Doctors say that we should drink about 30 ml of water per kilogram of body weight to stay healthy. If you are losing weight or playing sports on a regular basis, the norm increases to 40 ml. Water is involved in all metabolic processes, reduces appetite, and allows us to stay healthy. But how many of us really drink a lot of water? Some people don’t like the taste, others are bored...For these people, recipes for weight loss drinks come to the rescue. But don't take everything literally. If you wash down your buns with them, nothing good will happen. You need to go towards the goal the right way, combining popular folk remedies with scientifically based ones - rational nutrition and physical activity.
How drinks help you lose weight
We often read that drinks are supposed to “burn fat” or “promote weight loss.” We don’t want to upset anyone, but no food or drink in itself contributes to weight loss. The process of burning fat is triggered by hormones in our body. And there is only one reason for this - we consume fewer calories from food than we spend through household activities, sports, and simply maintaining life in the body. In general, we need a calorie deficit.
There is a hypothesis that certain foods and seasonings can increase calorie consumption so much that the person consuming them begins to lose weight on their own, without any exercise or replacing high-calorie foods with dietary ones. But there is also scientifically based information that characterizes this acceleration of metabolism in numbers:
- green tea helps burn 4% more energy;
- grapefruit and its oil - by about 3%;
- mate drink - also by 4%;
- ginger - from 3 to 4%
Translated into numbers, this is approximately 30-40 kcal, so creating a calorie deficit with the help of spices and teas alone will not work. Plus, the effects are not cumulative, meaning you won't get more of a deficiency if you add more ingredients.
Making your own fat burners
To achieve the best effect, you need to combine the best fat-burning qualities of the above products. Useful and effective recipes:
- Celery soup. Chop a head of cabbage, two sweet peppers, half a celery root, 3 tomatoes, 100 g of celery stalks. Pour in tomato juice, bring to a boil, turn off, leave for a little while. You can add greenery. This soup is best eaten chilled so that the body spends calories heating it.
- You can always create your own low-calorie soup that will help you lose weight. You just need to experiment with vegetables. You can take: any cabbage, tomatoes, garlic, and so on. You can also add oat or flax bran to soups.
The following cocktail and smoothie ingredients are chopped and blended in a blender to a mushy consistency:
- Lemon-mint: kiwi, lemon slice, a few mint leaves, water. You can add honey.
- A few pieces of pineapple, a quarter of grapefruit, 30 g pumpkin seeds, 30 ml coconut milk, 250 ml kefir. The grapefruit is thoroughly cleaned of film and seeds. It is useful to drink the drink at night to burn fat.
- Mix celery stalks with celery greens, apple, lime juice, water. Supplemented with ice.
- Honey is a healthy substitute for sugar, containing a sufficient amount of vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. Honey is diluted in water and drunk on an empty stomach. Accumulated fats will begin to leave the body.
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The most popular smoothies:
- Strawberry helps cleanse the body;
- Banana-pear energizes and gives a positive charge;
- Grapefruit-pineapple will cleanse the body of free radicals;
- Tomato-cranberry will replace your sweet cravings.
Benefits of fat burning cocktails:
- Used instead of a snack;
- Capable of toning;
- Satisfy hunger;
- Replenish the lack of vitamins;
- Low in calories.
Let's look at other popular drinks for burning fat at home.
How weight loss drinks actually work
From the beginning we go on a diet. No, we are not talking about a schedule with two lettuce leaves and a pack of cottage cheese per day. We reduce the “incoming” of calories, this is a diet. Any reduction in calories is felt as a stressful situation, and the feeling of hunger increases. This is why many people cannot withstand “regular” weight loss and turn to various means of appetite suppression. In addition, if you have limited funds for food, the diet will be quite boring - any available vegetables, cereals, chicken fillet, cottage cheese, unsweetened fruits. All. You can have some more tea.
This is where drinks come into play. You add them to your menu and get: greater taste variety. This helps to take a purely psychological break from food restrictions and last longer.
In addition, drinking warm liquid before meals helps fill the stomach. This organ has receptors that respond to stretching of smooth muscles. That is, when the stomach increases in volume, the brain receives a signal that the person is full. You don't feel hungry for some time. Now is the time to weigh your diet food, put a moderate portion on your plate, and have a light snack. You won’t overeat, the drink will work.
In general, there is also a third direction. Self-hypnosis. A person can convince himself of anything, including the benefits of fat-burning ginger for weight loss. If he is good enough at talking to himself, losing weight will be easy and enjoyable.
Homemade fat-burning cocktails: tips and reviews
The effectiveness of fat-burning cocktails
Fat-burning drinks are prepared in a matter of minutes, and a large variety of ingredients for them allows you to choose a cocktail to your taste. The composition of weight loss drinks is simple and does not require you to search for exotic ingredients: as a rule, all the components for cocktails are easy to find in any refrigerator.
But despite the simplicity of preparation, weight loss drinks are incredibly effective. All this has collected a lot of positive reviews about fat-burning cocktails.
