Water also helps the body to rid itself of waste. And during weight loss the body has a lot more waste to get rid of. All of the metabolized fat must be shed. Again, adequate water helps flush out the waste.
Water helps relieve constipation. When the body gets too little water, it siphons what it needs from intestinal sources. Since the colon is one primary source, the result is consitpation. But, when the body get enough water, normal bowel function returns.
How much water is enough? On average, a person should drink eight 8-ounce glasses each day. The overweight person needs one additional glass for every 25 pounds of excess weight. Incerase the amount you drink if you exercise briskly or it the weather is hot and dry. Except upon awakening, your unrine should be almost clear. If it isn't, you aren't drinking enough water.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Water and Your Weight Loss, Part 2
Diuretics offer a temporary solution. They force out stored water along with some essential nutrients. Again, the body perceives a threat and will replace the lost water at the first opportunity. So, the best way to overcome the problem of water retention is to give your body plenty of water. By doing this, stored water will be released.
If water retention is a constant problem, excess salt may be the culprit. The body will toelrate sodium only in a particular concentration. The more salt you eat, the more water your system retains to dilute it. But, getting rid of salt is easy. All you have to do is to drink more water. It takes away excess sodium, as it is forced through the kidneys.
An overweight person needs more water than a thin one. Larger people have larger metabolic loads. Since water is the key to fat metabolism, the overweight person needs more water.
Water helps to maintain proper muscle tone by giving muscles their natural ability to contract and by preventing dehydration. It also helps to prevent the sagging skin that usually follows weightloss. Shrinking cells are bouyed by the water, which plumps the skin and leaves it clear, healthy, and resilient.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
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If water retention is a constant problem, excess salt may be the culprit. The body will toelrate sodium only in a particular concentration. The more salt you eat, the more water your system retains to dilute it. But, getting rid of salt is easy. All you have to do is to drink more water. It takes away excess sodium, as it is forced through the kidneys.
An overweight person needs more water than a thin one. Larger people have larger metabolic loads. Since water is the key to fat metabolism, the overweight person needs more water.
Water helps to maintain proper muscle tone by giving muscles their natural ability to contract and by preventing dehydration. It also helps to prevent the sagging skin that usually follows weightloss. Shrinking cells are bouyed by the water, which plumps the skin and leaves it clear, healthy, and resilient.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
For more information about video classes and individual sessions, please visit: http://EmpoweredDieter.org
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Water and Your Weight Loss, Part 1
Water is probably the most important catalyst in losing weight and keeping it off. Water may be the only magic potion for permanent weight management.
Water is a natural appetite suppressant and it helps the body metabolize stored fat. Research has shown that a decrease in water intake causes an increase in fat deposits and an increase in water intake reduces fat deposits. This occurs because the kidneys are unable to function properly without enough water. When they don't work to capacity, some of their load is dumped unto the liver. One of the liver's primary functions is to metabolize stored fat into usable energy for the body. But if the liver has to do some of the kidneys' work, it can't operate at full capacity. As a result, it metabolizers less fat so more fat remains stored in the body and weight loss stops.
The best treatment for fluid retention is drinking enough water. When the body gets less water it perceives this as a threat to survival and begins to hold on to every drop. This water is stored in extracellular spaces, that is, outside the cells. The result is swoklen feet, legs, and hands.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenus Brown
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Water is a natural appetite suppressant and it helps the body metabolize stored fat. Research has shown that a decrease in water intake causes an increase in fat deposits and an increase in water intake reduces fat deposits. This occurs because the kidneys are unable to function properly without enough water. When they don't work to capacity, some of their load is dumped unto the liver. One of the liver's primary functions is to metabolize stored fat into usable energy for the body. But if the liver has to do some of the kidneys' work, it can't operate at full capacity. As a result, it metabolizers less fat so more fat remains stored in the body and weight loss stops.
The best treatment for fluid retention is drinking enough water. When the body gets less water it perceives this as a threat to survival and begins to hold on to every drop. This water is stored in extracellular spaces, that is, outside the cells. The result is swoklen feet, legs, and hands.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenus Brown
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
The Importance of Regular Eating, Part 4
Every diet trains the body to slow down, losing some lean tissue and not replacing all of it. This is because as soon as you return to normal eating after dieting, the body's need to regenerate causes cravings and extreme hunger. Once the glycogen and water have been replaced, the body of a sedentary person, being used to fat, will tend to regain fat. As a result, the proportion of fatty tissue increases. Therefore, cumulatively, the composition of the body drastically alters.
Since fat is less dense, therefore lighter, the sedentary person who regains lost weight will be fatter because of replacing heavier muscle with lighter fat. Fat contains air and muscle contains water. An easy way to determine whether you are increasing or decreasing your percentage of body fat is to lie on your back in a pool with your arms outstretched. The more of your body that sinks, the higher your percentage of lean tissue.
So, to effectively lose weight and keep it off you need to follow a personally-appropriate weight management program that provides a well-balanced food intake because your body will continually crave food until it gets what it needs to function effectively. You need to eat at least three times per day because your body requires fuel every 4 -6 hours while you are awake. If you eat only one or two meals per day, your body will hoard whatever you give it and not burn it up as fuel for functioning. The habit needs to be continued after weight is lost if fat is to stay off. If it isn't, your body will immediately begin to rebuild and most likely it will rebuild fat.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
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Since fat is less dense, therefore lighter, the sedentary person who regains lost weight will be fatter because of replacing heavier muscle with lighter fat. Fat contains air and muscle contains water. An easy way to determine whether you are increasing or decreasing your percentage of body fat is to lie on your back in a pool with your arms outstretched. The more of your body that sinks, the higher your percentage of lean tissue.
