JJ Virgin explains how dehydration sabotages fat loss: your liver converts glucose to fructose and stores it as fat to conserve water. Drink half your body weight in ounces daily, plus 0.5 to 1 ounce per minute of exercise. Water with lemon and fiber before meals blunts blood sugar spikes.
Getting hydrated. And I want you to drink fluids in between your meals and especially before your meals. In fact, one of the things you can do if you're a little hungry is have a big glass of water, especially a little lemon juice in it that can help lower the blood sugar response to meal and put a little fiber in that too. But what I want you to think of is drinking half your weight in ounces per day and then adding in a half to 1 ounce per minute of exercise. Now, this is super duper important for helping you lose fat and helping you detoxify too. If you are dehydrated, even mildly dehydrated, it can actually cause fat gain. Mild dehydration can actually cause your body to take glucose in the liver, rather turn it into fructose and store it as fat in an effort to conserve fluid, conserve water. So if you need it for later, like a camel, you have something to pull from. Because remember, if you're storing fat, when you burn fat, you're freeing up water. So we wanna make sure that we are staying hydrated cuz even mild dehydration also raises stress hormones.
