Water Makes You Fat
Me: Why do I feel so hungry? [Rhetorical question; I had been sick the day before and hadn't eaten much, which explained the need to feed myself. I just felt like complaining.]
Mother: Sometimes when you feel hungry, you’re just thirsty.
Me: Sometimes, but that’s probably not true for me. I drink water all the time. [I have a chronic dry throat and I rarely drink non-water beverages; I just don't like them much.]
Mother: Maybe that’s why you’re hungry. You drink too much water and it stretches out your stomach.
Me: …
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Hehe ;) My throat and mouth always seem dry, so I drink a lot of water too. But I don’t know how people could possibly confuse hunger with thirst. Sure, sometimes if you drink a soda you aren’t as hungry as you felt before, but that’s because you’ve just gotten a sugar boost and you have a belly full of gas. A couple burps and time for the sugar spike to go down and you’re still hungry. And probably thirsty too.
I was just reading about Joey Chestnut, and in between matches that is what he does – stretches his stomach with a lot of water and milk. Sounds like a bad idea to me, what with the possibility of electrolyte imbalances from excessive water. But at least your mom had a semi-point there, even if far-fetched.
True, I was thinking that. But from what I’ve seen it takes a lot of water over a short time to do that, which I’m sure 4-6 glasses of water sipped over the course of the day doesn’t fulfill. So it seemed more like grasping at straws to me.
I know; I just don’t want to rag on her too hard when I don’t know her. Plus, it sounds like she meant well lol. And, I bet she’ll be learning a lot from you over time; give her a little learning curve ;)
I just found your blog because one of your posts linked to mine as a possibly related post, and I just wanted to tell you that I’m finding it really interesting & I’ve added you to my blog reader. All of these links, too, are leading me to some fascinating stuff! So, yeah, you just gained a new blog fan :-)
Glad to have you here! I do like those related post links; a lot of times they aren’t related at all but they still bring up some interesting stuff.
Oh, God, your mother and my mother should have lunch (or rather, not, they’d likely give eachother ideas). She’s been pulling the “maybe you’re not hungry, you’re really thirsty, so don’t eat, drink some water” line on me every since elementary school, which is also when she started to make me very aware that I was bigger than others with offhand comments about my weight and eating habits. Anyway, she says the same thing to me every day, even now, “are you drinking enough water, how much water have you had today?” etc. I think it’s a remnant of her weight watchers days, her obsession with substituting water for actual sustenance.
P.S. I’m also following your cooking blog, I made the tuna dish the other night, and it was great. <3
Thank you! I don’t get many comments on my cooking blog so it’s always great to know that someone enjoyed a recipe.
Yer hunger and thirst mechanisms work in rather different ways – there are different sets of hormones and other signals involved for each. Your body knows the difference between hunger and thirst! If you drink water, it doesn’t trigger the food satiety hormones even if it makes your stomach feel full for a little bit. So you’ll still feel hungry about 5 minutes later, which would be a sign to EAT SOMETHING. Radical idea what! :)
Your body’s actually pretty good at keeping the amount of water in your body stable. Extra water doesn’t “help flush out toxins”, it just gets peed out without being used to do anything.
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