Water and Dieting

Dieting seems to be on every one's mind these days.  Whether you're trying to lose weight or simply maintain weight, everyone is trying to find the easiest solution.  One of the simplest ways to lose or maintain weight is by drinking water.  Many people forget how important water is to the way our bodies work.  Water is essential for digestion and kidney function among other requirements.

In all cases, drinking water and dieting go hand in hand.  It's important to know that although the body is made up of 60-70% water, it needs water for all body processes to run smoothly.  While dieting, drinking even a glass of water before and after a meal can make you feel fuller and cause you to eat less. Feeling fuller will help a dieter eat less and therefore burn more calories.  Feeling fuller due to the water intake also causes the dieter to stop eating before you are really full of food.

The extra water can help boost metabolism along with exercise. Drinking at least one pint more of water can help anyone expend 50 more calories a day.  The water that is taken in helps to digest food as well as assists the kidneys in expending and expelling waste and extra burned fat from the system.  Diets that also include high-protein content require even more water to break down stored fat and flush it from the system.  High protein diets need more water for absorption as well.

Water and dieting are also very important when throwing exercise into the mix.  For every hour of walking that you do, you should drink a cup of water.  This is after drinking a glass one hour before the walking starts and then another glass after the walking is over.  Keeping hydrated during exercise helps with the movement of lactic acid in the muscles and helps in replacing the water that is lost through perspiration.

Dieting without water can prove to be less successful for weight loss.  Water works with dieting for the betterment of the body. They help to keep it healthy and happy.







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Tuna and Water Diet

Ready for a hardcore diet to get lean in a matter of days? This diet is used by professional bodybuilders to prepare before the competition. It requires an iron willpower but guarantees 100% results.

Here is how it works:

* Normally this diet is followed for 3 days.

* Take in 6 equal tuna servings. Once each 2.5 - 3 hours.

* Drink as much water as possible. At least 3-4 liters. Water fills your stomach and helps you not to feel hungry. There is no limit. Drink as much as you can.

* Take at least twice a day some vitamins. This is crucial since you won't get much vitamins from tuna during this diet.

* You will need at least 1 to 1.5 grams of protein per pound of your weight (aroung 3 gram per kilogram). Tuna's marvelous as it contains 26 gram protein per 100 gram tuna. Here are two handy formulas to calculate your tuna serving size:

For kilogram calculation: (bodyweight * 3 * 100) / (6 * 26) = bodyweight * 300 / 156 = 1 tuna serving (in gram)

For pound calculation: bodyweight * 100 / 156 or bodyweight * 150 / 156 = 1 tuna serving (in gram)

Don't think it is an easy task, but the harder the task, the greater the payoff. For beginners I suggest to start the diet on friday evening after the work and keep it for two days. The reason is that you cannot control the regular food intake very well during a workday as you work normally 4 hours (or more) non stop and get only one break to eat. Moerover, two days diet is not as hardcore as 3 or 4 days diet. I recommend this for all beginners. If you can keep this diet for two days without problems, wonderful, you can keep it for one or two days more.

Stay strong and be aware of forbidden foods. Your energy levels may fall in the first 1.5 days. You may feel very weak as never before. This is the time of your spirit to stay as hard as iron and keep the diet! Your body will soon adapt and the strength will come back.

Personally, I am doing this diet at the weekend every 2-3 weeks. It helps to burn the extra fat I may have gained during that period. It is a wonderful way to stay lean 365 days a year!

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Water Diet - All You Need to Know

If you are planning diet, you may like to include something which cost you nothing but perhaps your utility bill - Water. Water consists of approximately 75% of the human body. All the enzymatic and chemical reactions in our body requires water as a medium, including fat metabolism. Everything from fat-burning to fat-forming is in one way or another related to water intake. On top of the amount of water you received from foods with high water content, you should aim to consume another four 8- to 12- ounce glasses of water every day. Based on a research, drinking 500 ml of water increased metabolic rate by 30% (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism;88 (12):6015-6019), a good news for those who can't wait to lose weight. To achieve the best effect, try to drink cold water but drink it sip by sip. This is to ensure that your body absorb as much water as possible.

Increasing your fluid intake have a couple of benefits. You will experience smoother bowel movement, and you will notice that you are less likely to crave for food. When you are craving for food it could mean two things - your body genuinely requires food, or your body probably has been craving fluids all along. The latter has been true for most people because they are misinterpreting their body's cue to drink more fluids. To determine if your body is genuinely hungry, try drinking a glass of water before you proceed to eat your meal. If you still feels hungry 5 to 10 minutes later despite drinking a glass of water, it could mean it is time to consume your meal.

Drinking sufficient water may be the solution to weight loss. It is the body's natural reaction to retain water if there is inadequate water intake. This hampers your kidney function and as a result, your liver will have to work harder to flush out the impurities in your body, minimizing one of its main function to metabolize stored fat into usable energy.