How to Keep the Fat Away
Why Eight Glasses of Water a Day Helps Promote Weight-loss
Water is quite possibly the single most important ingredient to losing weight and keeping it off for good. So many people take water for granted, instead choosing dehydrating drinks, such as soda and coffee, never knowing that they are jeopardizing their health and their weight-loss goals.
Water is critical for a person's survival. The human body can last only four to five days without it. For the person who is trying to lose weight, water is even more crucial.
Water Suppresses the Appetite
Water suppresses the appetite without the use of hormones, chemicals, or any other man-made substance. It is natural and therefore helps to suppress a person's appetite naturally. It also helps metabolize stored body fat. Decreased water intake causes fat deposits to increase, while an increase in water intake actually reduces fat deposits.
Water intake is so closely linked to weight-loss or weight-gain because the kidneys depend on water to work properly. When the kidneys do not have enough water to function, some of their work load is passed on to the liver. The extra work the liver has to do for the kidneys causes the liver to not function properly. This is because one of the liver's main functions is to metabolize stored fat into usable energy for the body. If the liver has to do some of the kidneys' work, then the liver cannot do its job to its full potential. As a result, the liver metabolizes fewer fat cells, causing the body to hold onto this fat. This means that weight loss will stop.
Drinking Water is the Solution to Water Retention
Although it sounds contrary to what common sense tells a person, drinking water is the best treatment for water retention. This is because the body will do anything and everything it can to survive. When the body gets less water, it goes into survival mode and holds onto every drop of water and every fat cell left in the body. This causes swelling in the body, primarily in the feet, legs, and hands. Swelling can be uncomfortable and even painful. On top of that, weight loss stops, as the body is trying to hold onto every energy-store it has for survival. The best solution for getting rid of the swelling and to begin losing weight again is to give the body what it needs: water. And plenty of it.
Water Helps Rid the Body of Waste and Relieves Constipation
When a person is losing weight, the body has much more waste to get rid of. All that metabolized fat has to be flushed out of the body somehow. Water is the best way to dispose of this waste.
Water helps keep everything in the body flowing like it needs to. When a person drinks enough water every day, normal bowel function returns. The easier it is to get rid of the body's waste, the easier it is to lose excess weight.
An Overweight Person Needs to Drink More Water than a Thin Person
A larger person has a larger metabolic load than that of a thin person. Because water is the key to fat metabolism, an overweight person needs to drink more water in order to metabolize those extra fat deposits. On average, a person should drink eight eight-ounce glasses of water each day. However, an overweight person needs one additional eight-ounce glass of water for every twenty-five pounds of excess weight.
For example, a woman weighs 160 pounds, and her goal-weight is 110 pounds, for a total weight-loss goal of fifty pounds. Because she needs to drink one extra eight-ounce glass of water for every twenty-five pounds of excess weight, she needs to drink two extra eight-ounce glasses (sixteen ounces total) of water each day. That extra sixteen ounces added to her minimum of eight eight-ounce glasses (sixty-four ounces) of water per day equals eighty ounces of water. That means for this woman to best help herself lose weight, she needs to drink eighty ounces of water every day.
Lemon is a Natural Diuretic
For that person who dislikes the taste of plain water, try adding a splash or two of lemon to the glass. This lemon not only tastes great, but it also acts as a natural diuretic. It will better help flush the body of waste and fat.
Be Consistent with Water Intake
If a person begins a regimen of drinking eighty ounces of water each day and then suddenly stops taking in that same amount, that person's body fluids will be thrown out of balance again. As a result, he or she may experience water retention and weight gain. This will also mean that person will have to force another breakthrough with his or her water intake, which can be difficult to do. So remember to be consistent and keep drinking water.
Drink at Least Eight Eight-ounce Glasses of Water
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Water is Good for Health and Weight-loss
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Lemon is a Natural Diuretic
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