Cider Vinegar and Honey Drink for Weight Loss

Cider Vinegar and Honey Drink for Weight Loss

The combination of apple cider vinegar and honey is an effective cure for a multitude of ailments, but it’s an especially powerful tool for weight loss. Apple cider vinegar is naturally highly acidic, but when consumed it turns alkaline, counteracting the effects of excess acids in your diet. Honey also becomes alkaline when consumed, and it has a low pH. It aids in the safe excretion of excess acids. Also, apple cider vinegar just tastes better when mixed with honey.

Apple cider vinegar has many amazing properties that will help you shed pounds. Let’s take a look at what they are and how they work.

• Apple cider vinegar has organic acids and enzymes that increase your metabolism, enabling your body to burn fat faster.
• It suppresses your appetite, helping you to eat less and look and feel thinner.
• Apple cider vinegar hydrates and refreshes your body while discouraging water retention.
• It also contains loads of potassium and fibers that keep your blood sugar low, which is essential to losing weight.
• It contains essential vitamins and minerals, powerful enzymes, potash, pectin, acetic acid, amino acids, alcoholic acids, propionic acid, and many other beneficial acids, all of which help to speed up your metabolism and help you lose weight without losing vital nutrients.
• Consuming apple cider vinegar before meals helps slow the release of glucose into your bloodstream, which, in turn, slows the digestive process, making you feel fuller longer. And when you feel full, your body doesn’t store fat.
• It also aids in proper digestion, flushing out toxins and helping to remove stored waste from the colon and intestines.
• Apple cider vinegar helps your body burn calories, lower cholesterol and feel more energetic.
• Its natural antiseptic and antibiotic properties fight bacteria
• The acetic acid in apple cider vinegar helps extract iron from food, and iron improves the flow of oxygen through your body’s systems, enabling it to function properly.

So here is  how to:

Mix 1-2 tablespoon’s apple cider vinegar and 1 teaspoon honey into 8 oz. warm water and drink it. (I make it also with cold water)

For best results, do this 2 times daily on an empty stomach.

You can also make this and put it into a water bottle for when you’re at work or just out and about to sip on.

Also, here are more uses for Cider Vinegar:

Cinnamon Apple sauce and French Toast

Cinnamon Apple sauce and French Toast

A 300 calorie breakfast made in minutes

Calories 289

1 egg
Honey
Cinnamon
2 slices of whole-wheat bread
Jarred apple sauce
Fat free Ricotta cheese


Whisk together 1 egg, 1 teaspoon honey, and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Coat 2 slices whole wheat bread with egg mixture. In a pan misted with nonstick cooking spray, cook bread for 1 minute a side. Serve with 2 tablespoons each applesauce and fat-free ricotta and a dash cinnamon.

Bagel with Avocado and Apple

Bagel with Avocado and Apple

A quick no-nonsense breaky idea

Calories 390

1 sesame bagel

Half an avocado

A squeeze of lemon juice

Pinch of salt and black pepper

Half a red apple thinly sliced

Split and toast the bagel.

In meantime mash the avocado half in a bowl and season with the lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Dividing evenly, spread the avocado onto both halves of the bagel and top with the sliced apple. 

Overnight Oats

Overnight Oats

This couldn't be easier... spend a few mins the night before for a healthy and filling breakfast with slow release energy to bring you up to lunch time!

Calories 275

Ingredients

• 50g Porridge Oats
• 140ml Fat Free Yogurt
• Fruit of your Choice
• 25ml Skimmed Milk

Method

Layer the porridge oats, yogurt and fruit into a pint glass the pour over the milk and leave in the fridge overnight.

Serve cold.

Smoothies Magnificent Seven

Smoothies Magnificent Se7en

I personally think that Smoothies make a great breakfast; they can be really healthy (depending on the ingredients) and super quick to make if you are in a rush in the mornings.

There are so many combinations you can try and as always experimentation is key… Let yourself go, live a little!

Breakfast of Champions

This has a great balance of Carbs, Protein and good fats to kick start your day.

Calories 497

1 glass of Almond milk

1 ripe banana

30g porridge oats

1 tablespoon of drinking chocolate powder or chocolate protein powder

1 tablespoon of peanut butter

1 tablespoon of honey

Blend until smooth

The Pink Panther

Calories 214

100ml cranberry juice

100ml coconut milk

100ml natural low-fat yogurt

150g frozen raspberries

1 tablespoon of honey

Blend until smooth

The Beetroot Basher

Calories 320

A glass of coconut milk

2 pre-cooked baby beetroots

1 banana

30g porridge oats

A squirt of honey

Blend until smooth

Green Iron Smoothie

Calories 220

1 glass of apple juice

1 banana

A good handful of spinach

A handful of green grapes

A few icecubes

Blend until smooth

The "Fat Flush" Juice

Calories 183

2 baby beetroot

3 medium carrots

1 orange (peeled)
1 lemon (peeled)
A handful of mint leaves

Blend with high powered blender (eg Nutri-Bullet etc.)

The Kick-Asser

Calories 301

1 cup coconut milk

1 cup blueberries

½ cup raspberries

½ cup strawberries

1 tbsp coconut oil

1 tbsp ground flaxseed

1 tbsp Chia seeds

2 dates, pitted

Blend until smooth

The Mean Green Fighting Machine

Calories 148

Blender filled 50% kale

¼ cup parsley

1 small beet (scrubbed and quartered)

1 apple (core and seeds removed)

1 whole lemon (peeled)

½" chunk of fresh ginger

1 tbsp Chia seeds

Top with water

Blend with high powered blender (eg Nutri-Bullet etc.)

Here are a bonus 2... The Dynamic Duo!

The Hulk

Calories 283

½ pear

¼ avocado

½ cucumber

½ lemon

Handful of coriander

1 cup kale (packed)

½ inch ginger

½ cup coconut milk

1 scoop protein powder (optional) calories + 110

 Top with water if needed

Blend until smooth

Dare Devil

Calories 235

1 cup almond milk 

1 whole kiwi

¼ cup blueberries

1 frozen banana

1 inch piece ginger 

Blend until smooth

Minted Mushy Peas

Minted Mushy Peas

Calories 505

126 per portion

Serves 4

A knob of butter

1 tin of Marrow-fat peas

A large sprig of mint

1 lemon

Sea salt

Black pepper

Method

Melt the butter in a saucepan over a medium/high heat and add in the peas. Finely chop the leaves from the sprig of mint and add them to the saucepan, give it a good stir then pop a lid on the saucepan and allow to simmer for 10 mins.

Add a good squeeze of lemon juice along with a pinch of salt and a generous pinch of black pepper to taste. Give the whole pot a good mash up with a potato masher until thick and creamy.

Seared Corn on the Cob in Honey and Balsamic

Seared Corn on the Cob in Honey and Balsamic

This is a simple way to inject some flavour and style to a simple vegetable. It gives it a sticky sweet and charred flavour as though it came off a BBQ.

Calories 516

258 per portion

Serves 2:

2 large corn on the cob-fresh

Sea salt

2 tablespoons of honey

2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar

Method

With a heavy sharp knife, carefully cut the cobs into 4 equal pieces then place in a large saucepan of cold salted water. Bring to the boil then simmer for 2 mins. Drain in a colander and steam dry for 2 mins.

Heat a pan or preferably a griddle pan and place the corn in it. Then drizzle over both the honey and balsamic and give it all a good shake around.

Fry them off for about 5 mins on a high temperature moving them around to get coloured all over.