So, to effectively lose weight and keep it off you need to follow a personally-appropriate weight management program that provides a well-balanced food intake because your body will continually crave food until it gets what it needs to function effectively. You need to eat at least three times per day because your body requires fuel every 4 -6 hours while you are awake. If you eat only one or two meals per day, your body will hoard whatever you give it and not burn it up as fuel for functioning. The habit needs to be continued after weight is lost if fat is to stay off. If it isn't, your body will immediately begin to rebuild and most likely it will rebuild fat.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
For more information about video classes and individual sessions, please visit: http://EmpoweredDieter.org
Monday, August 1, 2011
The Importance of Regular Eating, Part 3
The normal response to restricted food intake is a decrease in resting metabolic rate. Dieting slows you down because dieting slows down the process of the active vital organs.
Overeating will not make you thin, but it will speed up the rate at which your body uses energy. After overeating, your metabolic rate when asleep and at rest speeds up and so does the energy used as a direct result of eating.
Because body fat is metabolically less active than fat-free tissue (muscle and vital organs), the greater the proportion of fat-free tissue, the more the energy requirement. The greater the proportion of fat in the body, the less energy required. And, from adulthood onward, energy requirements decline about 4% per decade. The more you weigh and the more lean body tissue you have, the higher your metabolic rate will tend to always be.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
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Overeating will not make you thin, but it will speed up the rate at which your body uses energy. After overeating, your metabolic rate when asleep and at rest speeds up and so does the energy used as a direct result of eating.
Because body fat is metabolically less active than fat-free tissue (muscle and vital organs), the greater the proportion of fat-free tissue, the more the energy requirement. The greater the proportion of fat in the body, the less energy required. And, from adulthood onward, energy requirements decline about 4% per decade. The more you weigh and the more lean body tissue you have, the higher your metabolic rate will tend to always be.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
The Importance of Regular Eating, Part 2
Once your body has adapted to the restricted food intake (the diet) by releasing glycogen and shedding water, it then will tend to lose lean tissue. And, the body of an overweight person will attempt to preserve fat just because that is what it is accustomed to doing.
The less food you eat, the less energy you need to digest it. A diet that cuts 500 calories per day needs approximately 50 calories per day less for digestion.
The liver and associated areas use 27% of body energy, the brain uses 20%, skeletal muscles use 18%, kidneys 10%, the heart uses 7%, and the remainder of the vital organs use 18% of body energy. 65% of the energy is used by the vital organs whose combined weight totals only about 5% of the body's weight. Most of the remaining energy is used by the muscles, which are more active than body fat.
A sedentary person's body uses most of its energy from food for vital function. An estimate of energy needs of a sedentary person are: 65% for autonomous functions, 10% for digestion, and 25% for all other activities.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
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The less food you eat, the less energy you need to digest it. A diet that cuts 500 calories per day needs approximately 50 calories per day less for digestion.
The liver and associated areas use 27% of body energy, the brain uses 20%, skeletal muscles use 18%, kidneys 10%, the heart uses 7%, and the remainder of the vital organs use 18% of body energy. 65% of the energy is used by the vital organs whose combined weight totals only about 5% of the body's weight. Most of the remaining energy is used by the muscles, which are more active than body fat.
A sedentary person's body uses most of its energy from food for vital function. An estimate of energy needs of a sedentary person are: 65% for autonomous functions, 10% for digestion, and 25% for all other activities.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
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Saturday, July 9, 2011
The Importance of Regular Eating, Part 1
Many overweight people eat only one meal per day thinking that the less they eat, the more weight they will lose. This is, of course, not true. Since the beginning of the 20th Century, Americans eat 10% less but have come to weight 14% more. And generally, overweight people eat less than normal weight people. That both groups remain at stable weights is a result of metabolism.
Metabolic rate is the speed at which your body uses energy for the process of replacing and renewing cells while asleep, for food digestion, and for activity. Most people use most of their energy for the function of their vital organs, especially the brain, heart, liver, and kidneys.
When starting a diet or severely restricting food intake for any reason, your body's first reaction is to use the energy that is immediately available for emergencies. This is not fat. It is glycogen, a form of glucose (a carbohydrate) stored in solution with water in the body's most metabolically active organ, the liver. The body contains approximately 7.5 pounds of glycogen in solution. Glycogen burns faster than fat. About 400 calories are required to burn one pound of glycogen in solution with water.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
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Metabolic rate is the speed at which your body uses energy for the process of replacing and renewing cells while asleep, for food digestion, and for activity. Most people use most of their energy for the function of their vital organs, especially the brain, heart, liver, and kidneys.
When starting a diet or severely restricting food intake for any reason, your body's first reaction is to use the energy that is immediately available for emergencies. This is not fat. It is glycogen, a form of glucose (a carbohydrate) stored in solution with water in the body's most metabolically active organ, the liver. The body contains approximately 7.5 pounds of glycogen in solution. Glycogen burns faster than fat. About 400 calories are required to burn one pound of glycogen in solution with water.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
For more information about video classes and individual sessions, please visit: http://EmpoweredDieter.org
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