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Do anyone have any idea if intake of water helps in increasing weight or it helps in loosing weight?
I have read somewhere that take as much as half gallon water to be healthy and to increase weight and it also said that water is necessary thing to increase weight but there are many other articles which says you should increase water intake to loose weight?
Whats the actual scenario?

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You meant second one in my reply text or my topic text (you can see both are different). I mean its for increasing or decreasing?
Thanx for reply :)

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Well hmmmm, I think you are right buddy....
Seems like its the best way to burn out fat in your body.

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Drinking a lot of water is certainly going to increase your weight. It just isn't the kind of weight you must lose sleep over.

Your body stores the water, but will be able to lose it just as quickly. It is the fat that is hard to get rid of.

Drink a lot of water. It's healthy for your body and helps it clean itself from all the crap we're eating and inhaling every day. Seemingly losing weight by only drinking the bare minimum to survive doesn't count!

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I agree on Jaz' Post.

Also, water is needed to keep the inner pressure of your body cells at a certain level (i.e. it helps to tighten up your body).
Instead of drinking lots of water, eating fruits / drinking fruit juice will also work (melons for example contain about 90% of water).

Quoting from Straightdope:

Is it possible to drink too much water? Several comedians found it necessary to comment: Sure, you could drown! But the fact is, in extreme circumstances too much water can kill you, even if all you do is drink it. Kelly Barrett, a 43-year-old pediatric dentist from Littleton, Colorado, died of a condition known as hyponatremia after drinking too much water during the 1998 Chicago marathon. Hyponatremia, AKA water intoxication, occurs when the body's salt and water levels get dangerously out of balance, leading to swelling of the brain and leakage of fluid into the lungs. It can occur when athletes, hikers, etc., sweat heavily, losing both salt and water, but replace only water. Diagnostic signs: dizziness, disorientation, headaches, extreme fatigue, death. Prevention: salty snacks and sports drinks. So pass the taco chips and Gatorade, bubba, and let's get healthy.

On a side note: If you're trying to lose weight, i'd strongly recommend you to always have a bowl of fresh fruit around. If you're hungry, you can snack as much as you like of them (except for bananas maybe) and you won't gain any weight.

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Well thanks to all of you who are posting their views but infact I wanted to gain some weight. I have started taking some more calories and nutritious food but I read somewhere that water plays a good role in weight gain. I was puzzled with two articles, one of which says that water will help you increasing weight while others says water will help you in loosing weight.

I am in a bit of dilemma here, so I posted it.
Anyhow, thanks and I have started taking two litres of water a day....Lets see if it helps in increasing my weight or loosing.

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Well I'm not a nutritionist, but for all I know water has primarily some short-term effects on body weight. I.e. most 'lose 5000 pounds in 2 days' diets don't do much more than make your body lose water, which technically reduces your weight but doesn't really make you thinner - you will regain that weight (and then some more) as soon as you stop dieting.

If I wanted to *gain* weight (never ever) I'd probably stockpile the sweetest sugar-richest lemonades known to mankind. :-)
Also, they say that when you hunger for a while and then eat fatty stuff, the body saves more fat that it would when you eat regularly. (-->Hunger = food shortage = body stocks up on fat. It's the caveman in you.)

Good luck! :-)

When life hands you a lemon, that's 40% of your RDA of vitamin C taken care of.

Do you mean you're trying to be big? Then go to the gym and go for a program that focuses on one body part on a given day (e.g. monday, arms; tuesday, legs; wednesday chest, etc.) Working out your entire body will result to a leaner body, not a bigger body. That's just for maintenance.

Now as you push each body part to the limit, make sure you consume lots of protein--meat, fish, etc. But don't consume lots of carbohydrates bread, rice, etc. Your diet should be high-protein, low carb; not high-protein, high-carb. Your body will create muscle out of the protein. Without enough protein, you're working out will be useless.

It is said that eating meat for breakfast, dinner, and lunch is still not enough, so drinking protein shakes or getting injectable amino might help. And as you know, muscle is heavier than fat. So as you work out and gain muscle and lose fat, you will GAIN weight, but in a good way.

I'm not an expert on the subject; just learned all this from my gym instructor. So feel to correct me if there are any mistakes. As for me, I'm trying to be big, too. And so far, I'm pretty happy with the changes in my body. :-)

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