Why should people drink lareg volumes of water if they are not thirsty?

 

To me any diet that tries to get you to drink more water than is necessary is not only going to fail, but it is also dangerous.

 

People have DIED through consuming too much water just to lose weight.

 

Your body will give you signals when it is thirsty.

 

You should drink when you are thirsty NOT when you are HUNGRY.

 

Not only this but one litre of water weighs ONE KILO, so if you are drinking more water to help you lose weight then the weight of the water will actually make you HEAVIER. Not only that but your stomach is a delicate balance of checmical / biology. If you flood it with water it will not function properly, not only will that make you ill but it will force the body to crave dry foods to balance out the excess water and these will be foods that you would not have eaten if you hadn't consumed extra water.

 

I am very much in favour of water and it is VITAL to get enough, but I cannot support drinking water to lose weight, it is NOT going to work.

 

It is important to be healthy and doing anything to excess just to lose weight is WRONG !!!!

 

 

Hi Barnabassmith,

 

If you have read the Birchall Diet or any of the reviews etc. you will see that I clearly state that I believe that low calorie diets are bot good diets.

 

Nobody can tell you that X number of calories is right for you, because we all have days where we are more active than others and so our calorie requirements also change daily.

 

I am also sure that most of the diets that use calorie counting fail because it is impossible to tell how many calories are in everything that we eat and why should you have to calculate this each time.

 

The Birchall diet works without calorie counting and relies on the body's own skills to tell us when we need to eat. We just need to "listen" to the signals that our body gives us and react correctly to those signlas.

 

I really don't like diets that are based on calorie counting.

 

Also have you seen how they calculate the calories in the food? THEY BURN IT !!!

They dry the food or drink and burn the residue and then measure the heat. Are they seriously saying that this gives us ANY indication of what that food will do to us when we eat it? Our bodies do not BURN the food it processes it (and not always all of it)

 

So calories (in my view) are a terrible way to determine what to eat and when.