Giving up sweets is one of the most difficult challenges that anyone who loses weight has to face. Fortunately, there are many delicious cocktails that can satisfy your sweet tooth without harming your figure.
Such cocktails are not just dietary, but also healthy. They contain many substances and components that are valuable for health, speed up metabolism, and, therefore, help you lose calories. Drinking such drinks for breakfast will have a positive effect on the body and will give you a good mood for the whole day.
Vitamin cocktail
This smoothie recipe helps not only to get rid of excess weight, but it will also help in the treatment of diseases such as sinusitis, cholelithiasis, constipation, and help with insomnia, sore throat and other ailments.
Composition of ingredients
- 1 tbsp. frozen raspberries;
- 150 ml. almond or rice milk;
- 1/4 tbsp. frozen cherries;
- 3 tsp. honey;
- 1 tbsp. l. finely grated ginger;
- 1 tsp. Flaxseed;
- 1/4 tbsp. lemon juice.
Step-by-step cooking technology
- You will need to take a blender of maximum power.
- Before preparing the cocktail, frozen fruits and berries should be removed from the freezer and allowed to thaw a little.
- All components must be connected together. Next, you need to thoroughly beat everything well with a blender to get a homogeneous consistency.
What can I add?
It is imperative to add foods containing healthy fats to smoothies. In this case, the drink will help satisfy your hunger for a long time. You can use sunflower or pumpkin seeds, flax oil or olive oil.
How to serve a dish
You can serve the smoothie with a straw, but it is better to eat it with a teaspoon. In this case, the feeling of fullness will come faster, due to which it will be possible to reduce the caloric content of the diet.
Milkshake “From childhood”
Try making this milkshake with ice cream, a simple recipe, a minimum of ingredients, and the taste of the drink will surely make you remember your childhood. A delicacy is prepared with syrup. The syrup can be fruit or berry, or you can use jam syrup.
- 300 ml milk with 2.5% fat content;
- 50 gr. ice cream or cream;
- 50 gr. syrup.
In a whipping container, mix the syrup and slightly melted ice cream. Pour in cold milk. Beat with a mixer for about 30 seconds until foam appears on the surface. Immediately pour into glasses. If desired, decorate and serve by inserting straws into glasses.
Milkshake with fruit smoothie
Using different types of fruits, you can create cocktails with a variety of flavors. Here's one option.
- 1 apple;
- 1 pear;
- 1 glass of milk;
- 50 gr. creamy ice cream;
- 50 gr. raspberry syrup;
- a few raspberries and a few berries for decoration.
Remove the seeds and peel from the apple and bake until done in the oven or microwave. Let it cool completely. We clean the pear by cutting off the skin and removing the seeds. Cut the baked apple and fresh pear into pieces, turn the fruit into puree using a blender.
Add ice cream and milk to the puree, pour in raspberry syrup. Beat until foam forms. Pour into glasses, garnish with raspberries and mint leaves.
Beetroot smoothie to improve digestion
The consequences of the fatty food that we mercilessly devoured throughout the holidays do not pass without leaving a trace. The functioning of the stomach is impaired. A beetroot cocktail will help restore digestion and cleanse the body of toxins. You will need a juicer and the following ingredients:
- 1 beet;
- 1 red apple;
- 1 carrot;
- 100 ml water.
How to cook: wash the food and remove the skin. Cut into cubes and put into a juicer. Dilute the finished juice with water. You need to drink the cocktail fresh, otherwise it will lose its beneficial properties. Beets will help the stomach and remove toxins. An apple will lower cholesterol levels, and carrots will speed up metabolism. You need to drink the drink 3-4 times a week.
Lemon water and other morning “beauty cocktails”
“I start the day with a glass of warm water with lemon,” says another glossy beauty in an interview and is surprised when she is asked why she consumes such sour water early in the morning, because everyone knows about this method of maintaining health and beauty. The fashion of drinking all kinds of “beauty cocktails” in the morning, on an empty stomach—water with lemon, cranberry and honey, rosehip, ginger—appeared several decades ago and spread with amazing speed among completely different strata of society. Is there any benefit to this habit or can it simply be called an ingrained fashion - the same as, for example, it was the fashion in the 19th century to drink eggnog every day for preventive purposes?
If you think about it, morning “beauty cocktails” are kind of younger brothers of “beauty salads”, which were popular even earlier, from the mid-20th century to the present day.
The salad consisted of oatmeal, dried fruit, fruit and honey, and was supposed to be eaten in the morning on an empty stomach instead of breakfast; in exchange, the recipe promised clear skin, a slim body and excellent health. What do “beauty salads” have in common with today’s morning cocktails? One thing in common is the effect on digestion
.
