Hydration! Hydration! Hydration! (and repeat). . . Well, it's been a hot summer, and last night I woke up out of a dead sleep and my throat felt like cottony sand paper, and when I swallowed, it felt like tacks going down. Why, you ask? Well, I have not been drinking my H2O as diligently as in earlier weeks.Sooooo, I hopped online and found some interesting facts about this wonderful libation:
1) Did'ja know that not drinking enough water can affect your liver? Yeah, the liver wants to be busy doing its job metabolizing fat, right? Well, when you don't drink enough water, the liver has to help the kidneys do their thing, so it stops breaking down the fat, just to help out! Maybe that's why I just can't seem to get that scale moving back down!
2) Water is a wonderful beauty treatment! Forget that Botox garbage, "86" that micro peel, and for heaven's sake stop spending so much money on department store promises. Drink more agua, and you'll be flushing out all kinds of icky-ness, toxins, cans, bottles, rocks, stray marbles, etc. As we get older, our skin wants to sag, and keeping hydrated will plump things up without unnatural injections.3) Drinking water also helps with muscle tone. If you are not drinking enough water, you can work out all you want, but may not be seeing a difference. Why? Your muscles work better when they are hydrated! Read: you'll get much more bang out of your workout if you drink up!
4) And finally, experts lean toward drinking cold water, indicating that the chill aids in fat burning. Personally, I like it cool, just out of the cooler at work (and since they keep it so hot in there, my water bottle sweats up a storm almost as much as I do!)So that's my little contribution for this go-round. Let's shoot for the requisite 8 glasses a day, and remember to stop drinking about 3 hours before bed (otherwise it'll be a looooooong night!)
-djfleesh
