Wednesday, February 7, 2007

The Lemon Detox Challenge.

With the amount of press the Lemon Detox Diet has been receiving lately, I decided it was time to try it out for myself, and publish detailed results online.

For those who haven't heard of the diet, or know very little about it, it basically entails consuming nothing but pure maple and palm syrup, mixed into water with fresh lemon and cayenne pepper, for 10 days.

Sounds like sheer lunacy to survive for 10 days on sweetened lemon water, but if you look a little closer, it's actually not as crazy as it sounds.

Lemon is a proven detoxifier of the liver and gall bladder, and the tree and maple syrup contains large amounts of trace elements and nutrients, designed to keep your body's vital stocks of vitamins on par. The cayenne pepper adds beta carotene to the mix, and is a natural thermogenic (which means it kicks the metabolism into overdrive).

So, for the next 10 days, I'll be consuming nothing but water, lemons, tree syrup and cayenne pepper. Along with a glass of salt water (rock salt only, no iodised table salt) in the morning to kickstart the intestinal cleansing process.

I'm anticipating headaches and a little weakness for the first 2 or 3 days, and a very heavily coated tongue as the toxins in my body start to jump ship.

I'll be posting photos of the ingredients, equipment and before/after and ongoing stats as the diet progresses.

** UPDATE ** This blog will also track the day-by-day progress of someone else doing a more conventional detox, in parallel to mine.

1 comment:

Encodah said...

So what happened after day 1?? Are you still alive?? My girlfriend is talking about starting this lemon detox today and im a bit sceptical.