"Im around 6'0 and 150 pounds. i used to be 135 pounds a little while ago, so im kinda annoyed about this. i currently am doing intermittent fasting with 18 hour fasting windows, and a mostly wet diet. i recently started increasing my water intake to around 3 gallons of water a day, and it seems to be making me gain weight instead of losing it. advice on how to get back down in weight?"
Assuming you are a man between the ages of 19-24..... Firstly, if you are 6 feet tall and weigh 150 pounds, you are at the lower end of the ideal weight and should probably gain a few pounds. Unless for vanity reasons, you don't need to lose weight.
Secondly, it's not as simple as how much water you drink daily but according to you're drinking WAAAAY too much water. Recommended daily intake for men is 125 fluid ounces (One gallon is 128 fluid ounces) but other factors are at play. I suggest you seek the advise of a nutritionist or your doctor.
It's an old trick I learned from a friend. Apparently water and hunger can not be differentiated by the stomach and brain, so whenever you feel hungry you drink water instead. Combined with intermittent fasting and a carnivore diet it worked wonders.
10 4. You could be killing yourself, however. I ran a weight loss clinic many moons ago and we recommended 6-8 8oz glasses of water daily. Believe it or not, drinking too much water can kill you, it called Hyponatremia. That's where your kidneys cannot get rid of the excess water and the sodium content of your blood becomes diluted. Also, you're drinking 24 pounds of water per day and your body cannot get rid of it all, this is probably the reason you are not losing the weight you want.
I was always told drinking water was a great way to lose weight though
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