Drinking water helps....

alininja1991

Weight loss... I heard that drinking 2.5litres of water everyday.... Without a miss can help speed up or help along weight/fat loss... But i've only ever read this online on articles etc... But I want to talk to real people who have done it. So I suppose this is me asking for the success stories of people who have tried.

I started drinking 2.5litres a day about 4 days ago, going to the toilet every 5minutes nearly, will it always be like this or does my body get used to it eventually?

applebobbrush

Same question here, same results LOL. I'm interested to say what everyone has to say.

rmartin72

I honestly Agree With You!! Very Important to drink more water:):) :flowerforyou:
Congratulations on your healthy Journey!!

ChitownFoodie

I drink an excessive amount of water to help clean my system, but I can't say it's really helped my weightloss....but who knows, it may have and I did even realize it.

colwellk

I don't know if it helps with weight loss or not. I know that it helps me decide how much I am really hungry for and how much is being thirsty... and I know that after a few weeks of drinking more, you can adjust and not be peeing so often! I drink about four or five litres of water a day.

phenrichs

You will be going to the toilet frequently. Water is the basically the highway on which metabolism and fat burning travels. Water helps keep you balanced and helps keep you feeling full. It helps to maintain cravings as well. I drink between 12 and 15 cups a day. I have found at times when I feel peckish but not really hungry that some water with lemon takes quick care of it.

jlfred

Yes, your body will get used to having so much water and you will eventually have to go to the bathroom less often. Although, maybe not infrequently as you did before drinking so much water.

There are a lot of theories about how (and even whether) drinking water can help lose weight. Anecdotally, it definitely made a huge difference for me. I never "feel full" from drinking water (although some people say that's how it works), but I was told by a nutritionist that if you don't get enough water, your kidneys will not fuction properly. Your liver takes over to help compensate, and therefore has less time & ability to metabolise fat.

Generally speaking, I've always heard that you should drink 1/2 glass (4 oz.) for every pound that you weigh. And if it's hot or your excercise, you should drink more.

cclaborn22

Weight loss... I heard that drinking 2.5litres of water everyday.... Without a miss can help speed up or help along weight/fat loss... But i've only ever read this online on articles etc... But I want to talk to real people who have done it. So I suppose this is me asking for the success stories of people who have tried.

I started drinking 2.5litres a day about 4 days ago, going to the toilet every 5minutes nearly, will it always be like this or does my body get used to it eventually?

I used to wonder the same thing The more water you drink, the more of the toilet you will see. Unless your activity level is fairly intense throughout the day and you're sweating out just as much as you're taking in, you will definitely be using the lady's room often.

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stefkhan

It is definitely important to drink water, it's normally suggested to drink 8 glasses of water per day. I keep at 32 oz tumbler at my desk (at work) and fill it up 2 to 3 times per day, which equates to almost all of your daily needed water.

Yes, your body will adjust to it after a while. Water naturally helps to aid in weight loss, and also helps to clear up your skin and overall make you feel healthier. Keep drinking that water and good luck!!

alininja1991

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I have to ask i've been going through threads and seen this 'bump' a lot, can I ask what its about?

alininja1991

Also thanks guys! I also look forward to seeing more posts on here about this.
I am going to be taking a very healthy journey in the next few year with what I want to do (RAF), so i hope that some of you will follow me, and feel free to add me as a friend I can always do with advice and tips, and i'm quite savvy myself with exercise tips etc xx

DesertSunsetRain

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I have to ask i've been going through threads and seen this 'bump' a lot, can I ask what its about?

It means they are *bumping* for later, so they can read the topic later in "my topics". Also it is an easy way to respond to this topic to keep it on the front page.

I am not sure if water necessarily helps with weight loss on it's own. I think that the only reason why you lose weight while drinking more water is because drinking more water helps you eat a little less. However if you drink too much water you can really hold on to some of it. In the past I was drinking A LOT of water and I was still losing weight. But then I cut down my amount by more than half and I lost a few pounds very quickly. It was like my body was holding on to lots of water and I just peed it all out over the next few days when I wasn't drinking anymore.

I am all for drinking at least 8 cups of water but from personal experience I wouldn't try and drink toooo much more than that, unless you're body is screaming for more.

HMonsterX

You don't need to drink 8 cups of neat water a day.

Here we go again!

You need the equivalent of 8 cups of water a day on average, from any source. These sources can be pure water/tea/coffee/juice/soda/milk/fruit/veg etc. It does NOT have to be pure neat water!

http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/13/myth-eight-glasses-water-day

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/07/wellness-water-8x8-myth.html

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/12/08/the-myth-behind-drinking-8-glasses-of-water-a-day/


As for coffee being a diuretic, so many people just spout that word as a reason, without actually understanding what "diuretic" means.

di·u·ret·ic (d-rtk)
adj.
Tending to increase the discharge of urine.
n.
A substance or drug that tends to increase the discharge of urine.

