Master Cleanse Diet: Does It Work?

Are you amazed at how Beyonce was able to lose whopping 20 pounds just mere days before she had to start filming Dreamgirls? Are you curious as to how Jared Leto was able to reclaim his hot body after he had put on 62 pounds to play his role in Mark David Chapman? No, it does not involve chefs making you salads 3 times a day nor does it include hiring a gym trainer.

Because of all the media hype, Im sure that by now you are familiar with the master cleanse diet. Its amazing how this diet is so popular when its creator Stanley Burroughs an alternative medicine practitioner had made this diet more than 50 years ago. This diet was not coined to be a reducing diet for which it is popular now but rather it was designed as a cleansing diet that would help in detoxification.

This diet is really simple in that it involves nothing but the mere consumption of lemonade all throughout the diet period. All that you need to come up with this lemonade are the basic fresh lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper. It may take a lot of getting used to with the cayenne flavor but you cannot omit any of the ingredients except probably with the maple syrup.

Before you start with the diet you will need to go through an ease-in period first.

An ease-in period is the time before you start the diet wherein you condition your body and your mind for what is to happen. For the master cleanse diet, you will need to alter your food intake to accommodate lighter meals as a preparation for when you can only drink nothing but the lemonade.

Finally, after the ease in period you can finally start with your diet. The average duration of your diet should be 10 days but this ultimately depends on you. Some have dieted for as little as 7 and as many as 12 days.

Every time you feel hungry, all you need to do is to take a sip of your lemonade until the hunger disappears.

You will also need to take in some laxatives while you are going through the lemonade diet. Because of the lack of fiber in your diet you will not be able to move your bowels efficiently.

The laxatives are there to solve that teensy problem for you.