How much did drinking water impact your weight loss?
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Spreyton22K wrote: »Sadly, I think that the concept of water creating weight loss/fat reduction totally on it's own would be heavily in the "Woo-woo" category of myths surrounding diet. ( Props to NJD1979 for the woo.)
Where it can help is in mistaking the thirst signals for hunger.... if you think this is happening for you then before eating have a glass of water and wait 10 or so minutes before deciding if you are really hungry or not. It may also help with satiation or hunger pangs.
For me I had an unexpected benefit from drinking more water.....reduction in headaches, some severe to the point of migraine, I had no idea how chronically dehydrated I was......
I am not convinced about the hard and fast rules of drinking half your body weight in water. All fluids, including those gotten through, tea/coffee and water laden fruits and veg need to be taken into account, best to go by the colour of your urine output - Google has kindly provided charts to help you there.
Regarding tea/coffee if you regularly drink approx. 4 cups of coffee/tea and apparently the diuretic effect is offset {I will add that I cannot determine the veracity of this information, which comes from a dietitian citing a study conducted in the UK - this info. is taken from the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Health Website}.
Like anything, you can have too much of a good thing in doing so you run the risk of over hydrating yourself which can cause loss of vital electrolytes, disrupt cardiac rhythm and even death.
Nice to see you posting, love.
And yes, all of this. If drinking more water helps you eat/drink less calories it'll help. If you're dehydrated you may experience other benefits (my migraines are triggered by dehydration too). I could also see the possibility that drinking more water might make people feel like they're making healthier choices, which might encourage them to make other healthy choices. That's about it though. Personally I just drink enough to stay hydrated.
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I drink water and tea (which I count as water). It seems to help insofar as it keeps me from getting hungry sometimes and therefore influences my calorie intake. it also prevents my body from retaining too much water. I don't drink insane quantities but all together I guess it is about 10 glasses per day minimum, depending on exercise, temperatures...0
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I drink a little over 1/2 my body weight in ounces. If i drink, I lose. If I don't, I don't lose. I don't really watch my sodium too too closely though so that may have something to do with it. If I'm not peeing clear, I'm not happy
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I think water helps a lot. It's hard for me to tell how much it has helped because I have changed my diet and exercise as well. But when I drink a lot of water (10 to 14 cups) I tend to feel more full, eat smaller amounts, and have less cravings. Also water is just great for skin and many other organs.
As far as that half your body weight thing is concerned. That doesn't work once you go over a certain weight. Generally speaking people over 250+ lbs can't do that. When I started, I would have had to drink almost 170 oz of water. Hyponatremia generally happens around there and can even happen closer to 136 oz.
8 to 13 cups of water is great for just about everyone.0 -
Water has no effect on weight loss. It helps flush out sodium and some people mistake thirst for hunger (apparently - personally that baffles me a little) so I guess it would help them but that's about it.
I really don't get how people think that drinking more water will magically make them lose more weight.0 -
I really don't get how people think that drinking more water will magically make them lose more weight.
I don't think drinking more water magically makes me lose weight. But after 106 days of logging and going through my diary entries, I drink less calorie drinks and eat smaller portions of food when I drink more water. If I hit 8 to 13 cups, I don't eat more than I should and I never crave coffee, gatorade, pop/soda, etc. I won't say this works for everyone, but it definitely is the case for me. So does drinking more water help ME lose weight. Absolutely.0 -
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I drink at least a gal a day. I keep my 24oz Tervis with me at all times, I don't go anywhere it doesn't. My skin looks so much better and I have lost 5 lbs in 10 days. I say yes it does help. Try the water bomb (on pinterest), it really helps keep track of water intake.0
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For me the water helps me feel more full between meals, and it helps to wash out any of the excess sodium in my system. I've also heard that cold water helps start your metabolism. But mostly I think it just helps control the water weight.0
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AmelieMustLoseWeight wrote: »
This is what im pretty much asking. lolrunningforthetrain wrote: »I once heard that drinking water- a certain amount ( > or = 8 cups) - helps with fat reduction in and of itself. Has anyone ever heard that?
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I hate to say this, because I am anti-water-drinking - I think the eight glasses a day is rubbish and any liquid, including tea and coffee, would have the same effect - but I did the eight glasses while I was on the weight-loss programme and what it may have done was stop me from feeling hungry when I might otherwise have done so. I didn't enjoy it. I forced it down sometimes and that, too, stopped me from eating. So in that way, yes, it did contribute to my weight loss.
Studies have found no difference between people on a diet drinking more or less water.0 -
For me... it helps keep weight down after the initial drop when you start reducing calories. Mostly, I find I feel better on days when I have lots of water. I also have to force myself to drink water though, I just don't think to drink anything. Tips I like are carrying around a 3 cup water bottle and making sure to drink 3 through the day (I leave it in my line of sight all day). Or I've heard one idea where you have 8-10 dainty bracelets (or elastics) on one wrist and your goal is to have them all on the other wrist at the end of the day - you get to move one over for every 8 oz cup you drink.0
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AmelieMustLoseWeight wrote: »I was wondering how many pounds y'all have lost with just pushing more water into your diet.
I workout often and I eat healthier but I struggle with drinking water, to be fair I don't ever feel the urge to drink anything. I sip mostly. So yeah, how has drinking more water affected your weight loss and how soon did you notice your bodys reaction to hydrating more?
