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Step 1
Drink a glass of water when you wake up and one half hour prior to meals. According to Bob Greene, Oprahs trainer, drinking a glass of water one half hour before meals will help you feel fuller and less likely to over eat.
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Step 2
Eliminate all diet and regular sodas and drink water to lose weight instead. Artificially sweetened soda can increase your desire to eat. Regular soda contains alot of calories. If your soda contains 160 calories and you eliminated two per day, you would lose about a pound every 10 days doing nothing else.
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Step 3
Dilute fruit juices with water to cut back on calories but still enjoy a flavorable tasty drink.
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Step 4
Eat water rich foods. Water rich foods like berries are less calorie dense than foods that do not contain alot of water such as crackers. For more on this read Barbara Rolls book, Volumetrics.
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Step 5
If you do not like the taste of water add squeeze in a little lemon, lime or orange juice. For more weight loss tips drinking water see resources.
Comments
looptheloop said
on 8/30/2009 Well said.
lighthouse1958 said
on 8/26/2009 I know drinking lots of water fills the body up. I'm thirsty now, I'll have a glass as we speak. thanks. 5* and rec.
amylaine said
on 8/4/2009 Very interesting way to lose weight. Thanks.
parollins said
on 3/26/2009 I don't drink as much as I should and need to. Good article.
diygrrrl said
on 3/4/2009 Great tips for losing weight. Re: Step 5, Adding lemon juice to your water also adds Vitamin C!