It may not come as a surprise to you that water is good for your health. And it’s been widely publicized that drinking water can help people who are trying to lose weight. Few people would disagree, but there are also few who truly understand why this is so.
Many suspect that drinking water will help you feel fuller thereby eating or craving less high calorie food. There’s some truth to that.
Others might suggest that fumbling with a water bottle gives you something to do with your hands and that it takes your mind off of eating. There’s also truth to that.
In fact there are many reasons to combine adequate water intake along with exercise to any weight loss program. One of the most fundamental of these happens to be the importance of water to the body’s metabolism.
Now we’ve all heard about our metabolism and its importance to weight loss, but water? How does water come into play?
Well, it’s like this…..the liver is the internal organ that metabolizes fat. It takes the stored fat (that fat which you want to get rid of) and it turns it into energy.
But the liver also has other functions and one of those functions involves helping the kidneys out anytime they are not working at full capacity. In order to keep the liver optimized for metabolizing stored fat, it’s critical to have the kidneys carrying their full load.
Now you see where the water comes into play. The kidneys require water in fairly large amounts to do their job. If your body senses that it is not getting enough water, it will begin to store water in unlikely and undesirable places.
One way to help the body eliminate water ’storage’ is to let it have confidence that a continuous stream of water is coming down the pipe and there is no need to hoard.
For most of us, this means a minimum of eight 8-ounce glasses per day.
Overweight people as well as those living in a hot climate or exercising intensely require more, often twice the amount we think of as ‘optimum’.
The great thing about the body is that it knows how to get rid of excess water it doesn’t need.
It’s wise to remember that most weight loss programs are going to restrict the caloric intake in some way. This automatically means you are going to be taking in less water.
About 30% of our total water intake comes from foods we are eating. Decrease your food intake and chances are you will be reducing the amount of water your body is used to getting.
For some variety, add a squeeze of fresh lemon or lime to your water and drink it chilled whenever possible. And by all means, avoid waiting until you become thirsty to start drinking.
Your body will have already begun experiencing dehydration at the point you feel thirst, and it will have already begun hanging on to every drop of water it can find.
Water actually places key role in my Weight Loss Breeze program. But I use it in totally different way than I’ve seen in any weight loss program before. Try it and you’ll see amazing results.