If you’ve ever tried to lose weight, you’ve probably heard it more than once, “Drink more water to help you lose more weight”. So, can drinking more water really help you lose weight?
The short answer is yes!
In this blog, we’re going to explain the important things to know about the importance of drinking water to lose weight.
- Drinking water helps boost your metabolism, cleanse your body of waste, and act as an appetite suppressant.
- Drinking more water helps your body stop retaining water, leading you to drop those extra pounds of water weight.
- Water aids digestion and promotes the normal functioning of many body organs including the liver.
- Lack of regular intake of water will slow digestion, decrease fat metabolism and give you the feeling that you are bloated and tired.
- Drinking a sufficient quantity of water increases the rate at which our liver burns off fat. If you drink inadequate quantities of water, your liver ends up working exhaustively thus storing more fat as it becomes difficult to burn fat more effectively.
- If you want to lose weight, you should drink a minimum of eight 8-ounce glasses of water per day. However, to really get the process moving, drink half your body weight in ounces each day!
So, if you weigh 180 pounds, you should drink about 90 ounces of water a day, roughly 11 glasses of water.
- Drinking ice cold water helps boost your metabolism because your body has to work harder to warm the water up, therefore burning more calories and helping you to lose weight.
Plus, ice cold water is just so much more refreshing than water that’s room temperature!
- Replace sweetened drinks with water. Instead of drinking soda, alcoholic beverages, smoothies, or other high-calorie drinks, grab a glass or bottle of water!
Swapping in a zero-calorie beverage for high-calorie alternatives can spare you hundreds of calories per day, further aiding in weight loss.
- Before you eat, drink a large glass of water as it can make you feel fuller and therefore reduce your food intake as it acts as an appetite suppressant. A study stated that drinking water before meals results in an average reduction in intake of 75 calories per meal.
Drinking water before just one meal per day would cause you to ingest 27,000 fewer calories per year. Do the math: You’d lose about 8 pounds per year just from drinking water! Now imagine if you drank it before each meal!
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