Image Credit: Adonia Dennis

Image Credit: Adonia Dennis

Losing weight can be a challenge, but it can also be one of a kind experience that will change your life forever. Well-balanced diet full of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat protein is essential if you’re trying to lose weight. It’s also important that you enjoy the foods you eat and brews you drink. What you drink matters. Before you even begin eating healthy, you need to completely cut down your intake of sodas and sugary drinks. Instead, replace them with fresh fruit beverages, fresh cool water and tea.

1.Green Tea

Green tea is widely considered to be a super-drink. Green tea originated in China, but its production and consumption soon spread throughout Asia. Today, green tea is known worldwide.

Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant benefits of green tea are enormous. It is all because green tea contains:

  • dietary minerals
  • enzymes
  • lipids
  • amino acids

 All of these things provide our bodies with healthy metabolism and energy. This means that drinking green tea helps you burn fat and detox your body.

Green tea also contains caffeine. Unlike coffee, green tea lifts you up in a mild way, with the same desired energizing result. This is a great weight loss trick that takes about five minutes of your time, the time your green tea needs to steep. For full weight loss benefits, make a habit out of drinking this beautiful liquid refreshment, but avoid any kind of artificial sweeteners. Instead, drink green tea with honey and lemon, in the morning and afternoon.

2.Fruit Smoothies

Fruit smoothies are a rich source of vitamins, fibers, natural sugars, antioxidants and healthy liquids.  They’re great source of nutrition, amino acids that burn fat, and fiber that helps your food breakdown. Smoothie also keep you hydrated, and being hydrated is vital for any weight loss diet plan. Fruit smoothies are one of the many weight loss tricks that can be utilized with maximum efficiency.

When making smoothies:

  • use your imagination and combine different ingredients in your own fun way
  • always use more than one kind of organic, fresh fruit
  • use low-fat milk or soy milk or don’t use milk at all

3.Water

Yes, water! It’s hard to believe, but there are people who hardly touch the stuff, only when they absolutely have to. Drinking water is indispensable for your body. It is another weight loss trick (oldest in the book) that everyone should be aware of, but aren’t. You need to drink around 8 glasses of water every day, depending on how active you are. Fresh, clean water. This also includes tea you drink and fruits and vegetables you eat, since fruits and vegetables are mostly water.

Water:

  • flushes your toxins
  • provides your cells with nutrients
  • keeps your skin moist

 Make sure to drink water before and during every meal. Water helps you break down the food and burn calories.

4.Grapefruit Juice

Grapefruit contains a lot of enzymes that burn fat and calories. It makes your metabolism faster and more efficient, thus it makes you lose weight. Grapefruit juice is convenient and easy to make. Make sure that you do not use sugar or any other artificial sweeteners when you make this refreshing and revitalizing drink. The best time to make yourself a cool glass of grapefruit juice is in the morning or 10 minutes before dinner.

In conclusion, losing extra pounds is all about two things: healthy diet and exercise. Do not be afraid of that word: DIET. Being on a diet does not mean that you need to be hungry most of the time. On the contrary. Think of the diet as a healthy meal or teatime plan. Healthy nutrition leads to a healthy metabolism, which leads to a healthy life full of energy and vitality.

Believe it or not, you will drink and eat healthy as much as you want, and you will still lose undesirable pounds, just as you gained them by eating unhealthy food, saturated with fat and sugar.

Healthy drinks bursting with flavor can help in achieving that goal, more than you think. They are easy to prepare, you can drink them anywhere and whenever you like, and their superior taste will only make you want more.

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About Author: Adonia Dennis (@adoniadennis), by profession a Health, Beauty and Skin Care adviser. She provides solution related to health and beauty problems. She is an independent researcher who researches for all type of skin related issues. She is a passionate blogger who loves to read latest lifestyle news and share her views on health, fitness and diet. Visit Adonia on Google+,  and Pinterest.

References:

  1. https://www.consumerhealthdigest.com/weight-loss/7-healthiest-weight-loss-drinks
  2.  http://www.webmd.com/diet/diet-sodas-and-weight-gain-not-so-fast

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