Drinking water for weight loss
saundts
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How much water should I drink along with dieting to lose weight? Everytime I go to the health nutritionist, I am told that I need to drink more water. When the body mass is checked, I am always on the negative side of composition in reference to body fat and muscle mass %. I dink almost 12 bottles of 16.9 oz bottles everyday if not more. I way 242 lbs. Please help!!!
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Enough to keep you hydrated. As long as your urine is pale yellow, you're good.6
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Drinking more water will not make you lose fat, and if it causes the scale to go down, it's just water weight or water helping your body pass waste out through more regular bowel movements.
Water will also not improve your BF% to lean mass % ratio, other than if you happen to use a measurement method (electrical impedance) that essentially reads water as lean mass. You need to lift heavy things, consume sufficient protein, and consume calories somewhere in the range of small deficit (if you want to lose weight but retain as much muscle as possible) to small surplus (if you want to gain muscle, while not giving your body more extra energy than it can use for that purpose, which it will store as fat). While you're lifting the heavy things, it's helpful to drink some extra water to stay hydrated, but it's progressively challenging your muscles and consuming appropriate amounts of calories and protein that let you build or retain muscle.4 -
You know, you can drink too much water.7
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I've looked into this water consumption in weight loss and it seems an increase CAN help. But not alone. Calorie deficit always, first and foremost. I drink 2 litres a day, helps with hunger1
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My goodness that's a lot of water!3
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Am I mathing wrong? That's 24 cups = 6 Litres? That's a whole lot of water, can throw off your electrolytes, which are very important for body functioning including heart, brain, and muscles. Plus, as already mentioned, water in and of itself won't cause weight loss.4
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It is recommended to drink half of ur weight in oz so for u It would be 121 oz. More if ur thirsty but too much water isn't good also.0
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Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »You know, you can drink too much water.
People actually do die of it. It causes hyponatremia (low blood sodium) and hypokalemia (low blood potassium) which can be fatal.
Terri Schiavo was drinking up to 15 glasses of iced tea a day, along with a lot of other liquid and ended up suffering cardiac arrest and oxygen deprivation that left her a vegetable until her feeding tube was removed years later and she died.
For all the warnings given about eating too few calories (which starvation isn't good for you, to be sure) there are very few here about the dangers that trying to just keep shoving water into yourself pose.
If your pee is clear, cut back on the liquid until it is pale yellow.12 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »Am I mathing wrong? That's 24 cups = 6 Litres? That's a whole lot of water, can throw off your electrolytes, which are very important for body functioning including heart, brain, and muscles. Plus, as already mentioned, water in and of itself won't cause weight loss.
This.
There is such a thing as drinking too much water. Unless OP is outside in the sun all day doing physical labor and sweating, or is very athletic/active, yes it is far too much water. Hyponatrema is real.5 -
shabanabibi1986 wrote: »It is recommended to drink half of ur weight in oz so for u It would be 121 oz. More if ur thirsty but too much water isn't good also.
Arbitrary number is arbitrary....2 -
heiliskrimsli wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »You know, you can drink too much water.
People actually do die of it. It causes hyponatremia (low blood sodium) and hypokalemia (low blood potassium) which can be fatal.
Terri Schiavo was drinking up to 15 glasses of iced tea a day, along with a lot of other liquid and ended up suffering cardiac arrest and oxygen deprivation that left her a vegetable until her feeding tube was removed years later and she died.
For all the warnings given about eating too few calories (which starvation isn't good for you, to be sure) there are very few here about the dangers that trying to just keep shoving water into yourself pose.
If your pee is clear, cut back on the liquid until it is pale yellow.
It does get pointed out, it's just not asked about as frequently, so the perspective is skewed. That and there are fewer people encouraging over consumption of water as compared to those encouraging under consumption of food, so it doesn't garner the same level of attention and passion.3 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »You know, you can drink too much water.
People actually do die of it. It causes hyponatremia (low blood sodium) and hypokalemia (low blood potassium) which can be fatal.
Terri Schiavo was drinking up to 15 glasses of iced tea a day, along with a lot of other liquid and ended up suffering cardiac arrest and oxygen deprivation that left her a vegetable until her feeding tube was removed years later and she died.
