- Use straws, add ice and a lemon – Make this glass of water feel like a treat.
- Drink a glass before you eat – Water helps to curb your appetite.
It is easy to confuse hunger
with being thirsty so try
water first.
Drinking water
makes you feel
trimmer. - Always have cold water on hand ready to drink – Make it easy. It is always easier to make the right choices when you have planned ahead and are prepared. Like the saying goes, ‘If you fail to plan, plan to fail.’
- Add flavored packets – If water alone bores you, take advantage of the new flavor packets that are sold specifically to enhance your enjoyment of water.
- Get fun to go containers –
Always have water with you or
in the car. Get good size, fun
colored containers. The larger
the container, the fewer
the refills. - Change your daily habits – Wake up to your first glass of water. Make it a rule to order water (with or without lemon) when you go out to lunch instead of a diet soda.
Regardless of your “diet” or eating regime, if its focus is weight loss or health, water is always on the menu. Water seems to be the only macro-nutrient that everyone can agree on. Low carb diets preach little to no carbohydrate consumption; low fat diets emphasize the benefit of minimal fat intake; and balanced diets believe everything in moderation. All of these diets stress the importance of drinking water. There has never been a low water diet. So what are you waiting for? Drink eight, 8 ounce glasses of water a day. It’s easy and the benefits are life changing. Call today!