Day 6: Drink Water, Lose Weight | 30-Day Weight Loss-athon
Time for Day 6 of the 30-Day Weight Loss-athon.
Read the steps first, then take 10 minutes to complete them.
Move fast, act quickly and stop over-thinking. Ready?
What You Need:
- Glass
- Bottle
- Water.
Step 1
First, let’s get the facts. We’ve all heard that drinking water helps weight loss, but is it really true?
The answer, according to scientific research, is yep!
It seems that good old H2O can help with weight loss by:
- Helping you to eat less and/or
- Affecting your metabolism.
And you don’t have to go crazy: a couple of glasses before meals is a good start.
But remember, it’s not what you know, it’s what you do. Just deciding to drink more water is easy – turning it into a habit is the tricky part.
Step 2
So let’s look for ways to make water drinking easy and habitual.
For instance, you could adopt any or several of these habits:
- Drink 2 glasses of water on waking – keep a glass and bottle by your bed as a reminder
- Fill a 2-litre bottle of water at the start of the day and aim to empty it by the end
- When offered a drink, ask for water
- Keep a bottle and glass of water on your desk as you work, so it’s easy to sip any time
- Keep a bottle and glass of water on the coffee table when you’re reading or watching TV, so it’s easy to sip any time
- Buy yourself an attractive water bottle or glass so you enjoy drinking more
- Associate meals with water – have a drink before you sit down to eat.
Step 3
Of course, in this program we never make a decision without taking some sort of action to help change the behavior.
So choose something you can do now to help set your new water-drinking behavior.
For example:
- Put a glass and bottle of water by your bed, desk or coffee table
- Fill a 2-litre bottle of water for today’s drinking
- Go buy yourself an cute water bottle and/or glass
- Put a glass on top of your plates as a reminder to drink before or with meals.
Check in!
And you’re done!
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See you tomorrow!
Don’t have to worry about cute, so I bought a gallon of drinking water.
Don’t have to worry about cute, so I bought a gallon of drinking water.
April 25th will be 2 years since I have had any pop/soda. I will increase my water before meals.
April 25th will be 2 years since I have had any pop/soda. I will increase my water before meals.
I commit to drinking a glass or two of water every time I prepare a bottle for the baby.
I commit to drinking a glass or two of water every time I prepare a bottle for the baby.
I have been using a water bottle and refill with filtered water!
I have been using a water bottle and refill with filtered water!
I am putting a water bottle by my bed… plus it will be pretty so that I will notice it. 🙂
I am putting a water bottle by my bed… plus it will be pretty so that I will notice it. 🙂
Woke up and drank two glasses of water! Let the ‘aquaficatication’ begin 🙂
Woke up and drank two glasses of water! Let the ‘aquaficatication’ begin 🙂
Woke up and drank two glasses of water! Let the ‘aquaficatication’ begin 🙂
I chose a floral pot with a cup shaped as a flower to give me a kick and more joy drinking water 🙂 I wish I can post the photo here!
I chose a floral pot with a cup shaped as a flower to give me a kick and more joy drinking water 🙂 I wish I can post the photo here!
I’m so bad at this. My drink preference is coffee.
I’m so bad at this. My drink preference is coffee.
I’ve switched to water at work and aim to refill my water bottle at least twice. It’s working
Do this regularly – days that I forget are the days I am usually busy and forget to fill the bottle for myself after I do the childrens.
Do this regularly – days that I forget are the days I am usually busy and forget to fill the bottle for myself after I do the childrens.