From: Master Scott Palangi, Piermont, NY ~ 2:56 p.m.

These days, we hear of like 67,000 different ways to lose weight, don’t we?

Including “Drinking More Water”.

Now, to be clear about this…. I don’t believe you should wash down a Quarter Pounder w/Cheese, with “More Water”… for weight loss, (for the record, I prefer Diet Coke with my McDonald’s, myself, and… if there’s anything but cheese on my burger… I’ll throw it right on the ground! Put onions on mine?… then we’re in a full-fledged street fight! But I digress)

Friends… I DO actually believe in “Water for Weight Loss”…

But it’s from my own personal experience with, and violation of, “Good Hydration.”

This past Summer, for the first time in my life, I was doing all forms of exercise: Running (every day, sometimes 8 miles per day 6 days a week — with Sensei David Grandy as my aggravated witness, each annoying step of the way), I was Cycling around 60 minutes (much less impactful — if that’s a word — than running), and doing Resistance Training too (mostly with my gymnastics rings – not weights), and of course, my own proven, scientific, Palangi Kickboxing class, which will burn body fat like nothing else… during, and… long-after the workout is finished!

Yeah… all of that stuff… EVERY DAY… and this past Summer, with like zero “off days”!

(I know, I know, “tough life” you’re thinking right? Yeah, I gotta admit, it’s a pretty good lifestyle. But believe it or not… what consumes most of my THINKING TIME and my actual CLOCK TIME is this: “How Can I Use My Life to Positively Change My Subscribers and My Clients Lives” — so keep reading, okay? Yes, I do this for you because I love it, but I love you guys too, and I love you most-est when you’re all healthy as horses, so READ n HEED!)

Now, even after all of that extra “work”…  I was only able to finally drop body fat points (from the body-fat scale) when I finally… and DELIBERATELY… began to “hydrate” myself…  during every waking hour of my day.

And it makes perfect sense too, because the guy who taught me 97% of what I know about fitness (Master Trainer Chris Esposito , creator the of Round 2 Kickboxing workout formats) used to friggin’ walk around with ONLY TWO THINGS IN HANDS… ALL DAY LONG:

In one hand, Chris had the leash attached to his dog “Buddy”…

And in the other was BIG, BULKY, 1-GALLON JUG OF COLD PURIFIED WATER!

And if he had to give up one of them… it’d probably be the dog. This guy has been ripped his whole life.

The thing is though… sometimes Chris would be lifting weights… other times, only sprints at the track… still other times “Bow-flex”… and sometimes, the SOB would only be fasting — with no “training” whatsoever…

But he was always RIPPED (and 100% drug free, mind you, and I know this for a personal fact, unless Tylenol is a drug, and I think I’ve only seen him eat one of those, like once, and it was probably because he was hanging out with me  all day because I sometimes get on peoples nerves!)

AND HE WAS ALWAYS HYDRATED!

Maybe even ULTRA-HYDRATED! (By the way, this video shows you where, and how I buy my water!)

Now, sure… diet AND exercise play a crucial role in your quest for health, and looking good naked.

But if you are missing a “certain amount”  good ole’ H2O in your daily routine (and I’ll teach you some guidlines regarding “quantity” as well as “quaility” of water, that you should obxerve) you’ll spin your wheels for eternity.

Now, even though “Master Scott Palangi” was nominated by his peers as “Master of the Year” at the Martial Arts Hall of Fame in 2007… I’m not exactly “qualified” to speak about the “science” if you will behind the chemical impact water has on lipid (fat) release, or burning or whatever ya call it.

I am however qualified to speak of my direct experience… and here’s what happened.

I started to drink about a gallon -a-day this purified water that was recommended to me by Master Trainer Anthony LaSalla of Bergen County New Jersey (this guy knows his stuff, and whatever he tells me to buy…. I buy it, and I buy it fast.) … and… the body fat started to disappear like the way Bon-Bons disappear when a Rockland County Soccer mom is in the room.

Now listen…. I don’t know if was because the water at DeWet Purified Water in Norwood, NJ has only 3 PPM (particle per million — and I STILL don’t what the heck that means, but it sounds like it means “good”)… and I don’t know if its because all the training finally kicked in and turbo-charged my metabolism… and… I don’t know if the good lord said, “Okay, screw it, let Palangi drop some body-fat already, he’s repented from his wicked ways… again.”

All I know is DeWet Purified Water (sorry if this sounds like a shameless plug – it is – because I believe in this place’s product so you should buy it, okay?) IS THE BEST TASTING…. AND MOSTEST-PUREST-EST WATER I’ve EVER drank before.

Now, here’s the formula I personally use for “proper hydration”: I drink (when I’m serious and mindful of losing body-fat, that is) 1 fluid oz. of water for every pound of body weight I have on the scale that day.

No… I don’t actually “measure” the amount of water I’m drinking that day…. I simply eye-ball it, or guess-timate if you will.

My point?

There’s two actually…. One “seasonal”, and one “situational”

Fist, “seasonal”:

During the colder months… we tend to drink less water than during the Summer.  And… perhaps the biggest problem here… is that many people will actually increase the amount of exercise they are doing, in an effort to prevent extra body-fat storage.

This is a problem because your body… for some strange and genetic reason…. will “hold onto” to its body fat stores when you aren’t hydrating properly. (Go ask a biology major “why?” if you must cuz I’ve got no idea — I just obey the laws of the universe, asking less, and doing more.)

Second is “situational”: It’s my observation that we also drink less water — again, because of the time of year — when we are eating more.

Listen closely… because there’s sort of a catch-22 “cyclical” thing going on here okay?

We often feel what seems like hunger…. when we are even the slightest bit under-hydrated.

Got that?

It means you may often times feel like your hungry… but it’s actually because your body WANTS more “agua” (that’s how it should be spelt — just the way it sounds.)

And from the month from October… all the way til February…. YOU ARE SURROUNDED WITH MORE FOOD, MORE BOOZE…. AND…. LESS WATER!

YIKES!

So here you are, maybe, continuing to “train harder”…. but you are also “eating harder” (office parties, family get-togethers, and so on) and perhaps if you’re a vino-lover like me, drinking a lil more booze too! (driking more alcohol will not only dehydrate you more, it will also NOT make you more thirsty, causing you to drink even LESS h2O.

Do you see the Seasonal/Situational dilemma here?

Thankfully for you, there’s a solution.

I call it W.O.P.

WATER ON PURPOSE!

If you can discipline or train yourself to gravitate towards more agua, during the colder, and more “partied-up” months during the year, you will become:

1) less hungry (the brain mistakes body’s lack of water for lack of food)…

2) more happy (yep, ther’s a whole “mood thing” going on too when your under-watered, so to speak)…

3) less lazy (yep, your enery levels will sky-rocket when you’re hydrated during the holidays, trust me, I know)…

4) and…. you’ll burn mad body fat, too (”Mad Bodyfat” is the technical term, according my teen crowd… “yo”.)

And… the best part is…

Ready?

You’ll more likely to continue to sticking with a healthy routine (if you’ve established one, of course) when you’ve got all of the above going on!

Phew!…. to think…. “Water does all that?”.

It certainly does.

Ok… that’s it for now….

“Cheers” (I’ve got water in my glass as I’m cheers-ing you… but after class, it’s most likely wine for me, from my good friend Joe Printz at Grape D’Vine in Tappan, N.Y.)

All the best,

Master Scott Palangi