What is up with this crap about drinking lemonade for 10 days straight supposedly being good for you?
I know someone who is inquiring about it and while I know I could do a pretty good job in shooting it down…I’m sure some of you folks can do a much bette job.
thanks
-DT
[quote]davidtower wrote:
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What is up with this crap about drinking lemonade for 10 days straight supposedly being good for you?
I know someone who is inquiring about it and while I know I could do a pretty good job in shooting it down…I’m sure some of you folks can do a much bette job.
thanks
-DT[/quote]
Don’t know the science of it, but I was younger and dumber when I did it, twice no less. I was also a vegetarian at the time. I did it for 14 days the first time and 7 days the second time. I had no probs and as a matter of fact the first time I did a shit pile of landscaping, literally. I’m talking moving a ton of manure and 1/2ton of peat up a hill using a wheel barrow. Plus digging huge trenches in clay soil, fun times. All by hand. I had tons of energy and worked like crazy.
The best part is the salt-water, yup, one can either have a laxative tea at night, or man up and drink a quart of salt water in the morn and stay close to the john. It’s projectile haha.
Don’t know if it was or is a bright idea but I don’t think I suffered any long term effects. I did feel pretty good when I was done.
Hey I’m 18 and I did a 10 day master cleanse a month ago. I didn’t tell anyone cuz I thought people would ridicule(you know how teenager friends are) . But I felt great.
I so much doubted it,…vitamins?minerals?PROTEIN??? Energy, hunger??? I felt strong the whole time except for the first two days, I just wanted meat or something. But after a while you start to crave healthier foods. I did this to purify my body from 17 years eating shit.
After all my cravings for junk food subsided, I really did want to chew on celery for a snack? Now I still eat healthy, and shy away from junk food all the time.
Oh,no.
God forbid you take a week off from gorging on chicken breasts and egg whites.
If someone wants to do a 10 day cleanse,it won’t kill them.
Except,I don’t see drinking just lemon juice would be the best idea.
Usually,if you’re looking to do a fast cleanse or something for 10 days you’d be better off making fresh juice from a juicer.
[quote]Cthulhu wrote:
Oh,no.
God forbid you take a week off from gorging on chicken breasts and egg whites.
If someone wants to do a 10 day cleanse,it won’t kill them.
Except,I don’t see drinking just lemon juice would be the best idea.
Usually,if you’re looking to do a fast cleanse or something for 10 days you’d be better off making fresh juice from a juicer.[/quote]
Actually one is supposed to use fresh squeezed. He( author) specifically says to do so. The drink is as follows if I remember correctly; 10 oz water, 2tlbs lemon juice, 1-2tbls real maple syrup, pinch of cayenne pepper. Drink this instead of eating. I would drink 10-12 a day when working. I went through a pile of lemons,haha. Pretty tasty too. The fast is broken with orange juice, fresh squeezed, and a light soup after that. That oj tatses some good after 14 days I tell ya.
Well, seems to me as if you might expect results similar to those of the V-diet regarding cravings…but if you’re huge, you might lose quite a bit of muscle. If you feel like you’re dying, you can always stop. I think this would be relatively safe, especially if monitored by a doctor.
[quote]Robert P. wrote:
Well, seems to me as if you might expect results similar to those of the V-diet regarding cravings…but if you’re huge, you might lose quite a bit of muscle. If you feel like you’re dying, you can always stop. I think this would be relatively safe, especially if monitored by a doctor.[/quote]
So, let me get this straight, 7-14 days of drinking lemon juice, maple syrup, water and cayenne pepper, and only that?
It is almost like a starvation diet, that is supposed to CLEAN you out?
I hate to be the discerning eye on this, but it seems ignorant to me to spend one or two weeks eating nothing and drinking some mixture of condiments and water, just so you can shit. If you want to take a shit, then buy a 12 pack of coors original, and drink.
Or, try some metamucil, or even better, try eating a vegetable.
You will lose strength, and you will loose muscle. I am hypoglecemic, so I would actaully die, more likely then not.
Let me know how it works out.
[quote]BarneyFife wrote:
Robert P. wrote:
Well, seems to me as if you might expect results similar to those of the V-diet regarding cravings…but if you’re huge, you might lose quite a bit of muscle. If you feel like you’re dying, you can always stop. I think this would be relatively safe, especially if monitored by a doctor.
