Can water make you lose weight?

Water is perhaps your single greatest friend in the battle of the bulge. Not only can water make you lose weight, it can also help your body run smoother and healthier. And on top of that, its free! - well almost free!

Your body is between 55 and 70% water (women towards the lower end men towards the higher). If you do not drink enough water you will become dehydrated and eventually die. Water can be consumed in its natural state or in other drinks such as soft drinks or tea or coffee.

How can we use water to lose weight?

There are lots of advantages to drinking plenty of water. First of all your kidneys and liver function much better with plenty of water. Your kidneys are complicated organs but their main function is to sift through your blood for waste material that you will eventually pee out. For them to do this effectively they need water - and lots of it. If your kidneys do not get enough water they recruit your liver to start helping them doing their job which is no good for us. The liver should be turning fat into energy and if it has to help the kidneys do their job it is is going to slow down. Increasing the speed the liver turns fat into energy is usually referred to as increasing your bodies metabolism.

It has many other advantages, such as making your skin look great and helping various other organs run efficiently. Infact all of your organs require water! But another weight losing function of water is as an appetite suppressant. Drink a glass of water when you start feeling hungry and it will get rid of that feeling for about an hour.

Try and swap all your soft drinks and milky teas and coffee for either a diet equivalent or for, yes you guessed it, a glass of water!

How much water should i drink a day?

It is recommended that you drink around eight glasses of water to get the body running at its peak. This may sound a lot, but throughout a whole day it is not hard.

Don’t overdo drinking water. Like everything else it is unhealthy to have too much of it. Can water make you lose weight? - yes! but try to stick to the recommended eight glasses (at least six at most twelve) a day.