By far the most important and yet the easiest way to accelerate your weight loss results is to hydrate consistently. There is more research on the positive effects of hydration on weight loss than you can imagine…
so I won’t bore you with the details! After all, you are a busy person, right?
Let’s just say that water is the most critical element in maintaining and facilitating your body’s chemistry (after oxygen, of course). Strip your body of water, and it will strip you of your health, energy, and ultimately, your life!
The generally advised 8 glasses a day are enough if you are an “average” person: 5’8”, 160 lbs. male in good shape! I doubt this applies to you, or else you wouldn’t be interested in weight loss, right?
So, what’s the bottom line?
To stay properly hydrated, you must drink a minimum of 7 oz. of pure (not tap) water for every 10 lbs. of body weight. More if you’re active, work out, or live/work in a dry place.
That’s 105 oz. of pure water if you weigh 150 lbs… just over 3 liters.
And don’t try to climb Mt. Everest in one day: GRADUALLY work your way up to the amount that’s right for you.
One more thing: get yourself a good water filtration system. This is not only the most costeffective way to get pure water, but it’s probably your best bet for getting good quality water.
Finally, to make hydration more effective, all water you drink should be alkaline water. Alkalizing your water not only adds oxygen to your water, but it also helps neutralize the acids that make you fat.
One of the best ways I know of to alkalize your water is through alkalizing agents like Prime pH.
Avoid Coffee, Tea, Soda, And Other Acidic Drinks
I knew that after reading Tip you were going to ask if coffee, tea, and soda counts! It does NOT! As a matter of fact, you need to avoid these and all other acidic liquids in general.
Your body will do whatever it must to maintain its delicate internal acid/alkaline balance (pH balance). Your blood alkalinity level (pH) must be in the range 7.360 - 7.370 ALL THE TIME or you will die! When you drink acidic liquids, you throw off this pH balance.
So, to save your life, one of the first things your body will do is to park away the acids somewhere where they can’t damage your body. Where do you think is the best place to park poisonous acids?
You guessed it! FAT CELLS!
So while you’re enjoying your diet soda, you’re actually making yourself create and fill up more fat cells!!! The more acidic your drink, the more you will aggravate this situation.
With that in mind, here are some numbers to put things in perspective:
• Pure water is neutral.
• Tea (like Lipton, regular or decaf) is 600-800 times more acidic.
• Coffee (decaf, half-caf, and full-caf) is 700-1000 times more acidic.
• Soda (regular and sugar free) is 50,000 times more acidic.
What does that mean?
If you want to lose weight, you must avoid all acidic drinks and liquids like coffee, tea (except herbal), soda, vinegar, Gatorade, Red Bull, beer, hard liquor, and malted beverages. Replace them with good, pure, alkaline water.
The choice is yours. Where would you rather have the poisonous acids go? In your fat cells, or out with your urine?
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