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’m a few days late on this mission. I was away from home for the Easter Holiday… but drinking water is something I’ve been doing pretty well for the last several years. Especially since I bought myself a stainless stee, l double-walled water bottle fom flylady.com. It keeps my water cold ALL the time, doesn’t sweat, and my hands don’t get cold from the ice water in it. LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I could try to get water in first thing in the morning though, I tend to not get started till noonish, or when I exercise and sometimes I play ” catch up” at night.
I drink a LOT of water every day.This part is easy!
I drink a LOT of water every day.This part is easy!
I’ve been drinking 100+ oz of water a day for years. Definitely not an issue for me….nor has it been that helpful it curbing my appetite or helping me eat less. I just like water. lol
I have a large cup, I am just so bad about drinking water. I know that I need to drink more, I just don’t. I like drinks with more flavor. But I don’t like all the sugar and calories.
fillinq a 2 liter bottle.
fillinq a 2 liter bottle.
Will do! More plain water (or with lemon) than my usual drink of choice – coffee.
Will do! More plain water (or with lemon) than my usual drink of choice – coffee.
Also soda water with a squeeze of lemon juice is a nice pick me up if feeling like things are a little bland.
Tons and tons of water. Haven’t felt this good is so long and it’s only been days.
Got 2 glasses in this am. My goal is to keep it full in the fridge because I only like water if it is really cold!
Got 2 glasses in this am. My goal is to keep it full in the fridge because I only like water if it is really cold!
I like the idea of getting a cute water bottle. Heading out shopping, I will be on the lookout for one!!
Yea! Something I’m already doing. I drink at least seven glasses a day if not more.
I am really trying to get my water in, but the idea of drinking a glass of water before meals is great! I also like the idea of having a 2 litre bottle filled with water for the day!
I’ve been working on the water thing for a while and have been a little lax on this vacation, but sometime this weekend I’ll edge back toward normal healthy drinking.
Yay for water with a slice of lemon or Japanese barley tea…no caffeine and no sugar, but great chicory taste! Drinking lots 😉
I drink lots of water at home but at work, there are some days I don’t drink anything at all! My action for this task to fill a 2L bottle each morning and to drink it all every day. I’m also going to get a nice cup to drink it from.
This is another challenge I have in the bag! I have a 24 oz insulated cup that I fill up 3 times a day with water or a sugar-free propel drink. Really helps me to keep me in check!