Next to air, water is the most important element to life on our planet.There are four pillars to losing excess body fat.They are; 1.Reduce Calories.2.Increase Activity (Exercise).3.Increase Metabolism.4.Learn how to Drink Water (Stay Hydrated).Very few people think of water as a key element in losing unwanted body fat.If you can understand the proper use of water, or proper hydration, you will have discovered a key to a lifetime of perfect weight and optimum health.If you just read this information it may give you some new knowledge and insight, but if you can put it into practice it will quickly change your health and your life.The Power of Water as a Fat-Loss Technique.There is indisputable scientific proof that drinking ordinary water IS, bar none, the easiest way to fight fat and lose weight.In fact, the latest reports show that water is nothing short of a metabolism-boosting, appetite-suppressing, miracle.Some people may have a difficult time buying into this statement for one simple reason. you know lots of people who have the ever-present bottle of water but are still considerably overweight.So What's Happening? Why the "Seeming" Contradiction?You Must Drink It Right!For everyone, except a few folks with rare health conditions, there are zero disadvantages to drinking water.There are only benefits, and lots of them.So again, how is it that some people drink water all day long and are still overweight?Two reasons; The first is that they're drinking tiny amounts throughout the day.To reap the biggest anti-fat benefits, which includes a thirty percent boost in metabolism and a fifteen percent reduction in appetite, you need to put into practice the following rules;.• Water helps break down more carbs.When we drink water, 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 being stored as fat!• Have at least ten to fifteen ounces before each meal and snack.When you drink this ten to fifteen ounces, don't sip it, drink it down.By consuming this much water you are certain that you'll have enough in your system at the time it is most beneficial.• DO NOT get thirsty.In addition to guzzling those ten or so ounces before eating, make sure you're drinking water throughout the day.If you are ever just the slightest bit parched, you have already dehydrated yourself.When we're dehydrated our body's systems, and their functioning efficiency, including metabolism, drop significantly.• Stave off hunger with water and save 100 calories per meal.Research has shown that when we drink water with a meal, we automatically want fifteen percent fewer calories.That's about 100 calories less for each meal than when we drink soda, juice or milk.And water drinkers feel more full than people who skip water.• For many years we've been told NOT to drink water with our meals because the water dilutes the gastric juices and hinders digestion.There is no clear evidence that supports this.If, however, you find that drinking water with your meals hinders your digestion, just be certain to drink adequate amounts well before mealtime.The stomach needs water to digest foods.• Water filters excess calories.Drinking plenty of water allows food to flow through the intestinal tract quickly enough to reduce the number of calories that can be absorbed.• Water gives you a thirty percent metabolism boost.It's been discovered that drinking ten to sixteen ounces of water increases calorie burn up to thirty percent for a full half-hour.You will also burn up to thirty percent more calories for all your waking hours.• Water helps break down more fat.Fat cells are made of liquids and need proper levels of fluid to function.You simply cannot break down fat without plenty of water.• When you're well hydrated, you make all your body's systems - including metabolism - far more efficient.Some studies say as much as fifty times more efficient.For today try to note just how much water you tend to drink and when you normally drink it.If you don't like the taste of plain water add lemon, lime or a water-flavoring packet.Several years ago, before I developed the habit of drinking the proper amount of water, I had a difficult time remembering my "commitment" to consume the necessary amount.To help me develop the habit I made sure that I always had a few bottles of water in my car, near my computer and beside the coffee pot.First thing in the morning, while the water was gearing up for a boil, I made sure I already had the day's first bottle consumed before my first cup of coffee.Water has been recommended by a large faction of the medical community as a preventative and cure for almost every ailment and malady imaginable.Its benefits for weight loss are indisputable and overwhelming!Surprisingly enough, there is a very strong correlation between overeating and dehydration of the body.In general there are two sensations related to eating; there is "hunger pain" and there is "thirst." Both sensations are felt in the same area and both are brought on by histamines.Ironically we will often confuse the two signals and think we are hungry when in fact we are really thirsty.We frequently think a dry mouth is a sign that we are thirsty and we use that as our cue to drink fluids.In reality, by the time our mouths go dry we've reached an unhealthy state of dehydration, we've actually reached the last stage of thirst.Have you ever noticed, after a heavy meal you are constantly thirsty? That's because the intake of solid foods help to dehydrate the body.The best way to separate the sensation of thirst from the sensation of hunger is to drink plenty of water all day long and be sure to drink water before eating.Our typical habit is to take food and then water.During the process of digestion the body uses up all the available free water.This can be a major cause of obesity.Here's why.Obese people will often eat food to mistakenly satisfy their body's call for water.Food, like water, is converted to ATP.