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Lemon is enriched with potassium, zinc, vitamin A, and ascorbic acid. Citrus fruit helps remove toxins and toxic substances from the body and normalizes the functioning of the digestive tract. Due to its low calorie content, citrus fruit juice is actively used in a variety of diets. The product accelerates the process of burning fat deposits.
Water with lemon and honey for weight loss helps improve intestinal motility and eliminates the feeling of hunger.
Properties of lemon
According to nutritionists, everyone who is even slightly overweight should eat lemons. How is this overseas fruit useful in the fight for slimness?
- Lemon is rich in large amounts of vitamin C. It is an excellent antioxidant that removes from the body what the body could not process. These reserves, which are deposited in cells and tissues, disrupt normal metabolism, providing extra centimeters and kilograms.
- Also, “lemon vitamins” provide us with the necessary hormones that help convert fat reserves into energy.
- Lemon juice is a strong cleanser for the liver, blood and bladder, and normalizes blood sugar. This improves their functioning, which means it improves metabolism.
- Pectins contained in white lemon membranes help dissolve cholesterol reserves and remove excess fat.
Efficiency of honey
Another product that improves metabolism is honey. Honey contains many useful substances and amino acids. In addition, just like lemon, honey contains a large amount of vitamin C. For a person losing weight, it is advisable to replace sugar in their diet with honey (in small quantities). Having done this, you can notice its positive effect on health and slimness, because:
- Digestion will improve and, as a result, the intestines will work better.
- Honey sugar “fructose” is absorbed by the body almost completely, without being deposited on the sides and waist. Although the calorie content of honey and sugar is approximately the same (about 30 calories per teaspoon, depending on the variety), honey calories are completely absorbed, and sugar, unlike honey, contains only fast carbohydrates.
- With honey, a person gets more energy. If you lead an active lifestyle and engage in sports or fitness, you will not be very tired after grueling workouts, and the process of losing weight will go faster.
- Consuming honey restores the nervous system, ensuring healthy sleep and strong nerves (which is especially important if you are on a diet).
- Honey is delicious and can go well with many foods and drinks. In particular, it can be used together with lemon.
Honey and lemon are two products that have strong cleansing and metabolism-boosting properties. They can and should be used as a means not only for weight loss, but also for health.
At the same time, there is no point in hoping that by drinking water with honey and lemon, but not limiting yourself to any food excesses, you can lose weight indefinitely. Alas, if this were so, everyone would have been slim and thin a long time ago.
However, this is a fairly easy way to cleanse the body. And this can already lead to a reduction in extra pounds.
Egg-honey diet
A popular diet among women losing weight is based on the consumption of raw egg yolks and honey. The egg-honey diet lasts 3 days.
- Breakfast: two beaten egg yolks with a spoon of honey, tea with lemon.
- Lunch: tea with honey, a piece of cheese.
- Dinner: vegetable broth, a piece of rye bread, an orange, tea with lemon before bed.
This egg diet is quite extreme; it is advisable to use it only if you need to quickly lose weight.
Rules for using lemon and honey
There are a number of rules that should be used in order not to harm the body with the honey-lemon diet:
- During a honey-lemon cleanse, it is better to avoid foods high in uric acid, such as meat, eggs, mushrooms, strong tea and coffee. You should not drink alcohol.
- It is advisable to do fitness or aerobics (or any physical activity), exactly the sport that you like best. If you add breathing exercises and walks in the fresh air to this, the result will be more noticeable.
- This method is not a diet, but a healthy lifestyle designed for a long time. Most likely, you will notice the result not in a week, but in a few months. But this will not only reduce volume, but also a more blooming appearance, strengthening the immune system, and improving stamina.
Recipes for lemon and honey drinks
There are a variety of recipes that help you quickly and effectively lose extra pounds. Let's consider them further.
Recipe 1
Cut 5 medium lemons, remove the seeds and grind together with the peel through a meat grinder. Transfer to a two-liter jar and fill with cold filtered water. Infuse for two days in the refrigerator with the lid closed. Then add liquid honey. Thick honey should be melted in a water bath. You will need half a liter of honey. Once again, put the jar of honey and lemons in the refrigerator for two days.
Take half a glass of this lemon-honey mixture 3 times a day, half an hour before meals. Course - until the mixture runs out. After this, take a break of 3 weeks, and then, having prepared the next portion of the mixture, take the course again.
This is an excellent means of cleansing the body. After it, not only the volume will decrease, but also the complexion will improve, vigor and energy will appear.
Recipe 2
Another simpler recipe is water with lemon. Drink warm water with two slices of lemon and a teaspoon of honey. It is better to start in the morning, on an empty stomach, and also during the day before all meals. This drink saturates and gives energy. Appetite decreases, the amount of food eaten is reduced. And if all food excesses are replaced with healthy foods (for example, instead of fried potatoes, eat buckwheat), then the kilograms will begin to melt quite quickly.
Benefits of the honey diet
Honey has bactericidal, tonic, and immunostimulating effects. Even if you do not follow a honey diet, it will be useful for you to simply eat 2-3 spoons a day of this healing product. Such nutrition will improve overall well-being and increase physical and mental performance.
Honey weight loss is the most delicious, healthy and at the same time quite effective. By following all the rules, you can lose 4 kg in 3 days.
The benefit of the honey diet is that when followed, the body is quickly saturated with carbohydrates with very small amounts. In addition, the product promotes the production of bile, which speeds up the process of utilization of dietary fats.
