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Do you know that drinking water can help you lose weight? Do you believe this? There are several differnt ideas around whether you can lose weight by drinking water or not. I will, here, have a look at some of the mystery about whether or not this is true..

Water is a very important part of life, duh. We couldn't survive without it, duh again. But, our ability to feel thirsty seems to have been forgotten.

Now, what do I mean by this?

Do you sometimes get that hunger feeling and you go to the fridge for something to eat. And then you eat and the feeling goes away. How often does this happen and you choose food instead of water (drink)?

If you are wanting to lose weight, drinking water and finding your natural thirst again, may be a great help. To test whether I really am hungry, when I get the hungry feeling, I drink a glass of water and if I am still hungry after half an hour, then I think I must have been hungry. If not, well, I was thirsty and that has been sorted. It is surprising how often this happens. And it is quite difficult to tell the difference because we are out of practice in judging the difference between feeling hunger and feeling thirst because it is so easy to get food. So you will lose some weight with this because you will be drinking water (no calories) instead of eating (who knows how many calories).

Another way of winning back you natural thirt, which also will help you lose weight by drinking water, is by setting a goal of drinking about tow or three litres of water a day for a month. This will help your body get the balance of drinking again and after the month you will be in the habit of drinking and will probably settle on drinking about two litres a day. And when you are thirsty, you will feel thirsty and not hungry. Consuming two litres of water will fill some of the space that normally would be used for food, so less calorie consuption!

Drinking water will also do wonders for your health in general. A number of toxins will be more readily washed out the body and your skin will look healthier. It can help with water retention and your muscle tone will improve as toxins that build up under the skin are removed with the water.

I am convinced that drinking more water will help with weight loss for the reasons above. Intake of less calories for one and teaching your body the difference between hunger and thirst for two.