[At the risk of having you shudder at the thought of a high school biology lesson, general writing etiquette requires that I give a brief definition of ATP.].Living things store energy mainly in the form of chemical bonds.Within your cells, energy is constantly moved around from one large molecule to another.To convert a food molecule to a muscle molecule requires adenosine triphosphate (ATP).ATP works like a rechargeable battery.When you eat, many complex chemical reactions occur, but in essence all you are doing is recharging your ATP, because everything you do, from walking to thinking, requires the immediate energy of ATP.Because this is absolutely crucial to weight loss, let me say it again.Obese people will often eat food to mistakenly satisfy their body's call for water.Food, like water, is converted to ATP.To the taste buds, food is much more satisfying than water.To satisfy the brain's need for ATP however, water is drastically more effective, more efficient, and more "desirable" than food.With food we can generate energy for brain function only from sugar.However, we will consume five times more food than the brain actually needs.Why? Only twenty percent of the blood's circulation goes to the brain.The other eighty percent, now laden with sugar, goes to the other organs - including fat cells that store the sugar in the form of fat.The more food we eat, the more sugar is converted to fat.Meanwhile back at the "brain ranch," all it wanted was a little water to generate hydroelectricity, a wonderfully clean, pure source of energy.You may want to read the above explanation one more time!Since many of us have erroneously programmed ourselves to confuse basic thirst for hunger, we have simply developed an undesirable habit (eating) to our body's cry for energy (read water).Dehydration is very often the root cause of obesity.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.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!Earlier 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; IEUR^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!
Monday, September 24, 2012
To Lose Fat - Understand Water - Life's Magical Elixir
Next to air, water is the most important element to life on our planet.There are four pillars to losing excess body fat.They are; 1.Reduce Calories.2.Increase Activity (Exercise).3.Increase Metabolism.4.Learn how to Drink Water (Stay Hydrated).Very few people think of water as a key element in losing unwanted body fat.If you can understand the proper use of water, or proper hydration, you will have discovered a key to a lifetime of perfect weight and optimum health.If you just read this information it may give you some new knowledge and insight, but if you can put it into practice it will quickly change your health and your life.The Power of Water as a Fat-Loss Technique.There is indisputable scientific proof that drinking ordinary water IS, bar none, the easiest way to fight fat and lose weight.In fact, the latest reports show that water is nothing short of a metabolism-boosting, appetite-suppressing, miracle.Some people may have a difficult time buying into this statement for one simple reason. you know lots of people who have the ever-present bottle of water but are still considerably overweight.So What's Happening? Why the "Seeming" Contradiction?You Must Drink It Right!For everyone, except a few folks with rare health conditions, there are zero disadvantages to drinking water.There are only benefits, and lots of them.So again, how is it that some people drink water all day long and are still overweight?Two reasons; The first is that they're drinking tiny amounts throughout the day.To reap the biggest anti-fat benefits, which includes a thirty percent boost in metabolism and a fifteen percent reduction in appetite, you need to put into practice the following rules;.• Water helps break down more carbs.When we drink water, 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 being stored as fat!• Have at least ten to fifteen ounces before each meal and snack.When you drink this ten to fifteen ounces, don't sip it, drink it down.By consuming this much water you are certain that you'll have enough in your system at the time it is most beneficial.• DO NOT get thirsty.In addition to guzzling those ten or so ounces before eating, make sure you're drinking water throughout the day.If you are ever just the slightest bit parched, you have already dehydrated yourself.When we're dehydrated our body's systems, and their functioning efficiency, including metabolism, drop significantly.• Stave off hunger with water and save 100 calories per meal.Research has shown that when we drink water with a meal, we automatically want fifteen percent fewer calories.That's about 100 calories less for each meal than when we drink soda, juice or milk.And water drinkers feel more full than people who skip water.