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Does Drinking Water Before Meals Help?
Experts Explain :

You already know that drinking water is crucial for your health. Consuming adequate amounts of liquid ensures that your body is able to perform essential processes, including regulating body temperature and lubricating joints. But when your body lacks water and other fluids, it can lead to dehydration, making you feel fatigued or dizzy.

Staying hydrated with water is not only beneficial to our bodies, but it also might help with weight loss. "Drink more water" is probably one of the most common weight-loss tips you'll hear time and again. You might even hear that sipping H2O before a meal can help with portion control.

Consuming water before a meal may create a sense of fullness and reduce your appetite. "When you take something heavy, like 16 ounces of water, it really adds this weight and heaviness in your stomach, and it completely quiets that sense of urgency because you're satisfying that hunger hormone. It leads to this sense of calmness and fullness," explains Ilana Muhlstein, MS, RDN, who is part of the executive leadership team for the American Heart Association and leads the Bruin Health Improvement Program at UCLA.

Muhlstein cites a 2013 study that found participants who increased water consumption reduced their body weight after three months. The research revealed that those who drank half a liter of water before each meal lost more weight than those who didn't drink water before eating.

Debbie S. Fetter, PhD, an assistant professor of teaching nutrition at UC Davis, finds that when some people feel adequately hydrated, they tend to eat less or experience fullness sooner because "drinking water before or during a meal can slow the whole eating process, which gives your body more time to register that you're full."

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Regaining weight after a fast can be frustrating, but it’s normal. We’re evolved to oscillate between fasting and feeding—to lose weight and gain it back again.

When we fast, we trigger metabolic machinery that gets us burning fat and making ketones. We upregulate key factors involved in DNA repair, immune health, and a cellular recycling program called autophagy.

When we feed, we rebuild. We synthesize muscle, rebuild cell parts, and generally grow.

Refeeding will trigger weight gain after a fast. This is inevitable. The human body burns energy at rest through thermoregulation, respiration, and other processes.

It keeps burning energy during a fast, leading to a loss of mass. Some of that mass comes back along with the refeed, and we WANT this. To the degree that fasting appears to benefit organisms, the refeed process appears to be as important as the time spent fasting.

Fasting also increases water loss, so a lot of fasting-driven weight loss is actually just that—water loss.

My main point is this: When you break your fast, you’ll regain some weight—water or otherwise—and that’s a good thing. That being said, there are certainly ways to minimize fat gain in the process. That’s one big reason folks fast in the first place: body recomposition.

MINIMIZE WEIGHT GAIN AFTER FASTING
DON’T GORGE YOURSELF

Even if you do everything else right, overeating after a fast can derail you.

When the clock finally hits mealtime, it’s tempting to play the role of the starving jackal who’s just located a fresh buffalo carcass. Believe me, I know. But if you behave like the jackal, the consequences may include:
- Indigestion
- Food on your shirt
- Increased inflammation
- Nagging feelings of guilt
- Increased weight gain
- Concerned looks from dining companions

The smart thing to do is plan a normal-sized meal. A plate of chicken or fish with low-carb vegetables soaked in olive oil is a good template to play with.

Combine this with proper hydration (sodium plus fluids) and you’ll be well-positioned to benefit from your fasting feeding cycle.

And don’t worry if you regain some of the weight you lost during a fast. That’s what’s supposed to happen.

AFFIRMATION

If you believe the phrase you are what you think, then life truly stems from your thoughts. But we cannot rely purely on thoughts; we must translate thoughts into words and eventually into actions in order to manifest our intentions. This means we have to be very careful with our words, choosing to speak only those which work towards our benefit and cultivate our highest good. Affirmations help purify our thoughts and restructure the dynamic of our brains so that we truly begin to think nothing is impossible. The word affirmation comes from the Latin affirmare, originally meaning "to make steady, strengthen."

Affirmations do indeed strengthen us by helping us believe in the potential of an action we desire to manifest. When we verbally affirm our dreams and ambitions, we are instantly empowered with a deep sense of reassurance that our wishful words will become reality.

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This is the moment to change it all — the business climate, the political climate, and how we take action on climate. Now is the time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families, our livelihoods… together, we must Invest In Our Planet.

Because a green future is a prosperous future.

We need to act (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably). It’s going to take all of us. All in. Businesses, governments, and citizens — everyone accounted for, and everyone accountable. A partnership for the planet.

And while there is still time to solve the climate crisis, time to choose BOTH a prosperous and sustainable future, and time to restore nature and build a healthy planet for our children and their children, time is short.

MYTH OR FACT

Many studies have shown various results regarding the effects of Ramadan fasting on weight and body composition in healthy individuals.

Based on study performed at the Internal Medicine Ward of the Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital during and after Ramadan fasting in 2013 (August to October). Fourty-three medical staff members (physicians, nurses and nutritionists) at the Internal Medicine Ward of the Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital were measured to compare their calorie intake, weight, body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and body composition, including body fat, protein, minerals and water, on the first and 28th days of Ramadan and also 4-5 weeks after Ramadan fasting. Measurements were obtained for all 43 subjects on the 28th day of Ramadan, but they were obtained for only 25 subjects 4 - 5 weeks after Ramadan.

By the 28th day of Ramadan, it was found that the body weight, BMI, body fat, water and mineral measures had decreased significantly . Protein body mass and calorie intake did not significantly change . By 4 - 5 weeks after Ramadan, body weight and composition had returned to the same levels as on the first day of Ramadan.

Ramadan fasting resulted in weight loss even it was only a temporary effect, as the weight was quickly regained within one month after fasting. The catabolism state, which is related to protein loss was not triggered during Ramadan fasting. Ramadan fasting seems to be useful for people who want to reduce their weight, but they need to maintain daily meal and physical activities to prevent weight gain.

Further research is needed to evaluate the effects of weight loss during Ramadan fasting in healthy individuals . Fasting may or may not cause muscle protein breakdown but looking at the main goal of fasting during ramadan this is not the main priority . Let your body rest during ramadan and devote yourself spritually in this holy month . You have 11 more month to put your best effort in to achieve the optimal gain .

Best of luck !