Thread: Using water to reduce weight

Using water to reduce weight

Our body is made of water. Meaning to say, majority of the part of the
body is made up of water. It is about 70%. All you want to understand
is how you can go much longer without the foods than without the
water! The body requires lot of water on daily basis or hourly basis
to maintain all the bodily systems. Adding to that, the body requires
water to flush out the toxins and unwanted particles from the body.
On the other hand, if the body is not supplied by enough water, it can
do anything that can hold water. Your body requires eight ounces
glasses of water a day. Water facilitates the weight loss and helps
you to stay fit even when you are on diet. You can also add a bit of
lemon, if you don't like the taste of water, which is a rarest case.
Don't be in impression that cutting back on water intake, one can
prevent the water retention. In fact, opposite to that will happen.
Drinking more water makes your kidney stimulated and therefore,
kidneys will help reducing the water retention. Sequel to that, the
body will burn more calories to make kidney work faster. Burning
calories will make your weight down.

It is advisable to replace the water to so called 'diet drinks' or
'diet beverages'. Mind it, water doesn't contain caffeine or any other
calories at all. However, you can consider as healthy fruit juices and
vegetables juices as a part of water. In the recent news at Boston, it
was declared that dieters who replace sugary drinks with water lose an
extra five pounds a year, and those who drink a couple of more cups of
water a day increase weight loss by two pounds a year.

Nearly 2.5 liters of water is being used by body for its various
functions and systems. This may vary from season to season. Your
metabolism strictly depends on the water supply. Enough and adequate
water supply speeds up the metabolism and hence the calorie burning.
Drinking water is also important medium for your proper digestion.
Most of the times, foods you eat, if remain undigested, turn to the
fat and stored in the body.

Another simple approach is if you drink more water, which is totally
harmless, will keep your stomach full and if the stomach is full, you
don't feel hunger at all. If it gets empty, fill it again with good
water. The water also helps keeping the body moist. Moisture is very
much required for the body by all means. Eyes, nose, throat, internal
body organs, tongue and everywhere, you find the moisture in terms of
mucous and other bodily fluids.

Drinking water fastens the metabolism process in the body and when you
do exercises or workout, your metabolism increases. Water is essential
to maximize your metabolism in that way. Drink plenty of water before
and after your workout.

Water is an essential element for the body. It shoots up your
digestive power and makes the body in a standard working status.

Many people are very skeptical of the suggestion that water can play very effective role in helping them achieve weight loss. Very few people realize that a large proportion of our body is water. Naturally it plays a very important part in our existence.

75% of the lean muscle tissues are water, over 80% of blood is water, body fat and bones account for over 20% of water each. Is it surprising then that water plays a very important role in how our bodies function?

Of course, drinking water alone is not going to help you lose weight. If you desire to lose weight in a gradual but sure way, eating right and drinking right are the two major components of the natural weight loss method.

Remember that “bad” fats are the main culprits causing excess weight – eat “good fats” that provide essential fatty acids; eat Salmon, Mackerel, Herrings, and Sardines. They help regulate blood pressure, prevent blood clotting and lower risk of heart failure.

Good proteins help you in suppressing cravings for food. They are essential in building muscles. Low fat milk products such as skimmed milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, and fish are “good“ proteins.

Carbohydrates such as beans, vegetables, fruits, and whole grains are consumed by the body slowly and hence they are natural hunger-suppressants; they are also moderate on fats and calories.

Eat adequate fiber food. Good fiber foods do not contribute much of calories and they are filling. They thus help in suppressing hunger. Moreover fiber does not get digested by the body and while passing through the body it attaches to some of the fats and proteins that we eat; thus they are taken out of the system without being digested! Apples, figs, broccoli, strawberries, brown rice, beans, bran and nuts are good fiber foods.

Water plays two important roles in helping you lose weight. Cravings for food are felt when the body dehydrates; if water is consumed in reasonable and adequate measure it suppresses hunger pangs. Liver provides stored fats for energy; water helps metabolism allowing kidneys to flush out waste.

Many people will find it surprising that drinking cold water can burn the extra fat in the body; if you drink ice cold water it uses over 60 calories a day from the body – thus the body has to burn over 420 calories a week to raise the temperature of the ice cold water to the body temperature. What a way to beat that excess fat!

As we see here water plays an important role in you lose weight; it is a natural appetite suppressant, it helps in dieting and generally a major component in natural weight loss practice.
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Unique Hoodia

Our body needs water in order to function properly and helps your body flush out accumulated toxins. It also plays a major role in weight loss sinse it helps speed up your metabolism and helps you curb your cravings.

It's true that water alone will not help you lose weight but drinking 6-8 glasses of water keeps you hydrated while you exercise and helps proper digestion of your food. There's one thing I was curious about though. This article mentioned that drinking cold water can burn extra fat in your body. I always thought that was just a myth.

I read about that too that cold water burns fat but I never really believed it. So that means it's best to drink 6-8 glasses of ice cold water then? What's the difference if you drink warm ater instead?

It's called hydrotherapy and it's been proven to be a fact. Drinking cold water raises your metabolic rate since your body will have to use more energy to convert cold water to body temperature.

That's really interesting. I didn't know it makes a difference. I just drink water, regardless if it's cold or not. Thanks for clarifying this to us mikaela.

it's kinda similar with my previous diet method...

i drink only cold water and eat only a fruit and green vegetables...

a very very extreme method, but damn good result... in a week, i loose 1 kg from my weight.. but i feel so weak and can't do things properlu...poorly, i don't have enough will to finish my program...

You can do it bebekkoleng! If I may suggest, don't use extreme methods to lose weight since it's not good for your health and your metabolism. Losing weight takes time so switch to a healthier diet and make sure to have a regular exercise.

Water is life for the human body, without the water we cant imagine a healthy body. And when the water is present in the sufficient amount then the skin breath easily and their is a glow on our face also.