The lemonjuicemaplesyrupcayennepepper detox

When life gives you lemons......
(why am I so lame?)

It is day 7 of my 7 day detox. Usually I don’t subscribe to fad ‘diets’ and detoxes, in fact, I am usually a champion of “exercise, eating healthy and water!” even though I don’t always follow this to the letter myself. However, the 2 following circumstances led me to be curious ;

1)    Tracy Karaka – family friend and my former flatmate – did a 40 day water fast last year – your eyes do not deceive you – 40 DAYS!  I admit to being pretty sceptical at the time that she was going to pull it off and that it would be beneficial for her – but not only did a bunch of her ailments clear up in no time she also was full of energy bouncing around Templeview in fine form.

2)    This year on my umpteenth attempt I successfully gave up diet coke – I know many may think that’s laughable and not something you ‘give up’ but seriously I have crazy withdrawals from the stuff and I was crook for at least a solid week with the shakes and cold sweats.

So I’ve been thinking was a detox all its cracked up to be? Will I lose a mega amount of weight? (yes, yes it will be mostly water weight  I know)

My container of choice

 So, Kash asked me to join her on the world famous lemonjuicemaplesyrupcayennepepper detox also known as the lemonade diet or the master cleanse or the cure.
I convinced here to start the next day as I needed enough time to do it before I went to England, so after a frantic search for grade b maple syrup (found it at the frankton organic store) we started last Friday.

Let me tell you, it has been awesome and I’m pretty much a believer - the third day of the detox was definitely the worst day (but I was prepared as I’d read that on ALL the lemon detox blogs) I had the shakes and cold sweat thing happening again but I had a hot bath and went to bed early then got up day 4 and felt completely fine again.

 Uncannily I have woken up much earlier than I usually do every day of the detox, I haven’t felt hungry (but have had cravings – the first day was for chocolate and pizza the last couple of days has been for kumara, pumpkin and capsicum) and the moment you may be waiting for : I’ve lost about 4.5 kilos. You do gain a bit of that back afterwards but as many of the blogs I’ve read (and youtube videos I’ve watched ) say – if you maintain a healthy diet afterwards you are able to keep much of the weight off and drop back down.

Kash is going on to do a full 10 days but the second day in she informed me you need to ‘ease out’ which takes about 3 days at least so I have to start my easing out tomorrow so I can be ready to go away next week - but the fast can be anywhere from 3 days to 30 (or 40 in some cases) so its all good.

So now its my last day and I’m about to go to bed, I’m going to start easing back in to normal eating tomorrow by drinking orange juice and then attempting some capsicum.

mmmmmmm capsicums



got a bottle just like this waiting for me in the fridge



Here is some info about the detox if you are interested;

Plain site that lays out all the info you need

PDF of Stanley Burroughs 1971 Master Cleanse.

Peter Glickman’s website (he wrote the updated version of the master cleanse)

*update* it’s the next morning, I woke up and even though I was excited all yesterday for orange juice, thinking about it this morning made me feel a little queasy! I did need to start easing out though so I made some lemon drink and started with that and then made a glass of half orange half water and that was honestly enough. The half and half orange juice tasted out of control sugary!. Anyway I thought that was weird considering I usually wouldn’t hesitate downing a full glass of orange.