For all the warnings given about eating too few calories (which starvation isn't good for you, to be sure) there are very few here about the dangers that trying to just keep shoving water into yourself pose.
If your pee is clear, cut back on the liquid until it is pale yellow.
It does get pointed out, it's just not asked about as frequently, so the perspective is skewed. That and there are fewer people encouraging over consumption of water as compared to those encouraging under consumption of food, so it doesn't garner the same level of attention and passion.
Drinking too much water can kill you a lot faster than eating too little food.3 -
heiliskrimsli wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »You know, you can drink too much water.
People actually do die of it. It causes hyponatremia (low blood sodium) and hypokalemia (low blood potassium) which can be fatal.
Terri Schiavo was drinking up to 15 glasses of iced tea a day, along with a lot of other liquid and ended up suffering cardiac arrest and oxygen deprivation that left her a vegetable until her feeding tube was removed years later and she died.
For all the warnings given about eating too few calories (which starvation isn't good for you, to be sure) there are very few here about the dangers that trying to just keep shoving water into yourself pose.
If your pee is clear, cut back on the liquid until it is pale yellow.
It does get pointed out, it's just not asked about as frequently, so the perspective is skewed. That and there are fewer people encouraging over consumption of water as compared to those encouraging under consumption of food, so it doesn't garner the same level of attention and passion.
Drinking too much water can kill you a lot faster than eating too little food.
So, slower rate of death makes it okay?3 -
heiliskrimsli wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »You know, you can drink too much water.
People actually do die of it. It causes hyponatremia (low blood sodium) and hypokalemia (low blood potassium) which can be fatal.
Terri Schiavo was drinking up to 15 glasses of iced tea a day, along with a lot of other liquid and ended up suffering cardiac arrest and oxygen deprivation that left her a vegetable until her feeding tube was removed years later and she died.
For all the warnings given about eating too few calories (which starvation isn't good for you, to be sure) there are very few here about the dangers that trying to just keep shoving water into yourself pose.
If your pee is clear, cut back on the liquid until it is pale yellow.
It does get pointed out, it's just not asked about as frequently, so the perspective is skewed. That and there are fewer people encouraging over consumption of water as compared to those encouraging under consumption of food, so it doesn't garner the same level of attention and passion.
Drinking too much water can kill you a lot faster than eating too little food.
You actually have to try really hard to drink so much that it poses a risk to you.6 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »You know, you can drink too much water.
People actually do die of it. It causes hyponatremia (low blood sodium) and hypokalemia (low blood potassium) which can be fatal.
Terri Schiavo was drinking up to 15 glasses of iced tea a day, along with a lot of other liquid and ended up suffering cardiac arrest and oxygen deprivation that left her a vegetable until her feeding tube was removed years later and she died.
For all the warnings given about eating too few calories (which starvation isn't good for you, to be sure) there are very few here about the dangers that trying to just keep shoving water into yourself pose.
If your pee is clear, cut back on the liquid until it is pale yellow.
It does get pointed out, it's just not asked about as frequently, so the perspective is skewed. That and there are fewer people encouraging over consumption of water as compared to those encouraging under consumption of food, so it doesn't garner the same level of attention and passion.
Drinking too much water can kill you a lot faster than eating too little food.
So, slower rate of death makes it okay?
Didn't say it was OK. It does leave more time to catch and correct, though.stevencloser wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »You know, you can drink too much water.
People actually do die of it. It causes hyponatremia (low blood sodium) and hypokalemia (low blood potassium) which can be fatal.
Terri Schiavo was drinking up to 15 glasses of iced tea a day, along with a lot of other liquid and ended up suffering cardiac arrest and oxygen deprivation that left her a vegetable until her feeding tube was removed years later and she died.
For all the warnings given about eating too few calories (which starvation isn't good for you, to be sure) there are very few here about the dangers that trying to just keep shoving water into yourself pose.
If your pee is clear, cut back on the liquid until it is pale yellow.
It does get pointed out, it's just not asked about as frequently, so the perspective is skewed. That and there are fewer people encouraging over consumption of water as compared to those encouraging under consumption of food, so it doesn't garner the same level of attention and passion.
Drinking too much water can kill you a lot faster than eating too little food.
