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The Lemonade Diet is the portion of The Master Cleanse during which you consume only the Lemonade. It is a diet in the sense that you are restricted to a certain food. The Lemonade Diet is often used synonymously with The Master Cleanse, but I break it down in order to describe the portion of The Master Cleanse when you consume the nutrients and energy from the Fresh Lemon Juice, Rich Maple Syrup, and Organic Cayenne Pepper.

The other sections of The Master Cleanse are :

• The Ease-In
• The Lemonade Diet (of course)
• The Salt Water Flush
• The Ease-Out
• The Post Cleanse Lifestyle.

What is the Lemonade Diet?

The Lemonade diet aka” The master Cleanse is  one of the most simple, effective, and inexpensive cleansing and healing programs available. It is a liquid monodiet (that is, one mixture only) designed to work with an complement your body’s own cleansing and detoxifying processes, and at the same time to nourish your body with the things it needs to function. It is not a true fast (one in which there is no nutrition), nor it is a means to starve the body in order to loose weight dangerously fast. The cleanse is typically done for 10 days, but can be safely maintained for many more days in a row, even weeks when desired. ” This quote is an exert from Tom Woloshyn’s book The Complete Master Cleanse. 

This page is dedicated to the directions to The Lemonade Diet Recipe as well as the ingredients, expectations, problems and experiences myself and the readers of this website have encountered.

The Lemonade Diet begins with preparing the Lemonade. During the diet, you will only consume the Lemonade that you make each day.  In order to ensure that it is fresh and will retain as much of the nutrients and energy as possible, you should prepare the Lemonade just moments before drinking it.

Lemonade Diet Recipe – The Ingredients

To make the Lemonade you will need the following ingredients:

1. 2 Tablespoons of Fresh Lemon Juice from one half of a Lemon
2. 2 Tablespoons of Rich Maple Syrup
3. 1/10 of a Teaspoon of Cayenne Pepper
4. 1 – 2 cups of Pure Water (Alkaline Water is best, in my opinion)

To prepare the Lemonade for the Lemonade Diet you will also need the following:

1. 1 large cup to mix your lemonade in
2. 1 Tablespoon Measure
3. 1/10 Teaspoon Measure
4. Cutting Board
5. Sharp knife
6. Juicer (Hand juicer or Power juicer)

Directions on making the Lemonade Diet Recipe

Start by rolling a Lemon on the cutting board to get it nice and juicy. Cut the lemon along its belly and grind it on the juicer. Do this until you have juiced half your lemons, or until you have no more room in your juicer.

1. Measure 2 Tablespoons of Fresh Lemon Juice into your large cup.
2. Now measure and at 2 Tablespoons of Rich Maple Syrup to the cup.
3. Measure and add 1/10 Teaspoon of Cayenne Pepper to the cup (or more to taste).
4. Mix a and drink immediately.

While on the Lemonade Diet, you can and should drink plenty of Pure Water. I drink 1 cup as a chaser after each cup of Lemonade. You can drink more throughout the day. Try to avoid drinking more than double the amount of Lemonade each day.

Drinking enough water helps to wash out the toxins being released out of our body during the cleanse. It also helps to prevent possible headaches as well as feeling of hunger or cravings that surface during the detox.

Avoid the common mistakes while making the lemonade

In one of our blog-posts we talk about 5 tips to make the Lemonade right. These mistakes can prevent you from receiving all the cleansing and Healing effects of the Lemonade diet. Please, click on the link to read the article.

Cleansing and Healing effects of the Lemonade Diet

Cleansing can improve all aspects of your personal health including :

• Increasing energy
• Balancing your body’s PH
• Losing weight
• Reducing swelling and pain
• Alleviating allergies
• Flushing the colon
• Improving skin and hair
• Ridding your body of parasites

What do you think of the Lemonade Diet?

As an essential part of the Master Cleanse, is the Lemonade Diet difficult or easy? Most people find it pretty hard, but some find it a breeze. How about you? Do you think The Lemonade Diet is easy or hard?

Express your personal opinion and join our Master Cleanse Facebook Page. Currently we have over 9000 members and the group is growing each day. This page is very active and you will find tons of loving and understanding suport there from Master Cleansers all around the world.  Many people share their tips on this page and can offer much needed sense of community and belonging that makes a world of difference in your effort to complete the cleanse and achieve rewarding results.

Thank you for your comments and Happy Cleansing!

The Master Cleanse Team.

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The Master Cleanse also known as The Lemonade Diet has three phases :

1. Ease-In
2. The Lemonade Diet
3. Ease-Out

Each of these three phases is equally as important to you successfully completing this sometimes challenging cleanse. Unlike the Ease- out, the Ease-in is optional. Some people choose not to ease – into this somewhat extreme detox. I personally believe that it is a kind choice to allow our bodies to adjust to this cleansing process and to slowly start letting our digestive system rest before we introduce the Master Cleanse Lemonade that eventually allows for our digestive system to rest completely.

