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Thursday, February 19, 2009

An Easy Way to Get Started - Drink More Water

As our weight loss contest's name is H2O, a great way to get started is to acknowledge how beneficial drinking more water can be to your weight loss quest. Make your daily water intake goal half your body weight in ounces. So if you weigh 150 pounds, be sure that you are consuming at least 75 ounces of water a day.

Drinking water has been proven to rev up your metabolism. German researchers reported that after test subjects drank just two cups of water, their metabolism soared 30% and stayed elevated for 30-40 minutes. What that means in weight loss terms is that drinking water increase the calories you burn while exercising. After your exercise session is completed and you drink more water, you continue to burn more calories. This is good news also for associates in the hotel who sit in front a computer for the majority of their day. The metabolism is still affected in a positive way by drinking water, even while not working out.

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