Do the Master Cleanse Diet? This Author Says “Don’t”
I spent all day yesterday writing a review of the Internet’s top 10 diets for one of my other sites. The Master Cleanse Diet, (aka the Lemonade diet), was number four on the list, which I found rather shocking. Then I woke up this morning and found that the term “master cleanse diet” was one of the top search terms on Google’s Hot Trends List. Sigh.
I reviewed the diet, but I did not recommend it. Here’s why:
This is not a diet. It’s a purge. The premise of the program, which has been around for years, is rather simple. You consume nothing but water, sometimes with lemon juice and cayenne pepper added, and wait for your body to cleanse itself of all the gunk that has been accumulating for years. Oh - and don’t forget the laxative tea.
As the authors admit, in sentence #3 on their web page, most people don’t last one day on the diet.
However, it makes great reading when celebrities give it a go and put their daily experiences up on a blog, which happens with some regularity. It’s a challenge, and everyone wants to know if they can stick it out, through the stomach cramps and the foul-tasting tea and lemonade. Sort of like Reality TV in real life.
And people who need to lose a few pounds fast, like some Hollywood stars, are often willing to do just about anything it takes - even if it means temporarily losing the pounds down the loo. If I had a few million bucks riding on the way by butt looks on camera, I might do it, too.
But let’s get serious…
Cleansing your colon is a good thing, but you can do it without severe stomach cramps and without sitting on the toilet for hours every day. So before you jump on the bandwagon, check out my full review at HowToThinkThin.com , and see what I recommend if you really want to clean out your system, but you’d rather do it without making yourself sick at the same time.
Just a note - I have written several books on weight loss and other health issues, but I don’t plug my own books on the review page. I just wanted to give folks an honest look at the Internet’s top 10 diets, and give you a heads-up about which ones work and which ones are just plain silly - before you decide which one to try.