You actually have to try really hard to drink so much that it poses a risk to you.
Not that hard. Less than two gallons killed Jennifer Strange3 -
Water doesn't really have anything to do with weight loss...keeping hydrated is healthy...not everything in the world is about weight loss...there's a lot more to general health and well being than weight loss.3
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heiliskrimsli wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »You know, you can drink too much water.
People actually do die of it. It causes hyponatremia (low blood sodium) and hypokalemia (low blood potassium) which can be fatal.
Terri Schiavo was drinking up to 15 glasses of iced tea a day, along with a lot of other liquid and ended up suffering cardiac arrest and oxygen deprivation that left her a vegetable until her feeding tube was removed years later and she died.
For all the warnings given about eating too few calories (which starvation isn't good for you, to be sure) there are very few here about the dangers that trying to just keep shoving water into yourself pose.
If your pee is clear, cut back on the liquid until it is pale yellow.
It does get pointed out, it's just not asked about as frequently, so the perspective is skewed. That and there are fewer people encouraging over consumption of water as compared to those encouraging under consumption of food, so it doesn't garner the same level of attention and passion.
Drinking too much water can kill you a lot faster than eating too little food.
So, slower rate of death makes it okay?
Didn't say it was OK. It does leave more time to catch and correct, though.stevencloser wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »You know, you can drink too much water.
People actually do die of it. It causes hyponatremia (low blood sodium) and hypokalemia (low blood potassium) which can be fatal.
Terri Schiavo was drinking up to 15 glasses of iced tea a day, along with a lot of other liquid and ended up suffering cardiac arrest and oxygen deprivation that left her a vegetable until her feeding tube was removed years later and she died.
For all the warnings given about eating too few calories (which starvation isn't good for you, to be sure) there are very few here about the dangers that trying to just keep shoving water into yourself pose.
If your pee is clear, cut back on the liquid until it is pale yellow.
It does get pointed out, it's just not asked about as frequently, so the perspective is skewed. That and there are fewer people encouraging over consumption of water as compared to those encouraging under consumption of food, so it doesn't garner the same level of attention and passion.
Drinking too much water can kill you a lot faster than eating too little food.
You actually have to try really hard to drink so much that it poses a risk to you.
Not that hard. Less than two gallons killed Jennifer Strange
It was part of a contest where she was drinking it all at once within a time frame....over the course of an entire day, that likely wouldn't happen. Don't distort *kitten*...6 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »You know, you can drink too much water.
People actually do die of it. It causes hyponatremia (low blood sodium) and hypokalemia (low blood potassium) which can be fatal.
Terri Schiavo was drinking up to 15 glasses of iced tea a day, along with a lot of other liquid and ended up suffering cardiac arrest and oxygen deprivation that left her a vegetable until her feeding tube was removed years later and she died.
For all the warnings given about eating too few calories (which starvation isn't good for you, to be sure) there are very few here about the dangers that trying to just keep shoving water into yourself pose.
If your pee is clear, cut back on the liquid until it is pale yellow.
It does get pointed out, it's just not asked about as frequently, so the perspective is skewed. That and there are fewer people encouraging over consumption of water as compared to those encouraging under consumption of food, so it doesn't garner the same level of attention and passion.
Drinking too much water can kill you a lot faster than eating too little food.
So, slower rate of death makes it okay?
Didn't say it was OK. It does leave more time to catch and correct, though.stevencloser wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »nutmegoreo wrote: »heiliskrimsli wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »You know, you can drink too much water.
People actually do die of it. It causes hyponatremia (low blood sodium) and hypokalemia (low blood potassium) which can be fatal.
Terri Schiavo was drinking up to 15 glasses of iced tea a day, along with a lot of other liquid and ended up suffering cardiac arrest and oxygen deprivation that left her a vegetable until her feeding tube was removed years later and she died.
For all the warnings given about eating too few calories (which starvation isn't good for you, to be sure) there are very few here about the dangers that trying to just keep shoving water into yourself pose.
If your pee is clear, cut back on the liquid until it is pale yellow.
It does get pointed out, it's just not asked about as frequently, so the perspective is skewed. That and there are fewer people encouraging over consumption of water as compared to those encouraging under consumption of food, so it doesn't garner the same level of attention and passion.
