| Retaining excess water can make you feel bloated. It | | | | stores. Conversely, when you switch to a lower |
| can also make your wrists, ankles, hands and feet | | | | sodium diet, your body will tend to store less excess |
| swell and your face look puffy. Sure, you have | | | | water. Bonus tip: cutting down on diet sodas will cut |
| probably learned that the best way to lose water | | | | your sodium intake significantly. |
| weight is actually to drink more water. This is | | | | Tip #4: Try a natural diuretic: Diuretics help your body |
| absolutely true. In fact, water weight is usually a sign | | | | flush water weight. But prescription diuretics can be |
| that your body is "scared" to lose any more water and | | | | rather harsh on your system and often cause intense |
| as a countermeasure is retaining it like a camel. The | | | | diarrhea. Try a natural diuretic such as an herbal-based |
| thing is, you are not a camel! | | | | one for a gentler, healthier experience of forcing that |
| Here are 5 tips for fine-tuning your water weight loss | | | | excess water out of your body. |
| plan: | | | | Tip #5: Sprinkle in some exercise: Yes, that weight loss |
| Tip #1: Get a 32 oz. or 64 oz. refillable container: You | | | | panacea, exercise, comes in handy for helping you to |
| can find these little babies for very cheap at almost | | | | lose water weight, too. The type of exercise that helps |
| any discount or sporting goods store and they come in | | | | you lose weight is aerobic exercise: the kind that gets |
| all kinds of cool designs. Buy them not for their cool | | | | your heart moving at a steady, faster rate and burns |
| designs, however, but rather for their amazing | | | | the calories as you work out. However, anaerobic |
| capacity: you can really put a lot of water into these | | | | exercise - or weight training - is also a great way to |
| things. And, unlike a conventional cup, their portable | | | | lose weight. With weight training, you actually increase |
| design encourages you to carry them wherever you | | | | your resting metabolic rate (the rate at which you burn |
| go. If you drink just 1 - 2 of these mega-containers' | | | | calories when you are not moving). Bonus tip: choose |
| worth of water each day, your body will start shedding | | | | exercises that work the areas of your body (e.g., |
| the excess water that it has been holding onto for | | | | wrists or ankles) that need the most help in losing |
| dear life for so long. | | | | water. |
| Tip #2: Add a little lemon or lime: To your | | | | Drinking more water is the cornerstone to a water |
| mega-container, add a squeeze or two of lemon or | | | | weight loss strategy. Adding a bit of citrus to your |
| lime. These citrus fruits act as natural diuretics, and | | | | water, taking natural diuretics, eating a low sodium diet, |
| their refreshing taste makes the water go down that | | | | and doing concentrated exercises can also help you |
| much easier. | | | | shed that weight. Losing water weight is the first step |
| Tip #3: Eat lower sodium foods: Sodium and water | | | | to looking sexy and feeling great with a |
| weight go hand-in-hand. When you drink more water, | | | | comprehensive weight loss plan. |
| your body is freed to release some of its sodium | | | | |