Ingredients of slimming drinks
The most common components from which weight loss drinks are made are:
- green tea. It is a stimulant that “accelerates” the nervous system, makes us work quickly and efficiently even in a calorie deficit, and helps maintain good health. In addition, it contains polyphenols and epigalactins, which strengthen the walls of blood vessels and have a positive effect on blood cholesterol levels. Green tea is considered a source of antioxidants and an accelerator of regeneration processes in the body;
- citrus fruits (grapefruit, lemon or orange, different citrus fruits are used in different recipes) - enrich the diet with vitamin C, which protects the immune system weakened by diet and helps to recover faster after physical activity;
- ginger - this spice is considered to speed up metabolism, but among other things, it has a powerful warming and diaphoretic effect, has antibacterial properties, and is useful against viruses and bacteria that attack the human body. Ginger also has a mild diuretic and choleretic effect;
- mint - peppermint leaves have a soothing, antispasmodic and anti-inflammatory effect. Drinking drinks based on them helps improve the functioning of the nervous system and allows you to get rid of discomfort in the intestines. Mint leaves help us get rid of nervous tension that can accompany a diet and cause a breakdown;
- cucumbers - this vegetable is a source of water and potassium. Drinking large amounts of liquid and potassium helps normalize the water-salt balance and get rid of edema. Cucumber juice is a mild diuretic and can be used even during pregnancy as it is completely safe
Important: sometimes laxative herbs like senna are added to teas and drinks for weight loss. This promotes rapid cleansing of the intestines, but for many it can cause severe diarrhea. The use of such recipes is strictly not recommended, because laxatives provoke dehydration and contribute to metabolic disorders. Ultimately, we do not lose weight from it, but only gain even more extra pounds.
How to prepare a weight loss drink at home
Ingredients: for every 200 ml of water, take 1 dessert spoon of green tea, half a large cucumber, half an orange or lemon, ground ginger on the tip of a knife, or grated ginger root - 5 g
First you need to boil water, cool it to a temperature of about 90 degrees, and brew green tea in a kettle as usual. Let it cool completely. Meanwhile, place the rest of the recipe ingredients in a pitcher or jar. Next, strain the tea and pour it over the fruits and vegetables. Let it sit for a couple of hours, then you can drink the drink. The product should be stored in the refrigerator for several days.
There is also a recipe option in which 1 teaspoon of honey is added to 1 glass of water to make the taste more pleasant. But it is worth remembering that honey contains carbohydrates, and if you consume it too actively, you may not reduce, but increase your daily caloric intake and encounter problems associated with this.
Many people brew green tea from bags for this recipe. Here it is worth understanding that the original recipe comes from the USA, and there are quite a lot of high-quality brands of green tea in bags sold there. In our country, it is better to buy yourself high-quality Japanese green tea and brew it. This will give you more antioxidants and cachetins, which means more health benefits.
Homemade fat-burning cocktails with honey and fruits
Drink with honey and lemon
Ingredients:
- kiwi - 1 pc.
- lemon - 2 slices
- mint - 3 sprigs
- parsley - 3 sprigs
- honey - 1 tsp
- water - 100 ml
Place all ingredients into a blender bowl and blend. You can add less or more honey depending on your taste preferences.
How to take a weight loss drink
This particular drink is a simple replacement for water that you don’t “finish” during the day. You can take a glass half an hour before meals to reduce your appetite. But in fact, there is no scientific data proving that drinking it with meals is harmful or dangerous. Popular talk about the fact that liquid during meals dissolves gastric juice and impairs digestion is in no way based on facts. The stomach perfectly “passes” water and secretes juice, even when we drink during meals. In addition, if you chew well, drinking will only make the food bolus more plastic and make it easier to digest.
In general, drink it whenever you want, and remember that doctors do not recommend taking more than 6 cups (that's 150, not 200 ml) of green tea per day.
Alternative techniques
Many authors of reviews about the weight loss drink used it for fasting days. This is when a person does not eat anything all day, but only drinks a drink. It should be noted that this way we achieve an extremely low average weekly caloric intake, especially if we really honestly limit the diet on the remaining days. In addition, drinking ginger tea on an empty stomach can irritate the stomach and cause an exacerbation of gastrointestinal diseases. It is better to do without extreme sports, and in addition choose a balanced diet.
Recipe for a fat-burning cocktail made from kefir, red pepper and cinnamon
Drink made from kefir, red pepper and cinnamon
Ingredients:
- low-fat kefir - 250 ml
- cinnamon - 0.5 tsp.
- red pepper - a pinch
- grated ginger - 50 g
Mix all ingredients and beat in a blender.
As for pepper, spicy lovers can add a whole pinch. You can adjust the amount of ingredients yourself. But you need to add at least a little pepper, otherwise you will not achieve the desired weight loss effect.
IMPORTANT: Experts recommend drinking this drink in the morning on an empty stomach. Kefir, enveloping the walls of the stomach, makes the cocktail safe for the digestive system.
However, if you have gastrointestinal diseases, consult your doctor before drinking this drink.
Can a weight loss drink be harmful?
This particular recipe is not that harmful, but just rather unusual in taste. It's all about the cucumbers. Still, we are not used to cucumber juice mixed with orange juice; for many, the “divine elixir” may simply not seem very pleasant.
In addition, the ingredients in this recipe may cause allergies. Those who are intolerant to citrus fruits or have a reaction to ginger should be especially careful. You should not drink such drinks if you have diseases of the gallbladder and bile ducts.
Why might a weight loss drink not help you lose weight? There is only one reason. Many people simply add superfoods, drinks, and some other great things to their diet, but forget that the key to success lies elsewhere. All you have to do is consume less energy than you expend, and this will be enough to start losing weight. Drinks, magic foods and all sorts of other subtleties such as the distribution of carbohydrate foods by time of day are the tenth thing.
Fat burning cocktail with grapefruit
Fat burning drink with grapefruit
Ingredients:
- grapefruit - 2 pcs.
- pineapple - 2 slices
- celery - 2 stalks
- honey - 1 tbsp.
Before beating the ingredients, peel the citrus fruit and divide it into slices. Beat the ingredients until smooth.
IMPORTANT: The combination of grapefruit, celery and pineapple perfectly tones and cleanses the body, honey helps fight cellulite, and has a beneficial effect on skin elasticity.
