A pint of water before meals is the secret to losing weight, scientists claim

The London Mirror ^ | August 26, 2015 | Jennifer Cockerell

[Thorliveshere]

Hunh. I drink a lot of water, and most of it is before meals. However, I don’t lose weight... but I do maintain. I do exercise. Don’t drink pop anymore. Really cut back on carbs and sweets. So, what’s the deal? Why don’t I lose weight? I do love meat, but don’t eat a lot of it. I like chicken more, and turkey, but still...

[Reeses]

50 to 75% of weight is water combining with the food. Eating a block of styrofoam might actually work better.

[Grams A]

My grandson loves it when we go out to dinner. My motto: “Life is short - Eat dessert first”. Remember if you eat cookies and break them up into small pieces, all the calories leak out and vanish in the atmosphere.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

LOL

[Bon mots]

A handful of cashew nuts 15 minutes before a meal dulls your appetite. I’ve been doing that and am still fit despite hiding from the gym for the last 2 months.

[A CA Guy]

Makes sense because you are diluting the digestive juices and maybe stuff goes through without sticking around longer.

[headstamp 2]

LOL

It all mixes up when it gets down in your stomach anyway.

[topspinr]

I was prescribed 1 water pill each morning, starting 6 days ago. Before taking the pill, i weighed 179. This morning my weight was 169.

[LoneStar42]

Same folks who “advised” on Sat fat, cholesterol, eggs, salt, etc.?

No offense 2DV, just tired of hearing about polyunsaturated.

[wintertime]

Normally thin people are not doing any of this. Normally thin people don't have eating strategies. They just eat until they are full and anything after that is painful to them.

[Fiddlstix]

ROTFL!

Been There
Done That

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Does a pint of beer work as well? I can dream, can’t I?

[Thorliveshere]

Okay, what’s a water pill?

[dr_lew]

If I only ate when I was hungry ... I’d be a string bean.

[kitchen]

This is a rehash of a weight loss strategy from the '70s that reported some success. The difference was that the water was supposed to be as cold as possible. So cold that you would need a straw to keep from cracking teeth. A pint or more sipped over the half hour before each meal.

Good luck!

[SunkenCiv]

Possibly it’s not entirely coincidental that romaine-based salads are a great daily lunch in the Atkins diet.

[rmlew]

worth a shot — no downside.
More like 16. I also take a fiber pill.

[SaveFerris]

I’m thinking of trying that.

[SunkenCiv]

I lost about 20% of my former body weight using Atkins, and am trying to get back to losing (I had a bump in the road and regained a lot), and I’m pretty sure the foundation of it was those salads — chopped romaine, chopped celery stick (or 2), chopped radish (or 2), mesquite chicken breast (these are the fully cooked bags of a dozen or so at Sam’s) zapped and cut up, and low-carb (not low-fat) dressings (Ken’s Ranch, Buttermilk Ranch, Caesar); I generally use a small number of optional ingredients to keep it interesting. I don’t like cukes, but dill pickles work instead (not sweet pickles), chopped up, and then with Ken’s 1000 Island. :’) Prior to that, I never ate a radish, and avoided celery like the plague.

[antceecee]

so funny!