I keep hearing dieticians say to drink lots of water when dieting.  What is the basis for this helping to lose weight?
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Water fills you up so your not as hungry. Also, water keeps your body hydrated and cleansed, so it's good for you all the time, but especially while dieting.
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I've lost fifty pounds.\n\nYour body weight is lean-muscle-mass, fat, and water.  When you first start on a diet, you often lose a lot of water weight quickly, especially if you were not eating healthily before.  Exercise may cause you to replace fat with lean-muscle mass, which will make you thinner and healthier (and increase your metabolism), but may increase your weight.  Women also have up-and-down bloating from their menstrual cycle, so you can be losing fat from dieting and exercise without losing weight.  Concentrate less on the day-to-day number on the scale, and more on ensuring that you're eating healthy and exercising, and the number on the scale will eventually catch up with what you're doing.\n\nA pound of fat equals 3500 calories. Weight gain or loss is equal to calories consumed minus calories expended. Simply put, short of amputation or death, diet and exercise is the only way to lose weight. Keep track of what it is you're eating. Look up your Basal Metabolic Rate on an online calculator; if you limit yourself to your BMR - 500 calories/day, you'll lose a pound a week that way -- but make sure you're getting your minimum amount of protein, because protein insufficiency can be very dangerous to your health and make it harder to lose weight. It's easier to cut back on calories if you're eating filling foods that are high in volume (e.g., vegetables and fruits and water-based soups), substituting high-fiber complex carbs for sugar and simple carbs, and drinking lots of non-caloric beverages.\n\nwww.fitday.com might be a useful site for you; it's free and allows you to track your diet and exercise.
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I don't recommend water diets because I think they disrupt your blood sugar levels and create a "feast and famine" response in your body.\n\nInstead, I would suggest, to start, that you up your exercise level.  No matter how much you diet (unless you seriously starve yourself) you won't have lasting weight loss without exercise.  \n\nSecond, I would suggest that you just eat smaller and smaller portions but eat, maybe 4-6 times a day.  That way you keep your blood sugar much steadier.\n\nA water fast will help you lose weight but it will also help you pack it right back on after your finish your fast.
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It does work because you don't eat any solid food. You are also drinking juices that cleanse your system. The weight you are lossing is water weight though. It is only a quick fix for a few days.
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The water and milk with both help drain fat and toxins out of your system, drinking ots of water is also very beneficial to the skin
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you cant really drink too much water, but I would say that you should drink .5oz per pound, so 50 oz, but 4-5 bottles should be enough, but check these websites out to make your own decision. It really depends on how active you are, and what the weather is. Even if it is cold, you should still drink lots of water. As a rule, I drink enough till my urine is clear, that tells me that my kidneys are free of impurities.\n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/NU/00283.html\nhttp://www.dietitian.com/fluids.html\nhttp://nutrition.about.com/od/hydrationwater/a/waterarticle.htm\n\nBut in order to lose the water weight, you would have to hardly drink at all, in order to "get cut, or ripped etc. You are only 13, you are only 100 pounds at 5'7, I would be more concerned about you gaining weight, than losing weight. Just be active, eat healty food, 5-6 times a day, and you should be fine. If you want to join a gym, or if you have a dad around or older brother etc, get them to help show you how to lift weights to put on muscle.
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There is no way you can target weight loss to any one part of the body - it's simply impossible.  Anyone who tells you otherwise is misinformed or trying to sell you something.\n\nThe only way to lose weight is to burn up more calories than you eat.  It's that simple.  Water is good for you and it has no calories, but it doesn't reduce fat, regardless of what temperature it is.
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What green tea does is it actually helps to speed up your metabolism. So yes, it is good to help lose weight. As to how much to drink...I would say a lot.
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OK, woman to woman, if u want to lose the weight & KEEP IT OFF (which is the most important) of course u have to exercise & eat right BUT water is the key...drinking the 8 glasses a day is not enough, atleast it isnt for me...I drink 24oz of bottles of  water every hour almost. Not only does water flush out your system but it also gives you energy without harmful pills. Also You may want to eat lots of chicken & fish... you can have bread as carbs but not to much. The misconception about weight loss (especially for women) is to skip meals or not eat BUT in doing so you actually do more harm than good, because your body will store the fat rather than release it. If you really want to lose weight you have to eat. I eat 5 times a day & I am in perfect shape for my height, age & body type (5'9, early 20's & 145lbs). Just drink your water, do some cardio, focus on your problem area (so do crunches) and dont 4get to eat. If you starve yourself the only thing you lose is your mind. OH! & limit your quantities...when your body says u are full, listen to it & dont over induldge...\n\n(EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT BUT THIS MAY WORK FOR YOU)\n\nMy Daily Food schedule includes: \n\nBREAKFAST is\n- 1 serving oat, wheat or bran cereal\n- 1 medium orange or apple\n- 1 cup skim milk over my cereal (tastes the same as regular milk to me) \n- 1 whole wheat piece of toast (dry)\n\nLUNCH is\n- 1 entree of whatever I want (limited portions)\n- 1 medu=ium orange or apple\n- a spinach salad with non fat dressing & 1 egg for protein\n\nTHE AFTERNOON SNACK is\n- an orange or apple\n\nDINNER is  \n- 1 entree of whatever I want (limited portions) \n- 2 cups of fresh veggies\n- spinach salad with non fat dressing & 1 egg for protein \n\nDessert\n-1 small serving of whatever I want\n\nAND TONS OF WATER THROUGH OUT THE DAY!!!\n\nI personally drink over 12 to 13, 24oz bottles of water throughout my normal day because it makes u feel better after u get used to it plus ur not "clogged up". Anyway, I hope I could be of some help to you & I hope you lose those unwanted pounds & keep them off...& BTW, STAY AWAY FROM FAD DIETS!!! THEY NEVER WORK!!!
