My Lemon Water 2-Week Trial
I like lemon water. It is my beverage of choice in a restaurant. When I measure, I put one ounce of fresh lemon juice to 10 ounces of water. If I don’t measure, it is less.
Weighed myself and started the program.
Day 1: One Lemon with one cup of water first thing in the morning. Sour, but not bad, done and done.
Day 2: Two lemons, two cups of water, first thing in the morning. Done and done.
Day 3: Three lemons, three cups of water, drink 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 before lunch. It was tough to do the second cup, but manageable. Super sour. You’d think that since the ratio was the same, it would be tolerated in the same way, but it was harder to do.
Day 4: Four lemons, four cups of water, drink in the morning, before lunch, and before bed. Done, Done, and Done – with a sore throat response and I couldn’t sleep all night. About 4 am, I finally climbed into bed and then the peeing started, every 90 minutes I awoke with a FULL – and I do mean full-to-bursting – bladder. Awful!
Day 5: five lemons, five cups of water, the same three times per day, and the same full bladder response when I tried to sleep. BUT this day was almost unbearable. My throat hurt, it had hurt before, but not like this. About the time the pain receded, it was time to drink again. That last cup was crazy hard for me to get down.
Day 6: six lemons, six cups of water, the same three times per day. The pain by now was too much. I managed to get the first glass down, then the 2nd glass later, then the 3rd glass at night only to find that I still had a 4th glass-worth of juice left! And my throat was killing me! I thought, “If my throat is hurting this badly from the lemon acid, what is it doing to the rest of my internal system? Years ago I had an asymptomatic bleeding ulcer that nearly cost me my life (asymptomatic means no pain and no knowledge of the problem until the blood made its appearance) I wasn’t going to risk anything of the sort again. So I didn’t finish that last glass.
Day 7: three lemons, 10 cups of water, sip throughout the day. Instead, I took the leftover glass of lemon juice, added a lot of water, added more water, tried to sip it, probably got 4 ounces down throughout the day. My throat hurt, my body rebelled.
I quit. Weight loss? I lost 2 pounds, then the next day 1 pound was back on and I still continued to drink for a few days. Final Weight Loss: One pound! NOT WORTH IT! (And my throat still feels raw!)
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