Its important to ensure you have your carbohydrate and protein intake between 30 to 100 grams per day. This is to ensure that your metabolism doesn’t slow down, and to also help keep you sane. Many people who have never detoxed before will find it quite difficult to go long periods without any food. One way we highly recommend is to fast 14 hours for women or 16 hours for men, but with a twist, 8 of these hours are filled during your sleep whilst the other hours you can use to fast while your awake and active. This gives you between 6-8 hours during which you can drink as many glasses of lemon juice and herbal tea as you desire, depending on how hardcore you want to go! After your fasting hours are over, you’re free to eat some healthy food! Having to go 10 days without food on some of the lemon juice cleanse diets can be tough!

Healthy Food & Drink Tips

Okay, so now your going to want to try and have no more than 3 meals after your fasting to help keep the load off your digestive system and help make your detox more effective. You’re free to eat pretty much whatever you want, but remember, the healthier your meal choices, the more you will get out of your lemon juice cleanse, it really is that simple! The real master cleanse diet is one which allows you to be your own master!

An important tip is to ensure that your source of carbs are healthy and slow digesting with a Low Glycemic Index, preferably non-refined. Dont be shy to keep your fat intake high as long as its from healthy sources such as Olive Oil, Avocado, Coconut etc. This is a great time to get creative with some super healthy fruit and vegetable smoothies as an alternative to eating whole foods as this will increase the amount of toxins your liver and gallbladder can flush out during the cleanse. Green foods, raw veggies and organic fruits can even be mixed with healthy carbs like Oat powder. It is important to ensure you get adequate fiber intake to keep the toxins moving through your bowels properly ready to be flushed out!

Depending on how long you want to run this diet and how much results you want, you can either go anywhere from 7-10 days or even up to 4 weeks. Just remember, once you continue this juice fast for over a week, you will want to ensure that you have plenty of healthy carbs, fats and protein intake so that your metabolism doesn’t drop. You can increase your calories and more solid foods as you progress.

Its important to ensure the Lemons you use in your detox drinks are natural, organic and fresh. Avoid using Juice from frozen or processed forms of lemon. This will ensure that its free of any artificial preservatives and sugar. You can also make it extra zesty by mixing in freshly squeezed Lime juice too! The lemon juice provides vitamins and minerals, nutrients and helps flush out toxins from the body. The maple syrup will help add taste and more nutrients to help give you more energy, the Cayenne pepper will help stimulate blood circulation in your digestive system to help keep the toxins moving out of your colon, and lastly the natural Honey will help increase the sweetness of the taste whilst providing health benefits of its own.

Juice half or one fresh Lemon, 200-300ml of filtered water, 15-30 drops of natural Grade B maple syrup, 1/10 of a teaspoon of Cayenne pepper, Half a spoon of natural unrefined Honey.

Herbal Tea’s For Detoxing Faster!

A hot cup of natural herbal tea alternated with every other Lemon Juice drink can not only make a great change to your detox diet, but add great health benefits to your body! You can look for the following tea’s that will detoxify your liver and gallbladder:

Yellow dock, burdock and dandelion root, Lemon & Ginger, Peppermint tea, Redbush tea. We highly recommended Peppermint tea and particularly Nettle tea. Nettle tea is extremely rich in many natural vitamins, minerals and nutrients but more importantly is an excellent detoxifier and blood purifier! Drinking herbal Nettle tea as part of your Lemon Juice cleanse will help cleanse your kidneys, lungs and other area’s of your body that needs cleaning. Highly recommended, together with Peppermint tea this may even help to dissolve gallstones and flush your gallbladder of toxins!

Directions For Use

Depending on how quickly you want to detox, this drink may be drank as often as once every hour or every 2 hours. A great idea is to alternate your Lemon detox drink with a hot cup of Herbal tea! These are an excellent addition to your Lemon Juice cleanse diet and will help give you more variety as well as help you to detox more faster!

• Increase in energy, mental clarify, improved mood

• Increased sex drive and libido

• Elimination of toxic waste and fecal matter in the Colon

• Removal of chemical toxins from the whole body such as heavy metals, pesticides & herbicides, chemical toxins

• Healthier glowing skin and improved complexion

• Elimination of Dark eye circles

• Increased fat loss and metabolism

• Improved digestion, relieve constipation

• Improved blood circulation, blood sugar levels or blood pressure

• Increase in hair regrowth and stronger healthier nails

When cleansing your body of toxins through your diet, you may notice a temporary increase in loss of energy, nausea, or even slight symptoms of a cold or flu. This is generally considered a sign that toxic material is leaving the body. Generally after a few days this should improve dramatically and after your Lemonade detox is completed you should be left feeling refreshed, healthy and more energetic!