Is Water The Secret Weight Loss Ingredient?

Why should the amount of water you drink affect weight loss? H2O is
essential to our bodies. How much you drink may directly affect how
much you lose. It may be the "miracle drug" we all want to get rid of
excess weight. Once you've got the amount of calories you take in
under control, the water you drink may play a bigger role in losing
weight than you realize.
Most folks can't figure out why they need to drink more if they are
already retaining water. That bloat you feel is how your body is
responding to a lack of water. It is convinced you aren't getting
enough and therefore saving every drop. So instead of flushing out a
lot of impurities in your system, you keep them along with the water.
Your system needs water to get the gunk out of your system. When you
drink more, it washes out the impurities your body would otherwise not
get rid of because of a lack of water. Once the floodgates open, your
system absorbs the water and pushes out the extra gunk it's been
holding on to. All this makes you go to the bathroom more. The more
nasty stuff you've got stored up the longer this process takes, but
chin up, it will all settle down and soon you'll be back to a more
normal routine....

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