Bedtime Drink To Lose Belly Fat In a Week
Are you looking for a bedtime drink to lose belly fat in a week? Here is a simple recipe that I have used for years to help me lose extra pounds around the waistline easily at home.
Not only is this drink safe to use but it is tasty and easy to make. If you have the ingredients, your drink can be ready in less than 5 minutes.
I used to weigh over 120 kilograms a few years ago and trust me, I know what it feels like to carry around excess fat around the belly area.
Not only is it embarrassing but it is extremely unhealthy and frustrating! I decided to take a trip to a nutritionist after months of trying to make a decision and I am honestly glad I did!
I was put on a strict 1300-calorie diet plan along with the bedtime drink I am about to show you guys for 3 months and was able to lose 27 kilograms!
I have been drinking this recipe every now and then whenever I feel a little heavy around the waistline for some time now and it works miracles.
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Bedtime Drink To Lose Belly Fat In a Week
As much as I recommend drinking the following bedtime drink for weight loss, I also ask that you please consult your doctor before trying it if you have any health problems.
This drink consists of ginger and cayenne pepper, both of which can increase symptoms of high blood pressure and allergies in people who already have these conditions.
Ingredients
- 1-inch ginger root or 1/4 teaspoon ginger powder
- 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon of ground turmeric
- a pinch of black pepper
- 1 lemon
- 1 teaspoon of raw organic honey
- 2 glasses of water
Preparation & Consumption
Grate the ginger, cut the lemon into slices without peeling it, and set them aside. Add the water into a teapot and set it on the stove, add in the ginger root along with the lemon and let it come to a boil, cut off the heat.
Add in the cayenne pepper, turmeric, black pepper, and cinnamon, and stir until all of the ingredients are mixed properly.
Let the mixture sit for 15 minutes and using a small eye strainer, strain it into a large glass, stir in the honey, and drink it right away before you go to bed.
This drink can be consumed twice a day at least 30 minutes before meals to help you digest, burn fat, and eat less.
Benefits Of This Weight Loss Bedtime Drink
Ginger contains fat-burning properties known as gingerol which helps boost metabolism, reduces hunger, and keeps you feeling full longer after meals.
Lemon contains citric acid which helps you digest food easily. Drinking lemon juice will also help keep you feeling full and reduce sugar cravings.
Cayenne pepper is hot and spicy therefore it increases the metabolism along with the body’s temperature. When your body temperature rises, it goes into a cool-down mode, this process makes the body burn calories and lose weight without even trying.
Causes Of Belly Fat
There are two main causes of belly fat, sugar, and carbs! People who eat high-sugar foods and drinks along with a high-carb diet not only store fat around the belly area but also suffer from visceral belly fat as well.
(More on that below). With that being said, other daily habits can contribute to the formation of belly fat such as the following:
- Drinking alcohol
- Not exercising or being inactive
- Eating foods high in trans fats & carbs
- Consuming low-protein diets
- Drinking sodas and other sugary beverages
- Having unhealthy gut bacteria overgrowth
- Menopause
- Hormones
- Stress
Types Of Belly Fat
There are two main types of belly fat, visceral belly fat, and subcutaneous belly fat. Visceral belly fat is the type of fat that surrounds your internal organs while subcutaneous belly fat is the type of fat that is found right under the skin.
Simply put, visceral is the inner fat, and subcutaneous is the outer fat.
Visceral belly fat can be very dangerous and can lead to life-threatening health issues such as diabetes, heart disease, low liver function, and digestive problems.
Visceral belly fat is harder to get rid of and easier to accumulate while subcutaneous belly fat is vice versa.
Losing subcutaneous belly fat can be done easily by working out, walking, and drinking enough water daily while visceral belly fat requires a complete diet change to get rid of.
Effective Tips To Lose Belly Fat Fast
As I stated above, eating the right foods and consuming fewer calories is the best way to lose belly fat, and overall weight, and maintain your weight.
