Why do they say when trying to lose weight that you should drink A LOT of water?

Question

like over a gallon per day? really? doesn't that make you bloated?

Answer 1

1 gallon is 4 quarts. 1 quart is 32 ounces of water. So 1 gallon is 128 ounces of water. They say you need to drink abt 128 ounces of water thru the day. You should drink close to the gallon as you can. It works best if you do not drink anything else. And 1 gallon is not a lot of water really. most during the day can drink an easy 4 bottles of water average bottle is 20 ounces. And this is during work hours. So it is easy to drink 1 gallon during the day.
And no it will not make you feel bloated if your drink it thruout the day. Also it helps flush toxins out the body. It is good for digestion and help in having bowel movement in the day. Eliminating the waste product in the body and also keeping the weight of thru that as well.

Answer 2

Water speeds up your metabolism, it helps you digest food faster. You pee out all the water, it's not real weight. It helps enormously, but go ahead and ignore sense.

Answer 3

Water helps to clean out your system and digest your food better so you lose weight.

Answer 4

Nearly every diet plan starts with the "drink a boatload of water" idea. It creates a false sense of weight loss. By drinking tons of water your body adapts by retaining less water. Water is very heavy. So by "teaching" your body to retain less water, you will experience a sharp weight loss at the beginning of any program. The program then takes credit for your fast weight loss. It's false because water weight is not what you are trying to lose. What you want to lose is body fat. Furthermore, when you stop drinking that boatload of water every day, your body will once again retain the same amount of water.

Answer 5

Water will make you feel fuller and you will eat less,

Answer 6

**burn fat** not "lose weight"