Secret Weight Loss Tips and Beautiful Skin with This Magical Elixir

When people ask me how I manage to look so young and stay so trim, I have to laugh. Most people think that I use expensive lotions or drink some magical concoction made from ingredients from a far off land.

The truth is that the biggest beauty and health secret is inexpensive and easy. I start every day with a glass of warm water that contains apple cider vinegar—ACV— and lemon juice.

Don’t let the simplicity of this fool you; it is powerful stuff that can help you retain your youthful beauty and prevent weight gain. The lemon juice helps to detoxify and regenerate the body and has far more vitamin C than most other vegetables, including oranges.

It also contains live enzymes as well as an enormous amount of potassium. Potassium helps detox the body as well as cleanse your liver. Drinking the combination when you first get up in the morning contributes to activate your digestive tract, including your colon, which helps you eliminate.

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Are you still unsure that this little ritual is helpful? Well, there are many things you’ll see occurring when you start the regimen:

• Liver support
• Aids in weight loss
• Helps clear your colon (Helps you go to the bathroom (#1 and #2)
• Removes mucus from the digestive tract and liver
• Cleanses the blood
• Improves digestion
• Lowers blood pressure
• Improves immunity
• Kills parasites
• Improves the breath and keeps your mouth fresher

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① Weight Loss Tip 1:
While I always start my day with the combination of water, ACV, lemon juice and water, that shouldn’t stop you from drinking it throughout the day too. Sometimes, I enjoy putting a bit of honey in mine, just as a change of pace.

Even though you might replace your coffee with this drink, don’t make the water “coffee hot.” High temperatures destroy the enzymes and vitamins in the drink and make it far less beneficial. Lukewarm is perfect. It is not too cold to shock your system, nor too hot to harm the nutrients.

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How To Make It:
The recipe is simple.

① Cut a lemon in half and squeeze the juice into an 8 ounce or 10 oz glass of lukewarm water.

② To that, add one tbsp of raw unfiltered ACV. You will find it in a health food store. If you need a little sweetness, you can add raw honey or stevia (but this is optional).

③ You need to drink this once a day in the morning at a minimum, but if you want, you can drink it more frequently. It helps keep you moving regularly, fighting constipation effectively.

④ It flushes toxins from your body, aiding in weight loss and improving the condition of your skin. Not only will you notice pounds drop off easier, but you will also see a more youthful attractive complexion, as well.

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Why Raw Apple Cider Vinegar?
① You may want to cut corners and use ACV from your grocery shelf, but you’ll lose many of the benefits of raw apple cider vinegar. Raw ACV is unfiltered, unpasteurized, unheated and contains a higher acidity than those you find on the grocery shelf.

② It also contains the Mother of Vinegar, which looks like little strands. These are enzymes of protein molecules connected. Braggs ACV is probably the best-known brand, but there are others. Even though the Mother of Vinegar gives it a cloudy and unappealing appearance, it is what makes the vinegar so healthy.

③ The vinegar not only helps with weight loss, but it also has antimicrobial properties that can keep your skin healthy and can help with preventing stomach problems as well as keeping blood sugar levels regulated.

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Lemon vs Lime
I’m often asked if you can use other types of citrus fruits to replace the lemons. Even though all citrus fruit has vitamin C, lemons contain the most, twice as much as limes. Vitamin C provides antioxidants that protect cells.

It also is necessary to create collagen that helps prevent wrinkles or improves their appearance if you already have them. Vitamin C also helps keep you healthier, and a healthy radiant look is very attractive.

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② Second Secret Weight Loss Tip:
Okay, here’s another well-kept secret to a youthful appearance that also helps shed pounds. Water, plain old tap water, is the most under-appreciated beauty and diet aid in the world.

Water flushes toxins from your body, helps prevent constipation and helps prevent water retention, flushing out toxins in the process.

While it might sound funny that water prevents water retention, it is true. To have an adequate amount of water, divide your body weight by two and drink that many ounces a day.

If you weigh 120 pounds, you will drink 60 ounces—about one and three-quarter liters or seven and a half glasses of water. Eating fruits and vegetables will provide some water, but just plain water is necessary.

You can drink it to wash down the ACV/lemon/water and cleanse any acids from your teeth.

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The Temperature of Water Matters
While you might be tempted to drink icy cold water, drink it at room temperature so your body does not have to work so hard to warm it, and it does not shock your system.

Try to drink it at least 20 minutes before a meal or 20 minutes afterward, so you do not dilute the digestive juices.

Have you noticed any benefits of drinking lemon water in the morning? Let me know in the comments.