Hi and welcome back!
A reminder about hydration...
When it comes to losing body fat it is even more important than ever to consider your hydration. All functions within the body require the presence of water and for these functions to occur quickly and efficiently we need a well hydrated body. In short, being well hydrated helps boost our metabolic rate meaning we will burn energy faster - I have read that a well hydrated body burns 3% more calories than a dehydrated body- which makes sense when you think about it as once the body is dehydrated it will start to shut down!
Another thing to remember is that we get a lot of our fluids from food, especially fruit and vegetables, so if you are not eating a lot of fruit and vegetables you are even more likely to be dehydrated and more likely to eat more of the other foods(which are higher in calories) to fill up your fluid reserves.
And, when it comes to exercise, our muscles also hold a lot of water, so if you are dehydrated, your muscles are likely to be weeker - and what do we want to become?...Stronger!!!!
Bearing all of this in mind why would you not want to drink more water?
Health benefits of drinking water:
regulate appetite
increase metabolism
boost energy levels
less water retention
alleviate some headaches
help reduce blood pressure
help reduce high cholesterol
ease joint pain
decrease in risk of some cancers
less chance developing kidney stones
release toxic waste products
improves skin
So, bottoms up and cheers!!
Sue x
FAT-SCRAP APRIL 2010 DAY FIFTEEN
FAT-SCRAP APRIL 2010 DAY SEVENTEEN
3 comments:
Breakfast: Remainder of the Rachel's vanilla yogurt and frozen blueberries. Peppermint tea.
Snack: 3 brazils. Lots of water drunk as out doing gardening - so stayed hydrated! Garden looking better than it has done in a while!! Dusty: 1, Dandelions: Nil!
Lunch: 2 sausages, 2 bacon, scramled eggs (no milk used). Also had baked beans, but washed off the sauce (high in sugar?) and added tomato puree to flavour.
No pm snack.
Tea: Jacket potato with bacon and lacto free cheese. Cup of tea with small splash of semi skimmed milk - heaven! Feels like my new weekend treat instead of alcohol/chocolate/Haribo!!
Evening snack: Sue's fruit cake.
Hi Dusty..thought you might be interested to know that even the Rachels vanilla yogurt has sugar in it. The only sugar free option in natural. Also instead of washing the sauce off the baked beans, you might like to use cannelleni beans which are very similat to the beans used in baked beans. I stir these in to tinned organic tomatoes and add some worcestershire sauce for my own version of baked beans, like your idea of adding tomato puree.
Maybe adding vanilla extract to natural yogurt may work?
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