Lemon Detox Diet Recipe and Instructions

Lemon Detox Diet: What You Need to Know Before You Start

The Lemon Detox Diet is a liquid juice fast. Because there is no solid food or ruffage provided for the bowel, it is essential that your colon continues to move waste material. One method to accomplish this is to take a natural laxative every night of the cleanse and begin the following day with a salt water flush. There are many natural laxatives to choose from. They range from stool softeners like mineral oil, to stimulant laxatives like senna, cascara sagrada, castor oil, and Epsom salts. Choose a laxative that you tolerate well. Our personal favorite is cascara sagrada, which causes less cramping than senna and is safe to use daily for fairly long periods of time.

In the morning drink a saline solution. Warm saline is a very strong purgative and passes rapidly through colon and is excreted usually in less than hour.

Because you may have disrupted the biological balance inside your gut, it is a good idea to supplement with a full-spectrum probiotic during your lemon detox cleanse. Once you begin introducing foods at the completion of the cleanse, an excellent food choice is yoghurt, which will continue to bring your intestinal flora back into homeostasis. You may choose a more aggressive therapy of acidopholous culture, especially if this is your first time doing the lemon detox.

When it's time to end the cleanse you will want to gently taper your fasting diet to your normal diet, keeping in mind that your stomach has shrunk on this liquid diet and made large accommodations to burning off fat and waste. End your cleanse with daily doses of freshly juiced fruit and vegetable juices, hopefully with some whole pulp. In the ensuing days add warm soups and finally add vegetables and nuts that you have tolerated well in the past.

The key to successfully ending your lemon detox diet is to return gradually to the best diet you have ever had with sensitivity and responsiveness. Notice how certain foods make you feel. Take advantage of this time when your body is hyper sensitive to take stock of which foods serve you well and which do not. You may be surprised.

During Your Lemon Detox Diet

Supplements: It is recommended that you do not take any non-essential vitamins or supplements during the Lemon Detox Diet, for even these can add a load to the body's digestive and elimination processes.

Exercise: Light exercise is safe and appropriate, but do not engage in any strenuous physical activity during the Lemon Detox Diet.

Elimination: Taking several enemas during the Lemon Detox Diet will help move toxic material out of the colon. You can take an enema on the first day and then every 3 days. Alternatively, you can drink one cup of laxative herbal tea each night at bedtime. Do not do both.

Detox aids: You can add any or all of these regimens during your Lemon Detox Diet. They will assist your body in the detoxification process and feel nurturing as well.

• warm (not hot) mineral salt bath
• dry or steam sauna (10 minute maximum)
• dry skin brushing
• light yoga
• massage
• meditation
• naps
  

Lemon Detox Diet: The Side Effects

The Lemon Detox Diet is essentially a juice fast and a rapid detox method. Toxins will be moving through and out of your body throughtout the process. Side effects are to be expected while doing the Lemon Detox Diet, especially during the first few days. You will most likely experience one or more of the following side effects as you undertake your Lemon Detox Diet. This is normal. If these side effects are severe or do not abate after day 4 or 5 of your Lemon Detox Diet, consider ending your lemon detox program early and/or seeing your physician. See How to End the Lemon Detox Diet below.

• fatigue
• headache
• light-headedness or dizziness
• nausea
• vomiting
• food cravings
• muscle or joint pain
• low blood pressure
• constipation
• irritability