The Lemonade Diet (Master Cleanser) – Celebrities vs. Scientists Smackdown
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Celebrities are usually shiny, pretty, perfect people.
So when a celebrity says that they used a particular diet to be even shinier, prettier and more perfect, it is probably a knee-jerk reaction for us to want to find out how we can emulate them, and hopefully edge a little closer to the ideal.
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I fasted on and off through my college years. At the end of it all I had gained the freshamn 15, the sophomore 15, the junior 15, and the senior 15. I credit juice fasting with creating the first 60 pounds of my forray into the hell of obesity.
Juice has so much of sugar!!! Doing the south beach diet, while doing some boxing at this amazing new boxing gym in Miami. The diet in the first 2 weeks says no juices!!!!
DID THIS. MADE ME SO WEEK AND SICK I COULD NOT CONCENTRATE ON WORK. LOST 5 POIUNDS THEN GAINED BACK 10. WAS SO MISERBLE. THIS IS TRUE.
Not sure why we all fall for this stuff. I think I’ve tried everything that you have posted here and nothing ever worked for very long. But you lost all that weight – how did you do it?????
Hi Carole,
I get asked that question quite a bit, so we have put the answer on the page titled “The Pearl Principle”.
Best of luck on your journey!
MP
When my daughter was a teenager, she and all her friends tried this diet (against my advice). I told them that they were losing weigh because they were starving themselves (eating between 500-800 calories per day) but, of course, they wouldn’t listen and did it anyway. That was a year (and 3 or 4 more crash diets) ago. she was hungry and cranky (MUCH more than usual!) and she gained back what she lost one week after she stopped the diet. It’s simply crazy the diets that people come up with!
Soooooo true! I couldn’t even last a day when I tried it. Didn’t do krispy creme, for me it was a tub of Ben and Jerry’s!