Water & Other Weight Loss Drinks

1. Ice cold water

You can burn up to an extra 100 calories per day drinking ice cold water because…

Your body has to burn calories (or fat) in order to heat the ice cold water back up to your body temperature so You’ll lose an extra 10 lbs. a year JUST by drinking ice cold water.

  • Water before meals makes you eat less & lose weight faster
  • Water curbs your appetite because being thirsty tricks you into thinking you’re hungry.
  • Water allows your liver to burn more fat.
  • Water gives you a flat belly by flushing out excess water weight.

2. Fat Free Milk

Milk is high in calcium and study after study shows how adding more of it to your diet can help you lose weight faster mainly because of 2 reasons…

  1. Calcium suppresses calcitriol which is a hormone that basically makes you fatter and with calcitriol out of the way your body can breakdown fat much faster.
  2. Calcium suppresses your appetite preventing you from gaining weight and only allowing you to lose more weight as you eat less.

3. Green Tea

  • You’ll burn 35-to-43% more fat daily drinking 3-to-5 cups of green tea or using a supplement
  • Green tea contains caffeine which increases your fat burning metabolism
  • Green tea is a diuretic which flushes out excess water weight.
  • See more weight loss benefits of green tea

4. Vegetable Juice or V8

Drinking a glass of vegetable juice before your meals may cause you to eat 135 less calories according to a study done at Penn. state university and even if you can’t make vegetable juice…

Drinking a couple glasses of water before meals will also make you eat much less so you lose more weight.

5. Coffee

It’s the caffeine in coffee that suppresses your appetite & increases your metabolism plus… The caffeine gives you more energy during your fat burning workouts making you last longer and work harder helping you lose weight faster but…

You shouldn’t drink more than 1-to-2 cups per day and get more info here on exactly how to use coffee to lose weight.

6. Yogurt Based Smoothies

Not only will the thickness of the smoothie kill your appetite but since Yogurt is loaded with calcium just like milk…

  • This Study shows you can lose 61% more fat and 81% more belly fat when adding yogurt to your diet because…
  • The calcium in yogurt helps you burn fat while limiting the amount of fat your body can make.
  • Try to use the healthier Greek Yogurt in your smoothies along with adding some whey protein and fruit (like apples) to give your yogurt smoothies more weight loss power!

 

7. Whey protein

  • Whey protein helps you lose more fat and maintain more lean muscle while on a weight loss diet
  • Whey protein helps you release a lot of cholecystokinin (CCK) which is an appetite suppressing hormone & in this study…
  • People ate a lot less when drinking whey protein 90 minutes before they went to a buffet.
  • Whey protein may also help regulate blood sugar and insulin for less fat storage & more fat burning.
  • Whey protein along with other high protein foods are highly thermogenic meaning your body has to work extra hard to digest it.

 

Source: nowloss.com