I think this would be a bad idea. Of course this will not add any significant amount of calories, but having something with flavor will stimulate your digestive juices in your stomach and make it difficult to continue your fast. The calorie issue is independent of the health benefits from having your digestive system "rest", so to speak.
Well, I make homemade lemonade (now adding a little stevia), but a gallon usually takes 1 to 1 1/4 cups of fresh lemon juice, so if you drank that during your fast day you WOULD get a cup of lemon juice in. Just sayin'.....
He's not talking about drinking lemonade instead of water, but about just adding lemon to give a little flavor to the water.
One teaspoon is 5ml, so if you drink 64 ounces of water (8 glasses), you'd be using 40 ml of lemon juice... that's 1/6 of a cup, and since one cup of lemon juice has about 60 calories, then those 8 teaspoons would only account for 10 calories.
Stevia and green tea is my fav!
Priyam108 4 days ago
lemon juice screws up your teeth so don't forget to drink through a straw!
shuup 4 months ago
@shuup Well yes that's true :P
innocentbloodx7 3 weeks ago
I think this would be a bad idea. Of course this will not add any significant amount of calories, but having something with flavor will stimulate your digestive juices in your stomach and make it difficult to continue your fast. The calorie issue is independent of the health benefits from having your digestive system "rest", so to speak.
srrman1 1 year ago
Well, I make homemade lemonade (now adding a little stevia), but a gallon usually takes 1 to 1 1/4 cups of fresh lemon juice, so if you drank that during your fast day you WOULD get a cup of lemon juice in. Just sayin'.....
craigheather1 1 year ago
@craigheather1
He's not talking about drinking lemonade instead of water, but about just adding lemon to give a little flavor to the water.
One teaspoon is 5ml, so if you drink 64 ounces of water (8 glasses), you'd be using 40 ml of lemon juice... that's 1/6 of a cup, and since one cup of lemon juice has about 60 calories, then those 8 teaspoons would only account for 10 calories.
Just sayin'...
;)
TheMaryTere 1 year ago
"ooh" LOL!
TheBeautyofVanity 1 year ago
Too much lemon juice in the water..hey?
DreeLulu 1 year ago