Secret No 4

Secret #4 – How dehydration will make you fat faster than donuts!  

Water

Who would have thought that dehydration would make you fat, well it does and let me tell you why…

Firstly, your body can’t tell the difference between hunger and thirst, and so when we get dehydrated our body will mistake thirst for hunger and we eat something, when really all we needed to do was have a drink.  This obviously ends up with us bringing on board more calories than we need, and if we can’t burn this fuel or get it out of our body then it WILL BE STORED IN FAT.

Water, as you already know is one of the most important elements your body needs. Apart from the billion or so cellular reactions that are reliant on water we need water for the four main pathways of getting toxins out of out body.  That’s right, your bowel, kidneys, skin and breathe all require water to expel toxins from our body, and remember if you can’t get them out of your body they will be stored on your body in fat.

Your digestion relies on water to function optimally, if you are dehydrated you won’t be able to make enough hydrochloric acid to break down your food, plus your enzymes won’t be as mobile in your small intestine.  Essentially this means you won’t be able to digest your food as easily, which as you know by now means your going to be storing the half digested food as fat.

Solution:

 • Drink 0.033 litres of water for every KG of body weight eg, 60kg=2 litres, 90 kg=3 litres
• Only high quality filtered water (unless you live in Napier!) counts as water.  Tea, coffee even herbal drinks don’t count!

P.S – If you are having to pee a lot you might need more minerals to help actually retain the water.