I haven't actually eaten anything in 7 whole days

[underpants]

Whaaa? you ask HOW could that be you ask...

The lemonade diet

I see this pop-up thing on my computer that said "Would you like to have Beyonce's body?" Why yes I would, the next thing I know my wife walks in the room and I'm not eating for 10 days

(rimshot) that was a joke. Now for the serious part.

**I IN NO WAY AM ENDORSING THIS. CHECK WITH A PHYSICIAN. THIS IS JUST MY ACCOUNT OF MY EXPERIENCE ON THE DIET**

Google - lemonade diet - and the first link is the actual site and the second is a woman's journal of her 12 days on it (note the name of her site :bounce: )

So last Wednesday night was the last time I actually ate food. Since then I have been existing on a lemonade concoction

10oz. water
2 TABLEspoons of pure lemon juice (not from concentrate)
2 TABLEspoons of Maple Syrup (they recommend Grade B but any will do-not maple flavored actual maple syrup)
Cayenne pepper to taste (this cleans out the sinuses and all the mucus in your system)
-drink 6 to 12 of these a day
-laxative tea at night and a quart of water with 2 TABLEspoons of non-iodized sea salt in the morning. Lets just say it works and leave it at that.
-10 days minimum (I know someone who did 23 days :scared: ) then a precise process of coming off the diet that takes 3 days.


I am fully aware of the cultish elements involved here so spare me the Scientology jokes. The book includes a dark shadowing picture of the diet's creator Stanley Borroughs that reminds one of the Dharma Initiative (for LOST fans).

Basically I fell great. Sinus problems GONE, sore throat GONE, my teeth were hurting a bit --> GONE, my lungs feel fantastic. This is a "Cleansing" diet but I have dropped at least one belt loop this week (I am on my 8th day today). The book that I bought (you can download the whole book on line) mentioned that “impurities” in the joints and muscles would also be eliminated and as much as I thought that was bunk I can tell a difference-I did the “ABC’s” with my toes (for flexibility) this morning and I used to pop&crack like a bowl of cereal but not now. Oh and my wife says I don't snore anymore.

I haven’t had any huge hunger pangs. I haven’t become nauseous. I have had a couple of bits of feeling wobbly and a couple of complete blank minds but then that isn’t anything new :-) . I have just craved the act of eating, the crunching part I have chewed on ice cubes to get around this. I have also cheated a bit by chewing gum (got me through quitting smoking) and using chocolate Smooth Move laxative tea.

So I have three more days then I start to come off it. I have to say that I was not aware that there were THAT MANY food commercials on TV. There was a Chick-fil-a commercial on during the ACC finals that just killed me. It is funny to step outside and look back at how you eat and how you make those decisions especially for a ravenous omnivore like me. My daughters gold fish are a killer too each and every cheesy crunchy one that I have had to throw out. I never thought picking up a single pea from the dining room floor would cause as much of a dilemma as it does. :grr:

I did this in part for the experience in part for the mental discipline and as a part of my effort to lose weight coming up on my 40th birthday on the 27th. I got a real eye opener on the doctor’s scale on January 30th so I set off on an exercise and diet (smaller portions) regimen that I think will add up to about a 30 pound total loss at my official weigh-in in 12 days.

[commander bunnypants]

1. Well be careful and good luck

CB

[zanne]

2. Mind your heart.

Diets like that can be very dangerous to your heart. (Even a young, healthy one).

[underpants]

3. Oh that's okay I plan to live forever

So far so good

[soleft]

4. They call it the Master Cleansor

I know two people who've done it - one to great success, and the other binged on cookies Day 11.

[underpants]

5. Ha! Day 4 and 5 included lots of thoughts about massive consumption

I am tailoring it back now.

I do have a hankering for a tuna melt and for peanuts but not together of course.

[matcom]

6. 2 for 1 Egg McMuffin sale at McDonald's

i'm just sayin'

[underpants]

11. :-)

[Orsino]

7. It would seem to offer a brand-new and valuable perspective on food...

...as you say, but strikes me as more than a little dangerous. I hope that you have been supplementing with vitamin pills? The body runs on more than calories.

I hope you will have a physician check you out, too. Best wishes! Whether or not this is a wise course, I certainly admire your self-discipline.

