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Starting tonight, I will embark on what promises to be the most physically rewarding, albeit challenging, forms of fasting. Starting tonight, and for 10 whole days, I will be consuming nothing but herbal tea for dinner, sea salt and water for breakfast, and a lemonade mixture throughout the rest of the day.

It is advisable that anyone interested in going on The Master Cleanser Diet aka The Lemonade Diet read the actual book (though I doubt you'd be able to find it here in Kuwait, since it is set on some fundamentally Jewish principles).

Anyone who's seen Dream Girls (I haven't, but I do watch The Insider :P ) would have noticed Beyonce's undeniable, drastic weight loss for her role. This is because she carried out The Master Cleanser Diet for 20 whole days, and as a result, lost 20 pounds!!

The diet claims that it is not a yo-yo diet, but a natural way of detoxifying, cleansing, and strengthening the body, which is why it refers to itself as a fast rather than a "reducing diet" as such.

So here's the plan. For 10 nights I will have to follow these simple rules:

1- A laxative herbal tea for dinner. This will help loosen toxicity's in the body.

2- In the morning, and on an empty stomach, I will have 2 teaspoons of un-iodized sea salt mixed with a quart of water (a quart is the equivalent of 4x240 ml cups).

3- Throughout the day, I will have my lemonade mixture. This consists of 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 2 tablespoons genuine organic maple syrup (honey is NOT allowed), and a dash of red chilli (cayenne) pepper. Around 6 glasses a day are sufficient for the diet to be effective.

None of these ingredients is to be eliminated. They are all essential, and the diet will not work if any component is eliminated. Also, nothing other than what is stated should be added to the diet for any reason whatsoever throughout the diet. This includes vitamin pills, supplements, sugar, sweeteners, colonics, enemas, etc. These are all off-limits throughout the fast.

As you can imagine, this will cause one hell of a stomach-upset. A minimum of 3 bowel movements a day are promised, and many ailments WILL surface. This is because the body is trying to rid itself as fast as possible of all the toxins that are embedded in its cells.

After those 10 nights pass, I will let you know how it goes and what happens next. Wish me luck, wish me strength that I may have it in me to follow through with this :)

This account of a persons experience during the fast is hilarious. Check it out. But be warned, do not read if you intend on starting the fast and need to be motivated. This persons blog will do nothing for you :P