Lemon juice can help you lose weight!

It's true! Drinking a glass of water with the juice from a fresh-squeezed lemon each morning will help your liver by thinning out your bile. (Bile, if you didn't know, is a substance made by the liver that helps break down fats.) If your bile is thickened with stuff like chemicals, drugs, heavy metals, toxins, or excess sex hormones, it can't do its job, resulting in more stored fat.

That's where the lemon juice comes in- it allows your liver to function properly, metabolizing fat optimally. It helps to regenerate the liver and even promotes peristalsis or the process that keeps waste moving through and out of your system.

I take my lemon juice in half a glass of filtered water with the other half aloe juice, and a couple of teaspoons of apple cider vinegar. Sometimes I add in cranberry juice concentrate which is also great for clearing lymph and loosening the fat stores that cause unsightly cellulite. If this mix is too sour for your taste, it can be sweetened with a tiny bit of honey or stevia. You can also add in any powdered supplements or drops, as long as they won't be harmed by the combination.

It is recommended to drink this before exercising in the morning, as it will help dislodge lymph stores and speed up weight loss. One can even get more dramatic results by drinking a second glass just after exercising.

An alternative is drinking a glass of HOT water with a lemon squeezed into it.

One precaution: Lemon juice can strip the protective enamel coating from your teeth. I suggest drinking this mixture through a straw and brushing your teeth right after. Make sure you don't sip the drink slowly over time, this will only worsen the damage to your teeth!