Is drinking 3 liters of water a day enough to be losing weight?
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Drinking water alone will not be enough to lose weight here are some other tips.\n\nIf you follow these tips you will lose weight.\nFirst of all your body can healthly lose only 2-4 lbs a week. Also i would not reccomend one of those diet books or programs because once you lose the weight you will go back to doing what you did before and gain it all back.\nHere is what you need to cut out of your diet or limit.\n-sodas they are empty calories and just add fat.\n-also juices try to limit 1 cup of o.j. has as much sugar as a can of soda.\n-fast food. they provide no nutrients and terrible meals they do have healthly selections at all fast food stores if you pic those you will do much better. \n-junk food is also empty calories its ok now and then just don't over do it.\nHere are foods that you can indulge on.\n-veggies since they are so healthy for you and provide you with many nutrients the calories in them are meaningless.\n-water!! you should drink64oz. a day at first you will pee alot but then you will get used to it.\n-when eating meat try to eat chicken because it is the best.\nother tips\n- try to have baked foods not fried.\n-eat breakfast and try to have it mostly be complex carbs like oatmeal and wheat bread they will give you energy all throughout the day.\n-don't skip meals when you do your body thinks it is being starved so it will hold in more calories instead of burning them.\nWORKING OUT\nyou need to buy some weights or go to a gym and work on increasing your muscles. because that will increase you resting metabolic rate which is how many calories you burn while simply doing nothing and you will see weight loss just from that also doing 50-100 squats(5-10min) will help increase muscle in your legs.\nrunning is also a good way to help your overall apperience.\nand pilates is a good way to tone your body a simple pilates tape done three times a week along with weights and you will see a difference.\n\ngo online and find some healthy meal recipes and use them try to reduce the number of calories you take in daily but not by too much.\nhope this helps you.
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Drink Water.  Most of the weight you lost was water.
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that is absolutely not true, water helps you lose weight. the more you drink of water the better. water helps to flush the toxins out of your body. water is also known to be a thirst quencher and hunger reducer. and people on biggest loser were not eliminated from drinking water. i followed that show from beginning to end.water is absolutely good for you.
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Please don't do that. it's sooo unsafe! I'm also 5'5" and I'm 135 lbs. I'm currently trying to lose 10-15 lbs. Anyway, here's what you SHOULD do with water. Drink a minimum of 8 glasses of water a day. If you drink a lot of water it will help you lose water weight. It sounds quite contradicting to our logic but i'll explain why.\n\nOur body is composed of a lot of % of water and stores it anywhere in our body for future use especially if you only drink a little in a day. But if you constantly drink a lot of water everyday, our body will release the water stored in our body because it will think that it'll never run out of it. Therefore releasing what we call "water weight".\n\nAlso, water can be used as an appetite supressant. Try drinking a glass of water before you eat your meal and you won't eat as much. Replace sodas with water. It can do wonders.\n\nAnd here's another thing, did you know that if you drink ICE COLD water it can actually burn calories? :) This is because it can't be used by our body in its cold state. So our body uses energy to bring it to normal temperature. \n\nSo drink up girl! :) Drink a glass of H2O when you wake up, before meals and after meals and before you go to sleep. :)\n\nOh and I have recently discovered that green tea allows you to burn 80 calories a day.\n\nI hope i've been a help.:) Anyway, since you're trying to lose weight as I am, we can both help each other as we reach our goal weights. We can be weight loss buddies through email or yahoo messenger. If you want to of course. :) my yahoo id is michele_mai.\n\nGood luck in trying to lose weight! I sure am gonna need it. ;)
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Just water weight.  If you want to lose weight and keep it off just eat right and exercise, its the only way.
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i will tell you the exact answer to this, see wat happens is when you drink more of water ur stomach is distended, the thirst centre in ur brain is satisfied, at the same time ur hunger centre is also inhibited so u tend to eat less.... also water helps in faster digestion and more excretion of waste products helping u to lose weight
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Yes it does.  When you first start drinking water you will lose your water weight and if you keep drinking lots of water than you body will realize that it won't need to store water anymore and you won't get water weight.\nPlus if you are working out you NEED to drinks LOTS of water because your muscles get dehydrated
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Food usually accounts for 20 percent of your fluid intake, so you if you consume 2 liters of water or other beverages a day (a little more than 8 cups), along with your normal diet, you can replace the lost fluids. \nEight 8-ounce glasses of water a day. Another approach to water intake is the "8 x 8 rule" — drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day (about 1.9 liters). The rule could also be stated, "drink eight 8-ounce glasses of fluid a day," as all fluids count toward the daily total. Though this approach isn't supported by scientific evidence, many people use this basic rule as a guideline for how much water and other fluids to drink. \nDietary recommendations. The Institute of Medicine recommends that men consume 3 liters (about 13 cups) of total beverages a day and women consume 2.2 liters (about 9 cups) of total beverages a day. These guidelines are based on national food surveys that assessed people's average fluid intakes. \nYou can choose any of these fluid intake approaches to gauge your fluid needs. But your current total fluid intake is probably OK if you drink enough water to quench your thirst, produce a colorless or slightly yellow normal amount of urine, and feel well.
