Drinking water helps....

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

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.

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.

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.

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!!

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.

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! ;-)

drinking to much water can be dangerous, For some of us im on water tablets and i am only allowed to drink 1 liter of fluids a day. that includes tea, milk water from soups.
what happens is my body retains it,,it then becomes on my lungs and i go it to heart failure because i have a serious heart condition, i am then admitted to hospital and have iv fluid to get this out.
so what i trying to say is be careful not to over do it, 2.5 liters sounds fine. hope this helps.

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.

Please don't post false and dangerous information. Water intoxication is not common but it does happen. There was a case a few years ago where a woman died from drinking too much water during a contest.

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.

Wow you drink 20 cups of water daily? Geez I would never come out of the bathroon if I drank that many...lol. I get between 10-12 cups daily and still seems like I am in that bathroom lots.

Water itself isn't magical, but if you drink a lot of COLD water as many of us enjoy it, your body will spend Calories raising it to body temperature. Raising a liter of well-iced water to body temp will burn about 37 Calories. So those drinking their 8 cups of cold water a day and changing nothing else will burn around 80 extra Calories each day. That's 8 lbs of weight loss in a year.

Do you have a source for that?

OK, fine -- there are people who have died from drinking too much water. Here's what they ALL had in common -- they were drinking EXCESSIVE amounts of water in extremely short amounts of time. We're not talking about drinking 10-12 cups in a day. In all the cases that have been made public in the media (and accessible on the internet), there were cases of people drinking 4 liters in 2 hours, kids being forced to drink 2.8 in four hours or a gallon in 2 hours, hazing victims who were forced to drink gallons of water during the course of a party, a woman who died from drinking too much water and NOT PEEING!!! These are not people who are drinking 8, 16, or even 24 glasses of water a day (spread out over the course of a day). These are not people who are allowing their bodies to excrete in a normal way. They are doing something completely out of the ordinary. So, to act as though water intoxication is even close to common, let alone that the average person could just accidentally "OD" on water is utterly ridiculous.

To the one poster who has a particular medical condition -- I'm sorry to hear that you have this condition. But, A) there's no doubt in my mind that this is a rare condition and I'm guessing that you had been warned that you have the condition, and therefore know how to take precautionary measures. I seriously doubt that the average person is suddenly going to find out that they have this particular condition because they drank 9 glasses of water in a day.