Well… I got injured and stop training for several months. Started to eat donuts and other like and gain some weight… Now I back and I talked to a nutricionist in order to plain a diet and an old question of mine got tuned. Since ever people when talking about diets always end saying: “ohh… and don’t forget to drink lots of water!”
Despite the “rivers” we triathletes lose in training, how can drinking lots of water help us 2 lose weight?
I heard many stories as drinking lots water after any meal delays digestion so that the absortion of simple sugars isn’t so quick! Well… the fact is that I still don’t even know if this is true…
And… when people say “drink LOTS of water”… how can we measure the “lots”? I usually drink 2-3 L per day… is it enough?
Don’t know about any of that. . .But I’d bet that most people who are on a diet would benefit from drinking more water simply because it would keep them from drinking soda and other empty calories. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if many of them could cut several hundred calories a day that way.
On a related note, the local paper carried a story yesterday about how more people are drinking sports drinks, even though they don’t engage in any sport. Seems the drink makers are marketing them as “energy drinks” and the like. People are drinking them as if they’re some sort of health elixir, and evidently not realizing that “energy” is synonymous with “calories.”
I have no idea about your your claim about drinking water after meal.
My rule of thumb is a quick look to the color of my pee during the day… yellow=bad/drink liquid, no color=good.
With liquid i´m not saying water only but stuff with high % of water like fruits, sport drinks, etc. If you drink too much water you will pee to much and loose electrolyts in the process, if you don´t then you will be dehydrated and i guess we all know what that means.
There is the myth that if you drink lot of water you don´t get hungry but there´s several studys showing that a deficit in electrolits can cause the hungry feeling.
If you are dehydrated you will be prone to injuries due to low joint “lubrification” as well as a performance deficit.
Balance is always the best way and you should find yours. If you want to loose weight then fruits, veggies and no donnuts are the trick, drinking water and eating donnuts won´t.