Water Diet
Water diet? Is that what you think it is? In fact this is a diet which relies heavily on the consumption of, well, water to lose weight. Drinking water is not that new a phenomenon and appears to be the idiots guide to weight loss. But if we look a little closer at some of the data, we might see there’s more here than meets the eye.
To start off with: we ALL don’t drink enough water. If you remember back to your food pyramid from grade school we’re supposed to be drinking something like 64 oz a day of water, which, for many of us isn’t that much. I’m sure most of us drink at least 64 oz. or drink per day. But water is not soda, juice, Gatorade, Snapple, Red Bull, lattes, or coffee. Water in these pie charts means water. Now how many of us really drink that much water in a day?
You might drink that if you go to the gym. But do you go to the gym every day? And on these days you go to the gym, you’re sweating out water so you should be putting probably double that 64oz back in. Just from your visit to the gym.
You see, drinking water gets confusing. But water is actually the way to lose weight. Most of the weight lost early in weight loss programs is “water weight” – if you keep a good amount of water coming in, you’ll keep a good amount coming out which helps urinary and prostate health. There are all sorts of advantages to drinking water.
Water diets aren’t really a ‘water only’ sort of situation; you wouldn’t get all the nutrients you need from water; you’d get weak, maybe collapse or faint; potentially hurt yourself or someone else while driving or something. You wouldn’t be able to concentrate on your tasks and after a while all you’d want to do is eat and sleep.
So DON’T just go on a diet of only water and think you’ll be okay. You won’t be. But we should all be drinking more water and eating better in the hopes of weight loss.