The Two Essential Weight Loss Tools

The Two Essential Weight Loss Tools

If you're fighting the weight loss war without these two essential tools, you will lose. Plain and simply...you will lose. These tools are so critical to victory in the weight loss war that if not used to their full potential, you will lose. They are not secret tools, in fact, everybody uses these tools every day of their life. However, very few people are aware of the full power of these tools in the weight loss war.

What Are These Two Critical Weight Loss Tools?

Are you sitting down? The tools are water and fiber! That's right, water and fiber. Let me say it again, these two items are so critically essential to weight loss that if you fail to use them correctly, you will lose the battle. And secondly, if you do not utilize them to their full potential, you will lose.

It's interesting, most people have absolutely no idea how important water is to their health and well-being. In fact, most people live their entire life dehydrated because they simply do not drink enough water. This dehydration is very often a contributing factor in critical health problems down the road.

How Much Water Should You Drink?

Our body is 60% water, it wants and needs a lot of water. How much water? You should drink half your body weight in ounces of water every day. In other words, if you weigh 200 pounds, your body needs 100 ounces of water/day.

Why so much water?

To function efficiently, most body organs and systems need water, especially your digestive system. As food moves through your digestive system many glands secrete digestive juices that breakdown food particles into nutrient molecules the body needs to maintain its health. These glands need ample water for the production of these digestive juices.

Your body assigns priority to your digestive system. Meaning when your body is inadequately hydrated, it rations the water supply to other organs and tissues and diverts it to the digestive system. Thus, these other organs and tissues struggle to carry out their assigned tasks because they are not getting sufficient water. The net result is a body that has a weakened defense system, a less than 100% alert nervous system, skin that becomes dry and less effective in protecting you from unwanted intruders, and many other problems that directly affect your health and well-being.

Also, ample water is necessary in the production of mucus that protects the lining of the digestive system from the powerful digestive juices. Without this protective mucus, our digestive juices would start dissolving our own body from the inside out.

Also, the production of mucus in our nasal passages is critical in protecting our body from outside intruders. Ample water is necessary for these mucus producing glands.

Our brain and nervous systems also need adequate water to ensure quick and responsive reaction. To think clearly, our brain requires ample water.

Adequate water is critical to your circulatory system. Your circulatory system is assigned the task of delivering life-giving oxygen and water to all parts of your body. Without ample water, your body extremities are deprived of oxygen and water. Meaning your finger nails, toe nails, hair, and the skin on your feet and hands are unable to function at 100%.

There is literally no organ or body system that can operate without an adequate water supply. Adequate water is vital to your overall health.

Does It Have To Be Water?

Yes, unequivocally YES! Your body wants and needs clear, clean water. Not these processed, so-called fruit juices, not soda, and definitely not coffee. These fruit juices and soda are full of sugars, flavorings, and preservatives, while coffee is nothing more than an addictive drug that actually adds to your body's dehydration. Coffee is the most wide spread drug addiction in the world today.

When you load your body up with these juices or coffee, your body has to go to work sorting the foreign material from the water. Many times this process consumes more water than it produces so the net effect on your body is dehydration, especially in the case of coffee.

When you drink pure, clean water, your body absorbs it almost immediately.

What About Fiber?

Fiber is essential to weight loss and also essential to maintaining a permanent healthy weight. Fiber slows down digestion, making the process more efficient. This reduces hunger pangs and cravings, and also burns fat.

Excellent sources of healthy fiber are fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, oatmeal and other whole grain cereals (if they're not filled with sugar), and whole grain breads. However, be careful on your intake of whole grain breads. Bread is a starchy carbohydrate, meaning it dumps excessive amounts of glucose into your system very quickly.

Your body craves and needs healthy fiber. It's almost impossible to eat too many fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and oatmeal.

Conclusion

If you want that sleek, healthy body you've always dreamed of, start drinking ample water and eating healthy fiber. It's best not to jump in all at once, you'll probably find more lasting success if you implement this process gradually. Your body will adjust little by little and your reward will be sustained, healthy weight loss that will be with you for the rest of your life.

What if you simply can't control your body weight, no matter how hard you try?

I know how hard it is to try a new program, lose a few pounds, only to gain it all back again and again. The depression and discouragement that comes from failing time after time, no matter how hard you try, is truly devastating.