Friday, March 10, 2006

Anyone out there have problems with their cat drinking out of your drinking cups? Mine keeps doing the regardless of weather he has water or not to drink. I think it is a habit he learned while he was my sister-in-laws cat. She worked a lot and left it up to family and roommates to make sure he had food and water. He gets REALLY pesty if he doesn't so he usually doesn't have to wait long. But it is a really annoying habit.

Anyways. One to diet related matters. I have been listening to a call by Dr. Steve Komadina about health and our bodies. In this call he says that there is no scientific evidence that says we need to drink 8 glasses of water a day. What we should do is drink when we are thirsty. And people are different - some need more water than others do. A good way to know if you are getting enough water or not is to drink a glass of water. If you have pleanty of fluids in you system you will go to the bathroom about a glass of water an hour later. If you don't go to the bathroom - you maybe dehydrated. We were compaired to animals in the wild and how they are not fat like people. They eat only when hungary, drink only when thirsty and exercise only when they are threatened (run from hunters, etc.). It was definately interesting to learn this as well as that animals in the wild don't have the diseases we do. It is only when they are kept in a zoo that they come down with things like diabetes because they are eating like we do.

He also explained that eating less and exercising more will actually cause you to gain weight. This is from his own experience and that of what he has seen in patients. Dr. Komadina went from weighing 275 up to 300 lb by not eating much during the day and exercising. When you starve yourself and don't eat your body goes into survival mode and actually stores more fat because that is what it can live off if it needs to.

Now I am sure some of you are not going to agree with that. I was very doubtful when I heard it too. But when you think about it - it makes sense doesn't it?

Hugs and support - Jen

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Firstly water :  I don't lose when I don't drink enough nor do my friends. I got myself in the habit of drinking loads of water years ago so I really quite miss it when I don't have it. I am in the bathroom often as you can imagine but I don't mind. I know its my body balancing itself. I dont get bloated ever as a result.

I dont know about that not eating much and exercising often causing weight gain. Those people with eating disorders that don't eat and exercise like crazy get down to 90 lbs.  How they have the energy to exercise I don't know. If I dip below 1400 calories a day I can't really do much of anything.

As for the cat drinking out of water cups-maybe get yourself it grown up sippee cup that has a lid and straw in it and holds at least 40 oz of water (half of what you should aim for drinking each day). That will kill two birds with one stone!

Is your husband trying to gain back anything he lost!?!?!?  so much for a lifestyle change. buying those bad foods won't help anyone. :-/  stinker!