• For many years we've been told NOT to drink water with our meals because the water dilutes the gastric juices and hinders digestion.There is no clear evidence that supports this.If, however, you find that drinking water with your meals hinders your digestion, just be certain to drink adequate amounts well before mealtime.The stomach needs water to digest foods.• Water filters excess calories.Drinking plenty of water allows food to flow through the intestinal tract quickly enough to reduce the number of calories that can be absorbed.• Water gives you a thirty percent metabolism boost.It's been discovered that drinking ten to sixteen ounces of water increases calorie burn up to thirty percent for a full half-hour.You will also burn up to thirty percent more calories for all your waking hours.• Water helps break down more fat.Fat cells are made of liquids and need proper levels of fluid to function.You simply cannot break down fat without plenty of water.• When you're well hydrated, you make all your body's systems - including metabolism - far more efficient.Some studies say as much as fifty times more efficient.For today try to note just how much water you tend to drink and when you normally drink it.If you don't like the taste of plain water add lemon, lime or a water-flavoring packet.Several years ago, before I developed the habit of drinking the proper amount of water, I had a difficult time remembering my "commitment" to consume the necessary amount.To help me develop the habit I made sure that I always had a few bottles of water in my car, near my computer and beside the coffee pot.First thing in the morning, while the water was gearing up for a boil, I made sure I already had the day's first bottle consumed before my first cup of coffee.Water has been recommended by a large faction of the medical community as a preventative and cure for almost every ailment and malady imaginable.Its benefits for weight loss are indisputable and overwhelming!Surprisingly enough, there is a very strong correlation between overeating and dehydration of the body.In general there are two sensations related to eating; there is "hunger pain" and there is "thirst." Both sensations are felt in the same area and both are brought on by histamines.Ironically we will often confuse the two signals and think we are hungry when in fact we are really thirsty.We frequently think a dry mouth is a sign that we are thirsty and we use that as our cue to drink fluids.In reality, by the time our mouths go dry we've reached an unhealthy state of dehydration, we've actually reached the last stage of thirst.Have you ever noticed, after a heavy meal you are constantly thirsty? That's because the intake of solid foods help to dehydrate the body.The best way to separate the sensation of thirst from the sensation of hunger is to drink plenty of water all day long and be sure to drink water before eating.Our typical habit is to take food and then water.During the process of digestion the body uses up all the available free water.This can be a major cause of obesity.Here's why.Obese people will often eat food to mistakenly satisfy their body's call for water.Food, like water, is converted to ATP.[At the risk of having you shudder at the thought of a high school biology lesson, general writing etiquette requires that I give a brief definition of ATP.].Living things store energy mainly in the form of chemical bonds.Within your cells, energy is constantly moved around from one large molecule to another.To convert a food molecule to a muscle molecule requires adenosine triphosphate (ATP).ATP works like a rechargeable battery.When you eat, many complex chemical reactions occur, but in essence all you are doing is recharging your ATP, because everything you do, from walking to thinking, requires the immediate energy of ATP.Because this is absolutely crucial to weight loss, let me say it again.Obese people will often eat food to mistakenly satisfy their body's call for water.Food, like water, is converted to ATP.To the taste buds, food is much more satisfying than water.To satisfy the brain's need for ATP however, water is drastically more effective, more efficient, and more "desirable" than food.With food we can generate energy for brain function only from sugar.However, we will consume five times more food than the brain actually needs.Why? Only twenty percent of the blood's circulation goes to the brain.The other eighty percent, now laden with sugar, goes to the other organs - including fat cells that store the sugar in the form of fat.The more food we eat, the more sugar is converted to fat.Meanwhile back at the "brain ranch," all it wanted was a little water to generate hydroelectricity, a wonderfully clean, pure source of energy.You may want to read the above explanation one more time!Since many of us have erroneously programmed ourselves to confuse basic thirst for hunger, we have simply developed an undesirable habit (eating) to our body's cry for energy (read water).Dehydration is very often the root cause of obesity.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.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!Earlier 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; IEUR^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!
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