The Benefits Of Drinking Water in Weight Loss

Drinking water is one of the most important things you can do to help you lose weight. It not only protects your body by alkalizing it, but your body uses it better than it uses other drinks and keeps you from getting puffy or swollen.

We were astonished when Ellen (not her real name) walked into our Pounds Off Programs office. We specialized in weight loss and Ellen was thin! Of course, we always say that, “thin is in the eye of the beholder” – anorexics can look at their skeletal bodies and see fat everywhere. Our thought was not to sign Ellen up, we were worried that she would use our program to harm herself, and then she told us what was going on.

Ellen was a runway model, the small amount of weight she carried on her hips was costing her jobs. We asked her to fill out a food log to see what she was eating, we couldn’t imagine what we were going to suggest she change. She ate well, protein and raw or steamed vegetables with olive oil and vinegar or lemon juice for dressing. The only thing we saw that we thought she might change was diet soda.

Starting with her second visit, Ellen began substituting ice water for diet drinks.

“Ellen,” her agent said one day. “You are dropping weight so fast it’s a bit scary, you aren’t doing anything stupid are you?”

“No. The only thing I’ve changed in my diet is I’ve given up diet drinks for water.”

Now, not everyone will experience Ellen’s results. She was eating well and exercising regularly to begin with. However, we have found that water helps relieve bloating and, because it doesn’t bring sweetening chemicals with it, it does not contribute to weight gain. Fat is where toxins from your environment and the food you eat is stored, so if you are regularly drinking chemicalized soft drinks – even those with no calories – your body will create fat for storage.

The very first thing we suggest to our clients is to start drinking water – eight-to-ten eight ounce glasses a day, and to give up drinking soda. Soda – diet or sugar filled – brings with it all kinds of problems which we’ll go into in another blog. Water is the best drink you can give to your body as long as it doesn’t come in plastic containers…. Yet another article.

Carry your water in glass containers. Never drink bottled water from plastic that you have frozen in the freezer. Never drink bottled water that has been left heating in the car in plastic containers. Breast feed, don’t feed your infants from plastic baby bottles.