Goodbye Morning, Friends! I hope you're all well this Wednesday morning! For those of you keeping an eye on the food and recipes part of my blog, my apologies for no new recipes yesterday, I'll catch up on that today with a couple different new recipes! But before I get to the food, let me take a moment to talk about water. I wanted to write this blog yesterday, but didn't get around to it. I suppose it's a good thing I didn't because MyFitnessPal sent me an email just this morning containing an article about water and weight loss. I haven't read it yet, I wanted to share my own (non-scientific) thoughts first. I will share the link with you, so you can read the article as well. :) OK, onto my thoughts and journey with water...
For as long as I can remember I have not been a water drinker. I love chocolate milk, soda, coffee, and wine, but water has never been high on my beverage list. That being said, when we ate out when I was a kid, everyone ordered water, me included. My drink generally never had to be refilled. To this day, water is still not high on my drink list. I'd drink coffee all day every day if I wasn't concerned about my teeth looking like I did as much and caffeine headaches wouldn't plague me on the days I got busy and forgot to drink so much. For my kids I get the Mio water flavoring which we call "juice" so they drink plenty of water, but I don't care for the flavoring much either.
Drinking the (previously) recommended 8 (8oz) glasses of water/day has always been a struggle for me. Sometimes it seems like months go by that I don't drink an actual glass of water. But drinking water is critical to weight loss. I've mentioned this in one of my other weight loss posts, but I absolutely believe that if you want to lose weight well, you need to be drinking water too.
One article I read while Michael and I were dieting said to take your body weight in pounds and divide it in half, that's how much water you should drink in a day. When I read the article I was around 160 lbs, which means 80 ounces of water per day. Lucky for me, that is exactly 5 - 16 oz glasses! Made it really easy to keep track of how much I was drinking. A few days ago I recalculated. I was at 136 lbs, so I would need 68 ounces per day, just a little over 4 glasses. Some days I get more than that, most of the time I aim for 5 and call it good.
Any time I drink all the water I'm supposed to, I'm pleasantly surprised at my weight the next day. On days when I feel like I've eaten too much, and I know my weight is going to be up, I maintain my weight. On days when I eat well and I drink all my water, I lose weight. On days when I've plateau'd, I begin going down again. I really cannot rave enough about the success I've had when drinking copious amounts of water. So I strongly encourage you to give it a try as well if you're struggling with weight loss. Try to eat well, but equally as importantly, drink water! Lots of it! Now, this isn't a free pass. You can't pig out and drink water and expect to maintain or lose, but when combined with a balanced diet, or even a day with a few extra snacks, you won't destroy a week's worth of work. :)
Stay thirsty my friends!
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