Getting this very simple recipe right is crucial to your ultimate result.
Ingredients for the Lemon Detox Drink
- 2 Tablespoons Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice
- 2 Tablespoons Maple Syrup Grade B
- 1/10th Teaspoon Cayenne Pepper
- 8 fl Oz's Pure Water
Mix all of the ingredients together in a glass and enjoy!
Initially you may find the cayenne pepper a little hot, especially if
you are not used to spicy food but this is something that you also
become accustomed to very quickly.
I was quite surprised at how
hot it was when I first tried it but I was soon adding extra cayenne for
an even stronger detox towards the end.
You'll need to drink a
minimum of 6 detox drinks throughout the day. Somewhere between 8 - 12
is ideal. Make sure that you are also drinking plenty of fresh pure
water throughout the day too.
Whenever you start to feel a bit
hungry, go and mix yourself a drink. This tends to keep hunger pains at
bay pretty quickly. Once you get past day 3, you'll probably find that
you will experience very few actual hunger pains although about 1 in 4
people do say that they have regular hunger pains throughout. But don't
worry, I've got a good feeling that you'll be one of the lucky other 3!
The
drink is best made fresh each time that you want to drink it but this
sometimes isn't possible, especially if you are heading off to work. To
try and maintain the cleaning power of the lemon enzymes, make a
concentrate of the maple syrup and the lemon juice and just add water
when you want to drink it.
**TIP**
So if you were planning
on drinking 3 drinks whilst you were out, you would need to make up a
concentrate of 6 tablespoons of lemon juice and 6 tablespoons of maple
syrup.
To make life easier on yourself, take 3 separate bottles of
water each containing 8 fl Oz's of pure water but with the capacity for
10 fl Oz's as you will be adding your concentrate to it.
You'll
need to pack a tablespoon for measuring and your cayenne to add at the
end. (you can add 3/10ths of a teaspoon of cayenne to the concentrate
but cayenne tends to get hotter when it hits liquid and is left for a
period of time).
Once you're ready for a drink, just get your
concentrate out and give it a good shake, then measure 4 tablespoons
into the bottle, add your cayenne, shake and drink!
**Tip**
If
hunger creeps in just distract yourself. I decided to detox my house
whilst I detoxed my body. There is nothing quite like cleaning to keep
you focused and distracted. My house had never looked so good by the
time I had finished my detox and of course it helps when you get so much
more energy than you normally have.
If you don't have a house to
clean try some light exercise as this will make you feel great and keep
your mind off food. Don't forget to keep drinking the detox drink and
replenishing your water supplies.By
Nikki Backshall
