Can you “sort of” do the master cleanse?
Question by Lynnette: Can you “sort of” do the master cleanse?
My question is, what if I were to eat a healthy breakfast and lunch, but drink the lemon drink and laxative tea at night instead of a dinner? Would that work for weight loss as well?
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Answer by NOOR
The master cleanse doesn’t work out. You just deprive yourself and put everything back on as soon as you start eating normal healthy foods, not even fattening or junk ones!
Instead of that, try the Smoothie Shakedown diet (check out their site). You can lose up to 20 lbs in 2 weeks and keep it off if you eat normally after, healthily of course and moderately exercise.
You have 2 smoothies daily (see their site for recipes), 1 solid meal and 2 snacks as well as drink a lot of water and sugar free tea that you can sweeten with pure stevia only.
If you want a REAL detox, go on a three day green smoothie (tons of cheap or free ebooks on amazon with raw vegan green smoothies) fast a week after you complete the smoothie shakedown. You should keep the weight off like this. If you have additional weight to lose, you eat “normally” for a week after smoothie shakedown and your green smoothie fast and then do another 2 weeks of smoothie shakedown.
Answer by EddySays
You are really just looking at a painful and drawn out way to empty your entire digestive tract.
The lemon detox/master cleanse diet is a calorie deficit program.
You will lose weight on this diet whether you are attempting weight loss or just trying to “cleanse”. The average adult has eight meals in their digestive system. Five more than they should. By going on a deficit diet like this you can lose up to 10 pounds just by not eating. But it is only the weight of the food in your digestive system. Plus the weight of the lost glycogen stores, excess sodium and associated water. This can add up to 15-20 lbs depending on your build. The signal these starvation diets send the body is that there is no more food available. The body immediately stores any fat it can and begins to convert muscle and even organ tissue first for fuel instead of the stored fat. Sadly metabolism actually drops. And all the weight is replaced when you start eating again.
There is no build up of bad plaque, toxins, or sludge in a normal, reasonably healthy system.
If this was the case we would have people dying left and right from malnutrition since their small intestines couldn’t absorb nutrients.
The majority of the water from food and what we drink is reabsorbed through the colon, if our colons were clogged we would all be walking around looking like sponges right?
Detoxing is ridding the system – liver, kidneys, and intestines of toxins both internal and environmental. Our liver and kidneys aren’t clogged with toxins. Otherwise we would be dead. The liver does in fact get layered with fat if we become overweight.
We “cleanse and detox” naturally 24 hours a day through respiration, sweat, liver, and kidneys.
We can help by eating a healthy diet with minimal added sugar and salt. Lots of fresh fruit, vegetables, whole grain foods, beans, peas, and brown rice keep a system as healthy as it can be.
Minimal alcohol, caffeine, soda.
Read food labels. If you can’t pronounce it, don’t put it in your body.
A healthy high fiber diet works every time.
Increases the speed and efficiency of the digestive system and helps the body rid itself of both internal and environmental toxins.
Cleanses actually flush out the beneficial bacteria and enzymes in the digestive system.
Search “gut flora” to learn about the beneficial bacteria we need in our colon.
We have more beneficial bacteria in our digestive systems than all the cells in our bodies!
The digestive system is one of the largest contributors to our immune system.
They don’t tell you about the gas, cramping, and bloating you will experience when you start eating again and the body has to rebuild this bacteria population.
Spend your money in the produce department.
Good luck.
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