We all drink water everyday as, apart from food, water is one of the basic requirements for the human body to function properly. The average human being needs to drink several glasses of water a day to keep properly hydrated.

If you are overweight and, hopefully, thinking of losing weight, you would be glad to know that you can use water as one of the important ingredients in your weight-loss program. Water can help you lose weight quickly in two major ways.

1. First, water helps fills up your stomach cavity, thus making it very difficult for you to consume a lot of food at the same time. Many, not all, overweight people got into their unenviable physical condition by eating too much.

They would, rather unwisely, consume mountain-sized meals morning, afternoon and night. And, usually, they would top all this up with additional meals in-between. Now, that is not very good for one’s weight, unless one is planning to be a sumo wrestler!

The smart thing to do is to eat smaller amounts of food, topping up each meal with a glass or two of water. Not only does this help digestion of the food, but the water makes you feel ‘full’ quickly, thereby preventing you from eating too much food.

2. Water can help you shed weight in another way. The normal human body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Anytime you drink a glass of cold water, of an average temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit or less, your body’s mechanisms quickly move in to restore your temporarily-reduced body temperature back to the normal 98.6 degrees.

The body burns up some calories when doing this. It is estimated that if you drink eight glasses of cold water a day, your body would burn up over 60 calories every day in this process. That totals up to nearly 500 calories a week.

It is sensible, therefore, to incorporate the drinking of several glasses of cold water into your daily weight-loss program.

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