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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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It increases your weight VERY temporarily while it is in your stomach til you pee it out...\n\nOverall though it can help you lose weight, as your body runs better when you are well hydrated, plus drinking lots of water actually keeps your body from retaining water weight (because your body knows it doesn't have to store the water for a shortage); water has absolutely no calories and is the healthiest drink you can have.  Also, ice cold water helps you burn calories by lowering your body temperature slightly (so you have to burn calories to warm the water--and yourself--back up).  Finally, drinking water before meals can fill you up (remember, no calories), and then you won't be as hungry and won't eat as much.  Yay water!
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Drinking is good for you as it helps digestion and recovers the loss of fluid in your body that you lose each day. Just make sure you are drinking plenty of water as opposed to flavoured drinks. Flavoured drinks are high in calories and sugar and hence increase weight. \n\nTry to avoid drinking anything that is not natural. Soft drinks have a bad impact on your body whether it is diet or not. Juices are really high in carbs and calories so unless you have one freshly made vegie juice try to avoid fruit juices. Milk drinks should be limited to one per day and skim is the preferred option. \n\nI tend to drink green tea after main meals as it is good for your metabolism and reduces feeling bloated.  \n\nOverall, if you exercise you need to replace fluid in your body so try to drink 3 litres of water.
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Firstly, a significant diet change aimed at weight loss will automatically cause you to lose excess water from your body tissues before you ever lose any fat cells.\n\nSecondly, what kind of a diet are you on? For instance, an "all meat" diet will make you urinate more frequently mainly because meat protein raises the acidic levels in the blood, and your body in its effort to maintain a balanced PH level, will be in a continual state of "flushing out".\n\nKnowing nothing about you or the type of diet you are on, all I can highly recommend is that you get enough good carbohydrates (primarily in the form of vegetables & fruits) into your system everyday. \n\nAside from that, though I can't tell you what to do regarding the taking of diuretics, I need to point out that this is not natural to the body and so will certainly have some side-effects.\n\nFinally, many years ago I too used to retain water and it turned out that, ironically, I wasn't drinking enough water and so my body, believing it was in some sort of drought period, struggled to hold on to every drop of it.\n\nHope this helps - good luck with your diet - be healthy.
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Water Menu For Weight Loss\n\nMany of us know that keeping our bodies well hydrated is essential for good health and for weight loss. Drinking 6 to 8 glasses of water every day is recommended and yet many people find this difficult to do.\n\nIf you are one of the many people who find it difficult to drink water, here is a program easily followed to ensure you are well hydrated every single day.\n\nWhen you wake up you will often be thirsty because your body loses water while you are sleeping through breathing and perspiration. Drink a large glass of water with a slice of lemon for zing.\n\nDrink another glass of water with breakfast or a cup of herbal tea before setting off the day.\n\nMid morning - snack on a piece of juicy fruit such as orange, rockmelon, watermelon, cantaloupe, honey dew. Have a glass of water and perhaps try a dash of herbal aloe juice which is wonderfully soothing to the digestive system.\n\nLunch - think of soup or have a glass of water before your meal, or perhaps a herbal tea.\n\nMid afternoon - While you are preparing your evening meal, drink a glass of water and snack on some crunchy fresh vegetables.\n\nEvening - Sip a glass of water before your meal with a dash of your favourite fruit juice for flavour.\n\nAfter dinner - before bedtime drink your final glass of water and sleep well!\n\nNow here's the really exciting part - you may notice a reduction in inches and centimetres, as you body's water store become redundant and so decrease. You may need to 'spend a penny' more but the results will be worth it.
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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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drink-atleats 1 gallon of water\neat-only fresh fruits and vegetables\nexercise some for 3 days(i lost 6 lbs!!!!)
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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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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?