How drinking too much water can affect your weight loss

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I recently joined a few weight loss groups and I was amazed to see one lady had drunk 5 litres of water and wondered why she couldnt lose weight.  I have felt for a long time that the advice to drink over two litres a day of water is wrong and can hurt your kidneys/bladder and can wash out important minerals that you need - this is what happens sometimes when people die running a marathon.  There is now a lot of research on the internet to say that drinking this amount of water is not good so check on it.  Remember that advice sometimes becomes the normal and it is not for everybody - like smoothies are good for you - they can be fattening, rot your teeth and raise your blood sugar!  Somebody recently admitted that the 10,000 steps rule was made up and there is no evidence to say that 10,000 steps will help anybody lose weight or become fit!  Obviously better to do them than not do them! People 50 years ago didnt drink all this water and they were ok!  You get water from other things you drink and from veg and fruit.  Obviously if you are in a hot country you need more water but there is no need to drink litres.

Women suffer with hormonal water retention and other people suffer with water retention for a variety of reasons - I speak from experience here because the water goes inbetween my cells not in them so I have always had water retention.  So I have found that if I have too much to drink it sinks to my ankles and I swell up - not only do I not lose weight but the water doesnt come off.  Also the advice to drink more to flush your water retention out is not right either - especially if you have a problem!  If I drink water to flush out swelling from flying it gets worse!  Also if the water doesnt come off in 36 hours it can turn to fat and make you flabby.

If you have an underactive thyroid you will also suffer from water retention so drinking too much will make this worse.  Excess water will also stop you losing the weight that you have lost so it is undoing all of your good work - this is all backed up by science.  It is not just me talking but I have had over 60 years of experience of this!!

Also if you drink the water quickly it will just go straight through you so it will overwork your kidneys and bladder. So make sure that any water you drink you drink slowly and sip.  It is a good idea to drink a glass of water, half an hour before you eat, slowly and this will fill you up and you will eat less.  Drink when you are thirsty.  In my book, Unlock your maximum weight loss potential, I teach you how to use a system to test for yes and no answers - this would tell you how much you needed to drink a day.

How intolerances can stop you losing weight

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One of the most important chapters in my book, Unlock your Maximum Weight Loss Potential, is the one on allergies and intolerances.  We are all familiar with the these causing swelling or breathing problems but nobody seems to have talked about other problems such as weight gain, water retention - and then not being able to lose the weight/water once it is on.

I once was at an exhibition and a young, very slim girl, was telling me that she had an underactive thyroid - as she was so slim I really wasnt taking much notice!!  She then said that it turned out to be a gluten intolerance and that it gave her the symptoms of an underactive thryoid.  I had never heard this before but it does make a lot of sense because although thyroid tests are very inaccurate it would explain why some tests come back OK when the person is suffering with weight gain and all the other symptoms.  Gluten intolerance is very common but you can also still be intolerant to wheat and yeast - I have a terrible intolerance to yeast and swell up like a ballon when I eat marmite - which is unfortunate because I love it!

Other intolerances can cause water retention and swelling and this water is virtually impossible to release until you stop eating this product and eventually it will come off.  Also intolerances can affect your endocrine system which will also cause weight gain and/or water retention.

In my book I teach you various methods to test for yes and no answers (called muscle testing or dowsing with a pendulum) so you could use this method to test which foods are not good for you - you could also ask what foods add weight even though you are not intolerant to them.  Or you could get an intolerance test done - there are normally offers available on groupon so I would suggest you use one of those and go for a large spectrum.

It is normally suggested that you stop eating the food for approximately 3 months and then introduce and journal what your reactions are.  Usually with an allergy or intolerance there was an emotional trigger so you can use Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to eliminate this and then the intolerance will normally disappear.  I would highly recommend this.

Please be also aware that you may be ok with food but when it is combined you will become intolerant - so you are ok with cheese and bread but together they cause you a problem - this is why journally every day is so good 

My new weight loss book

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I haven't been blogging recently because I have been adding lots of new information to my weight loss book, WHY?WEIGHT, as I am getting it ready for publishing - how exciting!!

So I am going to start putting in extracts - I have read so many weight loss books but mine covers everything from breathing to exercise, to eating to crystals, past lives and karma to beliefs, patterns and blocks - and how to heal the lot and lose the weight and keep it off for good!!!

So the firs thing I am going to share is that in my book I have 30 pages of all the reasons you cant lose weight that have nothing to do with eating!!  So here are some of them:

1. you have chosen a fat body to pay off karma
2. you have chosen not to lose weight as a lesson to learn in this lifetime
3. you may have a disease like diabetes or an underactive thyroid which adds weight
4. you may have a water retention issue that your doctor doesnt recognise
5. you have friends that dont want you to lose weight and they can actually stop you
6. your subconscious or soul dont want you to lose weight
7. your medicaton may be making you fat
8. you may be deficient in vits and minerals
9. the vits and minerals that you take may add weight
10. you have intolerances that are making you fat
11. you have a hormonal problem
12. you have a genetic problem
13. you may have a fat virus - yes it is true!!!
14. your inner child may not want you to lose weight

and there are many many more - and I can help you heal and release these so you start to lose weight!