There's a lot of different peoples takes on fasting and the lemonade diet. While most people stick to the 10 day rule, there are some who say that it's okay to stay on the diet for 30 or more days. If you're just starting out on the Master Cleanse It's best not to stay on it for more than 10 days.

Your body needs nourishment, and that comes from food. Now, the lemonade diet gives your body a much needed rest which is good. And by only consuming the lemonade your body can take a break from the usual digesting, detoxing, filtering, and other activities it endures when you are eating your normal diet.

This allows your body to turn its attention on the internal impurities, and work at getting rid of them -- which in the 10 days on the lemonade diet it will.

After you've done the Cleanse a few times, and know how it affects your body you might want to stay on it for longer than 10 days, but you should know that the Master Cleanse is a restrictive diet, and that staying on it to long could be unhealthy.

Exiting the Master Cleanse

Due to the massive changes in the body that the Lemonade Diet incurs, exiting the diet requires a careful process. It is not good to just drop the diet and go back to eating the same foods you were eating prior to the diet. This will mess up your system and cause it to go haywire. Rather, since the body has adjusted to the Lemonade Diet, some important steps should be followed to help the body come off the Lemonade Diet properly. Here are some important guidelines to follow:

The first day of ending the diet is when you should still only consume liquids. Start drinking a lot of orange juice and water. Drink slowly and let it settle. More water never hurt anybody, so drink plenty. Orange juice is good for helping the body to adjust back to digesting regular food.

On the second day, continue drinking orange juice and lots of water. Now you can add in light soups to the diet plan. It is best to use vegetable soup as this is healthy and very light, and you can also use Rye wafers. This food will be easy on the stomach and will help it to adjust back properly.

On day three you should continue eating and drinking plenty of water. For dinner, you can now add in fruits, vegetables, and salad. These foods are still easy on the stomach and very healthy.

For the next couple days follow this sort of plan and ease yourself back into a normal diet. Don't rush it; let your stomach calibrate itself. Also, avoid meats and milk for a while. Milk can mess up your stomach during this process and meat is very hard for the stomach to digest. Both of these should be avoided for at least a couple weeks after coming off of the Lemonade Diet.

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