The road to losing weight, specifically stomach fat, can be such a discouraging process, especially when you have to deal with stubborn belly fat.
But it is possible to trim off a muffin top even while you sleep. We want to share several bedtime drinks that will help burn stomach fat faster:
1. Cucumber and Ginger Drink
This refreshing bedtime drink will help burn fat while you sleep. Put the ingredients in your juicer, and drink before going to sleep. You can continue this drink every night for a month, then take a break for 7 days. If you need to, you can continue for another month.
Ingredients:
• 1 cucumber
• small bunch of parsley or cilantro
• 1 lemon
• 1 tbsp grated ginger
• 1 tbsp aloe vera juice
• ½ glass water
2. Cucumber and Lime Drink
Super refreshing, this drink would be lovely on a hot summer night.
Ingredients:
• 1 lime
• 2 cucumbers
• 1 large orange
• honey (adjust to taste)
• mint (adjust to taste)
• 1 liter sparkling water
Put one cucumber in a blender, and slice the other one into circles. Squeeze out the juice of the orange and lime. Combine the cucumbers, citrus juice and honey into a large jug and mix together. Add the sparkling water and garnish with fresh mint leaves, if using.
3. Grapefruit and Cinnamon Drink
Tart grapefruit and warming cinnamon are mixed with anise and mint for this evening drink. This drink requires a little extra time to make a cinnamon syrup on the stove top, so it isn’t one for those days when you’re tired and just want to get to bed, although you could make the syrup in advance and add to the other ingredients at bedtime.
Ingredients:
• 500 ml grapefruit juice
• 500 ml sparkling water
• 1 glass water
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 1 anise seed
• mint leaves
• ice
• sugar to taste
Combine the sugar, water and cinnamon sticks in a pan, and heat gently to make a syrup. Simmer for five to ten minutes, stirring occasionally, until the sugar has melted and become syrupy. Let the syrup cool down, then mix together the juice, syrup and sparkling water in a pitcher. Add ice and garnish with mint and anise.
4. Lemon and Mint Drink
This tasty citrus and mint drink is quick to make and will help cleanse your system while you sleep.
Ingredients:
• 5 lemons
• 1 liter sparkling water
• mint
• ice
Squeeze the juice of 4 of the lemons, and slice the last one into rounds. Mix the lemon juice and sparkling water in a pitcher, and garnish with the lemon slices and mint leaves.
5. Spicy Indian Lime and Ginger Drink
This ginger, lime and sparkling water drink will give you a little taste of India before bed.
Ingredients:
• 4 limes
• grated ginger to taste
• mint
• 1 liter sparkling water
• ½ glass tap water
• ice
• sugar to taste
Juice the limes. Mix the sugar and tap water in a pan and heat gently until the sugar melts. Add the grated ginger to the syrup, and simmer gently for a couple of minutes. Take off the stove and allow the syrup to cool before adding the lime juice, sparkling water and ice. Garnish with mint leaves and slices of lime.
6. Non-Alcoholic Apple Cider
This quick and easy drink combines sweet apples with lemon juice and ice.
Ingredients:
• 1 liter of apple juice
• mint leaves
• 100 ml lemon juice
• 1 lemon
• ice
Slice the lemon. Mix the lemon juice and apple juice in a pitcher, and add the lemon slices, mint and ice.
7. Pineapple and Lemon Drink
This refreshing drink has chunks of pineapple in it for a bedtime snack. This recipe requires a syrup to be made on the stovetop, so it’s probably best made in advance and kept refrigerated.
Ingredients:
• 1 liter sparkling water
• 1 lemon
• 1 can of pineapple in juice
• mint
Bring the sparkling water to the boil in a pan, and add the sugar. Simmer until the sugar has melted. Zest the lemon and squeeze the juice, and add the zest to the syrup in the pan. Remove from the heat. Pour the syrup into a pitcher through a sieve. Cut the pineapple chunks and add to the drink. Allow to cool to room temperature and refrigerate.
8. Strawberry and Herbs Drink
This summery drink combines strawberries with mint, estragon and lemon.
Ingredients:
• ½ lemon
• ½ lime
• mint and estragon
• some strawberries
• 1 liter sparkling water
• 100ml water
• ice
Juice the lemon and lime. Put the citrus peels and juice into a pitcher. Cut the strawberries into halves, and add them and the herbs to the pitcher. Heat the 100 ml water until it’s hot but not boiling. Add the hot water to the pitcher, and let the ingredients steep for a while to bring out the flavors. Remove the citrus peels after the drink has cooled. Add the sparkling water and ice. Serve.
Source: cookist.com
