Does drinking a lot of water really help?
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Does absolutely nothing for me. Doesn't fill me up one bit, just makes me pee a lot.4
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There is no "right" quantity of water. Drink if you are thirsty or if your urine is darker than pale yellow. Any more than that is pointless, unless you're trying to up your calorie burn by running to the toilet all day.
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If you drink more water throughout the day you will crave food less. Sometimes when you feel hungry it's your bodys way of saying it needs water.
Like someone said before your body will absorb water from the food you eat.
I try to drink half my body weight in ounces per day. It's hard at first but your body will adjust and instead of craving food you will crave water.
Does it aid in weight loss? Ummmmm I guess it's how you look at it. For me yes it helps me to not snack, cure hunger pains, increases my energy and my skin is fabulous!
Just speaking from my personal experience.
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I wasn't drinking enough and my bm's were hard and painful and I was getting headaches every day. I started drinking close to a gallon a day and just realized that I hadn't had a headache in a long time. I have a prolapse, so straining to use the bathroom is a big no no. Water really helps in that department and I can tell if I haven't had enough. It helps me eat less too
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It actually does have to do with weight loss. The body requires water to break down fat and for metabolism (aka burning calories). But past a certain amount, more water has no effect.0
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Whether it actually makes a difference or not, I do lose weight when I consistently drink 8 -10 glasses of water a day.0
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Whether or not you drink it to help with weight loss, it does have it's advantages. I do believe the body needs it; It does help keep you hydrated - helps the skin that way too. It's a natural diuretic so it will help you poop (lack of water can make you constipated). If you have too much salt, it can help flush it out of your system. Stuff like that.
I have found too that the more I drink it the more I want it. Sometimes I do get tired of the protein water or the diet soda's, and I don't like coffee or tea.1 -
There really aren't any "toxins" in the body. High dosage of ANYTHING in the body can become TOXIC (including water), but the body doesn't produce any toxins.I know, this may seem like a silly question. I just really struggle with consuming enough; I usually average about 40 ounces a day. It isn't that I don't like it, I just don't tend to drink a lot of anything throughout the day. I've read that we should drink at least 64 ounces and I've also read not to stress about it because we get it in our fruits/vegetables/teas/coffee etc.
So, does it really speed up weight loss? Have you noticed a difference with weight or anything else?
Water is cleansing and our body needs it to remove toxins so does it help with weight loss:... YOU BETCHA'
It is a natural diuretic and energy stimulator while at the same time cleanses your entire body.
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Explain how the body needs water to break down fat.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »It actually does have to do with weight loss. The body requires water to break down fat and for metabolism (aka burning calories). But past a certain amount, more water has no effect.
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Explain how the body needs water to break down fat.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »It actually does have to do with weight loss. The body requires water to break down fat and for metabolism (aka burning calories). But past a certain amount, more water has no effect.
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Some of the chemical reactions involved in metabolism are hydrolysis reactions - which means they require water as a reactant. Conveniently, the body is more than 80% water and has no trouble finding the water it needs to do this. So, it's true but not relevant.0 -
True, but not in the case of lipolysis. Water is essential for metabolic function, but in terms of breaking fat down, it's NOT part of the process.SusanMFindlay wrote: »
Explain how the body needs water to break down fat.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »It actually does have to do with weight loss. The body requires water to break down fat and for metabolism (aka burning calories). But past a certain amount, more water has no effect.
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Some of the chemical reactions involved in metabolism are hydrolysis reactions - which means they require water as a reactant. Conveniently, the body is more than 80% water and has no trouble finding the water it needs to do this. So, it's true but not relevant.
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40 ounces of water a day will help keep annoying water retention away. You have to be obsessive about daily weight for that to matter.0
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True, but not in the case of lipolysis. Water is essential for metabolic function, but in terms of breaking fat down, it's NOT part of the process.SusanMFindlay wrote: »
Explain how the body needs water to break down fat.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »It actually does have to do with weight loss. The body requires water to break down fat and for metabolism (aka burning calories). But past a certain amount, more water has no effect.
