At first, I was skeptical when I first tried drinking lemon water in the morning. Surprisingly, within a few days, I began to feel the change in my stomach in a positive way. That heavy, bloated feeling I usually felt after eating a meal, I barely noticed it. I was more inclined to think that my body was clean, my digestion was lighter and I was generally more regular.
This is why. You see, when you drink hot lemon water before you eat, it gently triggers your digestive system. The lemon acid tells your liver to release bile, which will then digest the food. Once the water becomes warm, the stomach muscles take it easy, which results in a comfortable digestion. It’s like awakening your kind gut up.
Some people are always talking about detox, but for me, this seems to be much more deeper and real, as if the body is being cleaned out — without any pills, juice cleanses or fasting, just lemon and water. Consequently, it was a piece of cake to continue with. I just cut a lemon in two and put one half in the warm water, drank it slowly before my breakfast.
It is through the remaining week that my system was running quite smoothly, I was not that prone to gas anymore, and after meals, I felt less stuffed. In all, I reckon that was the first one that was really successful in that I was satisfied, and the best part of it was that it did not put a hole in my pocket but just a lemon daily.
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