Day 2 April's Shine - drinking lemon water

lovely lemons

Today's love: lemons.

You can use lemons in many many ways for your health. 
They are perfumed, beautiful, nice to touch. you can even play with them.. Did you ever play catch with your child with lemons? the great thing about it is that they are not easily offended because their thick skin (especially if they are not very very ripe) and when rolling on the ground they go unexpected directions..:-)

Today's tip is about hydrating and cleansing, as well and about making your body more alkaline, something we should all de more:-)

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• what:  drinking lemon water; please use organic lemons and at least filtered water;
  
• when: every morning after waking up. Over the years how I drink my lemon water changed. Right now I make it in the evening right before I go to sleep and I take it by the bed. I also drink from it if I am thirsty at night - which I notice changes depending on the season.. And in the morning I drink from it either while preparing breakfast (green smoothie for me), either while V. is still sleeping and I do my morning computer pleasures;
• how: I use one large jar (700ml). I peel one lemon and use half of it: I squeeze it as hard as possible and I put the rest of it also in the jar because while sitting in the water the rest of the lemon juice is also coming.. loose..:-) I pour filtered and loved water on it. The other half I put in the fridge. I used to put it on the eggs holder until I noticed that it staines the plastic holders. Now I put it in a small container, usually with other fruit left overs of the day, to have them ready for the next days smoothie;
• where can you find lemons: ehmmm, hopefully in your kitchen, if you have them in your house.. If not, please buy some. If you have them in the house and not in the kitchen, please let me know where you keep them.. Interesting..:-)
• source tip: I do not remember this one, as it is so ingrained in my every days.. I love lemons and always did - ask my mother who was always trying to prevent me putting half a lemon in my tea at a time when lemons were scarce..:-) I suppose that I heard first that my instinct about lemons was spot on when I was looking for detox ways for the first time, some 8 years ago.

Other Tips: 

• if you do not like the sourness of it, try drinking the water with as less lemon as you can take:-) For this morning one, please do not use any sweetener. As with everything, start small and increase the quantity in time, as well as the sourness.. 
  
• if it's winter and you are cold, or if you want some variation, make it warm or hot, however you prefer. Adding some rasped ginger and/or cayenne paper will make it an excellent winter repeller:-) Caution note: HOT!.. you may have to undress:-)
• For the rest of the day, add some organic raw honey to it if you want to:  you will have a delicious lemonade. 
  

        note: not all honey is organic and not all honey is raw.. 
        Most of the honey in the supermarket is made warm (thus loosing mots of it's qualities) so that it flows easily, it is put in
         plastic containers that leak in the honey, enhanced with sugars and other stuff and not organic).