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Originally Posted by jules1216
Boy...I didn't mean to start a debate.....maybe this was the wrong spot to start this thread......I just wanted to see if anyone else went through the same experience. I am not trying to say that drinking water is a "magic bullett" I am not just drinking water, I have changed other things too, but I do believe that drinking the water helped me stop drinking the calorie laden Coke that I was drinking. I believe that any bad habit can be replaced with a good one and this is one that worked for me.
I think it was just from the tone of your original post:
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Originally Posted by jules1216
Ok, those of you with a wealth of information----I have quit drinking regular coke, I have exchanged it for a 80 oz minimum of water a day for the last 2 weeks. I am dropping almost 5 lbs a week...I know this is going to eventually level off--how soon do you see that happenning?
I might have been wrong but I personally interpreted that as meaning that you believe the water is somehow making you lose weight more quickly, especially since you posted this in "Does it Work".
Unless you drink too much, water isn't a bad thing, and I don't think anybody was saying so here - but there are so many theories (I hate to use the word "myths" for fear of getting people riled up
) about water/fluid consumption that recent studies have shown are NOT true that IMO it's important to keep people informed - for instance:
- Caffeinated beverages are dehydrating and don't count in your daily water intake.
- only actual water counts towards your fluid intake (it has now been proven that liquid contained in food counts towards your fluid intake)
- If you're thirsty, it's already too late - your body is dehydrated (not true)
- Drinking lots of water supresses appetite and causes you to eat less (per Barbara Rolls, professor of nutritional science at Penn State U, and author of Volumetrics water empties from the stomach too quickly to have an effect on appetite
- If your pee is dark, you're not drinking enough water ('alarmist and false in most cases' - see this link )
But hey, if you want to drink water, go right ahead. Drink all you want. It's
not a magic weight-loss miracle cure but it certainly won't hurt you, as long as you don't drink too much. But at the same time, don't feel that it's necessary to drink so much that you spend half your life running to the toilet or that you MUST drink X amount of ounces of water each day or that it's some sort of badge of honor to have downed a gallon or more of water on a daily basis...
NOW as far as the switching from regular soda to a non-caloric beverage (water, diet coke, whatever) I didn't see where you mentioned how much Coke you were drinking on a daily basis, but I do recall back in 1985 when "New Coke" hit the stands (those of you who were around then should remember that...it was HUGE news and the company went back to the Classic Coke formula within a couple of months) there was a story in my local papers about a gal who, prior to the formula change, was drinking somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-12 Cokes
per day and stopped when New Coke was introduced, out of protest. I think in that two months or so of not drinking coke (and not getting in all those liquid calories) the woman lost something in the neighborhood of 25 pounds or so...(as I recall from the photos of the time, she was definitely overweight).