Taking this diet has always been what I wanted to do since I knew about this diet. Back then, I learnt that one of the yoga teacher took this diet and had an amazing weight loss as well as a myriad of benefits. Now recently my yoga teacher, Bo and Shirley had also gone through this diet for 10 days and was sharing how great this lemon detox diet was. Plus they added a little twist to this diet that may make it more bearable for mere mortals like me… heh. With their encouragement, I have finally gathered all the ingredients ready and this is the little recipe that I have gotten on the internet ( tgfg - thank god for google… ha )
Lemon Detox Diet
2 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice ( no canned or fake lemons plz… I bought 6 lemons - should have gotten more! If you are lazy, I can tell you now that half lemon is approx. 2 tablespoons. )
2 tablespoon of maple syrup ( organic if possible; note that maple syrup is not a common item to be found in Singapore but I managed to get a 100% pure maple syrup from Canada at an affordable S$6.90 at the local grocery store )
1/10 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
250ml of water at room temperature
I have just mixed the entire mixture in my bottle. Ok, I admit, my measurement was not exact for the cayenne pepper… in fact, i did not even measure… I just sprinkled a fair amount of it into the bottle.
Boy, the whole mixture was pretty hot….still bearable -> I can feel the pepper burning at the back of my throat… perhaps I have added too much? ( I did put in 5 dashes of cayenne pepper in - the cayenne pepper came in a sprinkley top bottle meant for cooks to sprinkle the red fiery pepper to dishes like seafood and meat… )
The mixture does not taste all that bad and I reduced the maple syrup to just half the amount in the recipe ( if you want to lose weight, you can cut down the syrup )…. but as Shirley says, after a few days, I might not think that any more….
The tummy went a bit queasy and a burning throat so far.
Tomorrow morning, I will be doing the internal salt cleansing too when I wake up…
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