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I control HUNGER by drinking a lot of water. Water serves two functions: controls overeating and flushes out the system (including excess carbs).

Symptoms for hunger and thirst are the same. Usually the body wants water, but people eat; thereby overeating. If still hungry after drinking water, then the body needs other nutrients, so then eat.

So I don't as much control my eating as to control my hunger and I do it with water....
 
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I only drink about eight cups a day, taken throughout the day. Water intoxication acts like a poison can can lead to immediate death. For those in more regular circumstances and without water retention issues, water intoxication levels are several gallons in a single sitting. Another set of circumstances are those who extremely exerting their bodies (like Marathon runners and other top endurance) who only replenish the liquids and not the electrolytes are subject to water intoxication.

With that, most people don't drink enough water and eat too much.... I'm no anorexic. I'm 200 lbs...
 
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With that, most people don't drink enough water
I've read so many opinions on the water thing that I'm not sure what to believe. As I've gone so extreme LC/HF I'm eating fewer vegetables so probably getting less water than I used to and need to supplement more. But I think the water drum-beat has been louder than it probably needs to be - esp for people who eat plenty of veggies ...
 
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People can believe what they want. Water is the best drink. Boring, but healthy, provided it doesn't have added poisons. It's help me control my diet by controlling hunger. Amazingly simple...

I live in San Francisco. Our city tap water has consistently rated on taste tests above bottled water. Pipes in my place are new...
 
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Ray,
You sound like someone with an interest in nutrition. Water has many purposes in the body, not just 2

It is the basis of many synthesized fluids in the body.
It is a part of the lubricants in the body
Regulates body temperature as you have mentioned
Plays an important part in removal of wastes
Flushing out excess carbs ? I doubt. The insoluble ones like fiber exit via feces. The soluble ones used for energy, then glycogen and finally get stored a fat.
 
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I primarily use water to control my hunger. I read somewhere that excess sugar can come out with the urine and that excess insulin can stick the sugar to the body preventing the flushing. Using the same diet, exercise, and water I have found a difference in the numbers if I don't exercise and/or use water....

But I try as best as possible to stay away from processed foods. I don't use any artificial sweeteners or things with too many scientific ingredients....
 
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Some Japanese thing about drinking a lot of water upon getting up and do nothing for an hour ???? Where'd I see that??
 
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You won't get any argument from me about drinking water, but I've been too many years out here drinking my own sparkling cold well water, so forgive me if I'm a little leery of drinking city water from anywhere. Just never know what kinda treatment it's been through, and I sure won't be found paying good money for bottled water. ;) What I do is fill bottles with our well water & keep 'em in the freezer for the days we're on our way out the door. Otherwise, large tumblers of ice water or green tea all through the day.

Only thing is, our water is hard enough that an icemaker is problematic, so we still make our ice the old methodical way - with trays. But the dissolved minerals are prob'ly what makes it take so good! :cool:
 
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San Francisco water comes from the Sierras, Hetch Hechy Dam. The pipes in my place are new. San Francisco drinking water is just fine.

At this time, all I drink is water, milk, coffee, and sometimes tea. I mostly drink tepid water. A Chinese old timer told me years ago to actually drink only hot water. He described drinking water as thus: If your body is cold, hot water will warm it up. If your body is hot, drinking cold water will negatively shock it much like throwing cold water on a hot engine. As for water, I know that quenching thirst is a matter of water content, not temperature. I only usually like hot tea when it's really hot...like when you'd probably drink iced tea!
 
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I think that drinking enough water is important, but carbs only show up in your urine when your BG is too high. It has nothing to do with how much water you drink: a non-diabetic can drink gallons of water and it won't affect the carbs in their urine.

Of course drinking enough water is important. We actually buy the five gallon bottles of filtered water because a nearby city had an e.coli scare with their water. Also, our water is very hard and although it tastes great when making coffee (and kills the coffeemaker if you don't run vinegar through regularly), I don't like the taste of the tap water alone.
 
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(and kills the coffeemaker if you don't run vinegar through regularly)
Boy is that the everlovin' truth! Even with the vinegar or commercial cleansing solutions, we finally gave up the automatic coffeemakers, and now make our coffee the old-fashioned way. :D :D :D

People die laughing when they see this parked on the back burner of the kitchen range, but then they swear the coffee tastes better! lol! And of course it's the perfect utensil for use on the woodstove when we get caught in ice storm power outages.
 
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I eat things that elevate my carbs for a bit, but it drops... So water might be helping flushing such...
 
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Water is essential to all life.
I drink about 8 cups of water during the day, 2 cups of coffee in the morning and sometimes a cup of tea in the evening. Water is the most natural thing for us to drink.
For me this is the perfect balance.
Even if I only eat about 25 carbs each day, I get lots of fluid from the food. My carbs comes from vegetables mostly + I eat fish or meat which also contains fluid.

I have never ever heard that water can flush out carbs, BUT if one drinks extremely much water (25 cups or more) one is in the risk for flushing out some of our minerals, which can affect the vitamine and mineral balance in us, and this is dangerous.
 
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Synopsis

This is a video of a simple method to control HUNGER instead of eating. It's not crackpot; but rather a simple, natural FOUNDATION for a diet.

I stumbled on it a couple of years ago and have used it as the basis of my diet. In about 16-18 weeks, I lost 50 lbs (and have kept if off), brought all my lipids into excellent from horrendous, and improved my blood sugar. I am not small: 5'10", 200 lbs.

My present listings are from not following my diet and other issues related to transitioning medical plans...read ran out of meds.

1) The signal for hunger and thirst are the same. But we tend to eat, rather than quench the thirst. This causes over eating.

2) So when we feel "hungry," we should first try to drink some water. If still hungry, then we need other nutrients. Then we should eat something.

3) When we eat, we should try to avoid sugar, fat, and salt. But not because of what each could do down the line to our health, but simply because those three items cause us to over eat. They do that by circumventing our body's natural "switch" to tell us that we are full.

Not in video: That is very much like cocaine. Cocaine is the one drug that the more consumed the higher the craving. Other drugs will give some relief to the cravings, if only temporary. Cocaine doesn't.

I'm am naturally not very hungry and am able to be satisfied with relatively small meals because I stop eating when I'm full. But if I don't follow it, I'll eat a big bag of potato chips, meal or anything else I'm not supposed to be eating.

As far as what you want to eat, that's up to you. The less of sugar, fat, and salt you consume the better your hunger control. It doesn't get any simpler. But it ain't easy. Until I got used to taste, everything tasted like cardboard.
 
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Thanks much for the synopsis Ray!

For me, what reduced my cravings was eliminating not just sugar but most carbs (veggies and nuts excepted), and what sealed the deal was increasing my fat.

Just goes to show - different strokes. A high-fat diet (without carbs) is golden in terms of hunger for me - finally lost it!
 
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Great, Moon! I'm glad you found your method.

The video is what worked for me in controlling hunger. Then it was simpler to figure out what I should and should not eat. I like it because it's real simple.
 
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Water doesn't fill the stomach up for long. Trickles through quite rapidly. It's a distraction, that's all. If you're sipping water chances are you're not eating chocolate. Being well-hydrated is a smart move for good health and it helps weight loss by giving your digestion a helping hand processing your food.

I don't know that it should make you feel more hungry, however, unless you drink it cold and that makes you feel like eating. If it does, try drinking it warm.... much easier on the digestion.
 
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