Confessions of a Fitness Instructor

Ingredients

• 2 limes
• 3/4 cup sugar {if you prefer a tangier, more sour limeade you may want to decrease the amount of sugar slightly}
• 2 3/4 cup water

Instructions

1. Zest the two limes into a small bowl
2. Juice the limes (I find cutting them in half lengthwise makes it easier to get all the juice out)
3. In a small saucepan, dissolve 3/4 cup of sugar into 3/4 cup of hot water to create a simple syrup. Taking the 2 or 3 minutes to do this step will keep you from having that gritty sugar feeling you can get when you simply add sugar to cold water.
4. Remove saucepan form heat and add the lime zest. Stir and let sit for 3-5 minutes
5. Once the syrup has cooled add the lime juice to the saucepan and mix.
6. In a juice container, combine your simple syrup with 2 cups of cold water ad refrigerate until cold.
7. If you don't like having lime pulp or lime zest in your drink simply strain the mixture through a fine mesh strainer as you pour it into the juice container.
8. Once your limeade is cold, pour into a tall glass and enjoy!