Summer is officially here! After six months of notoriously finicky weather, mother nature has decided to reward us with beautiful blue skies and pleasantly mild temperatures. It has always been my favorite time of the year. I always look forward to the yearly tradition of storing away my bulky layers of winter clothing, hanging my summer dresses in my closet and best of all … shopping for bikinis!

So, now that summer is here, am I ready to wear less?

It has been a challenge, but I have worked hard to maintain a good sensible diet and I regularly to go to the gym as often as my busy schedule will allow.

Even if you are the reigning queen of hip-hop, properly instructing boys to “put a ring on it,” you occasionally need to slim down and shape-up. Life on the road and long strings of late night performances take their toll-too much late-night deliciousness and too little exercise add toxins and pounds to a hip-hop diva’s most precious assets. When you top the charts, requests, and popularity polls, however, you need brook no nastiness; you have earned the right to feel your palette pleased even as you detoxify and regain your fitness.

Wisely reformulating the traditional “Master Cleanse” to make it far more palatable without compromising its effectiveness, “Beyonce’s Diet” has all the same antioxidant circulation- and immunity-building properties of the original detox formula, but Beyonce and friends have made it taste good. In some ingenious variants of Beyonce’s diet, nutritionists have compressed all the vital cleansers and nutrients into tablet form.