What is Beyonce's Detox Diet?

Beyonce's Maple Syrup Diet

The former Destiny's Child singer who has a very successful solo singing career as well as an acting career is well known for her bootylicious body and not exactly the kind of woman we'd expect to use a diet like this but Hollywood makes for strange bedfellows. I have no idea how much she was paid for the role, but I'm sure a star like Beyonce doesn't come cheap. I suppose I could fast for 10 days too if somebody was paying me several million dollars for the look! Quite frankly, I've fasted for far less than that and never came out looking like Beyonce!

So here it is, the Maple Syrup Diet, also known as the Lemon Cleansing Diet, the Lemonade Diet or the Master Cleanse which can supposedly be used for 3-10 days safely. This diet isn't new. The naturopath, Stanley Borroughs, developed it back in the 1950's. If Stanley Borroughs was alive today he would have written the diet with Organic Blue Agave but back then it was not available like it is today. Be forewarned: a "cleansing reaction" is often noticed in the first two days. (That's diarrhea to you and me.)

Take a clean one-gallon jug and pour in the following:

3 Quarts of Water
1 Cup Lemon Juice

1 Cup Pure Maple Syrup (not maple flavored, but the REAL stuff) or molasses or Organic Blue Agave

1 Teaspoon Cayenne

Shake it all up and drink 8-12 glasses a day.

Warning: You will experience cravings, aches, pains, mental irritability and fatigue. These are symptoms of your body's detoxification.

If you really want to flush your system, proponents of the Master Cleanse recommend doing the following:

1. Go to your local health food store and get an herbal laxative tea that contains senna. While you're there purchase about 1 cup of non-iodized sea salt.

2. Every morning, before your lemonade, mix two teaspoons of the sea salt with a quart of water and chug. Make sure you are near a toilet and have about an hour to spare. You'll need it.

3. Drink Mint tea throughout the day. The Master Cleanse will up the acid in your body and cause bad breath. The mint tea can help with that. If you need to chew then chew mint gum.

4. Every night, drink a cup of your laxative tea.

This fast should not be used for more than 10 days and you should wait at least four weeks before repeating it. Supposedly this fast dissolves toxins and is great for breaking up mucous. (That much lemon and cayenne will clear anybody's sinuses!)

If you are experiencing headaches take a large glass of water an mix a tsp of maple syrup or Agave and drink it. if the headache goes away it is because you are dehydrated and you NEED to drink more water throughout the day.

If the headache continues it is probably from caffeine withdrawals and will eventually go away.

Whatever you do, do not go directly back to a rich diet after your time on this fast. In fact, the best thing to do during a fast like this is to start setting your mind to healthy eating so that when you go off the fast you can start fresh on a healthy nutrition plan that will keep you body clean and strong. To ease out of the fast, do the following:

On the first day after your fast, drink unsweetened fruit juices.

On the second day, you can begin to eat soup

I've lost weight on this diet even with a lil cheating each day. After the second day. Not that I recommend cheating on this diet. I am just sharing my own experience. And i did the diet with Organic Blue Agave.

Some of the reasons this diet works is that you are going down to a 650 calories diet. That alone will make you lose weight.
the reason you don't pass out... all the ingredients are just like being hooked up to an IV in the hospital. Your getting your sugar & sodium.

Good Luck!

The writer of this blog does not promote this diet in any way. Just sharing information.