I’m a bit of a nut about the fact that caffeinated drinks and stimulants like guarana and even prescription pain killer narcotics (they somehow stimulate you, believe me, I think it’s different for different people, but that’s the effect they had on me) like Vicodin make my skin break out. I’ve taken great care to avoid drinking too much coffee on the weekends, and I’m very careful about taking any energy pills or any energy drinks that contain maximum amounts of caffeine.

One of the energy drinks I can get away with where it doesn’t break out my skin is 5 Hour Energy, but even that I never drink a full bottle of all at once, I take one half at a time, which gives me plenty of energy.

As I mentioned, I love to drink my coffee on the weekends. My husband is an every day coffee drinker, so it’s even hard to not drink it on the weekdays when he brews it in the morning before we go to work. But I do usually resist during the week, simply because I don’t think it’s good to drink it every day and develop a caffeine addiction.

And oh boy, is caffeine addictive. I’ve noticed that if I got four days drinking coffee and then stop, I get a massive headache the day after from withdrawal! I’ve discussed before how I believe that too much coffee makes me break out. Many people have this same problem, it all depends on your body and your individual physiology.

So, one of the things I do that I find offsets the likelihood that I will break out from drinking coffee, is to add two fully squeezed lemon wedges to my large glass of water that I drink with my coffee in the morning .The lemon juice neutralizes the abundant acidity in the coffee, and it helps my skin to stay clear.

Here’s a tip to help you get the most juice out of your fresh lemons for lemon water. Wash the lemon thoroughly and scrub it’s skin to get any pesticides off. Roll the lemon on the counter several times back and forth with the ball of you palm. It sounds weird, but man does it make your lemon produce more juice! I thought it wouldnt’ work, but I was amazed by how much juicier it made my lemons.