Can drinking 8 glasses of water a day help you lose weight?

Question

Does anyone know if its true? or anything about this?

Answer 1

Yes!
Except giving freshness to body, it also helps smoothing the
digestive system and removes toxins from the body.
its a very important element in metabolism process. It burns calories in the body by changing food to energy. If you don’t take enough water, then your body can’t burn fat easier.
The more toxins in your body the more difficult for you to lose weight! So, drink water to removes toxin in your body and it helps you lose weight!

Answer 2

Water: How 8 Glasses A Day Keeps Fat Away

Water suppresses the appetite naturally and helps the body metabolize fat.

Studies have shown that a decrease in water intake will cause fat deposits to increase, while an increase in water intake can actually reduce fat deposits.

Here's why: The kidneys can't function properly without enough water. When they don't work to capacity, some of their load is dumped onto the liver.

One of the liver's primary functions is to metabolize stored fat into usable energy for the body. But, if the liver has to do some of the kidney's work, it can't operate at full throttle. As a result, it metabolizes less fat, more fat remains stored in the body and weight loss stops.

Drinking enough water is the best treatment for fluid retention.

When the body gets less water it perceives this as a threat to survival and begins to hold onto every drop. Water is stored in the extra cellular spaces (outside the cell walls). This shows up as swollen feet, legs and hands.

Diuretics offer a temporary solution at best. They force out stored water along with some essential nutrients. Again, the body perceives a threat and will replace the lost water at the first opportunity. Thus, the condition quickly returns.

The best way to overcome the problem of water retention, is to give your body what it needs--plenty of water. Only then will stored water be released.

The overweight person needs more water than the thin one.

Larger people have larger metabolic loads. Since we know that water is the key to fat metabolism, it follows that the overweight person needs more water.

Water helps maintain proper muscle tone.

It does this by giving muscles their natural ability to contract and by preventing dehydration. It also helps to prevent the sagging skin that usually follows weight loss--shrinking cells are buoyed by water, which plumps the skin and leaves it clear, healthy and resilient.

Water helps rid the body of wastes.

During weight loss, the body has a lot more waste to get rid of--all that metabolized fat must be shed. Again, adequate water helps flush out waste.

Water can help relieve constipation.

When the body gets too little water, it siphons what it needs from internal sources. The colon is one primary source. Result? Constipation. But, when a person drinks enough water, normal bowel function usually returns.


So how much water is enough?

On the average a person should drink eight 8-ounce glasses every day. That's about two quarts. However, the overweight person needs on additional glass for every 25 pounds overweight. The amount you drink should also be increased if you exercise briskly or if the weather is hot and dry.

Water should be preferably cold--it's absorbed into the system more quickly than warm water. And some evidence suggests that drinking cold water can actually help you burn calories.

To utilize water most efficiently during weight loss follow this schedule:

Morning
1 quart consumed over a 30 minute period.

Noon
1 quart consumed over a 30 minute period.

Evening
1 quart consumed between 5 and 6 o'clock.

When the body gets the water it needs to function optimally, its fluids are perfectly balanced. When this happens you have reached the "breakthrough point." What does this mean?

Endocrine-gland function improves.
Fluid retention is alleviated as stored water is lost.
More fat is used as fuel because the liver is free to metabolize stored fat.
Natural thirst returns.
There is a loss of hunger almost overnight.
If you stop drinking enough water, your body fluids will be thrown out of balance again, and you may experience unexplained weight gain and loss of thirst. To remedy this situation you'll have to go back and force another breakthrough.

The above article taken from "The Snowbird Diet" by Donald S. Roberston, M.D., M. Sc.

Answer 3

"The latest dietary reference intake report by the United States National Research Council recommended (including food sources): 2.7 litres of water total for women and 3.7 litres for men"

Water can help you lose weight. Sometimes we eat because we're lacking it, and water can make you feel fuller, too.

8 glasses a day sounds like a lot for a woman, though. Maybe if you're exercising a lot. The 2.7 liters per day includes foods and other sources of water (like other drinks) -- so keep that in mind.

Answer 4

Find out the real truth. See below under anti-water. In itself water does not cause weight loss. See below to find out how water retention makes you fatter. Not enough water can kill you-- dehydration.

Sweetened drinks make you gain weight so avoiding them and drinking water makes you lose weight. What about losing weight with sweating--- see below.

http://www.phifoundation.org

Answer 5

Not necessarily 8 glasses, but drinking lots of water does help to lose weight/burn/metabolize fat.

Answer 6

You are supposed to drink a lot of water, so no.
Drink V8. My cousin lost 10 lbs in 2 weeks just drinking it for breakfast, when she wanted a snack and cutting portions.

Answer 7

Yes, because it will make you feel full and you will eat less and you won't be drinking suggary drinks like soda or sweet tea instead. Besides that it keeps the impurities out of your system.

Answer 8

Drinking that much water helps suppress your appetite, so it can theoretically help you eat less and lose weight.

Answer 9

Hi,, i think that you are suppose to drink about that many anyway,,,, if it doesnt make or help you lose weight,, then,, it will help you run ,, to the bathroom for sure !!!! hahah

good luck

Answer 10

I think drinking water DOES help one lose weight. It makes you think you are full I guess. sometimes we think we are hungry, but actually we are just thirsty