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Beyonce Liquid Diet
By Omar Maskori | August 23, 2006
If you want the real scoop on the Beyonce liquid diet, you will find this post really interesting.
Before I created TripleThin I experimented with countless crash diets. One of them was the exact same liquid diet that Beyonce used to lose 20 pounds for a movie role in DreamGirls.
However I didn’t use it to lose weight, I used it to relieve my allergies (it worked rather well). I’ve used this diet about five time over the last few years (to help manage my allergies).
Here are the details…
The Beyonce crash diet is actually called the lemonade cleanse, or The Master Cleanse. Basically, for up to 10 days, aside from water you consume nothing but a special lemonade drink.
The Beyonce liquid diet drink ingredients are: freshly squeezed lemon and/or lime, maple syrup, cayenne pepper, and of course water. Oh, and every morning… you have to drink a liter of warm salt water!
Why? To clean out your colon… to wash out all the fecal matter and other junk that’s stuck to your intestinal walls. This salt water will basically send you running to the bathroom with explosive bowel movements.
Not so glamorous now is it?
The lemonade cleanse should only be considered for the two following situations:
1) You only have 10 days to lose weight for a major movie role.
2) You want to improve your health by cleaning out your colon/intestines.
Oh, and if you’re under about 20 years old, you shouldn’t do it. It’s really low calorie, zero protein, zero fat, and if you are under 20, you’re still growing, so knock it off.
Listen: this diet sucks for permanent weight loss.
I typically lose 1 pound for every day I’m on the lemonade cleanse. So after 10 days I’ve lost about 10 pounds. Sounds real good right?
Wrong.
To cut to the chase: of that 10 pound weight loss, it’s very realistic to say that 5 pounds of it is waste matter that was flushed out of your colon (remember, that was the original purpose of this detox diet).
So yes, you will be ‘lighter’ if all you care about is the number on the scale, but that 5 pounds isn’t coming off your hips, buns, or tummy.
This fasting diet will provide about 800 calories a day (if you drank 8 cups of the lemonade).
Such low calories could starve off at least 2 pounds of muscle… not good since that will lower your metabolism.
You will also lose some fat of course, somewhere around 2 - 3 pounds. And you would lose some water weight.
As you can see, the actual fat loss is about 20% of all the weight you lost and…
The weight you lose on this diet you will gain back… quickly.
Yup, that’s right.
You slow down your metabolism on this crash diet. Once you go back to a regular amount of calories you will gain back the weight plus gain even more (because your metabolism is slower than it was before).
Here’s a quote from Beyonce Knowles herself:
“As soon as it was over I gained the weight back.”
There you have it, she said herself that she gained the weight back “as soon as it was over”.
So unless you want to be thinner for only a few short days… this liquid diet is not the way to go.
To lose weight you have to eat less calories than you burn up (but don’t starve yourself). And stay away from silly crash diets!
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Topics: Weight Loss |
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Well said! I thought Beyonce lost weight with all that singing and dancing.
A liquid diet would be very hard for most I assume. I know I couldn’t do it. Not very realistic, but if it works for you then great!
August 24th, 2006 at 12:37 am
You are absolutely right Erica, liquid diets are very hard for most. It is very rare that someone I recommend it to lasts the full 10 days.
Most often they last a couple hours or so… seriously.
I once did an all fresh vegetable juice diet for 17 days. I was experimenting on myself to see the health effects.
January 7th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
I just wanted to say that your article was a great read and very informative. Job well done!
January 8th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
I sure am glad I read this website. My sister told me about the Beyonce fast and said we should try it. I think it sounds ridiculous for weight loss. I would rather walk the 2 miles aday and just watch the caloric intake!!! I need to keep every bit of precious muscle I’ve got. Thanks for snapping me back into reality.
March 21st, 2008 at 8:52 pm
IM UNDER 20 AND WELLING TO TRY THIS!!!
August 18th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!