Not drinking enough - slow weight loss?
Yes.
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Height: 5'-7" HW: 449 SW: 392 GW: 179 CW: 220
ABSOLUTELY!
You need adequate water intake to help carry away the waste product made by the conversion of fat to energy. I don't quite get it, but that is what I have been told my several MDs and a surgeon I trust implicitly. Anyway, getting rid of this byproduct when you use fat for energy speeds the rate at which you actually lose.
Drink up!
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. Speaking on a molecular level each amino acid contains an amino group, an acid group, a hydrogen atom and a distinctive side group all attached to a central carbon atom (amino means containing nitrogen). When an amino acid is broken down (this occurs when they are used for energy or to make glucose or fat), they are first deaminated or stripped of their nitrogen containing amino groups. Two products are created as a result: ammonia and a keto acid.
Ammonia is a base and in excess it will upset the blood's critical acid-base balance. To prevent this from happening your liver combines the ammonia with carbon dioxide to make urea which is much less toxic. So the more protein you eat, the more urea your body produces.
To get rid of the urea your liver cells release it into the blood, then your kidneys filter it out of the blood for excretion in the urine. To keep urea in solution, the body needs water so a person who consumes a high protein diet must drink plenty of water to dilute and excrete urea from the body. Without the extra water a person on a high protein diet runs extra risk of dehydration because the body uses its water to rid itself of the urea.
6'3" tall, male.
Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.
M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.
