How far can you go off course?

As a male will do when his wife isn't there to hold his hand, I recently made a greivous error in the kitchen. Suffice it to say, it involved pork, pickles, jalapenos, rice and cheese. I ate a lot of it. As for the rest of it, it sits in my refrigerator daring me to finish it. Oh, I'll get to it. But not today. My stomach has a black eye.
But in the same vein, I continued my experiments a couple days ago. I've heard of this thing called "The Master Cleanser" diet. It was recently made famous by Robin Quivers of the Howard Stern show. Without really studying up too much on it or buying any sort of kit, I was able to glean from her frequent mentions of the diet that it was primarily lemonade sweetened with honey and with some cayenne pepper in it.
I don't have any cayenne pepper. It seems that putting honey in it, kind of defeats the purpose of it being a diet thing. What I did was 44 ounces of water, two packets of fake sugar and some reallemon (to taste). Thinking about putting cajun spice in there.
But how far off course could you go and still have this drink have the desired effect (i.e. weight loss, appetite suppression)?
What about water, lemon, applesauce, and tobasco?
Orange juice, tootsie rolls and horseradish?
Carmelized grapefruit flambe'?
Intravenus Orange Julius?
Would these work?
My answer is a resounding "yes"? If food can put you off food, then it has done it's job.