Thanks for the article. I sent a copy to my father, who started Atkins with me around New Years. Man was he a tough one to get convinced about the water, I had to make a bet with him. I told him if you try 8-8oz glasses for two weeks and you lose less then you did the first two weeks, I'll buy you a flat of your aspartame loaded soda! He went for it.
The bet is over and we both kind of won. He now takes 6-160z bottled waters to work in a cardboard container; ya know the kind they make for beer bottles. He brings the container back home, along with the lids each night, to show my step-mom, and she refills his travel pack for the next day!
One of his chief complaints when he made the switch to water was that he was thirsty all the time.
I sent him the following info, a friend of mine posted it on another board. I don't know if it is gods truth, but it sure made sense to me.
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For every molecule of sugar your body stores, there
are 3 or 4 molecules of water attached, IIRC. Hence,
when your body switches to burning fat for fuel, it
first burns all of its stored sugar reserves, shedding
the attached water molecules in the process. This is
why many go to the restroom frequently in the
beginning.
As soon as you put sugar in your body again, your body
fills up it's stores of sugar, and attaches water
molecules to the sugar. Most people can store
anywhere from 5-15 pounds of water/sugar in their
body.
Initially, you shed off the water when going into
ketosis. After the initial water loss, your body
goes into ketosis, or fat burning mode, and the fat
burning begins.
When you go off the wagon, your body is back in sugar
burning mode, and is holding water with the sugar
molecules. Your body will not release the sugar/water
until the stores of sugar are burned off. Your body
will always burn sugar first because it is easier
(requires less energy) for your body to use for
energy, and your body always tries to store sugar.
The reason why people get thirsty, is that your body
is not retaining water, so the water you drink gets
used in the body right away, rather than being
retained for later use, or along with sugar.
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