It Really Works!

     Today is Sunday. I have a new routine on Sundays. I wake up, shower, and do all the toilet-room things, and then I weigh myself to see if the other routine in my life is working! Last week I started drinking at least 2 full 8-10 oz cups of hot lemon and ginger tea with honey and cinnamon. No, I did not buy a box of Bigelow Lemon with Ginger tea. I have lemons, I squeeze them, and I have real ginger that gets cut up, smashed, and blended. I add water, heat it, honey, and cinnamon, then drink it.  Twice. I drink at least two full cups of it.

    Starting Thursday, which is four days into it, I began drinking another cup of warm to hot water with lemon before going to bed. I don't add ginger, honey, or cinnamon to the night drink; I just add hot water and lemon; another 8-10 oz, depending on the cup I choose.  The results are in, and I can now stand on my own two feet with my head held high, and proclaim, that I, Jude Stringfellow, after drinking the tea(s) for exactly one week, and truly not adding to my exercise rituals or changing my diet in any way, have lost 2.8 pounds.

    It may not seem like a lot, but losing 2.8 pounds is a great feat when you think about it. If all I did differently was to add the tea and evening hot water, that's truly saying something. I'm going to keep it up, do the same, and because I can, and feel that it may make a difference, I'll try even harder to keep the calories down to 1500 a day. I told myself I would do that last week, then I didn't think about it. I just ate normally. This week I will try to do it correctly to better my loss if possible.

    The one thing I will not do, is overdo it. I won't drink five or six cups of the tea. I won't work out two hours a day. I won't stress myself or try something crazy. My entire mindset at this point is that I can do better and I will. I may drink matcha tea instead of coffee starting tomorrow, but that's entirely for another reason. I want to see if the matcha tea will give me the energy boost I need to work the morning shift from 7:30 to 10:00 without feeling groggy or wishing I was back in bed. The early part of my day is challenging. I'm willing to help if I can.

    I only drink coffee during the very early part of my day. I drink it at 6:30 a.m. and maybe again at 8:00 a.m. I'm going to see if I can do without the coffee for a week, and if I can, and I feel good about myself and my head space, I'll try to eliminate one of the cups and do coffee then matcha -- then the teas. I drink the teas at around 10, 12, 2, 4, 6, and 10 -- but it's not always the lemon ginger mix, I also have regular green tea. The lemon ginger thing is very strong, and I don't want to overdo it; it's too much of a good thing.

    So, there you have it. If I am down another 2.8 next week, and I can keep this up, I can be where I want to be by mid-summer, which is not to be confused with Midsomer. If you know, you know. One can lose a lot more than weight in Midsomer!

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