So, let me get this straight, 7-14 days of drinking lemon juice, maple syrup, water and cayenne pepper, and only that?
It is almost like a starvation diet, that is supposed to CLEAN you out?
I hate to be the discerning eye on this, but it seems ignorant to me to spend one or two weeks eating nothing and drinking some mixture of condiments and water, just so you can shit. If you want to take a shit, then buy a 12 pack of coors original, and drink.
Or, try some metamucil, or even better, try eating a vegetable.
You will lose strength, and you will loose muscle. I am hypoglecemic, so I would actaully die, more likely then not.
Let me know how it works out.[/quote]
Drinking a quart of salt water every morning as well. The theory is that the salt water drink, 1tsp salt I think, has the same osmology(sp?) as your blood. Therefore you don’t absorb it and it goes right through you. Belive me it does, you don’t want to stray far from the can. I don’t know how accurate the science is, but I felt fine when I did and worked my ass off the whole time doing a lot of landscaping.
I’m not recommending it. I’m just giving my account of it. I was not into training then and weighed only about 150 so I was already pretty scrawny. I don’t think I’d do it now, it would eat alot of muscle I would think, and I don’t have any to spare,haha.
To tell you the truth I found the V-Diet harder than the Master Cleanser. Maybe all that sugar I was getting made it easier.
If you can read,it’s not a diet.It’s a 7-14 day cleanse.
You might,but not everyone would.
I never did this exact cleanse before,but I did do one where I was juicing for a week and eating no food.
i didn’t lose any strength.
In fact,I actually got stronger in my deadlifts and benchpress exercises.
I believe when your PH isn’t highly acidic,your body isn’t in a catabolic state as much.
Please quit stating what WILL happen based on your personal opinion and ignorance.
[quote]BarneyFife wrote:
Robert P. wrote:
Well, seems to me as if you might expect results similar to those of the V-diet regarding cravings…but if you’re huge, you might lose quite a bit of muscle. If you feel like you’re dying, you can always stop. I think this would be relatively safe, especially if monitored by a doctor.
So, let me get this straight, 7-14 days of drinking lemon juice, maple syrup, water and cayenne pepper, and only that?
It is almost like a starvation diet, that is supposed to CLEAN you out?
I hate to be the discerning eye on this, but it seems ignorant to me to spend one or two weeks eating nothing and drinking some mixture of condiments and water, just so you can shit. If you want to take a shit, then buy a 12 pack of coors original, and drink.
Or, try some metamucil, or even better, try eating a vegetable.
You will lose strength, and you will loose muscle. I am hypoglecemic, so I would actaully die, more likely then not.
Let me know how it works out.[/quote]
[quote]Cthulhu wrote:
If you can read,it’s not a diet.It’s a 7-14 day cleanse.
You might,but not everyone would.
I never did this exact cleanse before,but I did do one where I was juicing for a week and eating no food.
i didn’t lose any strength.
In fact,I actually got stronger in my deadlifts and benchpress exercises.
I believe when your PH isn’t highly acidic,your body isn’t in a catabolic state as much.
Please quit stating what WILL happen based on your personal opinion and ignorance.
BarneyFife wrote:
Robert P. wrote:
Well, seems to me as if you might expect results similar to those of the V-diet regarding cravings…but if you’re huge, you might lose quite a bit of muscle. If you feel like you’re dying, you can always stop. I think this would be relatively safe, especially if monitored by a doctor.
So, let me get this straight, 7-14 days of drinking lemon juice, maple syrup, water and cayenne pepper, and only that?
It is almost like a starvation diet, that is supposed to CLEAN you out?
I hate to be the discerning eye on this, but it seems ignorant to me to spend one or two weeks eating nothing and drinking some mixture of condiments and water, just so you can shit. If you want to take a shit, then buy a 12 pack of coors original, and drink.
Or, try some metamucil, or even better, try eating a vegetable.
You will lose strength, and you will loose muscle. I am hypoglecemic, so I would actaully die, more likely then not.
Let me know how it works out.
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I do this once a month for two days. Also do a MAster Cleanse before a cutting cycle to getin the right frame of mind. No ill effects. No loss of energy.