Question:
I agree that water itself does not "directly" result in weight loss, butdidn't it ever occur to you that drinking enough water can make a personfeel fuller, thus reducing his need to overeat? In a roundabout way, itdoes aid in weight loss.

After all, you seem so hysterically bent on getting people to solely eatless and burn more to lose weight. Why not also add water in this equationto make the transition to lose weight and keep it off in the long run? Itdoes work for some people.

How is your weight loss going, BTW?

Answer: Yes. So can eating lots of fiber, but I don't see the same fervor foreating fiber that I see for drinking water.

There's hardly anything that cannot aid weight loss in a "roundabout way,"somehow.

Hysteria is one vice that I do not have.

Fat people routinely are extremely eager to believesomething--anything--that would relieve them of the need to eat less andexercise more to lose weight. I do not allow them to latch on to any suchbeliefs, since the only real way to lose weight is to eat less and exercisemore, and the only people who ever actually lose weight are those who doexactly this.

Currently my weight is constant, more or less. Over the past year, I've notlost anything. I'm still eating too much.

Strangely, the current problem is a conflict of money and calories. Thatis, in order to limit my expenditures on food, I have to buy groceries; butif I do that, I end up with lots of food in the house, and I tend to munchon it excessively, preventing me from losing weight. If I do not buygroceries, I'm forced to go out to eat (even if it is only just ahamburger), which provides me with exercise and limits my calorie intake;but going out costs far more money than buying groceries for home (it isabout ten times more expensive, sometimes costing in excess of $20 per day),I can't really afford to do it right now, because I am very poor.

As a result, I'm not currently losing weight.

However, I should point out that the rule of calories-in vs. calories-out isfollowed exactly. I now have daily data for calories in and out for nearlyfour years, and my weight obeys this rule religiously. It is the only thingthat matters. Water, fats, carbs, protein, sugar, starch, fiber, salt,etc.--none of these make any difference. Only calories count.

In fact, it's eerie just how precisely reality corresponds to predictions.