Upgrade Your Morning Routine — Why Hot Water And Lemon In The Morning

Lean Greens
Sep 7, 2018 · 3 min read

We’re talking still about our Upgrade Your Nutrition 28 Day Challenge.

Just a reminder, if you don’t have our checklist head over to the website to grab a copy: https://leangreens.com/pages/upgrade .

So for today’s challenge we’re going to talk about starting your day with hot water and lemon, and this is really more about morning routines than just hot water and lemon. So my typical morning routine is to get up and before I take the dogs for a walk, I put the kettle on. While I am boiling the kettle, is a really good time to have your Lean Greens.

It’d be a bit remiss if we didn’t talk about Lean Greens a little bit in these videos, wouldn’t it?

So I have my Lean Greens, while the kettle’s boiling and normally I’m a cup of tea girl in the morning, I like my red bush tea first thing. Can’t do coffee until a little bit later on, just personal preference really.

But some days it’s nice to start with something a bit more refreshing.

If you haven’t tried Lean Greens before, when you first get it, do try with really cold water, it mixes a little bit better and it tastes very refreshing. Sometimes people struggle with the taste a little, it’s when it gets a bit warm. So it’s best to have it nice and cold.

So Hot Lemon Water?

If you Google lemon water, hot water with lemon you’ll find lots of health benefits and lots of things about detoxing and blah, blah, blah. I like it ’cause some mornings you just feel you need something a little bit fresh.

You know just listen to your body and some mornings you don’t want a cup of coffee first thing, some mornings hot water and a squeeze of lemon juice is incredibly refreshing.

If you’re like me and you tend to leave half drunk cups of tea around the house, when you have hot water and lemon you can just top it up with extra hot water and it still tastes really good.

So if you are having hot water and lemon, try putting a wee squeeze of lemon juice into your Lean Greens, gives it a little bit of added lemony zing, makes it takes more like a lemon green tea, cold tea.

So kettles boiled, I’ve made my Lean Greens. Now I have my hot water and lemon. Some people like to put a slice of lemon in, I just give mine a good squeeze, I don’t like putting the lemon itself in because otherwise you end up with, it can be a bit bitter from the skin. Then if you’ve got a bit of a cold, hot water and lemon with some honey in there. Or if it’s night time you could add something else in there and make it a hot toddy.

That’s really it for my morning routine. Love to hear what you do. Take a photo of your morning whatever, whatever it is you have hot drink wise, and #upgradeyournutrition.

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