I also find (as I manage our Master Cleanse Facebook page with about 9000 members), that people who choose to ease-in are not as challenged to stick to the Lemonade diet and that is a great benefit on it’s own. Easing – in can prepare you for the cleanse:

• Physically
• Mentally 
• Emotionally

This is especially important for the people that are about to do the Master Cleanse for the very first time.

The Ease-in portion of the Master Cleanse is important to me for several reasons.

1. It allows me to prepare my digesting system for the upcoming big changes in my diet. Eventually as I start the actual Lemonade diet, my digestive system will be allowed to rest completely, so it makes sense to start introducing foods very easy to digest ( soups, juices, smoothies…) before I start only drinking liquids – the lemonade and editional pure water.
2. It helps me develop the habit of a more natural and healthier diet. I don’t want to adopt a rule-filled lifestyle such as vegan or vegetarian, but I do want to limit processed foods, dairy products and red meats. I know that juicing is a great way to get vital veggies.
3. Therefore, if I choose to eat this way strictly before I begin my cleanse, I am a little more likely to continue the habit in my Post – Cleanse Lifestyle.

“This simpler diet will be less stressful on the body and will help with the eventual elimination of some of your poor food choices. Eating such a diet will make it easier  for you to transition to the Master Cleanse.”

The Ease-in can be eliminated, as it is not suggested in the original text. It can also be reduced. This is just my version, take it or leave it.

How to Ease – into the Lemonade diet

There is a very specific way of re-introducing food to your digestive system that has been resting for 10 or more days. Less is definitely more in this case.

• Day 1 – Regular Diet; however, you should try to eat live foods –vegetables, grains, etc.
• Day 2 – Fruits and Veggies
• Day 3 – Fruit and Veggie Juice – or Broth
  
• Day 4 – Orange Juice – 3 1-liter orange juice (with 2 tablespoons of maple syrup if you want more calories and energy)
  
• Day 5 is the Day 1 of The Lemonade diet

Ease-In Day 1 – Living Food Diet

To do the Living Food Diet, you need only to eat live foods. Simply remove processed foods, meat and dairy from your diet. Enjoy shopping for, and eating interesting fruits and vegetables. Savor the rich flavor and textures. Be sure that you don’t go to heavy on fruits as they are high in sugar. A 60/40 balance of vegetables to fruits is a good guideline.

A pre-diet regimen is essential. As with the diet itself, the quality of the ingredients is important. Organic is good, but a lack of organic foods should not keep you from starting; if you can’t find organic, get regular produce. To be on a vegetarian diet including juicing, soups and broths for a few days prior to the Cleanse is a great way to slowly allow your digestive system to adjust to a new upcoming (and for many people a bit extreme) Lemonade diet.

Top 5 inexpensive Super Vegetables:

1. Organic Onions
2. Organic Carrots
3. Organic Brocoli
4. Organic Peppers
5. Organic Tomatoes
6. And Organic Oranges for your Orange juice to drink on the last day of Ease-in

Here are some Juicing recipes to energize you and prepare you for the Master Cleanse.

Ease-In Day 2 – Juicing, Blending, Soups and Broths

As much as you can keep the ingredients:

• Vegetarian
• Raw
• And Organic

This step preps your body for a liquid diet and delivers macronutrients more quickly to your bloodstream.
By breaking down the foods to liquids we can more readily take in the nutrients from the food. Fruit and Vegetable Juicing is very enjoyable. There are endless combination’s of tasty juicing recipes. Blending is equally enjoyable. Green smoothies are like drinking a glass of healing. If you do not have a juicer, you can make soup or broths.

Here are some great vegetable soup recipes you may enjoy while Easing-into the Master Cleanse.

Ease-In Day 3 – Orange Juice

Manually or electrically juice enough oranges to make 2 liters of Orange Juice, mixed with water (to taste).

Sometimes I find it hard to get the calories I need through the day and so I add some Maple Syrup to increase my caloric intake. Again, this is just the reverse process of the Ease-out or “Breaking the Master Cleanse.”

IMPORTANT NOTE: The most important factor to keep in mind during the Ease-in stage is to drink a lot of pure water. Especially when you are fruit and veggie juicing. If you do not make broth, and opt for juices instead, it is important you understand that the juice will have a great deal of fiber, and you need to make sure you have enough water in your system to keep you from becoming constipated.

