Lemon Pepper & Maple Syrup Diet

Using lemon, cayenne pepper and maple syrup in water is known as a purification diet that helps clean out your system of toxins such as nicotine, alcohol and fat. While there are warnings that fasting in this way could be bad for you in terms of muscle loss, grumpiness and weakness, its methods are proven to work.

The Ingredients

• The lemonade concoction that you will drink consists of 2 tbsp. of lemon juice (organic if available), 2 tbsp. of organic grade B maple syrup and 1/10 tsp. ground cayenne pepper along with 10 oz. of filtered water (in order to keep the chemicals found in natural tap water out). This is the ingredient list for one serving; add all of them in together and shake them up to make sure it is blended.

  Other ways of continuing the diet without the cayenne pepper if you are worried the spicy aspect of it can harm you or your taste buds, mix the drink without the cayenne pepper and take two cayenne pepper pills a day to still get in the cayenne to help your body detoxify.

How to Start the Diet

• You cannot just go full force into the diet in one day; it actually takes a bit of preparation before fasting for 10 days. Start by slowly weaning yourself off of food by taking in extra water (from 10 to 12 glasses a day to 14 to 16) until you are at one medium-to-large sized meal. The next day, begin the diet by preparing 6 to 12 servings of the lemonade a day and drinking them throughout the day when you become hungry or are craving whatever your addiction may be as to wean yourself away from that addiction. It is important to not go over the 12 servings because too much of the combination can hurt your stomach.

  You will continue this for 10 days to purify the body and cleanse the toxins out. One thing you will notice is that you will be running to the bathroom a lot more often, which will eliminate extra water weight and, in turn, extra lingering chemicals that are in your body through your urine. After 10 days, you can slowly begin eating again but will notice many differences in your eating habits.

After Effects of the Diet

• Once you begin to eat food again, be sure to not go back to your old bad eating habits. Your body will have a rejuvenated metabolism that will allow less food to fill you up, but making sure you consume food such as lean, white meats and fruits and vegetables is the key. Also, any addictions you had before will slowly begin dissipating because the chemical causing the addiction in your body will have been detoxified and can only return if you introduce it again.

  This diet has worked for stars such as Beyonce and helped her lose weight while staying healthy.