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Some of the chemical reactions involved in metabolism are hydrolysis reactions - which means they require water as a reactant. Conveniently, the body is more than 80% water and has no trouble finding the water it needs to do this. So, it's true but not relevant.
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That doesn't sound right to me. I hate to use Wikipedia as a source, but a very quick search lists lipolysis as the hydrolysis of a triglyceride - which is consistent with my memory.* Triglycerides have a glycerol backbone with three fatty acid chains attached. To break off a fatty acid chain, you have to hydrolyze the ester which connects the fatty acid chain to the glycerol. So, unless it's a transesterification reaction (in which case, they shouldn't be calling it a hydrolysis)...
*My biochemistry is bit rusty but my organic chemistry is very current.0 -
Found a "real" scientific article whose abstract confirms lipolysis as a hydrolytic reaction: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3031774/ Given that research has moved way past the point of "what chemical reaction is involved", it's hard to find an article that actually shows the reactions.1
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I have to defer here. I focused more on the hormones needed to promote lypolysis and forgot that hydrolysis IS part of the process. I can admit when I'm wrong. Good catch and thanks.SusanMFindlay wrote: »
True, but not in the case of lipolysis. Water is essential for metabolic function, but in terms of breaking fat down, it's NOT part of the process.SusanMFindlay wrote: »
Explain how the body needs water to break down fat.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »It actually does have to do with weight loss. The body requires water to break down fat and for metabolism (aka burning calories). But past a certain amount, more water has no effect.
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Some of the chemical reactions involved in metabolism are hydrolysis reactions - which means they require water as a reactant. Conveniently, the body is more than 80% water and has no trouble finding the water it needs to do this. So, it's true but not relevant.
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That doesn't sound right to me. I hate to use Wikipedia as a source, but a very quick search lists lipolysis as the hydrolysis of a triglyceride - which is consistent with my memory.* Triglycerides have a glycerol backbone with three fatty acid chains attached. To break off a fatty acid chain, you have to hydrolyze the ester which connects the fatty acid chain to the glycerol. So, unless it's a transesterification reaction (in which case, they shouldn't be calling it a hydrolysis)...
*My biochemistry is bit rusty but my organic chemistry is very current.
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I drink about 80-100 oz of fluids a day. I am disabled and have chronic bladder infections due to catheterizing, so I need to keep fluids moving so I don't get a kidney infection. I have not noticed any less hunger, better skin, or anything. But once you get used to drinking that much, you want to drink all the time and you body gets used to it. I pee about every 3-4 hours for the most part.0
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I don't know about weight loss, but I've been trying to drink a gallon of water a day for about 10 days and I've noticed a difference in my face. My under eyes are less sunken and tiny little wrinkles I get from sleeping on my side are gone.
Now... might be just the natural fluctuation of my body since I also happen to be halfway between periods, but I've been agonizing over my under eyes for months and now they're improving.
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I don't get thirsty, but I pretty much have to drink a goodly amount of water each day. If I don't, I get some pretty severe muscle cramps mostly at night. I can actually feel it in my muscles like the cramps are just waiting for their chance to pounce at an inopportune time. Also, I find that if I drink about 16 oz. say 20 - 30 minutes before eating, I'm not as hungry at meal time.0
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I know the science might say no, but it helps me. When I don't drink enough water, I feel cravings much more intensely, and I tend to reach for bad food choices more. So much so, that before I put my kids to bed, if I haven't drank enough, I'll drink a massive amount of water because the "the kids are sleeping and I've put the house back together" time of night is so bad for my desire to snack. If I drink enough water, like I'm talking a glass or two in the morning, same in the afternoon, a glass with supper, and then a glass before kids go to bed, all I want to eat in the evenings is raw veg. If I've forgotten to drink water, all I want to eat at night is chips and chocolate and cheese and buttered bread. So although scientifically water doesn't make you lose weight, it's a key player in my success and my support system.1
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