Maple Syrup Diet is an all liquid diet regime. The regime is followed by people all around the world in hope of shedding large amount of weight in a small time. The diet consists of only drinking water mixed with lemon, maple syrup and cayenne pepper. Following the regime, the person drinks only this juice throughout the day and eats nothing. The diet may be carried out for 7 to 14 days. Apart from the drink, the dieters also take herbal laxative tea and sea salts once a day.
Instructions
The instructions to Maple Syrup Diet are pretty simple; for 7-14 days stop eating all sorts of food. Only drink water, laxative tea or lemon and maple juice mixed water whenever hungry.
One must take at least 6 glasses of the drink daily. It is for this reason that most people also refer to this ‘diet’ as a fast.
Cleanse/Detox
The Maple Syrup Diet claims to cleanse and detoxify the body. By eating nothing and only drinking natural ingredients and water, one is eliminating all the toxins from the body and cleansing it in the process. People who don’t want to lose weight also sometimes follow this regime to cleanse and detoxify their bodies. Following this cleansing and detoxification diet, the body is supposed to feel energized, pleasant and happy.
Kit
Maple Syrup Diet is also called Lemon Detox diet, and more famously, the Master Cleanse diet. There are numerous kits available through which one can make the required drink for the diet. Most of these can be ordered online as well.
These kits usually have:
–Master Cleanse Diet book by Stanley Burroughs, the founder of Master Cleanse Diet Program.
-Ingredients required making the maple syrup diet.
-Sea Salt and laxative tea Bags
The kits vary depending upon the quantity of ingredients provided, which in turn dictates the duration of the Master Cleanse. These kits generally come with a price tag of $40 or above.
Drink
The Maple Syrup drink consists of mixing one glass of water with lemon, cayenne pepper and maple syrup. All the ingredients are most effective when they are organic. Along with this, the dieter is also advised to drink lots of water. Drinking laxative tea once a day is also advised.
Ingredients
Ingredients of the Maple Syrup Drink are:
1. Water
2. Lemon
3. Maple Syrup
4. Cayenne Pepper
Results
The claimed result of the Maple Syrup Diet are loss of weight, energized and cleansed body, better skin, nail and hair etc. Medically though, the diet is said to leave one with irritability, weakness, fatigue, constipation and a deficiency of essential vitamins as well as proteins.
Reviews
On average, the people who followed the diet claim to have successfully lost their desired amount of weight and are happy with the results. Users have given this diet a rating of 96%. The dieters do point out that unless you take care, there’s a possibility of more weight gain later. But they claim that one can keep the extra weight gain at bay by eating intelligently and healthily.
Beyonce
The maple syrup diet gained popularity when Hollywood celebrity Beyonce told the world about how she followed this same regime to lose weight. Beyonce used the Maple Syrup Diet to lose around 20 pounds of weight. This was to fit into her role in movie ‘Dreamgirls’. She ate nothing and drank nothing but maple juice for 2 weeks and as a result, she was able to shed almost 20 pounds!
