Fiber-Girl - Weight Loss

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Eat Your Calories, Don't Drink Them

You've probably heard that drinking at least eight glasses (two liters, or sixty-four ounces) of water a day is beneficial, but did you know that water intake is also associated with weight loss? Not only will consuming lots of water help move all that fiber out the back door, it will increase your metabolism, help regulate your appetite, and knock off loads of calories. It will also boost your energy level and combat joint pain. Drinking enough water has even been shown to help prevent cancers of all sorts, including bladder, colon and breast cancer. Calories from beverages don't make us full; they make us fat. Studies show that when we eat, the chewing motion sends a message to our brains that we're becoming full. Drinking doesn't involve chewing, so no message of satiety is sent to the brain.

Let's say you currently consume one eight-ounce glass of juice and one sixteen-ounce cafe mocha a day. That's a little over four hundred calories. If you forgo the juice and change the mocha into a single-shot espresso, you won't be consuming any calories from drinks. You just cut out four hundred calories a day. One pound of body fat is comprised of 3,500 calories. So in less than nine days, you will lose one pound. Nine days after that, you'll lose another. In a year, you will have lost just over forty pounds - just from taking out two little beverages. more...