Is it true that if you drink A LOT of water, it flushes out some of the food you ate...?

Question

...therefore reducing the amount of calories you take in?

...or is it just a myth?

Answer 1

No, I don't think that is accurate. Water helps your digestive system remove waste. It won't prevent the absorption of food (calories) but will simply help flush out all of what is not absorbed. Drinking a lot of water CAN help you feel full so you won't feel as inclined to snack, though.. :-)

Answer 2

it doesn't reduce the amount of calories you consume. it just cleans out your intestines.  

Answer 3

No. If you put a penny in your meal and were so inclined to try to retrieve (ahem) it after it leaves your GI tract, you wouldn't even recognize it. Trust me. You can't dilute the stomach enough so that some of the food is undigested to a degree that the intestines can't get to it, and it come out the other end undigested. And DEFINITELY no if you were thinking that it could force it out so fast it doesn't all digest. That's not even how water is taken into the body... Different mechanism.

Want a nice way of reducing calories? Eat plain celery. Yum Yum. But on the upside, they take so much work to pass through the system that in most people, it actually burns more calories to just pass them through the tract then they contribute to your diet. So, if you were hardcore enough to eat a mountain of plain celery in a day, you'd just shrink more and more ;)

....I'll stick with prudent diet choices and moderate cardio to get myself into the 6% bodyfat range though. Heh.

Answer 4

drinking water does flush out your system but it doesnt flush away the calories. your body takes those before it gets rid of the waste, sorry