Water

MANY PEOPLE don’t realize it, but often, what we interpret as hunger really isn’t hunger at all—it’s thirst!

And one of the most-effective, most-powerful appetite suppressants—even when we ARE truly hungry—is pure, fresh water. Of all the appetite suppressants mentioned here, this one has an advantage far and above all the others: It’s either free or really cheap! (Unless, of course, you are paying for bottled water.)

Here are some tips on using water to suppress appetite:

• About half an hour prior to each meal, drink an 8-ounce glass of water. (And by the way, many people don’t realize that most drinking glasses contain far more than 8 ounces. Many standard table glasses are 16 to 20 ounces. For 8 ounces, think the “small” glass of orange juice they serve at restaurants.) 
• Between meals, any time you begin feeling hungry, try drinking a glass of water first. Then wait 10 or 20 minutes, and you’ll often find the hunger has disappeared or greatly decreased. 
• For more calorie-burning power, drink really cold water—ice cold, if it’s available. Your body will burn more calories in warming the water to body temperature. It's been mathematically shown that if you were to drink about eight 8-ounce glasses per day of ice cold water, you'd burn an extra 60 calories per day. The result? An extra pound lost every two months—or six pounds per year, just from this one small change in your daily intake. 
• To really maximize the appetite-suppressing power of water, take it with the powder or capsule form of a fiber such as psyllium or glucomannan (see these under the Glucomannan menu tab). 
• Keep water nearby as you work and sip it throughout the day. If you don’t like spending money on a lot of bottled water, buy just two or three, then refill them from the tap and refrigerate them. Keep one on your desk or at your workplace. You can keep the bottles clean by running them through your dishwasher at low- to moderate-heat. 
• Consider purchasing and using a water filter to keep in your fridge or at your workplace. Water pitcher-dispensers can provide you with the purest, freshest water available.
• Other liquids with high water content include soups and vegetable broth (see the Foods menu tab), green tea, and green smoothies (see those menu items, as well). But plain fresh water is hard to beat when it comes to suppressing appetite. 

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