Drink Water to Lose Weight

To drink water to lose weight is a half-myth. Yes, it can be as simple as drinking water. But it only works if you the water has something to stick to. If not, water won't do you any good.

Covered in this Section

• Water Balance
• Water in the Human Body
• Lose Weight by Releasing and Using Energy
• What Percentage of the Body is Water?
• Body Fat-Water Scale
• Solutions

Water Balance

In order to lose weight naturally, your water balance needs to be optimal. Water balance refers to the balance between the amount of water consumed and the amount of water excreted. The body's water content needs to be constant for optimal functioning. If the body is dehydrated and there is not enough water there needs to be a positive water balance. If it is over hydrated there needs to be a negative balance. When you drink water to lose weight you want to do it in a way that it naturally restores the optimal water balance for your weight loss goals.

Cells are bathed in interstitial fluids (fluids from between cells) that contain nutrients. These fluids also carry metabolic wastes away from the cells. Fluids inside the cells facilitate chemical reactions inside the cells, and they help maintain cell structure by adhering to the cell's larger molecules, such as proteins and glycogen.^[1]

Continue reading to see how to effectively drink water to lose weight.

Water in the Human Body

Some people drink water to lose weight and succeed. Some drink water to lose weight and do not. Why? Water in the Human Body serves a very crucial purpose that is not understood by most people. Understanding this, will help you lose weight fast. Water, as we know it is that liquid we use every single day. But when it comes to health, your body, your vitality and natural weight loss, you have to look at water a bit differently. Learn how water can make or break your natural weight loss in "Water in the Human Body"

Drink Water To Lose Weight by Releasing and Using Energy

From reading Water in the Human Body, when I talk about drinking water to lose weight, I am talking specifically about giving the cells enough water and allowing them to hold it long enough so the cells can use the molecules contained in water, two hydrogen and one oxygen to combine with other molecules. I don't want to get into too much technical stuff here but it is the recombination of molecules that the cells are trying to do in order to turn the food you eat into body tissue.

I am trying to get your body and your nervous system to use your food and body fat as fuel for your cells rather than converting them to fat. Water, or proper hydration is one of the major keys to this. When water is in the cells it breaks the ATP molecule into two molecules and this releases a lot of energy.

Many of your have had the experience of being dehydrated and then drinking water. You were feeling tired and run down during your dehydration, you drank water and felt better. You got more energy. That the water in your cells breaking apart the ATP molecule and releasing energy for you to use and feel.

Now the cells need to create more ATP molecules. So they use the food your eat or your body fat to replenish your supply of ATP.

You see, the cells NEED ATP. They are programmed that way. Each cell has its own purpose and function and they need energy to carry these out. The energy you feel is directly proportional to the cumulative energy in all your cells combined that gets released. This of course is dependent on ATP molecules being created in the first place.

The cells then need to replenish by using body fat and the food you eat to get more ATP created. If you change what you eat so that the food you eat converts to ATP very easily, use the tools in the this site you will combine several different ways to change how your metabolism changes what it rebuilds.

With my natural weight loss methods, you are using the body's own survival mechanisms to burn fat and build muscle. If you are going to drink water to lose weight, do it in such a way that it works and I hope I have dispelled the myth that all a person has to do to drink water to lose weight.

What Percentage of the Body is Water?

Looking at what percentage of the body is water is an overlooked aspect of natural weight loss. Water and oil cannot occupy the same space. So with your body, the less fat you have, the more water you should have. Some fad diets that reduce your water weight but not your fat weight is not good at all. This dehydrates you and ultimately increases fat. You will feel horrible as well. Learn about what percentage of the body is water and how it determines your natural weight loss

When you drink water to lose weight using my methods, you will see a rise in body water percentage together with a drop in body fat percentage.

Body Fat-Water Scale

This rudimentary body fat-water scale is to show a clearer relationship between your fat and water. Get your body fat-water scale in the correct order and you will feel far more endurance, mental and physical energy as well.

Solutions

The most efficient way for the body to get water is for a person to drink juiced vegetables that are low sugar. You need to be mineralized and the best source of these minerals are from fresh vegetables. Juicing makes getting the benefits of vegetables easier and faster. There are recipes for different lifestyles and goals for you on the Juice Diet page.

You also may want to start with a high quality mineral supplement found in the Natural Weight Loss Supplements page under "Hydration".

Instead of water, drink these juices and follow the guidelines in the Juice Diet to get the most out of it.