In both the first and second cases, all the benefits for the body come from well-functioning digestion. “Beauty salad”, containing a lot of fiber and slow carbohydrates, has a beneficial effect on the digestive tract, which immediately affects the well-being and condition of the skin; “beauty cocktails” produce a cleansing effect, starting the digestive process in the morning, stimulating digestion. The result
is the same: clearer skin, lightness in the body, well-functioning digestion, getting rid of extra pounds.
The power of the effect of lemon water and other “beauty cocktails” on the body is appropriate: this is not some kind of miracle cure that can radically affect your health and appearance, it is simply a way to stimulate and cleanse the body, nothing more and nothing less. But do not forget about the constant supply of beneficial microelements to the body
contained in the components of the cocktail, for example, vitamin C from lemon or rose hips. Such a vitamin supplement to the basic diet will undoubtedly not harm anyone. This is the general benefit of “beauty cocktails.”
Lemon, cranberry, rosehip, ginger
The ingredients for “beauty cocktails” are always simple: boiled water at room temperature and one of the fillers. The latter can be lemon juice, cranberry juice, rosehip infusion, fresh ginger. Each of these drinks has its own characteristics: Lemon water.
Classic option.
Lemon, saturated with vitamin C, has high acidity, so when preparing it, it is important not to overdo the concentration: on average, take 1/4 lemon per glass (200-250 ml) of water. Note: it is recommended to drink water with lemon through a straw - this way the lemon juice will have less impact on tooth enamel. You can add a spoonful of natural honey to water with lemon: in this case, the cocktail will have a more gentle effect, but its calorie content will increase. Lemon water is considered a very effective aid in the fight against excess weight; It is also drunk to improve skin color and increase its smoothness. Water with cranberries.
Cranberry juice is in no way inferior to lemon juice - neither in terms of benefits nor in terms of taste.
Preparing the drink is also simple: you need to crush fresh cranberries, squeeze the juice out of them (you can use pulp) and stir it in water. For a glass of water, 1-2 tablespoons of cranberry juice is enough. In winter, juice can be squeezed from frozen cranberries - you just have to defrost them first. Water with cranberries contains a whole complex of vitamins; it is good for preventing vitamin deficiency, cleansing the digestive tract, and improving the skin. It is better to drink it with honey (without it, cranberry juice is very sour). Water with rosehip.
Fresh rose hips can be prepared in the same way as cranberries: crush and add water;
You can also pour hot boiled water over the rosehip in advance and infuse it (fill it the night before). The concentration is selected according to taste. It is advisable to add honey, but if you drink water without honey, reduce the concentration slightly. Water with rose hips is most effective for the prevention of vitamin deficiency, but it also significantly improves well-being and digestion. Ginger tea.
Ginger tea stands out a little from the orderly ranks of “beauty cocktails”, since it is drunk hot, but its effect largely coincides with the influence of water with lemon and cranberry. Ginger tea is especially relevant during the cold season. To prepare it, simply pour 1 teaspoon of finely chopped ginger root into a glass of hot water and leave for 10-15 minutes. You can also add honey. Ginger tea promotes the functioning of the digestive system, warms, speeds up metabolism, and helps with weight loss. Read more about the beneficial properties of ginger in the article “Benefits of Spices.”
Mode of use
Tea with lemon and other “beauty cocktails” are drunk in the morning, on an empty stomach, half an hour before breakfast (at least 15-20 minutes). The water should be boiled, moderately warm (only ginger tea is consumed hot); Prepare drinks right before drinking to ensure they retain the maximum amount of vitamins. Do not overdo it either with the volume of the cocktail or with the concentration of juice in it. 200-250 ml of drink with 1 tablespoon of filler (lemon juice, cranberry pulp, ginger) is
quite enough!
After drinking the “beauty cocktail,” be sure to have breakfast, because water with lemon and other fillers puts the digestive system on alert; If you remain hungry and wait until lunch or dinner, you can harm your health. Important!
If you have gastritis, stomach ulcers, liver or pancreas problems, avoid drinking “beauty cocktails”: they all contain quite “caustic” juices - berries, fruits and ginger root - which can worsen the situation with your health. If your illness doesn't seem serious, still consult your doctor before drinking lemon water. It also sometimes happens that people without visible diseases of the digestive tract experience discomfort and even pain when drinking lemon, cranberry or ginger juice. If this is your case, stop drinking cocktails immediately and go to the doctor: you may have hidden diseases of the digestive tract.
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