Lemonade For Weight Loss....Hmmm?

Here we go again, it looks like a new, latest and current fad diet is hitting America, the world’s most obese nation. Recent news reports and TV shows have been discussing The Lemonade Diet. Apparently if you drink a concoction of water and, pure lemon juice, mixed with maple syrup and cayenne pepper each morning for say 10 days it will remove food cravings and detox your body. People are saying that they just lost the desire to eat and thus lost a lot of weight. Hmmm, we said at Ukmedix…looks like another too good to be true diet fad. You are also supposed to take an herbal laxative tea and a big glass of salt water along with the other lemon juice drink.

Well we don’t mean to spoil the fun but there are some things that you need to think about before going on The Lemonade Diet. Firstly you are likely to feel tired and get headaches as your body is deprived of it natural nutrients. Also your body will react to the lack of food by retaining as much fat as possible from what you do eat as a natural defence mechanism. Your metabolism is likely to slow down to the extent so that when you do start to eat normally again you will put on more weight than you would normally. This means that you could end up becoming fatter than you were in the first place.

Medical experts also say that the salty water drink will make you lose retained water so that your weight loss could in fact not be real fat loss but just a result of dehydration and thus it’ll all come back again when you go back to normal eating and drinking patterns. 

People say that they have done this diet three or four time that means that they seem to be putting back on all the weight that they originally lost from this diet. We believe that this diet could just be the start of an unhealthy Yo-Yo style pattern of dieting that is unhealthy in the long run.

Eat your greens and lots of fruit. Eat a balanced diet. Limit you calorie intake, be sensible and get some exercise. That’s the Ukmedix way….