Excess Water Weight: Your Body Doesn't Need It.

How to lose water weight; it's a good thing to be asking. If you want to shed pounds, getting rid of your body's excess stored water is a very good place to start before you delve into the trickier area of fat loss.

Your body needs water to survive, but when you put toxic matter into it through unhealthy food, drinks, and drugs, your body takes on extra water as a way of diffusing the damage those poisons do.

By surrounding toxic substances with water, your body renders them fairly inert. When it's given the opportunity, your body will expel these toxins, along with the water it was using to contain them.

The best example to explain this concept is common table salt, a highly toxic substance, and one that causes the body to retain large quantities of water.

Salt and Water

But it does. Stop and think. Ever see what salt does to a slug? It melts it. Ever get salt in an open wound? It burns. You've probably read or heard about what happens to those who try to drink large quantities of salt water when there's no fresh water around. They die.

Salt burns the inside of your body as much as it does an open wound, and the body needs to store tons of fresh water to preserve you.

There, of course, is a big difference between sodium chloride, the stuff that can kill you, and the naturally occurring sodium and other salts that can be found in vegetables like celery.You should eat a variety of vegetables to provide the organic salts and other minerals the body needs in the right combinations. (1)

A thin person might be storing 5 pounds of excess water weight, and a severely obese one might be lugging around 30. But no one should be exhausting themselves with the burden of extra weight.

A mere quart of water weighs a pound, so getting rid of just a little water can mean a massive loss in weight.

How To Lose Water Weight

The only way to get your body to shed the water weight is to end the vicious cycle. Your body will expel the toxic matter when you stop actively harming it.

Stop putting in unhealthy toxic foods and beverages and your bodies energy will be freed up for house cleaning. The liver and kidneys can then clean out your body, and the liquid used to dilute toxins can be shed.

So what exactly is toxic? Cooked, denatured, processed, and "spiced" food are the most common problems. Switch to the foods that your body was meant to eat.

For more information on adopting a healthy raw vegan diet, read my article on the topic here.

You'll might also be interested in fat loss, in which case you can read how water weight fits into a general weight loss strategy.