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It may not come as a surprise to you that water is good for your health. And it’s been widely publicized that drinking water can help people who are trying to lose weight. Few people would disagree, but there are also few who truly understand why this is so.

Some believe it is because it helps give you a full feeling, reducing the desire to eat as much.

Some suggest that just having something to do with your hands help replace the desire to munch.

There may be plenty of truth to these suggestions, but water also fulfulls a fundamental need for the body. It is needed for metabolism.

Now we’ve all heard about our metabolism and its importance to weight loss, but water? How does water come into play?

Well, it’s like this..the liver is the internal organ that metabolizes fat. It takes the stored fat (that fat which you want to get rid of) and it turns it into energy.

The liver also provides help to the kidneys when they are not performing at peak level. But in doing so, the liver is not able to optimally complete the function of metabolizing fat. It’s busy helping the kidneys.

Now you see where the water comes into play. The kidneys require water in fairly large amounts to do their job. If your body senses that it is not getting enough water, it will begin to store water in unlikely and undesirable places.

One way to help the body eliminate water ‘storage’ is to let it have confidence that a continuous stream of water is coming down the pipe and there is no need to hoard.

For most people, it is 8 glasses of water per day.

Overweight people as well as those living in a hot climate or exercising intensely require more, often twice the amount we think of as ‘optimum’.

The body is very efficient at regging rid of water that is not needed.

It’s wise to remember that most weight loss programs are going to restrict the caloric intake in some way. This automatically means you are going to be taking in less water.

About 30% of our total water intake comes from foods we are eating. Decrease your food intake and chances are you will be reducing the amount of water your body is used to getting.

So stay mindful of the need for water especially when cutting down on food intake. And you don’t need to wait until you’re parched to drink.

Waiting until you are parched to drink water, means the body has already starting the storage process.

I have seen truly amazing results in my Weight Loss Breeze program. I use water in the program but in a completely different way than I’ve ever seen in any other program.

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