Water, Water, And More Water

This step is going to be one of the most important steps to take while losing weight. It’s been said many times before, but I’m not sure most believe it. Well after all I didn’t believe it at first either. This important step is drinking lots of water.

While on a diet a person should drink as much water as you can stand. In fact the more water you drink the better it will help with the weight loss. I also want to point out that coffee and tea don’t equal water. In fact caffeine causes increased appetite, stress, and food cravings. You should also know that stress increases body fat, so not only will caffeine make you eat more but will cause your body to store more fat cells.

I will not sit here and tell you to give up that morning cup of coffee that you love so much. But, it would be a good idea to cut as much coffee out of your life as you can possibly stand. Also you need to cut out soda from your diet; however I’m told it is all right to have a single 12 oz can of soda a day. I would recommend it with lunch as it gives you time to work it off.

Soda should be regular not diet because the sweetener used isn’t good for ones health either. There was a study by the Purdue University that shows a group of rats that drank saccharin (the sweetener used in diet soda) gained more weight then those that used regular sugar. The article does say that more studies need to be done so I put this in this post only for your information. I cannot tell you diet soda is bad only there are studies that say it is.

Remember to drink as much water as you can stand and cut out that caffeine and soda from your diet. And you will watch those pounds vanish.