What is Water Weight and How to Lose It
Comments : No Comments - June 6th,A lot of people find it very easy to lose a lot of weight in the first couple of weeks of a new diet – they might lose around 8 pounds and they will start thinking that they have found the greatest diet of all time. In fact I have a friend who is just going through this right now and all he is doing is calorie counting. He told me that he has only been eating around 1200 calories a day and has lost 7-8 pounds of fat in under two weeks. I told him that is impossible (hes not a big guy) and explained to him:
There are 3600 calories in a pound of fat – you are losing 1000 calories a day on your diet – at most you can have lose 1000 * 14 = 14 000 calories (around 4 pounds of fat!).
That is just 4 pounds of fat – so what accounts for the other 4 pounds my friend has lost? Well he claims his body is just “different” to most people. Well that is most likely NOT the case. In fact the truth is he has not lost 8 pounds of fat, and has probably not even lost 4 pounds. Most of the weight he has lost is called “water weight”.
Most of our bodyweight (around 60%) is water. Our body can hold a lot more water than in needs too, and it often does. It can make you look bloated and heavier than you actually are. Water weight is caused by our bodies holding more water than it needs too. This is not a bad thing because it means you might have a few pounds of weight that you can lose very easily and safely! You have nothing to lose by trying – except weight!
To lose water weight you have to – and this is pretty counter intuitive – drink more water! You need to rinse your body out basically – so try drinking 8 -10 glasses of water during the course of a day and you should be able to get all that water weight that is stuck in you, washed out.
One reason you might be holding on to water weight is your diet – people whose diet is high in salt tend to have a much higher amount of water retention. Your body does not like too much salt, and to counter its effect it needs a lot of water, that it will hold onto for as long as it can. So too wash out that salt, those 8-10 glasses of water should do the trick!
A healthy diet and plenty of water will help with your weight loss journey in general, so try and make little life style adjustments here and there and you are sure to benefit in more ways than you imagine.
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