People have known about all kinds of healing properties of lemon for a very long time. But the fact that this fruit is one of the important components for losing weight is not known to everyone. And only recently has this product been highlighted by nutritionists as a weight loss product.
Lemon diets perfectly relieve the human body of toxins and toxins, or rather, not a diet, namely lemons for weight loss, because it is just a unique fruit! It is a natural source of citric acid, which helps digest heavy food to the stomach, break down harmful fats in the body and relieve hunger for a long time. In the end, lemon acid helps better secretion of gastric juice, and this affects the complete and quick digestion of food. It also helps to absorb everything necessary to burn fat faster. Along with lemon, vitamin C also enters the body in large quantities, which is so necessary during periods of acute vitamin deficiency (in winter, during illness, subject to certain diets).
Let's talk in more detail about how lemons can be used for weight loss.
1. Slimming with water and lemon juice
The most striking thing is that with this diet, using lemons for weight loss, you do not need to give up your favorite foods, well, perhaps only the most harmful ones, since the main principle of the diet is not to restrict the body from eating (after all, they come into the body with food not only extra pounds and harmful calories, but also vitamins and nutrients), but simply adding water with lemon juice to the food you eat.
What is the essence of a diet? Every day, you need to add a glass of water with the juice of 1 lemon to the diet. Therefore, on the first day of the diet you need to add 1 glass with juice, on the second - 2 glasses, but already with juice from two lemons, etc.
It’s important at the same time to drink some water with juice from the very morning before eating, because this is what helps the body get rid of substances harmful to it, but if you can’t drink the right amount (for example, 5 glasses on the 5th day), you don’t need to rape yourself, drink as much as you can, then the rest can be finished during the day.
Note that it is better to warm water to room temperature, since cold slows down the digestion process. And after taking the drink, you need to brush your teeth or at least rinse your mouth so as not to damage the tooth enamel, because you are dealing with at least citric acid, but still.
On the seventh day of the diet, it is advisable to arrange a fasting day, i.e. no food, just the juice of 3 lemons in 3 liters of water (with a spoonful of honey). Drink it should be during the day.
On the eighth day, the reverse order of the diet begins, that is, a decrease in the volume of liquid from 6 glasses of water with lemon juice to 1 glass. On the fourteenth day (last) you need to repeat the diet of the seventh day.
After the end of such a diet, follow the advice - no need to rush for food. The next 2 days after the diet should be eaten sparingly, it is better to eat oatmeal in the morning, and you should try not to eat after 6 pm, since the stomach will slightly decrease in volume during the diet period.
It is best to consult a doctor before starting a diet.
With this diet, you will establish a metabolism, and this is very important when losing weight.
2. Slimming Lemon Tea
With all diets, experts advise drinking more fluids, while green tea is very useful. Add lemon to it - this will improve its taste and enhance the effect. In addition, it has been proven that lemon increases the usefulness of tea with which it is served, in particular, increases the influence of catechins and antioxidants present in tea.
Slimming lemons are best consumed with sugar-free green tea. You can add a spoonful of honey to it. This combination will prevent the degradation of the cells of your intestines, thereby improving its function. After you drink tea, you also need to eat lemon, preferably with a peel, because it contains many useful substances.
So, daily drinking tea with lemon will help to stay in shape, as well as stimulate metabolic processes in the digestive system.
Just don’t think that drinking tea with lemon alone will be the solution to all your problems. Having washed down cakes or cakes for them and sitting on the sofa, no one had lost extra pounds. Therefore, such tea can become an additional means for losing weight, which only in combination with physical activity and proper nutrition will bring the body into a shape that you have long dreamed about.
3. Slimming with lemon essential oil
For more than a millennium, the healing power of aromatherapy has been known to mankind. Today, aromatherapy is experiencing its rebirth. Essential oils are gaining popularity more and more . One of their effects is normalization in the body's metabolism plus a decrease in hunger. Just such an effect has the aromatic oil of lemon. The smell, of course, cannot completely satisfy hunger, but saturation will come much faster if you inhale the excellent citrus aroma of essential lemon oil for several minutes before eating.
An even greater effect will come if you alternate the aromas of oils: lemon anise, lemon rosemary; lemon-apple , etc. It is important to remember here that it is necessary to inhale essential oils in order to reduce appetite, and not to replace the next meal with their aroma.
4. Slimming with Lemon and Chamomile
The use of chamomile decoction along with lemon brings your intestines back to normal, it also has a choleretic, laxative effect, therefore, toxins, toxins are eliminated, metabolism is normalized, and enrichment with vitamin C helps maintain the body and restore metabolism. This decoction can be used in combination with other diets. The broth should be taken before meals three times a day, ½ cup. To prepare, a teaspoon of pharmacy chamomile is poured together with 2-3 lemon slices with a glass of boiling water in the evening, wrapped and left to infuse until morning, then filtered and taken inside.
You can talk a lot about the beneficial qualities of lemon for weight loss, but if you want to really lose weight and keep the result for a long time, you also need to eat right and exercise.
Show patience and perseverance, you will surely succeed!