Fat Loss 4 Idiots Book

The lemonade diet is a real shocker, and here's why you should steer clear...

Written the 1970's, the lemonade diet didn't start out with that name. It was in fact a detox and cleansing plan.

It didn't take long for word to spread though, that if you followed it you would lose weight. The lemonade name stuck, it took hold as a popular diet, and gets a regular dose of celebrity endorsement.

However, this doesn't necessarily mean it's good, or even healthy, and that fact that the most current celebrity to use it, Beyonce Knowles, says she wouldn't recommend it is a sign that it's worth looking a bit closer at what's involved, so here we go...

The lemonade diet name may sound attractive, but it's not so appealing when you discover the process. You make a drink from water and fresh lemon juice, mixed with cayenne pepper and maple syrup. Now that may sound peculiar enough, but what's even stranger is that this drink is all you survive on!

You live on this for 10 days, and then you have a huge weight loss!

Hmm...

Now I'm no rocket scientist, but even I know that if this is all you consume for 10 days, there is no way you are getting enough nutrients or energy to survive. Of course you're not!

It's no surprise that the weight tumbles off, because you are basically starving yourself. It's equally no surprise that when you stop the program, the weight just goes right back on again!

What a waste of time. It's unpleasant to stick to, it's abusing your body, and as soon as you stop you'll end up right back where you started.

Unsustainable, unhealthy, unworthy of your attention. So you can see why I say the lemonade diet sucks!

Gordon Bryan is a writer from Great Britain, who hates the bad diet advice being peddled. Find out more on his blog at: http://dietfactnotfiction.blogspot.com