Many, many, MANY people I talk to about weight loss always include the fact that they like to drink a lot of water.

Which is good, because you want to drink a lot of water.

But unfortunately not for the reasons they believe.

Water is definitely good for you. And you should drink it instead of just about anything else.

However, using water as a weight loss tool doesn’t work.

Several new studies have revealed that drinking water before meals or drinking lots of water to damper appetite don’t work.

One study published in Physiology & Behavior found that people who drank a lot of water before a meal did not, in fact, have their appetites dampened. They still ate as much as the people who did not drink water.

Another study in Appetite found that there was no difference int he amount of calories people consumed with or without water. So people who had water intake one day consumed the same amount of calories as people who had no water intake.

Now, you may not be a person who thinks that drinking water helps weight loss. However, 64% of people on a diet believe that it does. So the odds are that you are a person who believes it.

Nothing wrong with that. It’s not your fault. Visit just about any “health” and “weight loss” blog, and you’ll find articles that recommend all kinds of tricks using water to lose weight.

It’s such an easy thing to believe. But really, how often have you had a glass of water or two before a meal and felt full enough to not partake in the regular amount of food you usually eat?

I know that I’ve tried it before and it didn’t work for me at all.

Now we know why… it doesn’t work.