Save Up and Slim Down

By Elizabeth Fairchild, your money-saving news source

Whether your goal is to cut calories or cut costs, sassy water can help. Plus, it’s light and refreshing — perfect for sipping on the patio on warm spring and summer days.

Save your soda money

If you’re used to spending cash every day on soda cans from the vending machine or bottled juice, sassy water can save you some green. Follow this simple recipe:

• 2 Quarts of water
• 12 Mint leaves
• 1 Cucumber peeled and sliced thin
• 1 teaspoon of grated ginger
• 1 Lemon sliced thin

Instructions

1.      Fill up a container with 2 quarts of water.

2.      Break off 12 mint leaves and place into the water.

3.      Thoroughly wash the lemon rind. Slice very thin and add to water.

4.      Peel the cucumber, slice really thin, and add it to the water.

5.      Grate the ginger root on the fine section of your grater. Add to the water.

6.      Put the water in the refrigerator and let it get cold. Overnight is recommended.

One batch of sassy water should last you all day. This will save you from needing cash advances or credit cards to cover your drinking habit. Wait, that didn’t come out right.

Health benefits

Prevention Magazine includes sassy water as part of its popular “Flat Belly Diet.” Prevention recommends using this drink as a four-day “jump start.” It is almost free of calories, plus it keeps you well hydrated.

And, though you could spring for the “Flat Belly Diet” book, you could save yourself some cash by just switching from soda to sassy water and incorporating common sense into your diet.

What makes sassy water sassy?

Sassy water was named in honor of its concoctor, Cynthia Sass. She is the nutrition director at Prevention. The magazine also says it is so named because “it’s a heck of a lot perkier than plain old water.”

Other web sites even say that sassy water has an energizing effect somewhat similar to caffeine.

So, if you want to trim your budget and trim your waist, stir up some sassy water.

Perish the thought my friends would say: how can a bon viveur like me can change a diet so drastically!  Well, it has happened and the best thing about it, I am loving every moment (so far!).

There were a few triggers of course which led me to this course of action: 3 years ago I had a heart attack, ironically of all times preparing a Thanksgiving meal for my friends – a few days from my milestone Birthday. 

Instead sharing my birthday with friends, I spent it having a splint inserted to prop open an artery to my heart! 

What was to have been a 20 minute procedure lasted over 3 hours.  During the surgery the surgeon informed me if they could not successfully insert this object into my vein I would have to immediately undergo OPEN-HEART surgery!  (yes they keep you awake during the surgery – amazing to even be able to watch what they are watching on the closed circuit TV! Very extraordinary – almost an out of body experience.)  Thankfully he finally was able to do so…

 Afterwards he told me he needed to schedule an additional surgery to insert another stint into a different artery!

 I felt there had to be a different way, so this is my journey…

http://www.bangkokpost.com/life/family/16308/natural-healer

Diets Don’t Work… Because it is negative manifestation! You know… The Power of the Secret!

You would die of starvation without food and what you eat and drink IS your DIET and LIFE…

Come with me on my journey exploring food…

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