Why is the Ease – in so important – video

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Salt Water Flush in the morning while doing The Master Cleanse to create a bowel movement and eliminate the toxins in your waste that is continually being eliminated during your cleanse. Since you’re not eating any solid food, you’ll need to create a bowel movement, and the Saltwater Flush will do that. You can, and should also do a laxative at night. The Salt Water Flush is optional but I find it very helpful. Many people find it difficult, but if you watch the video below, you’ll learn some of the tips and technique.

2 Important Tips to make sure you do the Salt Water Flush right

1. Make sure you don’t used iodized table salt. NON-iodized sea salt is essential.
2. The Salt Water Flush MUST be done on an empty stomach

The Salt Water Flush is very important. I suggest to do the SWF in the morning as it is suppose to be done on an empty stomach. The process is a commitment in itself. Once you take the solution, you will have to be on guard, a bowel movement WILL be shortly coming. I don’t mean in 5 or even 15 minutes, but generally in 30-60 minutes between taking it and the first movement. The last movements will begin to wind down an hour or so after they begin. This is a, ahem… crappy process, and there is really no way to sugar-coat it. The next few paragraphs will describe in detail what you can expect.

Salt Water Flush Video

Check out the video on YouTube on how to do the Salt Water Flush

How to prepare the Salt Water Flush mixture:

Using 1 liter BPA Free Water Bottle and your teaspoon measure, mix a solution consisted of :

• Sea Salt - 2 teaspoons or 1 tablespoon
• And Pure Water – 1 quart of warm water

Mix a solution of sea salt and room temperature water.

The original book says 2 teaspoons, but I have used 1 tablespoon almost every time and it works for me the same. The last time I did the cleanse, I tried it each way (once with 2 teaspoon and then again with 1 tablespoon), and each time I had success.

What if it doesn’t work?

NOTE: There have been many questions about this process. The fact is, however much some claim it hasn’t worked for them, it will work for absolutely everyone. The key is to adjust the amount of salt in order to create the right solution for your individual needs. Also make sure you don’t used iodized table salt. Un-iodized organic sea salt is essential.

Flush your system with the Salt Water Flush

Shake it well and move to the sink. I like to “pound it” – perhaps because I like to pretend I am still in college and the sea salt is actually a keg stand. I also move into the bathroom and stand in front of the mirror. Somehow, by watching myself, I can manage to drink the whole liter in one try, spilling very little. This too is a challenge in itself, especially once your stomach has become very small from taking no solids.

Chances are, you will feel full halfway through, so just keep going. Stopping only makes you taste the salt, and will activate your gag reflex. While it is not required to drink the solution in one go, you will find that the taste is such that you will want to get it down quickly. It is not awful, but it is not exactly pleasant, and therefore I choose to get it over with. I also enjoy the little challenge.

Salt Water Flush Tips

After you have consumed the solution, you can go about your day until nature calls. Some suggest lying on your right hand side to aid the solution on its journey through your digestive track, although I don’t find this especially helpful and so I don’t bother. For some specific tips on how to get the Salt Water Flush ” down”  that we have collected from our readers, read our related articles.

Now – what to expect.

When you first feel the rumble in your belly and your bowels, don’t go running off to the bathroom. Give it a while. Let it brew! Yeah, I know that is weird to think about, but you should let it build up. You are going to have 3-7 movements, possibly more. Generally speaking, you will end up pushing out what you put in. The entire liter of sea salt water will be immediately expelled.

Will the Salt Water Flush dehydrate me?

NO. This is because the solution is indigestible.You may have heard that, if you are stranded at sea, drinking sea water will only dehydrate you more. This is why. It just comes right out of you because the mixture has the same gravity as your blood and is not absorbed.

Of course, along with the sea salt, you will be expelling waste. During the first 2 days you will be moving out remaining solid matter in the digestive tract from the days prior to this.If you began your diet immediately, this will be more true than if you Eased-in, and therefore have only juice in your system. Nevertheless, for each day you will expel solid matter. Gross, to be certain, but also empowering. You really begin to understand the value of this process when you recognize the elimination of waste that has been stored in your body for months, even decades.

Once you feel you can no longer hold out, go to the bathroom. A word of warning while you wait for this moment. DO NOT FART!!! You will most certainly not pass only air – if you know what I mean. This is also true throughout the rest of your day. Don’t be fooled or you will be leaving work to change your shorts. The first movement will be rather large and fairly powerful. You will want to flush almost immediately. In order to understand the whole messy details, take a look… if you dare.

Stay close to a toilet and continue to move until the frequency eases. Once you can last 15 minutes without a serious movement, you are safe to go about your day. For this reason I choose to undergo this process in the evening, with nowhere else to go for the rest of the day. (Also, because I like to have a shower following, and truth be told, I am not exactly a morning person.) The Salt Water Flush isn’t exactly pleasant, but it’s critical to an effective detox.

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