Here is how to calculate how much water you should drink a day for both health and weight loss benefits.
1. Your Weight: the first step to knowing how much water to drink everyday is to know your weight. The amount of water a person should drink varies based on their weight. Just like a two hundred pound man and 100 pound woman require different amounts of food each day, the same goes for water.
2. Multiply by 2/3: Next you want to multiply your weight by 2/3 (or 67%) to determine how much water to drink daily. For example, if you weighted 175 pounds you would multiply that by 2/3 and learn you should be drinking about 117 ounces of water every day.
3. Activity Level: Finally you will want to adjust that number based on how often you work out, since you are expelling water when you sweat. You should add 12 ounces of water to your daily total for every 30 minutes that you work out. So if you work out for 45 minutes daily, you would add 18 ounces of water to your daily intake.
BIG TIP: According to experts, drinking just 2 cups of water before meals helped dieters lose an extra five pounds yearly and helps maintain your weight loss. Additionally drinking the right amount of water daily can actually speed up your metabolic rate and help to curb overeating when your body confuses hunger and thirst.
