Re: Loose weight because of SWL?

Yep, and that is why people lose weight on the MC. It is only because people are taking in fewer calories than they are expending. You could be eating chocolate instead of lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper, and as long as you ate the same number of calories with both, you would lose the same amount of weight.

I guess what concerns me when I hear the Master-Cleanse referred to as a "diet," or used solely to lose weight, is that people (maybe) have been somehow misled into thinking there is some magic bullet with the lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper that somehow helps to "melt away fat" or make you lose weight more quickly than you would if you consumed the calories in some other form. It just isn't true. If the Master-Cleanse has a magic bullet, it is that the lemon juice concoction provides a healthy concentration of minerals and cleansing properties. But if you just want to lose weight, you can consume the 500 - 1000 or so daily calories that you are consuming with lemonade in anything else and still lose the same amount of weight.

Just my .04! :)