Drinking too much water can kill you a lot faster than eating too little food.
You actually have to try really hard to drink so much that it poses a risk to you.
Not that hard. Less than two gallons killed Jennifer Strange
It was part of a contest where she was drinking it all at once within a time frame....over the course of an entire day, that likely wouldn't happen. Don't distort *kitten*...
True...drinking a lot over the course of the day is harmless. You have to chug huge amounts in a short period of time to throw off your system that substantially that it would actually harm you. I drink huge amounts of water every day, and the more I drink the better I feel.1 -
heiliskrimsli wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »You know, you can drink too much water.
People actually do die of it. It causes hyponatremia (low blood sodium) and hypokalemia (low blood potassium) which can be fatal.
Terri Schiavo was drinking up to 15 glasses of iced tea a day, along with a lot of other liquid and ended up suffering cardiac arrest and oxygen deprivation that left her a vegetable until her feeding tube was removed years later and she died.
For all the warnings given about eating too few calories (which starvation isn't good for you, to be sure) there are very few here about the dangers that trying to just keep shoving water into yourself pose.
If your pee is clear, cut back on the liquid until it is pale yellow.
It was never determined what caused Terry Schiavo's cardiac arrest. I drink more than 15 glasses of water on MANY days...maybe most, and have never had a problem. Terry's issues were more likely caused because she had been bulimic for years and that often causes the low potassium levels that the doctors found in Schiavo.
While drinking too much water is a real thing, you don't get problems from 10 or 15 glasses of fluids a day...you get them when you force yourself to drink very large amounts in a very short period of time.2 -
If you are already drinking 200oz of water a day, plus other liquids, I speculate your 'nutritionist' only gave you the stock 'drink more' recommendation and didn't really consider what you already do.
If you want water to help you lose weight, turn your meal into a soup in your blender since that's the only proven way water helps you stay fuller longer and eat less. When water isn't blended with food, it passes through your stomach quickly and doesn't give satiety.3 -
How much water should I drink along with dieting to lose weight? Everytime I go to the health nutritionist, I am told that I need to drink more water. When the body mass is checked, I am always on the negative side of composition in reference to body fat and muscle mass %. I dink almost 12 bottles of 16.9 oz bottles everyday if not more. I way 242 lbs. Please help!!!
I really hope you are refilling those bottles instead of opening a new one each time.
6 liters is a bit excessive, most do well with closer to 2 unless they are sweating a lot. Good hydration is necessary for all kinds of body functions. What a person needs to ingest in order to get that good hydration varies from person to person and, as mentioned before, your pee color is the best indicator. If you are peeing a lot and it is clear, you are probably drinking too much.1 -
I have a 30oz yeti that I keep with me at all times. I fill it before I leave for work, try to fill it at least 2 times at work and at least once when I get home. As I weigh 250#, that amount is well within the recommended amount (of 0.5-1oz/pound) for my weight.0
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Drink when you're thirsty, eat when you're hungry.1
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Nappingcat97 wrote: »Drink when you're thirsty, eat when you're hungry.
^^^^^
That's the worst advice I've seen given all week.
Most of us got here by eating when we thought we were hungry
Excessive thirst can be caused by high blood sugar (hyperglycemia)3 -
Nappingcat97 wrote: »Drink when you're thirsty, eat when you're hungry.
^^^^^
That's the worst advice I've seen given all week.
Most of us got here by eating when we thought we were hungry
Excessive thirst can be caused by high blood sugar (hyperglycemia)
Thirst can be mistaken for hunger, and usually by the time we realize we are actually thirsty, we are already dehydrated.0 -
Whatever your nutritionist is smoking, she should stop bogarting it and share it around.
You're drinking over a gallon and a half of water every day, and she says you need to drink more? Seriously?3 -
I had kidney stones and my renal consultant advised 3 litres a day for kidney health. I struggle to drink that to be honest. Don't know how you can put away so much water. I would be on the loo all day....and night.
Calorie deficit for weight loss though not more water.
Urine should be the colour of fine champagne. But if starts fizzing go see your doctor (joke)3 -
OP, you need to consult a different "health nutritionist."
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