In order to have lasting success with the Lemonade Diet (sometimes called the master cleanse or the maple syrup diet), it’s important that you make some lifestyle and attitude changes. Here are some Lemonade Diet before and after tips that will help you use the Lemonade Cleanse Diet to lose weight and keep the weight off.
Before You Start The Lemonade Diet
Set goals: Know how much weight you want to lose. List your reasons for wanting to lose weight and keep this list in front of you. Focus on the benefits that you will experience once you reach your weight loss goals.
Get to know the Glycemic Index Chart: The Glycemic Index is a system that ranks foods from high to low according to how quickly our body converts carbohydrates that we eat into glucose, or blood sugar. The lower the Glycemic Index the slower the conversion to glucose.
Once you complete the lemonade diet, adopting a low glycemic eating plan not only helps you maintain your weight loss, it reduces your risk of heart attack, stroke and a number of other diet related diseases.
Stock your Pantry with that you enjoy eating: Choose foods that are nutrient rich and low to moderate on the Glycemic Index. In addition to the health benefits of reducing your insulin levels following your meals, this approach helps you control your appetite. This way once you complete the lemonade diet cleanse you’ll be sure to eat foods that will support your weight loss.
Clean out your cupboards and refrigerator: Remove foods that do not promote good health and contribute to your weight loss from your home. Eliminate most if not all foods that rate high on the glycemic index. Sometimes when you complete a cleansing program you get the urge to binge on junk foods, if they are not available you won’t eat them.
Select activities that you enjoy doing: Physical activity not only helps you lose more weight while your on the lemonade diet, it increases your energy, enhances your mood, and reduces your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers. It also builds muscle, the more muscle you have the more efficient your body is at using the food you eat and burning calories.
Make physical activity a lifestyle choice that you follow on a daily basis.
Get Started With The Lemonade Diet
Now that you’ve prepared yourself and your home for weight loss success, you can implement the lemonade diet.
Repeat the lemonade diet every 30 days until you reach your weight loss goals. Be sure to incorporate the healthy eating plan and activities that you selected between each cleanse. Your goal is to make healthy eating and physical activity a permanent lifestyle change.
TIP: Portion control is important, eat moderate sized portions of healthy foods. Eating slowly can help you do this. Often we eat too much because we eat too fast. Slowing down lets your body know when you’ve had enough. You feel full sooner.
After You’ve Reached Your Goals With The Lemonade Diet
Congratulations, you now have a slim, healthy body. Your job now is to keep the weight off.
Repeat the Lemonade Diet Cleanse, every three months. Make this a permanent lifestyle change. This will keep your body cleansed of the chemicals and other toxins that are one of the main reasons that we lack energy and gain weight.
Continue With Your Healthy Eating Plan: Of course it goes without saying, that you want to continue with a low to moderate glycemic index eating plan but by now this should be a habit.
TIP: Review the Glycemic Index Food Chart to find even more low to moderate glycemic index foods that you would enjoy eating.
Keep up with your physical activity: Focus on engaging in some fun physical activity, every day.
I hope that you found these Lemonade Diet Before and After Tips informative and helpful. Keeping the weight off is now a matter of maintaining your new healthy lifestyle. If you do, you can look forward to making permanent weight loss a part of your life.
If you would like to learn more about the Lemonade Diet / Master Cleanse I suggest you visit my the Master Cleanse Page of Peter Glickman’s Raw Foods Website. This is without a doubt my favorite source for lemonade diet information and supplies.
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