The Importance Of Staying Hydrated For Weight Loss - Most people absolutely underestimate how important it is to constantly sip water throughout the day for health reasons. If you are trying to lose weight its even more important.
You are especially in danger of being dehydrated if are taking a weight loss supplement like Hoodia. Because Hoodia causes you to feel full, you might also not drink as much as you need, because you are eating less too. And as you will learn below, you need to constantly drink water. You also want to ensure you buy your Hoodia from a good source, and avoid the cheapened, fake Hoodia that’s so prevalent in the market place today.
Anyway, let’s see why its so important for you to be well hydrated throughout the day:
When you don’t take in enough water, your body instinctively retains water as it doesn’t know when you’ll have access to water again. The big problem with this is that water is a cleaning agent in your body. It removes wastes from your cells and helps flush it out of your body in various ways. If your body is retaining this water, then all the waste is also stuck in your body.
The water in your body starts to become filled with ammonia, urea, uric acid and other junk. You start to become a human sewerage system!
Think this is a little extreme?
This is what is actually happening in your body when you don’t have enough water, like it or not.
What’s worse is that the liver is so busy trying to get rid of the waste that it can’t do its own job of turning stored fat into energy properly. So what happens?
You’re not able to burn body fat as efficiently as you normally could. This is a no-no for fat loss.
So now your body is turning into a slow fat burner. On top of this, you start to become sluggish and you lose strength. You won’t be able to workout as well. And on top of this you may be tempted to ‘pig out’. It has be estimated that just a drop of 3-4% in water levels in your body, causes you to be up to 20% weaker.
You’ll feel groggy in the morning, and lethargic through out the day. If you have trouble finishing a workout or doing anything else that you normally find easy, chances are you are severely dehydrated! Drink water and see that energy come back into your life in less than 5 minutes.
If that’s not enough to scare you off dehydration, remember this: You can survive about 60 days without food, and only 10 days without water.
So make sure you do get enough water throughout the day. The best way is to constantly sip it frequently. Just makes sure a glassful is always within touching distance.
To work out how much water you will need, especially if you are trying to lose weight, visit this article on water and weight loss.
Source: American Chronicle [Hoodia Information and News]