Does it Work? - The Lemonade Diet

Has anyone here tried it? I've been doing a lot of research about it and it seems like there's not that many negatives or bad experiences that I've heard of so far. It's not only a diet, but also a cleanse, so I'd supposedly be detoxing my entire body of toxins and getting rid of old POOP. lol.. One of the websites I've been reading that has a lot of information about the cleanse is TheLemonadeSite.com.

If anyone has done it and wants to share there experience, I'd be greatful..

My mum did this and found herself feeling really light headed and ill because of how low her calorie intake was. She did it for 3 days and gave up on the 4th when she almost passed out at work.

I personally don't like the concept of it as a diet simply because, it's not something you can maintain for very long plus it promotes the use of laxatives! I find it quite dodgy that they want you to drink 2 cups of laxative tea a day, to be honest I would rather have a high fibre intake :)

HOWEVER, I do in actual fact have a glass of the master cleanse (cayenne pepper, lemon juice and grade b maple syrup) every morning before I leave the house. But I'd never do the 'diet', & prefer to detox my body by eating whole foods.

Well... if I can be blunt... why not just flush your money directly down the toilet? ;)

What do you think you'll do when you're finished with this? If you go back to your regular eating, any weight lost will pop right back on.

I generally stay away from all of these "cleansers" and diet aids. In my experience they do very little, and weight loss is really about changing eating and exercise habits.

Jay

Hi! That was the last diet I tried before I started my WL journey. I ws headed to Mexico and wanted to shed some pounds and even though I only managed 3 days I did lose weight. I also weighed more when I got back from Mexico than I left......So I went to Weight Watchers :)

I'm a little embarrassed to say that i did try this once- a lot of people around me were doing it as a "cleanse." After 3 or 4 days i had a wicked yeast infection- my friends told me it was part of the cleansing, like my body was getting rid of this excess, built up yeast- just crazy! maple syrup and lemon juice is not a balanced diet, and throws your body out of balance! your body gets rid of its "poop" quite well on its own- its designed to do that- and healthy eating- veggies, fruits, fiber- will support that better than a fast or extreme "diet." your body gets rid of "toxins" just fine through elimination, sweat, etc. healthy foods dont add toxins, so taking them away doesn't help anything.

i think it is appealing because it is extreme, and we tell ourselves, "oh, once i get all this out of my system, ill be healthy and start fresh." but we haven't done anything to change our habits or learn how to eat well in the long term. my friends who did this "cleanse" went right back to drinking, smoking, partying, eating crap. most of them don't make it past 4 days, even though they insisted that they felt GREAT doing it.

anyway, i don't mean to be harsh- as i said, i've been lured by the appeal of extremes. with this "diet," you don't have to make any decisions about what you eat- you just drink this lemonade, that's it. that seems like it will make it so easy! too easy. really, this doesn't work for health or long term weight loss. there is no magic formula to lemon and maple syrup.

but if you decide to try it, it won't kill you- but don't expect too much, and keep the monistat handy! and really, good luck with your weight loss goals!!

The first 3 or 4 days of any diet is usually a great whoosh as far as weight loss. In the few days as you have been "researching" this lemonade diet, hopefully you have reduced your calories and moved a bit more, because the results will be probably the same...and for FREE! ;)

I did the master cleanse twice actually first time I did it for ten days and the second I did it for eighteen. The first time I went on it I lost about twenty pounds and the second time I only lost ten. That was at the beginning of this year and surprisingly I have only gained back like four pounds. I didn't get light headed or really feel sick at all and I actually felt light and energetic.It does work but it takes a lot of discipline and you can't just go back to eating like you used to. I did it to cleanse my body because I was going vegan again and that's the important part it's a cleanse not a diet. It's not really aimed for weight loss but that is one of the better side effects hahah. It's funny though when it comes to extreme things like the master cleanse or going vegan I can do it but dieting is a nightmare for me.

I did the master cleanse too, and given another chance I wouldn't have done it :) takarixvx is correct in saying that it's more of a cleanse than a diet. What are your goals? If u view it as a diet, everyone else is right, you are better off with exercise and watching what you eat. Save for some rare cases, you do gain everything back, as the weight loss especially for the first 3 days is water loss. Good luck on your plan!

Your body is self-cleaning - cleanses are unnecessary if you're eating a balanced diet, especially if you're eating plenty of natural fiber from fruits and vegetables (fiber is sometimes called "nature's broom," because it DOES keep the digestive tract clean).

Also, researchers have found no signs of the so-called "toxins" excreted by these cleanses. There's been no difference in the compositiion of the sweat, urine, feces, saliva or livers of people using the cleanses and the control group.

Your liver is your detoxing organ, and your body does a fine job of using it.

Cleanses do little but clean out your wallet. Yet many people who have taken them swear by them, and why? Because they often feel "better" during and afterward. Some report feeling "lighter," and having more energy, and just feeling "cleaner" inside.

There are rational explanations for this. Perhaps the most powerful is the placebo effect - people believe they work, so they "feel" them working. Studies have shown that the more a person pays for a "cure" (in terms of money, time, effort...), the more likely they are to experience what they expected to. A couple other phsyiological explanations are endorphin release. Making any very dramatic change in diet or exercise, releases endorphins (the body's natural narcotic). Because the body experiences the change as an "attack," pain-relieving chemicals are released, resulting in a mild euphoric state. Some cleanses actually cause physiological damage, which releases even more endorphins - so the sign that the cleanse is "working" may actually be a sign that it is hurting you. It's a mild enough damage, that generally a person has no lasting ill effects, so it reinforces the idea that the cleanse "worked" and was a good thing.

Another physiological effect that can seem "good" at least when it's mild, is light-headedness (usually caused by the very low caloric intake). It can feel pleasant until it is extreme enough to affect balance or turns into dizziness or nausea.

People who have had good experiences with cleanses, are very difficult to convince that the cleanses are at best worthless, and at worst harmful. They can't believe that it didn't do something terrific for them. And maybe the psychological effects are worth it to them, so maybe I'm being overly cynical. But, because some of them are actually dangerous, I think it's extremely important to be very suspicious and skeptical of "cleanses," especially those that involve opening your wallet.

^ agreed!