Drinking To Lose Weight: Water and Diet

Why drink water?

Water stimulates your metabolism. This means that in the absence of the right amount of water in the body, accumulated fats are broken down more slowly, and the process of losing weight becomes more difficult and takes longer. Weight loss with insufficient water intake also occurs at the expense of dehydration of muscles — this means that you lose not fat, but muscle mass.

Water helps to maintain skin elasticity. Those losing weight often face the problem of flabby skin and stretch marks. But this only happens if they don't follow a proper drinking regimen. Water helps the skin stay toned, and maintains youthfulness and elasticity. The key building blocks of beautifully smooth skin, the proteins collagen, and elastin have a gelatinous structure and require an adequate...