Here's another look at how drinking water can help you lose weight, but this time it is cold water. Drinking cold water for weight loss isn't without its logic. The logic is that the body requires extra energy to warm up the cold water that you drink up to normal body temperature when it is absorbed into the bloodstream. That is the reason why you are feeling cold when you drink cold water. Your body is trying to burn extra calories to keep up your body's temperature. In fact, numerous studies have found that the stomach absorbs cold water faster when compared to warm water, thus cold water enters the bloodstream even faster, thereby contributing further to the cold feelings that you get when you drinking a big glass of cold water.

Even if you might call it a cheat in weight loss, drinking water whether warm or cold does bring another obvious effect that is to supress your appetite. Most importantly, it prevents you from over-eating and so does limiting your calories intake which would be great to your weight loss plan. As such, drinking a lot of water each day not only is it great for your health, it also contributes to weight loss.

Drinking a lot of water will not cause you to gain "water weight". Water weight is a condition where the your body retains the fluids. Typically, water weight is caused by the comsumption of too much salt and in order to maintain the body's salt level at proper concentration when you have taken just too much salt, the body will balance the concentration by retaining the fluids. However, this condition is further exacerbated when you are dehydrated.

Dehydration causes your body to hold on to the water instead of simply converting it to urine. If you have been drinking great amount of water each day (daily water intake of at least 8 glasses of 8 oz each is recommended), this condition should not arise. In actual fact, it even results in you shedding water weight because when your body recognizes that it is constantly replenished with new water intake and being constantly hydrated, your body will realize that there is no reason or a need to hold on to any fluids within, resulting in the excretion of more urine.

Yes, you can lose weight by drinking cold water. Here's a general idea of how it works. You are drinking glasses of ice cold water (at 0 degree centigrade) each day and your body heats it up to body temperature when absorbed into the bloodstream and later excreted as urine (at 37 degree centigrade). Your body is basically doing the heating up process which of course requires energy thereby resulting in calories burned.

The calculation of energy used is as follows assuming you are drinking 64 oz (8 glasses of 8 ounces each) of ice cold water a day, that 64 oz of water is roughly equivalent to 1800 ml (milliliter) or 1.8 liter of fluid. Since it takes one calorie of energy to heat one ml of water by one degree centrigrade, to raise 1800 ml of ice cold water to normal body temperature (37 degree centrigrade), it means the body will have to use up 37 calories per ml of water and multiply that by 1800, you will need 66,600 calories or 66.6 kilo calorie (66.6 Calorie **note the capital C) a day.

Although the 66.6 Calories burned is not actually that great contribution towards weight loss considering you will need to burn 3,500 Calories to lose one pound of body weight, but if you follow this method, you will have to consume about 95 litres of ice cold water a day to lose just one pound of weight. To be logical, make it over a longer period, say if you try that over a period of 2 months, you will get to lose more than one pound of weight every two months. You do the maths!

In summary, drinking cold water does contribute to weight loss nevertheless and eventhough the amount is not that significant. Doing it over a longer period of time however makes more sense. Nontheless, it can't hurt by losing tenths of Calories a day though, and especially since water is a great appetite suppressant. Drinking more water is in any way still better for good health.

As this article explores the possibilities and effects on weight loss by drinking ice cold water, the effects of water whether cold or warm on weight loss should not be neglected too. There are many benefits of drinking water on weight loss. you can read it right here on Lose Weight Quickly By Drinking Water.

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