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How can drinking water make you lose weight?

The simple water can help you in so many ways. When we take in the food, our body stores the food as energy. In order to store the energy, we need to drink water because the energy has to be stored in the muscles as glycogen with water. But if we do not drink enough water the energy gets left in the body as glucose in the process of using the energy. When we have left over glucose in our body, it gets converted into fats in the liver. But if we drink a lot of water, our liver uses the fats whenever we need energy and stops the conversion of glucose to fats. Pure water does not contain any calories so it does not make you fat. However it helps to increase the metabolism and helps to use up the calories faster.

75% of our muscles are composed with water. When there is not enough water in the body, the process of making muscles, healing the sores and burning fats will not act as good. If you want to grow your muscles and increase the speed of your metabolism, you should consider drinking more water.

How can we avoid excessive eating?

You must eat breakfast. If you don’t eat breakfast, it can make you eat more at lunch time and it’s not good for your stomach to eat too much at once. Eating breakfast enough so you don’t feel hungry or too full is very important.

Eat little and often. If you’re hungry you can eat frequently. But the amount you eat has to be very little. It’s good to eat about three to four hours period. Usually people who are on a diet starve themselves and it might be worse for them. If you recklessly starve yourself, your body turns in to a constitution where if you gain weight easy even if you only eat a little bit.

Proteins give you more satisfied feeling than any other nutrients which is good for your diet because protein doesn’t have high calories and are less fattening. Chicken breasts, cooked white meat and egg whites are good proteins.

Brush your teeth often. People often eat not because they are hungry but because they feel like eating. Brushing your teeth is a good way to avoid this because after brushing teeth, you lose the taste as well as your appetite.

What are some food that have low calories and high nutrients?

Red pepper – From the Oprah Winfrey show, she told us that she ate a little bit of chili powder every day. Also in Japan, they made a diet drink using red peppers.   The capsaicin in red pepper is what makes the hot flavor which increases the metabolism by activating the sympathetic nerve which is related to energy metabolism. When you eat red peppers, you can burn at least 10% of calories you ate.

Kelp – 10 pieces of kelp has only 20kcal. But it has rich fibroid material which makes you feel full quick and the gooey substance in the kelps stops the fat from getting absorbed to the body. It’s also good for treating constipation and coprostasis. If you don’t like kelps, seaweed is another recommended food. The iodine in seaweed makes thyroxin and burns the fats in the body.

Onions – Onions also have the hot taste which does emulsification in the body. It stops the converting from nutrients to fats and emulsifies the cholesterol and other high fats. The emulsification substance is rich in only the raw onions, so it’s good to eat it raw when having barbecues or meats.

Although water has no calories, we should consider drink it carefully when we are exercising. When we drink water while exercising, when our heart is beating too fast and cannot breathe properly, it could be very dangerous for the body and cause hyponatremia. Hyponatremia is a disease caused when the natrium in our blood is lower than the average. When we drink water while the heart is puffing and having hard time to breathe and sweating, the surplus water gets absorbed into the cells and increases the blood pressure then damages some of the organs such as the brain cells, the lungs and the heart.

The symptoms for hyponatremia are headaches, nausea, difficulty in breathing, dizziness and muscle spasm. If the condition gets worse, you could get pulmonary edema, cerebral edema or coma and for the worst case you could actually lose your life. Although it is important to provide enough water to the body when we exercise but we have to be careful to drink not too much that it can threaten your life. An adequate amount is about a half to a cup for every 15 to 30 minutes and it should not excess over four cups.

Color food diet is made to help you balance your nutrients and maintain a healthy body.

Green – the green chlorophyll in plants are good for harmonizing the metabolism in the body, relives the fatigue and repairs damaged cells quickly thus slowing down the aging. The green tea removes the cholesterol stored in the body and also can prevent cancer. Brocollis are the best vegetables especially for women. It can also prevent cancer. Brocolli is rich in vitamin C, E and selenium.

Red – the lycopene strenghtens the blood vessels and provides more protection against cancer. Tomatoes are in one of the top 10 cancer preventing fruit list. It contains varieties of minerals and vitamins with low calories.

Black – The antosianin in black foods have antioxidants which slow down the aging of the body. Black bean has high vitamin B, calcium, phosphorus, iron and is good for preventing arthritis, secretion of hormones and anti-aging.

Yellow – Carotenoids in yellow food have anti-aging affect and prevents cancer. Pumpkins are high in vitamin A, B, C and calcium and clean out the wastes in the colon.

White – increases resisting power in your body against and sends out the bad toxins and wastes out of the body.

Apple diet brings the most effectiveness in the fastest time because apples are rich in varieties of vitamins and has excellent sugar, glucose, malic acid, minerals that are well absorbed through the body. Apples diet makes you feel not as hungry as the other diets and helps you clean out the feces that are contained in the long intestines. The malic, citric, tartaric acid and the large amount of soluble pectin in the apple are good for people with constipation and diarrhea.

For three days, eat as many apples you want whenever you are hungry. Usually people eat 5 to 8 apples but if you want, you can eat more than 8. On the third night, take one big table spoon of olive oil. Olive oils stimulate the intestines and make the toxin and the wastes come out.

You should try to eat organic apples and eat it with the peels and only drink water and no other drinks. For a better effect you should include exercise.

Apple diets should be only going for 3 days at maximum because if it lasts longer, you can’t get enough nutrients for your body and affect your health. It should be avoided for people with stomach ulcers, because apples are strongly acidic.

1. Water – water is the most general diet food known because it is everywhere and you can drink it anytime and it has no calories. As known in general, drinking water harmonizes the metabolism and cleans out the accumulated wastes in the body.Drinking water before each meal can control the amount of food you eat. When hungry, drinking a cup of water can help you eliminate hunger.

2. Chicken breast & Eggs – these have high protein and low fat so many celebrities eat chicken breast and eggs as replacement for meals. This protein diet restricts the intake of carbohydrates and the fats in the body can replace for the undersupply of energy.

3. Sweet potatoes – Sweet potatoes have very low calories but still makes you feel full because of it has lots of fibers and make you lose your apettie.

4. Fruits & Vegetables – fruits and vegetables are good because it contains enough water, vitamins and fibers and still has low calories. The only thing you need you be careful of is not to eat too much fruit with high sugar content and also be aware that salad dressings also have calories.

5. Soya milk & Milk – Soya milk has extremly high nutrients and the protein in the soy bean reduces the amount of fat and therefore very good for diet.

Scarlett Johansson is one of the Hollywood’s most sexiest and hottest celebrity and her confidence of her body adds to the beauty. She says that diets should be focused not only on the outward appearance but as well as the internal health because ultra-thin is not sexy. She has always criticized how Hollywood stars always have unhealthy diet and eating disorders.  The great thing about her diet is that she doesn’t starve or stresses about gaining weight. Her favorite foods are donuts and pizza and she’s still capable of maintaining her body figure. The secret is that Scarlett can eat smart and never fears food. Her everyday meal plans are as follows;

Morning – soup made with skim milk, orange juice, whole wheat toast, green tea and strawberries.

Lunch – chicken sandwich with whole wheat bread, salad

Dinner – chicken or turkey meat, fish, 2 baked potatoes, vegetable salad.

desert – organic yogurt made with honey or berries.

The way to look like Scarlett Johansson is to eat smartly and exercise a lot. The best exercise is walking in the mornings.  If you really want to lose weight, don’t get too stressed about diet and try to enjoy exercising and you will start loving what you do and it won’t be so hard anymore.