The simple act of making this Sassy Water is to encourage you to drink more water throughout your day. Some people don’t like to drink plain water so, I guess, this jazzes things up a bit. The ingredients are supposed to help reduce bloating and soothe your GI tract.
Sassy Water
2 liters water (about 8 ½ cups)
1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
1 medium cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced
1 medium lemon, thinly sliced
12 small mint leaves.
Pour the water into a large pitcher or jug. Ideally, this water should be filtered, so that it is as pure as possible. If you don’t want to buy several gallon jugs of water each week, you can invest in an water filter, such as Pur or Brita, in order to ensure that your water is filtered.
Wash the cucumber and spearmint as thoroughly as possible. If your cucumber isn’t organic, it will have a waxy coating on it. This waxy outer coating can be removed by soaking the cucumber in apple cider vinegar and rinsing in warm water, while scrubbing with a rough towel.
Peel the brown outer coating of the ginger off with a vegetable peeler and grate. Ginger and spearmint are reported to boost metabolism and help relieve bloating.
Slice the cucumber and lemon as thinly as possible. Cucumber and lemon are important ingredients in the sassy water because it is a natural diuretic, and helps the body release stored excess water.
Tear the spearmint leaves.
Combine all ingredients to the filtered water and mix well.
Put the container in the refrigerator and drink it the following day. In order to have success, the water should be drunk instead of juices, sodas, and other drinks.
NOTE: Fluid is retained usually due to dehydration, so if you’re better hydrated you can see an improvement in flabbiness and also a reduction in cellulite.
At the same time, avoid sugar, sweeteners, alcohol, caffeine, salt and all processed/refined and starchy foods. They also cause dehydration.
