Someone recently asked me what my thoughts on the lemonade diet are. Well, my answer was “I have no clue, never even heard of it.” Still, they were a friend so I did some research.
We’re off to a bad start
The first site I found was a commercial one claiming to be the official site of the lemonade diet. The site promised a lot but delivered very little. It seemed to be setup mainly to sell you stuff, which is not a good sign. However, here’s what this site and a few others claimed the diet can do:
The iet consists of fasting to rid the body of toxins, created by improper diet, lack of exercise and negative mental attitudes. The purpose of the Lemonade Diet is to dissolve and eliminate toxins and congestion; to cleanse the kidneys and digestive system; to purify glands; to eliminate waste and hardened materials in the joints and muscles; to build a healthy bloodstream; to maintain optimal blood pressure; and to what you all are waiting to hear... to lose weight. As a reducing diet it is superior in every way, reducing fat at a rate of about two (2) pounds a day for most persons, without harmful side effects.
I don’t know about you, but anytime I hear a list of benefits like this, I get a bit suspicious. So I dig a little deeper.
The plot thickens!
Turns out that the lemonade diet consists of the following:
- Drink a lot of laxative tea
- Drink a lot of saline wash (water and salt)
- Drink a lot of lemonade
Are you kidding me? This is your diet?
Wake up call
Yes, if all you consume is laxative tea, salt water and lemonade, you will lose weight. Heck, you can reduce that to just drinking the lemonade and I bet you’ll still lose weight. I just don’t see how this can possibly be beneficial. None of the sites I found had any sort of science backing them. They all just talked and talked about how this will “cleanse” and “reduce” and provided no real facts. They also all tried to sell me something, which really tends to set off some alarm bells in my head.
Should you do the lemonade diet?
No, absolutely not. Are you crazy? Did you not just read the above paragraph? I’ll be dead and insane before I even begin to think of a regimen of laxatives, salt water and lemonade as a healthy diet. Hey, how about the heroin diet while you’re at it? I hear heroin addicts are real thin! I just don’t understand why people buy into these “insta solutions” without really looking at what they’re doing to their bodies.
You want a healthy lemonade diet? Here’s one. Eat healthy and balanced meals. Exercise on a regular basis and drink some natural, unsweetened lemonade after your work out. There you go, a healthy lemonade diet. Of course, you could remove the lemonade and still have a healthy diet, but shush, no one needs to know that. We’ll call that the “super duper 60 in 3 miracle lemonade diet.” Maybe I could get Oprah to endorse it…
Summary
Stick to what you know works, healthy eating and plenty of physical activity, and stay away from “miracle” diets that promise the world and deliver only laxatives and overpriced maple syrup.
i think i read somewhere that the lemon diet was developed by some doctor many years ago. i dont really recall.
Oh please. Will people stop coming up with these ridiculous diets. Thanks for talking about this one, sometimes I just can’t keep up. And guarannteed I’ll get asked about it, in a couple of months when it hits Australia.
I like your version a LOT better.
even though you said you research the lemonade diet, you still did not learn much.
well i say that firstly the ingredients that make up the lemonade is superior to anything. lemons limes is a near perfect food( do the research) organic grade b maple syrup is full of nutrients that one cannot get in a big mac, and thirdly cayenne pepper is one the most powerful herbs on the planet. it saves live of thousands that would have died from a heart attack when they were given cayenne it reversed it immediately( do the research)
the saline flush is the perfect way to bathe your insides.if we take a bath everyday to keep our outsides clean then for sure we ought to learn to keep our insides clean( how do you suppose we should do that?) this temporary cleanse was created by Dr Stanley Burroughs who has lived to ripe old age and has the knows about health( research here as well)
lastly fasting is older than you will ever be and nobody never died from it,if done properly. Jesus fasted, all renown men of the world who has shaped our destiny has fasted.( research here again) please dont say negative things about things that you really have not checked out. and if you were really willing to give an honest opinion, try it for five days and see for yourself. thank you