Despite your best intentions for Labor Day, you partied your butt off, which means you downed more drinks and hot dogs than you can remember.
The ideal situation would have meant you nibbled on watermelon wedges and sipped club soda with a twist of lime all day, but it didn’t happen. So, instead of beating yourself up, let’s move forward, shall we?
I usually don’t like to use the word ‘detox’ because I feel it insinuates that your kidneys and liver need help to cleanse your body, which they don’t: they’ve been doing it since the beginning of time. After a few days, weeks or even years of filling your body with junk, however, sometimes you have to get a little strict with your diet and exercise to filter it out.
In order to bounce back from your BBQ indiscretions, you are going to have to start now, scale it back and keep reading.
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Summer and lemonade go hand-in-hand. That may partly explain a current spike in interest in the so-called Lemonade Diet. While the Lemonade Diet, also known as the Master Cleanse or Maple Syrup Diet, has been around for about half a century, interest really began to rise after it became public knowledge that Beyonce followed the diet, losing 20 pounds on the Lemonade Diet for her role in “Dreamgirls.”
What is the Lemonade Diet?
The Lemonade Diet, created by Stanley Burroughs more than 50 years ago, is a fasting plan that will definitely shed pounds quickly. Its followers drink anywhere from six to 12 glasses of lemonade daily. There’s a recipe that includes maple syrup and cayenne pepper.
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Tune in to the Rachael Ray Show on Monday, June 28 when Rachael discusses the pros and cons of the latest health craze: Cleanses.
On the show, Rachael leans on the expert help of Dr. Ian Smith, author of The 4-Day Diet.
His diet begins with a 4-day detox, which he says can be used to lose weight and boost your energy. The plan involves different foods each day, such as leafy vegetables, broccoli, lemons, chickpeas, fruits, berries, low-fat yogurt and cabbage soup.
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Kate Hudson appeared on the the Late Show with David Letterman on Wednesday, June 9 and confirmed that her secret to getting her weight back on track is counting calories. During her appearance she stated “I’ve been doing this calorie counting thing,” speaking to letting herself go from time to time and wanting to lose weight.
It’s true, celebrities indulge in food like the rest of us, and gain weight doing it. The question is how do they lose it all so fast?
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Detox and cleanse diets are all the rage with Hollywood stars. The approach is controversial, as many mainstream medicine and nutrition experts say that the body does a perfectly good job on its own in detoxing when you are eating a normal healthy diet, and staying fit.
But, that doesn’t stop many versions of cleansing and detox diets to pop up, particularly since they can piggyback on the power of celebrity endorsements, even if they aren’t outright paid spokespeople.
The latest celebrity diet news has come from Jennie Garth (90210) and her hubby of nine years, Twilight star Peter Facinelli. In a recent interview, Jennie revealed that she is doing a cleanse. The cleanse consists of just one meal a day. Her husband is doing the more hardcore full-body cleanse, which entails fasting for seven days straight without any food at all.
