out of your body, so if you don't believe you have toxins in your body either don't do it, or do it for the weight loss effects. Which is pretty much why I did it. I do believe there are toxins that can be built up but I really was doing this to stop drinking so much damn coffee, loose weight and feel better. The fast instructs you to drink only filtered water, use organic lemons (no using the lemon juice you buy from the store, for many reasons). I used the filtered water for the actual juice mix only, but then through out the day I drank tap water. Again this is up to you and if you think you are consuming toxins from the tap water drink only the filtered.
It does take time to prepare the juice mix. If you want the full benefits of this fast you should not make more than a days worth at once. If you make more than that some of the nutrients die. When I did it I would come home from work and make enough for the entire next day. I put it in 3 16 oz water bottles (roughly) which equaled 6 servings and split it up through out the day. You really need a fridge or some way of keeping the lemonade cold. You have to allow for enough time to actually squeez the lemons, this does take a while and again don't do more than a days worth. You also need Grade B Mable Syrup. It is a little expensive but you won't use more than one bottle. I can't remember how big my bottle was but it was $14.00 and I bought it at Whole Foods (I coulnd't find a single grocrie store that carried it.) You don't want to use the regular table syrup because Grade B has extra nutrients you really need (seeing as how this is THE only thing you are consuming). Also Cayenne pepper. This was really hard to get used to. Put in only 1/8th of a teaspon at first, then work up to more. The more you can tolorate the better. Please look up all of the benefits of this part, I know the peper has nutirents, it also helps your metabolisiam (or so we're told) and has some other good properties about it. Other than that you mix those three ingrediants with water and then drink lots of water on top of that.
If I remember right you are suposed to drink 6-12 servings a day. If you want to lose more weight stay at the low end of that, if your just detoxing stay on the high end. Also each serving calls for two table spoons of the syrup. I did one, again because I was doing it for weight loss.
The biggest thing I can warn you about is Day 3...This is where most people give up and I almost did. Apparantly this is true for smoking, drinking and thing you are addicted too (yes even food). But if you can get past that third day your in the clear. For me day 7 and 8 were also difficult but I'm not sure why. Not as bad as day 3. Also, DO NOT COOK FOR ANYONE! At LEAST during those first 3-4 days. Trust me, you will not be able to stop your self from nibbling on every thing and eventually giving up. This is in EVERY blog and website I read. People eating around you is difficult those first few days but after that it gets better. My sense of smell was AMAZING the entire time lol.
As far as energy. You will have plenty. I did at least, and this is also something I read a lot about. Most people keep up theri workout routine and reported having more energy and working out better because of it. I did use water with electrolights in it while working out but I don't think many do. I didn't get any headaches after the 3rd day, and I think those were due to the caffine withdrawl.
Oh,....I almost forgot about the laxatives. There are two. The first one is in the morning. You are supose to drink I think 16 oz of water with Sea Salt, A lot of sea salt. It tastes HORRIBLE and I only did it 3 times. And those three times were on my three days off. If you wake up early enough and give your self about an hour to hour and a half before leaving the house you'll be fine. This part is really gross. I'm sure it would have been worse if I had done it the first few days, but since I waited till about day 4,5,6 my insides didn't have much to get rid of lol. It's bassically water coming out. Lets say you normally leave your house at 7am, drink it by 5:30 - 5:45 and then you should be fine.
The laxative at night is a tea. The tea tastes good, and for some people have as different effects. For me I would take it at 9 and wake up at 2 0 3 am and have to REALLY use the bathroom. That would last at leave 15 mins (again I know this is gross) but it didn't bother me too much. Again you'd have to do a trail and error your self.
All in all I thought this was great. I will most likely be doing it again before the wedding, and I'm actually kinda excited to do it. Afterwords I craved the juice.Some people go on drinking it witj breakfast (I think the book even reccomoneds it). I know there are websites that help Ease you into the fast, that is not what I did, lol I just jumped right in. But at the end it's VERY important to do exactly what is rec before you start eating solid foods. They have a vegitarian option and a meat eater option. I used a combo. I didn't do the whole 10 days, I did 8 and then started the "ease out" for the last two days. Otherwise its 10 days with ONLY the juice and then you eas into it. One more thing I just remembered, they suggest using Orange Juice as your first "real day of eating". Orange juice has always upset my stomach but I thought I'd try it any way (I have this problem where I feel like I have to do every thing by the book.) and then I found out I'm allergic to it. I started getting little hives and my mouth was very itchy, and that was the onl;y thing I drank so I knew it had to be that. I switched to 100% pure squezed Grape Fruit Juice. I'd do 8 oz of water to 8 oz of juice. I loved drinking that.
Well, I'm sorry if there are any typos, and if it's not very clear jsut ask me. I'm at work and checking in pt's.
Good luck and please feel free to leave a comment. When you do I get an e-mail and I can e-mail you back directly
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