Are you drinking your water?

[aggie94]

Just a friendly reminder! Especially during these hot, summer months (maybe where you're at, but not here!), when it's important to stay hydrated.

Happy drinking! (water, that is)

[SusanMac]

That's funny you posted this, as I was just thinking the same thing. Can you have BB ESP?

I find it sooooo hard to drink the recommended 8 glasses of water each day, but come pretty close.

I recently started working from my home, and find I drink less water than when I was in an office. Can't figure out why.

Aggie -- are you under water,too, or just Houston?

[funnybone]

I try and I try, but I just can't drink all that water. I come close, but I would really like to go over the 8 glasses.

I have started drinking some "Crystal Light" and it really isn't bad at all. I do not drink pop (soda, whatever you may call it, where ever you live) and the only other liquid I drink is coffee a day (two cups max.). I just have a difficult time drinking - I have a different type of drinking problem, you could say.

[aggie94]

I'm not in Houston, just my family. I'm in Oregon, but it's still been pretty chilly -- not higher than 60s during the day, and 40s at night. Doesn't feel like summer yet!

I also find that I have a harder time drinking all my water on weekends when I'm not at the office, even though I try to keep a bottle of water with me when I'm out running errands and stuff. Or days that I don't go into the office, I also don't drink enough water. Can't figure that out either. It's rare that I can get over the 8 glasses a day unless I go to kickboxing class, where I easily suck down 30 or 40 ounces in an hour.

[This message has been edited by aggie94 (edited 06-15-2001).]

[SusieO]

I also have trouble drinking water on weekends, even though it's not a problem at all when I'm at work. I usually go out and buy a 32oz. bottle of flavored seltzer, so I know I'll get at least four servings in.

[mandarin2j]

I don't know about you guys at work, but here we have a nice water cooler w/ filtered water. And I'm at pretty much one spot all day, except for meetings. So it's easy to just sip, sip, sip my way to 8 glasses before I leave for the day.

The weekends are another story altogether. We have good water in Portland, but we have old pipes at our house, so the flavor isn't too great. I'm never on top of keeping a Brita filled, & our dishwasher nozzel for our portable dishwasher prevents us from installing a tap filter. (excuses...excuses...) I drink a liter of soda water pretty much each day (more if we're hiking or something, of course), and I consider that good enough on weekends since I'm so good during the week. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/biggrin.gif

-Amanda

[mb]

i'm glad to hear that i'm not the only one with a 'drinking problem'!!! it's sooooo hard for me to drink 8 glasses a day, even though i know it's so important. does anyone have any tricks?

i used to drink crystal light, etc. but stopped when i was pregnant because i was worried about all that nutrasweet. i could probably drink 8 glasses of juice per day, but just think of all the calories http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/eek.gif

mb

[Jewel]

Amanda, if I could make a suggestion? We bought one of the newer Moen Pure Touch Faucets for the kitchen that has a pull-out faucet and filtered water coming out of the same faucet head with the touch of one button. We love it! It's a Culligan filter that filters 200 gallons. For us, that's about 6 or 7 months of drinking water, making iced tea and KoolAid, coffee, and ice cubes. It was pricey, about $250, but worth it. The filter cartridges are $22 each.

What we had before works just as well, it's just more 'cumbersome', which was the Pur Faucet Mount water filter. Attached right onto the faucet itself, you just pull it up to use it whenever you want to. With filtered water right at my fingertips (literally!) I find myself chugging water constantly. I have about 4 water bottles in my fridge so I always have cold, good-tasting water. As soon as I drink one I fill it from our tap (filtered) and put it back in the fridge!

There's a good commercial on right now that says "How many bottles of water would you have to buy to equal the water you'd get with one Pur Faucet Mount filter...378!!" I'll never drink tap water again! http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/biggrin.gif

[funnybone]

We have a filter on our Jenn-Air fridge, but because we have a water softener, I find it tastes salty. I carry a 24 oz bottle with me at all times, but I find I still don't go through enough.

I think a part of my drinking problem is knowing subconciously that I will have to use the restroom more often. So I avoid it.

[carolyn.1]

funnybone, I used to have a terrible time getting water down too. But I don't anymore. This is what I do as a suggestion-I have an old 16oz tupperware measuring glass with a uncumbersome lid that has a hole in the lid (removeable spout) just large enough for a straw. Knowing I only have to drink 4 of these I drink one in the car going to work and another coming home and 2 at work. My desk is right beside the bathroom http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/wink.gif
I realize you don't probably have this type glass, but find you a container similar I would not use 24 oz that's too large.
I don't know why but I can woof down water while I'm driving. Before I know it my glass is empty--Oh BTW I hate water http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/tongue.gif
Carolyn--

[funnybone]

Carolyn, thanks for the tip, but it still would not work for me. I actually buy bottled water in 16oz and 24oz bottles, and no matter which I have with me, I still don't drink enough.

When I was working, I used to drink a 1.5 lt bottle after lunch every day. It was only once I stopped working that my problems with drinking water started. Also, once we moved and I could no longer get my fave water (Zephyrhills), it became more of a problem. Thanks again though for your idea.

[GayeC]

No, I am not drinking enough -- but thanks for reminding me. Now maybe I will get back on track!

[kirkbyky]

It may be possible that your work office environment was drier that your home, most have huge hvac systems and all closed windows. Mine is like that and I drink way more water there than at home.

[Tangerine]

YES!!! I have a water-drinking trick!!!

It seems as though everyone I've ever talked to says the same thing, "I can't drink water. I could never drink 8 glasses of water a day."

When I first tried, also, I felt as if "I just couldn't."

So - at the very beginning, I happened to notice that when I picked up a glass of water that had become room temperature, it went down before I knew it. When I tried to gulp cold water the same way, it became difficult again.

Although I am now a water-drinking expert (!), back at the beginning I let my glasses of water come to room temperature first, and just drank a glass down in four or five swallows. It soon became very enjoyable.

Now, I just love to drink water.

Try it!

Tangerine