Weight Loss
Water and Weight Loss
The healthiest thing you can do for your body and weight loss is to drink water.
One of the misunderstandings about water consumption is that if we drink less will have less water retention. Nothing could be further from the truth. Water retention is more likely to happen when we starve our bodies of water. Our bodies go onto red alert thinking there is going to be a draught and they hold on to what water they have.
Most children, from the time they enter kindergarten, have been told drink lots of water. As a matter of fact an adult should drink eight, eight ounce glasses of water every day. Do you know that water plays an important part in weight loss? But do you know that if you drank eight, eight ounces of water and did not change your eating habits you would probably lose weight. Not a lot but you would lose some.
Every diet that I have been on recommended that you drink eight, eight ounce glasses of water a day. Why? Because they know that the chances are good that if you do that their diet will work more efficiently and you will experience a more successful weight loss. Unfortunately, many of us start of with good intentions but run out of steam along the way and do not continue this good habit. If we all drank eight ounces of water each and every day instead of 8 cans of diet coke or other diet drink, there would be far fewer overweight people around.
So why is water so important to weight loss? We are always being told that it is but not many of us understand why we have to do it. After some research I will attempt to do that.
You see our kidneys need water to do their job of cleansing the impurities from our bodies. If our kidneys are not working properly or if they are water deprived they cannot do their job and the Liver has to pick up the slack. This takes the Liver away from its main purpose which is to turn fat into energy. So what happens when the liver cannot convert fat into energy it stores it for a rainy day. It gets stored in your hips, around your waist and other places of your body.
At first when you drink your eight glasses of water a day you may find yourself running to the bathroom and it seems like you are just pouring water in and it is coming right out again. Don’t give up at this point because your body is simply not used to you having all this water and is getting adjusted. Previously when the body was not getting enough water it started storing it in case of an emergency. Now that it is getting all the water it says I no longer need an emergency supply and will start releasing that stored water, from you hips , your stomach, your legs, arms and other places. Bingo you lose weight. Drinking water helps with weight loss.
So drink lots of water for a successful weight loss program.
Tom Murray
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