The Homemade Drink That Burns Calories

Burning calories is one of the number one ways to lose weight. This is because we make fat stores only when we have excess calories in our system. That is ?you eat the food and if you don't burn it off through exercise and maintaining your body, then it gets stored around the body in fat cells. So not having the extra calories means that you aren't injecting the extra fat into your body as there's no calories left over after your day's activities.

Better yet, if you continue to exert yourself after using up all your calories then your body will need to get the energy from elsewhere. Where does it look? In the places where it stored the calories you had before ?your fat cells. Thus you will appear slimmer if you continue to do this over a number of days.

As this suggests then, exercising is a great way to burn calories and to lose weight. But it's not the only way to burn calories and there are a few more methods you can use if you want to get slimmer. For instance believe it or not sometimes what you eat and drink can actually burn calories rather than putting them on. For instance it is a well known fact that eating lettuce requires more calories to chew than it puts on.

Imagine then being able to burn extra calories just by drinking and how easy that would be. Well you'll be pleased to know it's possible, and by drinking this drink you can easily make at home, you can start to burn calories sitting down while enjoying a drink rather than only when you're sweating profusely and panting for breath.

Here's how to make a drink that burns calories

?To start with it's important to have a base that doesn't include any calories and anything like apple juice or milk will include lots of those. As such then the majority of your drink will be water ?so fill up a cup.

?The next tip we're going to use is the fact that drinking cold water burns calories because the body has to heat it up to body temperature. As such then, if you drink ice cold water, this will immediately burn calories so make sure the glass is chilled and throw some ice cubes in for good measure. Specifically if you drink a roughly 8 ounce cup then you will burn roughly 8 calories each time ?ten cups of water and that's 80 calories burned that day through no real effort.

?Now to burn even more calories you could also add in a tea bag or two. This will work because it includes caffeine which is a stimulant. By drinking stimulants you speed up your metabolism, your heart rate and as a result ?your fat burning. This is the secret to a lot of fat burning tablets which use more powerful stimulants, and with a couple of tea bags you can achieve the same thing a lot more safely and a lot more cheaply. This really is iced tea!

Note: Though this offers an easy way to burn calories you should not overdose on this concoction. Doing so could effectively 'drown' your body so try not to drink more than the equivalent of 7 glasses. At the same time too much caffeine can place strain on your heart and cause jitters and headaches ?so keep the tea bags down to six a day as an upper limit and reduce your consumption once you've lost the weight you want to.

 

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