Can drinking water help you lose weight?
Firstly Happy New Year to all of our customers, partners, colleagues and friends from the WCD Group! Now that the New Year has begun so, too, do all of the diets, healthy eating promises and exercise regimes. Try drinking water throughout the day to help your detox and start a New Year’s resolution to refill your glass with more water and lose weight!
So, does drinking more water help you lose more weight? In short, yes. Drinking water helps boost your metabolism, cleanse your body of waste, and fills you up as suppresses your appetite. And surprisingly, drinking more water helps your body stop retaining water, leading you to drop those extra pounds of water weight. That's because if you're constantly dehydrated, your body tends to retain more water in an attempt to prevent its water levels getting too low.
So what can you do to make sure you’re drinking the recommended eight to ten glasses per day to keep yourself hydrated and encourage weight loss?
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Drink before you eat
Because water is an appetite suppressant, drinking a good glass before meals can make you feel fuller, therefore reducing the amount of food you eat. The theory is that the stomach gets full up of a calorie-free liquid leaving less room for food. Extra pounds can be lost when drinking water before eating, although be sensible if you’re going to try this! NHS guidelines to wellbeing suggest that drinking water before meals results in an average reduction of 75 calories per meal. Drinking water before just one meal per day can lead to 27,000 fewer calories per year. Imagine the reduction in calories if you drank before each meal. Carry a #reusable bottle with you at all times so you can also drink enough before a meal even when you are eating on the go or away from your desk or home.Replace ‘sticky’ drinks with water
Ditch the sugar-laden fizzy drinks and high natural sugar fruit juices and replace them with water to help you lose weight. If you think water tastes a bit bland, infuse your bottle with fresh fruit, lemon, lime or mint for a zingy mocktail. Water with lemon is a recipe for successful weight loss because the pectin in lemons helps reduce food cravings. If you give up those full-fat sugary drinks for just a few weeks you will see the weight loss difference.Drink it ice cold
Drinking ice cold water helps boost your metabolism because your body has to work harder to warm the water up, therefore burning more calories and helping you to lose weight. Fact! Also, ice cold water is just so much more refreshing than tepid room temperature. A Chilly’s style reusable bottle keeps chilled water cold for 24 hours.Exercise
When exercising always remember that you will need to drink more water. It’s obvious that when sweating more our bodies need to be rehydrated so take a bottle with you and make sure you drink plenty before, during and after your workout! Also, drinking water helps prevent muscle cramps and keeps your joints lubricated, so you can work out longer and harder. Just another way that proper hydration helps you lose weight. [caption id="attachment_2258" align="aligncenter" width="860"]