Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Sam Wood. This is your motivational moment. Here's
Speaker 1: why water might be the missing piece to your weight
Speaker 1: loss puzzle. So water with weight loss is a really
Speaker 1: interesting one. And I'll go to the analogy that I
Speaker 1: use the most first, because I feel I tell people
Speaker 1: to drink more water, drink more water, drink more water,
Speaker 1: and it falls on deaf ears until I tell them
Speaker 1: it can be the reason perhaps that they do or
Speaker 1: don't lose weight, and all of a sudden their is
Speaker 1: prick up. They write it down and they go from
Speaker 1: drinking one cup a week too much much more than that.
Speaker 1: And it's funny how everyone has that little catalyst or
Speaker 1: thing that prompts them to change their behavior so quickly.
Speaker 1: But I always say that if food is your fuel
Speaker 1: to the engine that we've got to get ticking along,
Speaker 1: which is our metabolism, then water is the oil to
Speaker 1: that engine. It's all very well to have a full
Speaker 1: tank of petrol, but if you're out of oil, that
Speaker 1: engine's not going to be running anywhere near its best.
Speaker 1: And that's how we need to think of our body,
Speaker 1: and that's how we need to think of our metabolism.
Speaker 1: It's all very well to exercise. It's all very well
Speaker 1: to eat well, but if you're dehydrated, you are not
Speaker 1: giving your metabolism a fighting chance at being efficient. And
Speaker 1: I mean, the interesting thing is a lot of people
Speaker 1: think that they don't necessarily have the most efficient metabolisms
Speaker 1: and that's why they can't lose weight as quickly as.
Speaker 2: That person over there or that person over there.
Speaker 1: And there may be some truth in that, but we
Speaker 1: also have varying degrees of metabolic efficiency. So some people
Speaker 1: even mistake hunger for thirst, and that's I mean, that's
Speaker 1: an interesting one. If you're eating more than you need
Speaker 1: to because you actually do hydrated and it's a simple
Speaker 1: fix of drinking water, which who would think is a
Speaker 1: zero calorie drink, then of course you should make sure
Speaker 1: you go to the hydration stakes first. I mean, it
Speaker 1: also helps you eat less. I mean, if you have
Speaker 1: a big glass of water twenty minutes before dinner, it's
Speaker 1: amazing how often you don't need to eat as much.
Speaker 2: My tip to people.
Speaker 1: That have a little bit of trouble with portion sizes,
Speaker 1: which is a lot of us, is to make sure
Speaker 1: you have a big glass of water before you drink,
Speaker 1: and then make sure you put a normal portion on
Speaker 1: your plate, and wait twenty minutes before you have extra
Speaker 1: to that portion, because you often mistake how you're feeling
Speaker 1: for hunger, or you eat so quickly that you haven't
Speaker 1: registered that you fall until you kind of overfall.
Speaker 2: So I think, have the water, make.
Speaker 1: Sure you're hydrated, eat a normal portion of food, and
Speaker 1: then twenty minutes later, if you're really still hungry by
Speaker 1: all means, go back from seconds.
Speaker 2: But I bet you you never will be.
Speaker 1: And then the next question is, okay, Sam, I accept that,
Speaker 1: and that's motivating for me because I am trying to
Speaker 1: lose weight or burn fat or whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: So how much is the right amount?
Speaker 2: Now there's a myriad of different formulas.
Speaker 1: You can kind of drop one number off your weight,
Speaker 1: so if you ate ninety kilos, you drop the zero
Speaker 1: and then your harve it.
Speaker 2: So that's four and a half.
Speaker 1: So it's four and a half liters, and that's pretty accurate.
Speaker 2: Four and a half liters.
Speaker 1: I've just heard the entire audience fall on the ground going,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm so far off that it's not
Speaker 1: even funny, which it might be. Well, get to that,
Speaker 1: but typically I just say three leaders, I just say
Speaker 1: try and get to the three leader mark, which again,
Speaker 1: if you're consuming three hundred meals, that's a big, a
Speaker 1: big step up, and it's got to be gradual. So
Speaker 1: don't go from trying to drink three hundred meals a
Speaker 1: day to three liters a day. Increase it the same
Speaker 1: way as you would increase you know you're running. If
Speaker 1: you're trying to get to a three k and you
Speaker 1: can only three hundred meters, you don't do three kilometers tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You build it up, You build it up, you build
Speaker 1: it up. It's the same with your water intake. And
Speaker 1: you want to get ahead of the curve early in
Speaker 1: the day. So a lot of people find that they're
Speaker 1: really thirsty, and that's kind of a sign that you're
Speaker 1: already dehydrated. So you want to wake up, you want
Speaker 1: to have a big glass of water. You get five
Speaker 1: six hundred meals in perhaps before you do anything else,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're ahead of the curve.
Speaker 2: And then you keep drinking.
Speaker 1: And if you find you don't naturally do that, send
Speaker 1: an alarm on your phone. Every couple of hours, a
Speaker 1: little baber goes off. It's just getting into this habit
Speaker 1: of every couple of hours you're drinking water.
Speaker 2: You're drinking water. You're drinking water. You'll find it hydrates you.
Speaker 1: You find your perform but you find you think better,
Speaker 1: you find you burn fat faster, you find you feel
Speaker 1: better from a mental perspective and mental clarity perspective as well.
Speaker 1: So there really is no downside apart from perhaps early
Speaker 1: on in that adjustment period you're running too the bathroom
Speaker 1: every thirty seconds, But you will get used to that,
Speaker 1: your body will adapt to that. But the magic number
Speaker 1: is three leaders. Obviously, if you're a bigger person, you're
Speaker 1: exercising a lot, perhaps a little bit more than that.
Speaker 1: If you drink a lot of coffee, that's a diuretic,
Speaker 1: so you probably need to up it again. And if
Speaker 1: you're obviously sweating, if you're doing your your hot yoga
Speaker 1: or you're running fifteen kilometers, of course you need to compensate.
Speaker 1: But if you're just a regular person doing regular ish
Speaker 1: type of exercise and you know that you're currently not
Speaker 1: drinking enough, your goal for now should be the magic
Speaker 1: three letter mark. So a little task for everybody for
Speaker 1: the week is get to three leaders either from tomorrow
Speaker 1: and maintain it. For five days if you're already relatively
Speaker 1: close to that mark, or build it up over five
Speaker 1: days and get to three leaders by day five. If
Speaker 1: you're one of these people that three letters feel, it's
Speaker 1: like a massive mountain to climb right now, So you
Speaker 1: might be adding five hundred meals a day starting at
Speaker 1: five hundred meals, and by day and I'm at five,
Speaker 1: you're getting too that magic three letter mark.