It has also been scientifically proven that this tasty and healthy product simultaneously regulates the acidity of gastric juice and reduces the activity of gastric lipase. Thus, we not only intensively burn fats, but also prevent their deposition in our body.
Lemon and honey recipes with additional ingredients
There are recipes that contain, in addition to honey and lemon, various spices. Spices can be cinnamon, ginger, dill seed.
Ginger
Contains a large amount of essential oils that improve digestion, blood circulation, and enhance metabolism.
To prepare the drink you will need ginger root. It can be either in the form of a dried powder or in the form of a fresh root (a two-centimeter piece is required).
The powder is taken in the amount of a tablespoon per liter of water. You can brew in a thermos or use a multicooker in the “simmering” mode. Pour warm ginger infusion into a glass, add a spoonful of honey and two crushed lemon slices. This drink can be drunk several times during the day before meals. In order to get rid of the “excess” it may take from one to several months.
Cinnamon
In addition to ginger, you can add cinnamon to the drink. It is prepared in the same way; you should take no more than one teaspoon of cinnamon per liter of water. This spice has long been known for its fat-burning properties. Cinnamon drink (especially with ginger) should not be used for long, no more than a week, so as not to harm the stomach. You should not take such drinks before bed, as they can cause insomnia.
Cinnamon drink recipe:
Brew a teaspoon of cinnamon in half a glass of boiling water. Leave for half an hour. Fill the volume to a glass by adding warm water. Add honey to this mixture - 1-2 teaspoons and lemon (2 cloves). You should drink this infusion 2 times a day before meals for ten days.
Dill
Another spice that can complement honey-lemon weight loss is dill. The plant has established itself as a good remedy for eliminating edema, flatulence and improving the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. All these properties allow it to be used as a means of weight loss.
Dried dill seeds are most often used for this purpose. Take a tablespoon of seeds, brew it with boiling water (a spoonful per glass) and infuse for an hour. You need to add honey and lemon to this infusion. Drink in several doses in one day. Dill is a very strong diuretic, you need to remember this.
It is worth noting that lemon-honey drinks (and especially those with added spices), no matter how healthy they are, are not suitable as a mono-diet. But as an addition to a healthy lifestyle, this will be the best help.
This video presents an interesting recipe based on lemon with ginger, mint and fresh cucumber:
Honey diet for the lazy
This weight loss method is based on regular consumption of honey drink. You need to drink it twice a day on an empty stomach. This diet requires the exclusion of all flour and confectionery products from the diet. In this case, the daily calorie content of food cannot exceed 1200 kcal.
Allowed to eat protein foods and products of plant origin:
- boiled meat - fish, beef, poultry;
- fruits;
- vegetables.
Honey drink recipe
To prepare a honey drink, take 200 ml of water, dissolve a spoonful of the sweet product and a couple of drops of lemon juice in it, stir. The drink is ready to drink. The use of a honey drink is also known as a honey diet for the lazy, as it does not require much effort to lose weight.
External use of honey and lemon for weight loss
In addition to using honey and lemon internally, you can also use them as an external means for losing weight. We are talking about scrubs, honey-based wraps and honey massage.
Honey scrubs
They gently exfoliate the skin, leaving it smoother and more even. With regular use, cellulite bumps, which are often present with excess weight, become less pronounced.
Honey-salt scrub with lemon
Mix honey with coarse salt (sea salt is fine) and lemon zest in equal parts (a tablespoon). Apply to the body and massage with movements, rub for several minutes. Then rinse and apply moisturizer. For the best effect, it is better to carry out the procedure on a steamed body, after a bath or sauna.
With added coffee
In this case, you will need ground coffee. Honey with lemon and coffee are the best anti-cellulite remedies. Mix them in equal quantities, apply to the skin and massage the skin for several minutes. Then leave on the skin for 5-7 minutes. To better bind coffee with honey, you need to either take fairly liquid honey or melt thickened honey in a water bath. This scrub perfectly cleanses the skin, giving it elasticity.
With the addition of rolled oats
Mix a tablespoon of honey with a small amount of milk. If the mixture is thick, it should be heated in a water bath. Add oatmeal, stir until smooth. Finally, add lemon zest (1 tsp). Apply the scrub to the body, massage, rinse. Moisturize the skin with cream.
Honey-lemon wraps
Such wraps help reduce the volume of your figure. This happens mainly due to the loss of fluid from the tissues. At the same time, wraps remove toxins and impurities through the skin, and also improve blood circulation and stimulate the supply of nutrients. The body not only improves its contours, but also looks smoother, firmer, and more beautiful.
Before wrapping, you need to cleanse your skin with a scrub. Then a honey-lemon mixture is applied to the body (honey and crushed lemon in equal quantities). After this, you need to wrap all the greased areas with film (it’s not always possible to cope with this alone). Next, you should lie down and cover yourself with a blanket, avoiding freezing and drafts. Then rinse with warm water and you can apply cream.
The procedure lasts about an hour. You can add essential oils (for example, orange, grapefruit) to the mixture as an enhancer; you can dilute honey with a small amount of apple cider vinegar or ground coffee. The course of such wraps consists of 10 procedures. 1-2 per week.
Despite its apparent simplicity and harmlessness, this procedure has contraindications. This is, first of all, individual intolerance to honey and associated allergic reactions. This wrap greatly increases body temperature, so it is contraindicated for:
- pregnancy;
- problems with blood vessels - varicose veins, thrombophlebitis;
- heart diseases;
- hypertension;
- high temperature;
- any chronic diseases in the acute stage.
