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How To Drink More Water – Weight Loss Tips

The importance of the role drinking water plays in your life can not be underestimated. As Harvey Diamond says, and I’ve quoted for years “Water is life! The better your water, the better your life”. When it comes to weight loss or just plain health in general, the quality and quantity of your drinking water is crucial. Today’s 3 tip Friday begins a series of tips on water and how to increase the amount you drink per day.

drinking water weight loss tips1. Have a glass of water first thing in the morning and last thing before bed – Simple enough rule. By having a glass of water first thing in the morning, you start the day with water. Adding a small squeeze of lemon can aid in liver detoxification as well and add a nice twist to plain drinking water. Studies have shown that drinking a glass of water upon waking and before sleeping will accelerate weight loss.

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3 Weight Loss Tips – Improve Digestion

3 weight loss tips for today’s edition of 3 Tips Friday. 3 tips you can take action on right here and right now and get a 3 day jump on your buddy who always says “I’ll start on Monday”. This edition of the weight loss tips is about how to improve digestion for weight loss.

Digestion of food is the most energy consuming thing your body does. It’s the same reason you hear your mom say “wait one hour after eating before swimming”. It’s not because you’ll get cramps, it’s because your body has sent so much blood to your stomach to do the work of digestion that you will have less energy for swimming.

Let me ask you this: If you don’t get the nutrition out of the food you’re eating, why are you eating it? That’s the whole point isn’t it? Making a few simple changes to how you eat, you can then assimilate all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals, fats, enzymes and protein of which your body is built.

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Manifesting tips that work

It’s a wonderful thing to be able to manifest exactly what we want isn’t it? However, I get a lot of clients that tell me they just don’t get it, or it’s not manifesting quick enough. But the one comment I get the most is that people tend to want to pick apart the simplicity of it and make it hard? “Is that really it, they say?” Why would the Universe want to make it any harder? Let me share with you a few manifesting tips that I have learned.
Manifesting

What you have to realize when you are manifesting something is that you have just asked the most powerful source in all of eternity for what you want. This very source that is full of love and happiness for giving us exactly what we are asking for. It’s like ordering out of a catalog. Picture the pages in that book! Think about this for a minute. When you order something from a catalog or online, you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are going to receive it, right! So, when you order something from the greatest source there is, what makes you doubt that you will get that too?
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