The Best free diet - Water

The singularly finest diet help you can have is free and does more to assist your weight problems than anything else- Good old water. Drink water as often as you can!

Water-the most important catalyst in losing weight and keeping it off.
Don’t be under any mis-apprehensions – WATER. The ONLY permanent ingredient for weight loss!

Water suppresses the appetite naturally and helps the body flush out stored fat. Studies show, a decrease in water intake causes fat deposits to increase, while increasing water intake (drinking the stuff) really reduces fat deposits. Here's why:

Drinking plenty of water is the best treatment for fluid retention. When the body gets less water, it goes into survival mode! It perceives lack of water as a threat to survival and begins to hold on to every drop.

Fluids are stored in extra-cellular spaces (outside the cell). Resulting in swollen feet, hands, ankles and stomach! Diuretics offer only a temporary solution at best. They force out stored fluid, the body perceives the threat and will replace the lost water at the first opportunity. The condition, of course, quickly returns. The best way to overcome the problem of fluid retention is to give your body
what it needs- plenty of water. Only then will retained fluid be released. If you have a constant problem with fluid retention- excess salt may be at fault.

The more salt you eat the more fluid your system retains to dilute it. But getting rid of unneeded salt and other unwanted stuff, is easy -just drink more water. As it's forced through the kidneys it takes away excess sodium and fat.

The overweight person needs more water than a thin one. Larger people
have larger metabolic loads. Since we know that water is the key to fat metabolism,
it follows that the over weight need more water.

Water helps to maintain proper muscle tone assisting the muscles’ natural ability to contract by preventing dehydration. Water also helps to prevent the sagging skin that follows weight loss - shrinking cells are buoyed by water which supports the skin and leaves it clear, healthy and resilient.

During weight loss, the body has a lot more waste to get rid of - all that metabolised fat must be shed. Water in adequate supply flushes out the waste! Leaves you feeling clean!

Water relieves constipation. When the body gets too little water, it syphons what it needs from internal sources. The colon is the primary source. Result? Constipation. Drinking plenty of water, gives normal bowel function almost immediately.

REMEMBER! THIS IS WATER WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE. NOT SODA POP, COCA- COLA OR THE OTHER SUGAR RICH CRAP! LET’S BE CLEAR ABOUT THIS!

The body will not function properly with insufficient water and will NOT metabolise stored fat effectively. Fluid retention shows up as excess weight! To rid yourself of excess fluid - drink more water! Drinking water is essential to weight loss!

How much water is enough? On average, a person should drink 4 liters every day. However, an overweight person, needs one additional glass for every 10 kilos of excess weight.

The amount you drink should be increased with brisk exercise or if the weather is hot and dry, just drink water steadily throughout the day. Keep a bottle handy all the time.

When the body gets the water it needs to function properly, its fluids balance. You reach "breakthrough point".

Now you’re talking! Endocrine-gland functions improve. Fluid retention is alleviated as it’s no longer stored. More fat is used as fuel because the liver is free to metabolise stored fat. Natural thirst returns. There is a loss of the hunger feeling, almost over night!

WATER - THE GIVER OF LIFE

Tips on Fighting the Fat

I know how it feels to want to lose weight, but find it hard to stick to a diet. There are so many different diets with conflicting advice that you just don't know what to, or not to, eat anymore

For someone who can't afford the pricey Mediterranean Diet, or cringe at the thought of a carbohydrate starvation diet, here are a few great tips that work as long as you adhere to them. Common sense tips on how to get your weight down even if you are a weak devil, like me and cant keep to any form of diet.

If you are drinking lots soda-then stop now! Change to water and it is usually enough get rid of 10 kilos a year! On average a can of soda contains 150 calories! If you stopped drinking just one a day, that's more than 50,000 calories annually. Seven kilos of calories, the sugar, plus the carbonated water gives fluid retention weight. Get rid of the carbonated soda drinks now!

Drinking lots of water, apart from reducing liquid calories ( for some people this makes up around a third or even half of their daily calorie intake), drinking five glasses of cold water in a day burns about 50 calories. It's not much, but it is about 3kilos a year. Switching from one or two cans a day to five glasses of water; you make over a ten kilo shift in one year! Easy eh?

Now, we mentioned this in earlier blogs but for Gods sake get off your backside and go for a walk! It’s is one of the best ways of burning calories and increases your metabolism. It’s easy on the joints, great for toning the muscles and believe it or not very natural. Just forty-five minutes a day not only burns loads of calories, but it simply makes you feel wonderful. Go before breakfast, early, before anyone is around!

Replace "bad fats" with "good fats." Bad fats are especially found in junk food, processed foods, and red meat. Good fats are found in nuts, fish, and olive oil. While you do not want to go to a high fat diet, the fats found in nuts, fish, and oil tend to fight the bad fat and bad cholesterol, and generally contain less calories than beef, for example. Lighter meats are generally better than dark. Get rid of the skin on chicken. Its only fat- doesn’t change the taste and halves the calories!

Use the stairs. Everyone likes elevators, but a few flights of stairs is muscle and aerobic exercise simultaneously. Since more muscle equals a higher metabolism, climbing the stairs has benefits well after you finish.

Fruit and Vegetables are the best because they contain vitamins, have very low amounts of calories, but are filling. A steak fills you up, so does a large dish of broccoli, cauliflower, or musk melon. Care to guess which one puts on less weight? Fat is non existent another plus.

Don't eat before bed time. This food is less likely to fully digest, meaning it goes straight into fat storage. Now this is the hard one because we all like to go out for dinners. It’s part of our social culture. Just be careful not to stuff yourself with too much junk. If possible, take a long leisurely walk before you go to bed

Drink green and other fruit teas. Other than water, there is no better drink. Tea is full of anti oxidants, it helps your organs run more efficiently, and your body requires calories to burn it. For those people getting off the soda, this can also ease caffeine headaches and other withdrawals.

Eat slowly. Many people grab seconds after wolfing down a first plate. If you are used to taking two or more plates and you eat slowly, you may be surprised after half an hour to realize that you aren't quite done, but you're already full!

Remember the apple pie versus an apple calculation? Apple pie gives 540 calories and takes 150 calories to burn! Meaning you store 350 calories as guess what –FAT.

An apple contains 50 calories and requires 150 calories to burn result- your fat reserves supply the needed 100 calories. Makes sense doesn’t it. It ain’t easy but persevere. For you and for your families sake.