Feel Fuller and Eat Less

  The water before food diet is easy to do. Simply drink water before each meal. When you drink a glass of water 30 minutes before a meal it increases your metabolism by 30%, helps fill your stomach and decreases your appetite to help you lose weight.

  One of the hardest things with weight loss is keeping the weight off. Most diets have food restrictions that are hard to maintain. Drinking water before a meal is an easy way to restrict the amount of food you are eating.

  The water before food diet can be used by itself with your normal meals. It can also be used with other diet programs.

  Here you can see two glass containers representing your stomach that hold 32 ounces, which is generally what your stomach holds with food in it.

  The first container is empty and can hold 32 ounces of food. When we pour a 16 ounce glass of water in the second container, it fills it up halfway leaving room for only 16 ounces of food.

  Drinking water before a meal will help you feel fuller faster and is an easy way to restrict food intake. It also helps provide your body with the water it needs during the day. So drinking water helps with both weight loss and hydration.

  Your body can’t tell the difference between hunger and thirst. Sometimes when you’re hungry, you may actually be thirsty. Try drinking a cup of water first and see if that works. If you’re still hungry, you can eat food, but you’ll probably eat less food if you drank a cup of water first.

  Dehydration causes sugar cravings, which can cause you to want sugary foods and drinks. Drinking water helps reduce your sugar cravings which helps with weight loss. Sometimes people drink more calories than they eat. You may want to consider adding a healthy water flavoring to your water to replace soft drinks.

  Your metabolism is a major factor in weight loss and uses about two thirds of your daily calories to keep your body working. Your heart pumps 2000 gallons of blood a day, which burns calories as well as your other body functions that burn calories too.

  Drinking a glass of water can increase your metabolism from 10 to 30% for close to an hour. Your body needs water to function and if it doesn’t get enough water, it slows down which slows down your metabolism.

  When your body is dehydrated, it is harder for it to burn fat. Water helps your body break down fat and burn calories. Not drinking enough water affects your muscles ability to burn calories as well. The growth hormone HGH is a great fat burner, but dehydration lowers your body’s production of it, which hurts your weight loss.

  When your body is dehydrated it creates stress on all the organs in the body, which stresses the brain, which you increases production of cortisol. Cortisol hurts weight loss. Dehydration can cause blood sugar to rise, which leads to insulin resistance, which can hurt your weight loss.

  Water helps fight cellulite. Dehydration contributes to larger lumps of cellulite. Drinking water helps remove toxins that can create fat deposits that gather under your skin. Drinking a glass of water in the morning, at noon and in the late afternoon will help hydrate your body and help you lose weight. Drinking water is an important foundational part of any weight loss program.