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!
I’ve been doing this already does this mean I am a head of the game for once lol
I’ve been doing this already does this mean I am a head of the game for once lol
My action from this task will be to drink 2 glasses of water with each meal.
My action from this task will be to drink 2 glasses of water with each meal.
I have a jug that I am filling with water and keep it by me constantly.
I have a jug that I am filling with water and keep it by me constantly.
we have a water cooler in the kitchen, next to the w/d, so this should be easy.
we have a water cooler in the kitchen, next to the w/d, so this should be easy.
A habit I’ve had going for awhile is the main source of drink to be in our kitchen is water.
A habit I’ve had going for awhile is the main source of drink to be in our kitchen is water.
Been managing to drink a lot of water at work and at meal time. It is a good way to curb the appetite.
Been managing to drink a lot of water at work and at meal time. It is a good way to curb the appetite.
I have a favorite water glass and commit to drinking water before meals!
Checking in! I have started drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day this past month!
Checking in! I have started drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day this past month!
This is an easy assignment— NOW to put it into practice!
This is an easy assignment— NOW to put it into practice!
This is an easy assignment— NOW to put it into practice!
This one is easy! I always have water nearby and drink tons of it.
Don’t have to worry about cute, so I bought a gallon of drinking water.