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Water, water, water.  Plain and simple.  It's the best thing you can do for your skin.  Hydrated skin looks fabulous and fresh.  Eating habits treally depend on you.  Are you trying to lose weight?  Just tone up?  Maintain a good thing?  Stay away from processed, packaged foods.  Lots of fresh veggies and fruit, baked chicken and fish, and at least 30 minutes a day of exercise will do wonders for anyone.
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Don't drink any other beverages other than water, cut back on sweets and fatty foods, not completely, just limit it. Start an exercise program that you like, maybe dancing?  Actually, sit-ups is not really going to burn the fat on your tummy, only reducing calories can do that, but if you drink a lot of water, it can reduce the water retention in your tummy, I take it you are female, we store water there.  That should do it.  Oh, to help lose some extra water retention, use a sauna, just don't stay in too long and drink, drink, drink, water.  Don't think of it as a diet or you will be obsessed with food, just kick the soda habit if you have one. Stay away from pasta.
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The 3 most important things to do when dieting is: \n1. Drink 64+ ounces of water a day.\n2. Moderate exercise\n3. Eat small meals frequently.\n\nWhen you don't eat regular meals your body feels that you are starving it so any calories that you do eat the body stores it as fat.  By eating small meals frequently your body uses the calories as energy and it will speed up your metabolism.\n\nYou should exercise at least 3-4 days a week.  The best exercise is either swimming or walking at a brisk pace.  When walking you should keep at a brisk pace, challenging enough but not so fast that you're out of breath.  If you use a treadmill increase the incline every 3 minutes. \n\nYou should get into the habit of sipping on water all day.  This flushes the toxins out of the body and it promotes healthy skin and weight loss.\n\nAnother important thing is not to diet 7 days a week.  By constantly denying yourself what you want to eat you'll get frustrated and bored with the diet.  I suggest that you watch what you eat 6 days a week and treat or reward yourself 1 day a week, within moderation of course.\n\nGood Luck!!! :)
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That's good to drink water, but what you eat and how much is more important. The calories eaten must be less than the calories burned through daily activities and exercise.
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Most of the diet plans out there are a crock of male bovine excrement. They promise you will lose lots of weight, but don't tell you where the weight you lose comes from. Most of the time, it is muscle and water, not fat. Also, they don't promise you will keep it off. \n\nThe best "diet" is to just eat healthy, eat slightly less than you burn, and exercise. It is more of a life style change than a diet. This will guarantee you will lose weight and keep it off.
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all sodas are bad for you even diet.i stopped drinking them 13yrs ago.the doc told my husband to stop drinking them and if he could not ,he said to drink fresca, no fat\nlow sodium\nno carbs. water is the best to drink when you are trying to lose weight GOOD LUCK!
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Kelp helps a little but in itself won't make you thin. Site below has more on using kelp to replace something that makes you fat.\n\nFirst, it is mostly not your fault that you need to lose weight. The way society has taught you to eat is responsible for making obesity (according to Atlantic Monthly magazine) the #1 health problem in the world replacing hunger and infectious disease. So you are a victim of this pandemic (epidemic) of obesity.\n\nSo you need to completely re-learn how to eat so you won't be a victim anymore. Learn everything that is on the site below. Do this and you can be thin. Do this not and you will have what you have now. You will learn about losing bodyfat, retained water and a 3rd thing. The reason there is so much info on this website is because I need to spend a lot of words to prove that many current ideas about losing weight are wrong.
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I'm glad you pointed this out.  I think its very bad advise to say that people need 8 glasses of water to lose weight.  This is wrong.  The body may need 8 glasses of fluid, but that can be any type of fluid, like milk, juices, coffee, tea, whatever.  I lost 80 pounds and have kept it off for over 5 years and drank water just when I was thirsty.  If I would drink 8 glasses of water on top of my other liquids, I would be totally bloated.\n\nI did drink more water when I worked in a steel foundry, but I would alternate it with a bottle of gatorade.  Gatorade has some electrolytes in it.  How did you restore your electrolytes?