I know I have personally read the answer to this question somewhere on this site, but the archive search seems to be broken and half an hour of futzing with the message board search turned up squat. Anyways.
When your dieting, why is it recommeded that you drink a metric boatload of water?
I’m pretty sure it has something to do with metabolic toxins, possibly stuff that collected in the fat your burning?? I can’t remember exactly. Anybody got the whole answer?
It improves your grammar.
Flushing out your system seems to be a good thing.
Why? Let the debate begin.
Well 647, as you obviously already know, the word for the day is “vacuous.”
Thanks for chiming in with your stunningly unhelpful commentary.
A recent story in the LA Times reported that most nutritionists don’t believe that drinking large amounts of water makes any difference when trying to lose weight. If you drink a metric boatload of water, you are likely to pee a metric boatload of water.
Some people interviewed in the article believed that most people ingest enough water in their food, that you can get away without drinking any additional water during the day.
I think that if you feel that you have to drink a lot of water, at least you aren’t dwelling on trying to not eat.
Start off with the fact that most people are borderline dehydrated about half the time, and then encourage them not to take in any extra calories, or engage in “treats” or social eating and drinking, and you have a fairly good chance of getting your electrolytes out of whack. If you give up sodas, coffee, and such, and you reduce your food consumption, you are going to greatly reduce your bodies water intake. So, drink more water.
How much more water is really not anywhere near as well researched as it is well recommended. You do need some extra water if you switch over to a catabolic metabolism. But you really don’t need buckets of water. Hard numbers are really difficult to pin down. It seems to me to be more a matter of the dietitian or doctor’s opinion than any controlled study results.
However, it would take literally several gallons of water daily, to be detrimental to most healthy people. So, on the whole the “drink more water” camp is on safe ground, and no increase in water at all is much more likely to give you trouble. A glass of water every time you would have been eating or taking something more caloric is ritualistically useful, and unlikely to do you harm. Don’t replace it with sodas, or tea, or coffee, though. That will give you problems. If you decrease your total diet, you should decrease your tea/coffee/soda consumption by a similar proportion.
Moderation. Moderation. Moderation. Plan a change in eating habits that can become a lifetime habit. Not a starvation diet, or a single food type diet. Add exercise in an increasing, but non-stressful schedule. The combined regime should cover at least as long a time to moderate your weight as it took to reach your current level of overweight. If that was decades, then your diet/exercise plan needs to be decades long too. Not encouraging words, but really true ones.
Love who you are. You can still change details of that, but you really need to care about yourself, and for yourself to make the best of who you are.
Tris (who is still fat, but doesn’t care nearly as much, anymore)
Not real sure on this one, but by ensuring that your system has a readily available supply of fluids, your metabolism can function at a better rate. A diet isn’t just about losing weight, but about eating healthier and basically getting your body into the right swing of things so you can lose weight! Oh yeah…BTW…a diet isn’t just a special diet to lose weight. generally, once you start on a diet to lose weight, you pretty much have to be on it for the rest of your life…or at least be very careful what you eat anyway!
there’s a couple of nutritionists around the traps here somewhere who could probably help you out…can’t think of their names at the present moment tho!
I guess that drinking extra water would fill your stomach more, so you wouldn’t get the hunger pangs you sometimes do with diets! Even tho you’ll still get the cravings!
Diets Suck BTW…I’ll just stick to being cuddly, the way my GF loves me! :rolleyes:
mmmmhhh…vacuous: to paraphrase ~stupid. But I’m not the the fat shit who wonders whether drinking water is beneficial [it is]. Try becoming a vacuole, it might appeal to the vegatarian in you.
Is it correct grammar to put two independent clauses together with a comma like that? Shouldn’t they at least have a semicolon between them, if not a period? Honestly, I’m curious.
Oh, and the word is “vegetarian” as long as we’re griping.
Now - let’s all try to be productive.
For a pompous ass who feels the need to correct grammar on the SDMB, 647 displays an egregious disregard for a dictionary when constructing feeble comebacks (ahem, it’s “vegetarian”). Which is why I say “correct not lest ye be corrected.”
To answer the post, when dieting you ought to drink more water because hopefully you are exercising more than usual, and thus perspiring more. At a minimum, replace what you burn; the benefit of consuming extra H2O has been examined above.
For a pompous ass who feels the need to correct grammar on the SDMB,
The difference between your and you?re seems like something most people familiar with English should appreciate. For the ones that want to correct my grammar–touché (I?m sorry I don?t know how to place accent marks, and, I?m not an English major), but because I don?t have a writing guide at my fingertips, maybe my grammatical sins could be forgiven in light of the big picture?I?m winging it. Please feel free to correct my grammar. I imagine though, knowing the difference between your and you?re should count for more than punctuation between independent clauses?which might be subjective.
As to:
Which is why I say “correct not lest ye be corrected.”
I guess I’m missing the point of this MB,
How about you?
I’m still having trouble with my interface: ? s should be ’ s.
647: Mi amigo/a, I apologize for the tone of my last post. It’s just that it gets old to see people post with no other intention than to exclaim condescendingly, “A-ha, I found a grammar/spelling/syntax/etc. mistake in your post!” Your post did not contribute to the thread, and was just an opportunity for you to poke at falcon’s grammar (however basic the mistake was). I think you just summed it up best when you ask if “grammatical sins could be forgiven in light of the big picture?”; I say Amen.
Not to get off on too much of a tangent (too late, I know), but perhaps members could have an icon next to their name denoting whether they care to have their grammar instead of their questions analyzed – if you see the icon (a typewriter, a red pen, a pompous ass?;)) then feel free to edit and nitpick away! Otherwise, restrain yourself. Just a thought…
About correcting people: this isn’t the Grammar Checker Message Board, and most people (or am I wrong here?) don’t post looking for help constructing a sentence. Correct people on the facts.
Um, oh yeah, like drink a lot of water and stuff…:rolleyes:
I lost about 40 pounds three years ago, and have for the most part kept it off. I did it with a relatively high fiber, low fat diet that allowed moderate carb and protein consumption (Weight Watchers 123 program, for those keeping score at home). The water was recommended for three things:[ul][]“flushing” out the excess fat or whatever that I had 40 extra pounds of,[]keeping all that fiber from causing severe gastric discomfort, and[*]keeping OpalCat happy.[/ul]Also, because I exercised for about an hour a day, drinking 3 quarts of water kept (and still keeps) me hydrated. Yeah, I piss like a racehorse with some frequency, but my bladder capacity has expanded (I think). And since our bodies are composed of something like 88% water, it can’t be bad for you. 
When you lose weight the first thing to go is water, thus you are supposed to drink fluids or water…
What the heck? Everybody calm down and take this thread down a notch, please.
In particular, 647, you started this and kept it going. Do not level insults in General Questions again.
I was out of line and I apologize.
In the spirit of the OP, I would suggest substituting water for soft drinks and such whenever you get the chance; all those empty calories in such drinks add up. At my work the water fountain is right next to the vending machines and I’d rather save my money by drinking water.
You burn more calories drinking lots of water, especially if your desk is far from the can.