Drinking water really doesn't have anything to do with weight loss...drinking water, a namely staying hydrated is part of being healthy...not everything is about weight loss...there are a lot of things you should be doing simply to be healthy.
People get so fixated on the scale, they forget that it's really about being healthy, not just losing weight.0 -
Sodium makes me retain water. Two days this week I had over my RDA of sodium. I am drinking more water to flush my system out. I would be fooling myself if I thought that either my gains or my losses this week were related to exclusively to fat.0
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Probably none, but it's conceivable that it made me feel more full so that I subsequently ate less.
I drink about a gallon and a half a day, plus whatever's in my food.0 -
I don't think it has had any affect for me. When I'm thirsty, I drink. I believe there is much woo in all of this water business. I am open to reading any studies that have been done though.0
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I wouldn't say that drinking water helped me lose more weight, but helps me determine if I am actually thirsty or hungry. It has cleared up my occasional acne and it does counteract the bloat I get from a lot of sodium but I don't think its boosted my weight loss. I love my clearer skin, though, and one of my coworkers is always complimenting how much clearer my skin is. I drink anywhere between 12-20 cups a day, but I love drinking water plain. I just can't drink I warm, it's got to be cold!0
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not at all.
quitting (full calorie) sodas also didnt have an effect. LOL0 -
The main thing water is going to do for you is make your digestive tract a happy camper. Every time I stop staying hydrated I get a reminder of why it's needed when I go to the bathroom. My recommendation would be to drink a lot of fluids and make sure at least one glass a day is water.0
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Drinking water allows me to train. Training allows me to build muscle and burn fat. Burning fat results in weight loss.
Overall a pretty big impact.0 -
As many posts say, water helps them-- and then the reasons (you eat less, confuse thirst for hunger, feel fuller, etc )why it helps. But, I was curious to see if there were any peer studied journals with controlled studies supporting fat loss from water alone. And I did find this one.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18787524
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ArtsyActive1401 wrote: »^^^example... Current weight divided by 2 = number of fluid ounces to drink daily.
What? Source.
That's ridiculous. That's 71.4 oz. I would be so dehydrated if I only consumed 71.4 oz a day = just over half a gallon. Most days I have 1-1.25 gallons of water.0 -
ArtsyActive1401 wrote: »^^^example... Current weight divided by 2 = number of fluid ounces to drink daily.
What? Source.
That's ridiculous. That's 71.4 oz. I would be so dehydrated if I only consumed 71.4 oz a day = just over half a gallon. Most days I have 1-1.25 gallons of water.
That calculation (SWAG) is at the low end of the adequate intake spectrum assuming low physical activity. The gross calculation for AI is .5oz - 1oz for every lb of body weight - depending on physical activity.0 -
I drink water only & it has had a profound effect on my overall health, including weight loss. I think the reason is that I don't drink pop; which used to spin me into mad cravings for anything that had sugar in it (even though the pop was artificially sweetened). I also do not drink any coffee, and rarely drink any tea. When I work out, my muscles react WAYYYYYYY better than they did when i didn't drink as much water. For me, it is a critical point for my journey.0
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ArtsyActive1401 wrote: »^^^example... Current weight divided by 2 = number of fluid ounces to drink daily.
What? Source.
That's ridiculous. That's 71.4 oz. I would be so dehydrated if I only consumed 71.4 oz a day = just over half a gallon. Most days I have 1-1.25 gallons of water.
That calculation (SWAG) is at the low end of the adequate intake spectrum assuming low physical activity. The gross calculation for AI is .5oz - 1oz for every lb of body weight - depending on physical activity.
All of that is garbage. For a 300 lb individual, you would be saying they should have a minimum of 150 oz. Hypoanatremia can start around then. Depending on your physical activity. 64 oz. minimum to 128 oz. or so.0 -
I don't think I've been drinking more water while losing weight. I've always drank a lot of water, whether I'm losing, gaining or maintaining.0
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Drinking water has definitely helped me lose weight, but simply by the fact that I've replaced all liquids (other than my one morning coffee!) with water instead. So no juice, soda, or milk.
I'd rather eat my calories than drink them. 0 -
Is it drinking the water, or all the exercise you get running to pee??
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Hyponatremia is exceptionally rare just from water intake. ....and no. There would have to be some other metabolic disorder from 150oz.ArtsyActive1401 wrote: »^^^example... Current weight divided by 2 = number of fluid ounces to drink daily.
What? Source.
That's ridiculous. That's 71.4 oz. I would be so dehydrated if I only consumed 71.4 oz a day = just over half a gallon. Most days I have 1-1.25 gallons of water.
That calculation (SWAG) is at the low end of the adequate intake spectrum assuming low physical activity. The gross calculation for AI is .5oz - 1oz for every lb of body weight - depending on physical activity.
All of that is garbage. For a 300 lb individual, you would be saying they should have a minimum of 150 oz. Hypoanatremia can start around then. Depending on your physical activity. 64 oz. minimum to 128 oz. or so.
As I said - it's a gross calculation. It is exceptionally rare for anyone to get hyponatermia simply from water intake unless there's some metabolic disorder.
Biologics like steady state - extreme conditions cause disorders such as hyponatremia which is why it is seen in marathon runners and extreme endurance athletes or people going from states of dehydration to overhydration.
Bottom line - follow your thirst.0
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