[underpants]

12. The book says no vitamins

no aspirin for pain no nothing for anything

and we have to do what the book says or the book would be wrong and the book can't be wrong now can it?

:evilgrin: :sarcasm:

[Orsino]

25. Good luck.

You are more than excused for being a little sarcastic after a week of fasting. :D

[AngryAmish]

8. My sniping here

First of all good luck. I hope you do well. I just think losing 30 lbs in 12 days is unrealistic.

This is a calorie counter for what a person needs everyday. I need around 2000 calories a day.

A pound of fat is about 3500 calories. So 19 days x 2000 calories per day (assume no calories in) is 38000 calories. So starving for 19 days is a fat loss of 10.85 pounds. There are also metabolic issues (starving turns one's metabolism down). You can also exercise like mad but that is very dangerous on that diet -- I'm not a doctor but talk to one and he will back me up.

I suspect with the laxatives you are taking you are losing a lot of water. Losing water does not mean anything because you will retain it after the diet ends.

Good luck. In the long run the only way to keep weight off is exercising a lot and not eating so much.

[underpants]

10. No no no no

Not 30 pounds in 12 days 30 pounds over a period of about 2 months and this is from not working out at all and horrible eating habits.

From what I have read (and this makes complete sense)I should gain back at least 1/2 of what I lose ON THE DIET itself.

I do feel great. I can not WAIT to go for a run-probably Tuesday though I should wait until Wednesday.

[AngryAmish]

13. Oh

One day I will learn how to read better. Me fail English, that's unpossible.

[unpossibles]

22. you rang?

:)

[BurtWorm]

9. Spam.

;)

Seriously, good for you. But reading about the diet made me hungry for pancakes and huevos rancheros.

[dolo amber]

14. I did that for 3 days

Couldn't take the sweet of the lemonade anymore. :puke:

I would like to try it again...maybe need to tweak the recipe or something. I still kinda get a shudder just thinking about that taste. x(

Btw, I'm 5 whole days older than you. :D (My 40th is the 22nd. ;))

[underpants]

15. Wow

If you don't know matcom me and JCMACH1 all share a birthday. Scarey yeah I know.

I use too much cayenne almost everytime. I have a very sharp lemony flavor but then I am using less that 2 whold tbspns of syrup.

[dolo amber]

16. That's almost as scary as me and HEyHEY being birthday twins

:D

(Albiet a decade or more apart...still.)

[Raffi Ella]

17. wow,that's amazing.

That probably taste terrible doesn't it?I don't think I could do that.But the effects on your health sound great.If I could do it I would...but I couldn't.

Food is gonna taste so goooood!!!lol.I bet your stomach gets all 'messed up' when you go back to eating real food again though.

[underpants]

18. No and we will see

It tastes... mmm well it tastes okay. The cayenne is an odd part but you can mess around with it to get it tasting a little better.

The three day off schedule includes using a chicken broth based soup with some veggies in it on the second day (lunch and dinner)and for lunch again on the third day. There are two schedule to come off the diet-if you were a vegetarian or if you were before the diet. The writer of the diet is/was a vegetarian and from my internet research a lot of people go veg after it. I doubt I will.

[IronLionZion]

19. I never made it past the third day

I just had to eat SOMETHING!!! Damn, just liquid isn't enough. I admire your discipline. South Beach with regular excercise and protein is working for me.

Good luck and let us know how it works out for you at the end.

[underpants]

20. This reminds me a lot of quitting smoking

The hands the physical part is what I miss most. Also the first two days I was in fear of that monster right around the corner that monster pain and anguish that I was just sure was waiting lurking and about to pounce.

Never happened in either case.

Truth be told I am getting a bit tired of this. I just want it to be over but the coming off schedule sounds so important in the book that it works as a reason to not just run out and eat (at the 8 day mark). Even if I did want to eat something it is still 3 days away. Basically I have until next Wednesday before I can eat whatever I want.

[flvegan]

21. Your experience mirrors EXACTLY what a friend of mine said when she did it.

I don't think that it's cultish at all, and I'm envious of your success. It's something I'd like to try at some point.

[underpants]

23. Cool

:thumbsup:

[realisticphish]

24. I dunno

It seemed to work for you, so cool. But the thing about "impurities" in the joints, and the emphasis on laxatives... yeah, not so much. But hey, congrats on losing weight.