Neat water is also a diuretic. The diuretic effect of caffeine is far, far outweighed by the actual water in the tea/coffee. Also, regular consumers of caffeinated beverages will build up a tolerance to said effect, eventually reaching the point where caffeinated drinks provide practically the same amount of hydration as a cup of neat water will.


http://www.divinecaroline.com/22178/46361-coffee-makes-dehydrated-say-what

http://worldofcaffeine.com/2011/06/14/caffeine-does-not-dehydrate/

http://advance.uconn.edu/2002/020722/02072207.htm

http://nomoredirtylooks.com/2011/04/surprise-caffeinated-tea-does-not-dehydrate-you/

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/health/nutrition/04real.html

http://www.sharecare.com/question/does-caffeine-dehydrate-not

http://www.artofdrink.com/2009/12/caffeine-in-coffee-does-not-increase-dehydration-during-hangovers.php

http://www.caring4cancer.com/go/cancer/nutrition/questions/do-caffeinated-beverages-cause-dehydration.htm

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5552790&page=1#.TrQWc0O5_oo

Basically, as long as you are getting roughly 8 cups of water a day, from ANY source, then excess water will not help fat loss. If you aren't getting enough water from your daily diet, then drinking more water will help, but it's not the effects of magic water, it's simply that you are now hydrated properly.

ATT949

Our body is a homeostat meaning that it tries to keep a things "in balance".

Unless your body has a need for water, it will absorb it for a while and then expel it (that's another way of saying "you'll pee a lot"). Our body has a mechanism to let us know that it needs water; it's the "thirst" mechanism and we humans need to pay attention.

Losing weight does not require any more water than normal activity, according to medical research.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2002/aug/080802.html

http://ajpregu.physiology.org/content/283/5/R993.full

That doesn't mean that it's bad to drink extra water. Water can help people lose weight for the very simple reason that when you drink water, you feel full, and when you feel full you eat less. Q.E.D.

Other than that, drinking lots of water just helps you pee more.


I rarely drink water because I don't need to (I grew up in a place where our rain water was our drinking water so it didn't taste that great). I drink about 12 oz of water before I run (I'm training for a marathon) since I can only carry 70 oz of liquid in my runner's backpack but, other than that, my daily source of water is food, coffee, and, recently Coke Zero.

And I doubt that it slowed down my weight loss:

http://cbeinfo.net/weight.htm

ATT949

Basically, as long as you are getting roughly 8 cups of water a day, from ANY source, then excess water will not help fat loss. If you aren't getting enough water from your daily diet, then drinking more water will help, but it's not the effects of magic water, it's simply that you are now hydrated properly.

Heh, that's MY soapbox! ;-)

Blueberry09

I find that I'm thirstier after drinking 8-10 glasses of water. I wake up in the middle of the night just parched. Does anyone else have this?

alininja1991

I find that I'm thirstier after drinking 8-10 glasses of water. I wake up in the middle of the night just parched. Does anyone else have this?

Well since being at university (10th week now) I have found myself waking up in the night hardly able to breathe from thirst, it might be because I was home sick at first, but now I HAVE to have a 1litre bottle of water filled with cordial (I understand some of you who do not know what cordial means for those who don't its a double concentrated flavour added to water, i don't know any other word to call it, i moved to a new city 10 weeks ago, and i was asking staff for cordial and they looked at me as if to say "what are you on about woman" haha ) and I wake up in the morning at atleast half the bottle is gone, and I just remember waking up extremely thirsty, its so odd, but I have to say I find it a good habit to have because I used to be prone to head ache, and since drinking 2 litres a day, i've had 95% less headaches, so I must have been REALLY dehydrated for years, cause i never get headaches anymore

Johnny_Castle

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS LIKE THESE! If you wanted an accurate answer, you would have to conduct a scientific research with a large number of people trying to lose weight and set the only variable as water intake.
One of my relatives is a specialist professor of medicine in UK and when I asked her how much water I should drink the first thing she said was don't drink more than this amount (the amount was low maybe around 2L) and not drink a lot...Too much water is actually dangerous... So I don't really know it depends on so many different factors

alininja1991

I can see why drinking too much water is dangerous. Something to do with drowning your body or something. I drink about 3.5litres on my intense exercise days which is 3 days out of 7 and 2.5 4 days out of 7, so I think i'm getting a good intake of water, I guess i'll see how much weight i'll lose with the extra hydration, last time I did this routine for 4 months I lost 1lb a week, so if I lose anymore I could POSSIBLY put it down to the extra water. We'll see I guess, I will have to keep this thread going to post my results

jlfred

There is no danger to drinking too much water. It would be impossible to drink too much water. If your body felt there was too much water, it would simply expel it -- you can't hold your pee in indefinitely, and you can't control your sweating. There are many things in life that can be dangerous if we get either not enough OR too much (Vitamin D, for example). Water is NOT one of them.