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The Master Cleanse is a detoxifying diet that gets rid of poisons that have built up in your body from years of eating the American diet - what has ultimately caused you to gain those extra pounds. This diet claims to be the fastest and most effective way to lose weight, cut cravings for unhealthy fats and regain the energy you once had during your youth.

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What can I eat:

LemonSpecial Master Cleanse Lemonade
Water

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Nutritionist review:

It is amazing that you can fast for ten days and yet show no signs of hunger, but this plan apparently feels this is possible. Depriving yourself of food and the needed vitamins and minerals to perform daily functions and activities is not the safest way to lose weight. Even if you can manage to do The Master Cleanse for at least ten days, it will be challenging to then adopt a raw food diet, especially when no information is provided on how to do this. If your goal is to lose weight and maintain the weight loss by learning how to eat real foods that are good for your body, than keep looking for a safer and more well-balanced plan.

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The Master Cleanse Diet Plan

The Master Cleanse Diet plan should be done for at least ten days, which is long enough to see changes in your weight and mental state. The first two or three days are always the worst because the toxins from the most recent waste will be eliminated immediately. Be prepared for frequent, runny bowel movements, which could last for up to an hour on the first day. Make sure you plan your day accordingly, so you have the time and facilities to eliminate those toxins!

What makes the Master Cleanse Diet a different weight loss plan?

In essence, the Master Cleanse Diet a fasting plan, since you cannot eat or drink anything other than a special lemonade and laxative tea. It is different from other fasting plans, because you can stay on the Master Cleanse for as long as you like (the plan claims that it has been safely done for up to one month). Once you have completed detoxifying your body, a raw food diet is encouraged.

What is the Master Cleanse Diet plan?

The Master Cleanse Diet is designed to do two things: detoxify the body (The Agitator) and eliminate these toxins from the body before they can be reabsorbed and poison the body once again (The Rinse Cycle). Special lemonade needs to be made and consumed to enable the detoxification. The lemonade consists of fresh squeezed lemon or lime juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper and spring or purified water. The maple syrup supplies the sugar needed for energy and needed minerals, since you will not be eating any food. The cayenne pepper breaks up the mucus and dilates the blood vessels. It is estimated that it will cost about $7.50 per day to make the lemonade, as well as the salt water mixture and laxative tea that are also recommended.

If you get sick of the lemonade, you can occasionally have some mint tea to give your taste buds some variety. The Master Cleanse Diet plan promises that you will not feel hungry, but if you do, drinking some extra lemonade or water should eliminate any hunger pain within ten minutes. The rapid weight loss does come with some unpleasant side effects, such as food cravings, irritability, boredom, headaches, fatigue and burning bowel movements.

Typical Day: Before you go to bed the evening before you begin The Master Cleanse Diet, you should drink one cup of herbal laxative tea. Upon awakening the next morning, and for each subsequent morning of The Cleanse phase, drink one quart of water with two teaspoons of non-iodized sea salt, all at once. This is the point at which you will be blessed with the constant desire to eliminate, i.e., where close proximity to a bathroom is required. Throughout the day you should drink six to twelve glasses of the lemonade while on the Master Cleanse Diet plan.

Helpful tips:

If you must prepare the drinks in advance to take to work, then only make enough to last you through work and make fresh lemonade when you get home.
Do not be alarmed if your tongue develops a white, cheesy coating, this is normal.
Upon breaking the fast, do not devour everything in sight or you will be very, very sick.

What are the weight loss expectations?

You first need to get rid of the toxins in your body and then the weight will melt off. There are no specific weight loss expectations on the Master Cleanse Diet plan, but it claims that you will lose weight. Moreover, it claims that if you follow a primarily raw food diet after the Master Cleanse, you should be able to keep the weight off. Focusing on the inches you lose and how your clothes feel, rather than obsessing over a number on a scale, are encouraged.

Is exercise promoted?

The Master Cleanse Diet plan makes no exercise recommendations, but you are encouraged to continue your current exercise regime while on the Master Cleanse.

Are supplements recommended?

There are no supplements recommended on the Master Cleanse Diet plan. Apparently lemons and maple syrup provide ample nutrition.

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