Following the yoyo diet can help you shake off a few pounds here and there but 99% of the time, the weight comes right back on. Below are effective tips to follow that can help you lose belly fat and overall body weight.
- Eating foods that are rich in soluble fiber
- Limit your sugar intake
- Eat protein-rich foods
- Eat a lot of green vegetables
- Drink enough water
- Incorporate yoga or meditation to reduce stress
- Do aerobics to strengthen your muscles
- Limit foods with trans fat
- Limit high carbs foods
- Change your mindset
- Tackle the cause of your weight gain
- Make a decision
Conclusion
I highly recommend this drink because it works really well for me. That being said, to lose weight and keep it off, you will need to consume low-calorie foods and also stick to a low-calorie diet.
Drinking enough water daily and keeping your stress levels down will also help you stay healthy and fit.
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Until next time, thanks for reading, and stay awesome. Oh, and you can also follow me on Pinterest for more awesome fat-burning and detoxing tips.
When you lose weight. What do you do to get rid of the excess skin?
Hi Connie, sorry for the late reply, it really depends on the amount of excess skin you have. The less skin you have can be reduced by aerobics, pilates, yoga, and other exercises along with drinking enough water to increase skin elasticity. If you have too much excess skin, you will need to have cosmetic surgery to remove some. Hope this helps and thanks for reading.
Can you make up this drink ahead of time and store it in the fridge??
Hi, yes you can but make sure never to store detox drinks or fruit-infused drinks in the fridge for more than 2 days. Thanks so much for reading and good wish you all the best.
The pepper made it very difficult to drink! My throat couldn’t take the entire dosage.
Hey, how are you? Thanks for reading, you can try reducing or not adding in the pepper all together and the drink will still work.
Ingredients say 2 glasses of water what size/amount roughly is that seeing have all different size glasses
Hi, generally, a regular glass of water is usually 200 ml unless you are using custom sizes. If you have a measuring cup, 400 ml is equivalent to 2 glasses of water give or take. Thanks so much for reading.
Hi, do you honestly believe this drink will work for a plus size female? I do eat healthy & lost weight before but have now hit a bad rut (plateau) & nothings working. I’m just skeptical b/c I see alot of advice from women who are small already.
I feel the pain there i have cpl health issues i could starve for a week and gain weight
Thats a figure of speech lol
Hello Does this really works? And long can I drink this drink, can make it in quantity so it will last me and how much you drink through each meal
Can the Honey be substituted for something with less carbs or left out completely?
HI, yes, of course, you can use Splenda or omit it altogether. Thanks for reading and wish you all the best.
Hi and sorry for the late reply, if you have pure maple syrup you can use it, it has way less carbs.
Can you use ground ginger instead of ginger root?
Hi, yes you can but make sure to use the equivalent to 1 inch ginger root
Hello, how much weight can one lose by doing this for 2 weeks?
Your body will initially get rid of water weight within the first 2 weeks. The amount of weight you will be able to lose will be around 5 pounds depending on your BMI.
How much powdered ginger do I need to equal 1 inch of grated ginger? Thank you
Hi, for some reason, I did not get your message earlier. Each inch of ginger root equals 1 1/4 teaspoons of ginger powder.
This is advertised as “loose weight in one week” but in the comments above you mention the first two weeks get rid of water weight….whats the actual intention of this drink? Drink it for how long should produce results of approx what? What was your experience?
Hi Nickey, by adding this drink to a low calorie diet, you can lose up to 5 pounds of water weight within the first week. That’s because the drink contains natural diuretics which causes you to pee and poop a lot. Also, once your body gets rid of the water weight, you start to lose fat. You can drink this recipe for months without side effects if you don’t have any of the health conditions listed above. As I said in the post, I personally use this drink all the time and it really helps. All that aside, without a long term healthy low-calorie diet plan, you will lose the water weight but it’ll come right back once you stop the drink. I hope this answers your question.