How is Water the Solution to Losing Excess Fat?
About thirty minutes before each meal, and two and a half hours after each meal, drink about fifteen ounces of water. Drinking this amount of water thirty minutes before eating, will help you to feel full which means you’ll eat considerably less food at mealtime.
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Adopting the Daily Habit of Proper Hydration
Try to note your daily water habits. If you’re presently not in the habit of drinking the requisite amount of water each day, do your best to get into the habit. Within ten days of forming the habit, you will notice a dramatic increase in your energy levels, as well as a dramatic decrease in appetite. Try it and you’ll quickly become a believer!
Yesterday I said that I had to develop the habit of drinking water. To help myself along, I made sure that water was always convenient and always close at hand.
Another technique I used to train myself to drink water was this; I started the day with eight dimes in my left pocket. With each glass of water I drank I switched a dime from my left to my right pocket. At the end of the day the goal was to have all eight dimes in my right pocket. It worked. You’ll be amazed how often you feel the dimes or you subconsciously put your hand in your pocket and say; “Oh yeah, I forgot all about drinking my water” … and you’ll fill up your water container and transfer another dime. If you find yourself forgetting, try the dime technique.
Did You Know? The best way to figure out how much fluid you should ingest daily, is to divide your body weight (in pounds) by two. That’s the number of ounces of water you need daily. A normal glass is approximately eight ounces. i.e. If you weigh 150 pounds you need seventy-five ounces each day.
Can you think of how you might start to incorporate water into your daily regime so that it would become a healthy and pleasurable routine?
Remember, when the body cries for water the pangs of thirst are often mistaken for hunger pangs. This “false read” causes us to eat instead of properly hydrating the body. Food is an inefficient way to supply the brain with energy, it uses only twenty percent, and the rest is stored as fat unless it’s burned up through exercise or other energy consuming activities. We noted that drinking water, thirty minutes before mealtimes and two and a half hours after mealtime, will have a dramatic effect on our eating habits, patterns and quantities.
Water is truly the elixir of life, and the little understood secret to losing unwanted fat.
To Get My Fluids, Do I Have to Drink Water?
If your goal is to lose excess fat and optimize your health the short answer is “Yes!”
You can drink soft drinks, diet soft drinks, milk, fruit juice, coffee, tea, soy beverages, vitamin-enriched waters, since all will contribute to your daily fluid requirements. Although all fluids contribute to your daily hydration, when it comes to losing weight, and keeping healthy, everything outside of pure water comes with a cost. This can be in the form of calories, sodium, refined sugars, artificial sweeteners, chemical additives and caffeine.
Soft Drinks – A twelve ounce serving of pop can come with up to eight teaspoons of sugar. Cola drinks are made with phosphoric acid than can deplete calcium from your bones. Energy drinks come with lots of caffeine and as much sugar as a regular soft drink.
Fruit Juice – A good source of vitamins but a twelve ounce serving of OJ can have more than 160 calories. Milk and Soy are high in calories as well.
Vitamin-Enriched Water – Most are “carbon copies” of soft drinks. They’re loaded with calories and sugar.
If you want to lose weight and maintain optimum health, learn to drink water … pure water.
Just increasing your daily water intake will reduce some of your stored fat. In fact, you can lose as much as ten pounds in three weeks by boosting your water intake.
Stored fat can only be broken down by specific chemical compounds. Certain enzymes breakdown lumps of fat into smaller fatty acid particles that can be burned by muscles and the liver. Water is also the magical fluid that stimulates the nervous system and the adrenal secretion that leads to a gradual loss of stored fat and a dramatic reduction of excess weight.
Weight loss through proper hydration is more stable, permanent, and reliable than any form of dieting and caloric intake. The most exciting part is that it is such a healthy and simple lifestyle incorporation that will have immediate and dramatic effects on your energy levels.
How does salt effect weight loss?
When the body becomes dehydrated and needs to increase its water reserves, it can only do so if salt is available to expand the extra-cellular water content of the body. A dehydrated body seeks salt through food. This search for salt is another bodily call that we often confuse for hunger, which results in overeating.
When the body is dehydrated, it automatically goes into emergency rationing. It is forced to allocate when and where water is delivered. Areas that are dry simply cannot function at their optimum levels. If certain vital organs and parts of the body are continually deprived of water they become susceptible to breakdown resulting in pain and eventually degenerative disease conditions.
Well, there you have it. As you can see there’s a lot of magic in water. If you don’t like drinking very much right now, just try it for two weeks. Always keep water within easy reach and use the dimes in your pocket as a reminder. The dramatic results will soon become addictive!
To reap the biggest anti-fat benefits of water – including a thirty percent metabolism boost and a fifteen percent appetite reduction, you need to:
• Have ten to fifteen ounces of water before each meal or snack. Don’t sip it. Drink it down!
• Never allow yourself to get thirsty. You don’t need to worry about consuming a precise number of total ounces or cups each day but, in addition to those ten to fifteen ounces, make sure you’re drinking enough additional water so that you never feel the least bit parched.
• When dehydrated, our body’s systems – including metabolism – can become up to fifty times less efficient.
• Water’s the anti-hunger way to save up to 100 calories per meal. When we drink water with a meal, we automatically want fifteen percent fewer calories – about 100 calories per meal – than when we drink soda, juice or milk. And water drinkers feel more full than folks who skip water.
• Water filters excess calories. Drink enough water and food flows through the intestinal tract rapidly enough to reduce the number of calories that can be absorbed.
• Water gives you a thirty percent metabolism boost. Drinking two cups of water increases calorie burn by thirty percent for thirty minutes, and you’ll burn thirty percent more calories for all your waking hours!
• Water helps break down more carbs. Drinking water helps our bodies use carbohydrate stores to fuel the increased calorie burn. So if pasta, bread or sugar are your downfall, drinking water will ensure that less of the pasta, bread and sugar you eat ends up stored as fat!
• Water helps everyone break down more fat. Fat cells are made of liquids and need proper levels of fluid to function. You can’t break down fat without plenty of water.
• When you’re well hydrated, you make all your body’s systems – including metabolism – drastically more efficient.
If you don’t like pure water, there are many flavor additives available, or you may just enjoy a squeeze of lemon or lime.
Think of ways that you might incorporate your daily water requirements into your life. Your goal should be to make proper hydration become a permanent part of your lifestyle!
If you do, you’ll magically begin to shed that unwanted fat and your energy levels will soar!
