‘Water is good for you’. I am sure you have heard that many times before. What you probably did not know, however, is the fact that water, if you drink plenty of it, can help you to lose excess weight quickly.

There are two main ways that drinking more water can assist you in your efforts to lose weight.

The first is the fact that water, when you drink plenty of it regularly, lets you feel less hungry (for food). The water you drink occupies your stomach cavity and leaves little or no room for any food. Drinking a glass or two of nice, cold water would, in most cases, allow you put off eating food for a later time.

Furthermore, if you get into the habit or eating smaller portions of food, and topping up your meals with a glass or two of water, you would feel ‘full’ more quickly.

The medium-term and long-term effects of this is that you lose weight because your body piles up less extra weight, if at all, as there is less food going into your body because of the replacement effect of the extra water you have been drinking.

Secondly, water can help you lose weight in an additional way. It has been found that anytime you drink cold water, of a temperature of 40 degrees (Fahrenheit) or less, your body responds by raising your body temperature the normal level (for a human being) of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

This effort requires the body to burn some calories. It is estimated that if you drink eight glasses of cold water a day, your body will burn over 60 calories daily as it reacts to raise body temperature to normal levels. The end result of this is that in an average week, you could lose nearly 500 calories simply by drinking about eight glasses of cold water a day.

Even though water can, as explained above, help you lose weight, you still need to buy high-quality slimming products (slimming pills, tablets, capsules, teas, etc) to help you shed weight faster. In making your choice, go for products that come highly-recommended by medical experts and by people who have actually bought and them.