One of my resolutions is to drink MOAR water.

so teedub how much water do you drink in a day?

I've only had 16.9 oz so far

I have heard you should drink half your body weight in ounces a day.

1/6/2010 11:40:05 AM

enough water will kill you.

1/6/2010 11:40:53 AM

The doctors say 8 glasses of water, which is 64oz.

1/6/2010 11:41:01 AM

double post.

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1/6/2010 11:41:09 AM

another person i know has the same resolution. i dont understand why this is a resolution. and i dont keep up with how much water i drink..

1/6/2010 11:41:35 AM

fucker even double posted in your thread! get'em np!

1/6/2010 11:42:34 AM

If I get a glass when I get to work in the morning I'm thirsty all day and drink a ton and have to pee every 20 minutes. If I don't get one and just nurse coffee all morning I hardly drink any.

1/6/2010 11:42:49 AM

i think the thing i heard about half your weight in ounces is to help you lose weight, drinking more water to keep you full

1/6/2010 11:42:52 AM

Don't drink 64oz of water a day + a glass of juice at breakfast + a coffee + a couple sodas.

Water is in all three of the others.

1/6/2010 11:43:48 AM

I drink a LOT of water in a day. I keep my glass full pretty much all day at work. And I do the same at home, really. It's a pretty huge glass, and I go through, geez, at least six or seven glasses just as work.

1/6/2010 11:46:27 AM

If I'm working, 100+ oz per day

if not 24 -32 oz per day

1/6/2010 11:46:27 AM

http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp

1/6/2010 11:46:51 AM

We envy your first world problems!

1/6/2010 11:47:00 AM

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"fucker even double posted in your thread! get'em np!"

oh no he didnt

1/6/2010 11:50:05 AM

not a fan of the metric system are we?

1/6/2010 11:50:38 AM

ok then, how many liters a day smarty pants?

1/6/2010 11:53:12 AM

just saying mang, 16.9oz = .5 liters

1/6/2010 11:55:32 AM

i drink 64oz of green tea (it's weak, actually, since i don't bother brewing it anywhere near full strength) every day while i'm at work, and then another 32-48oz of water between the gym and just being thirsty

close to 100oz, but probably not above

1/6/2010 11:55:38 AM

so, about 2 liters a day

1/6/2010 11:57:31 AM

easily over 1.5 gallons, i pee clear...very little sodium, adequate potassium in the diet as well, it's like a firehose

1/6/2010 11:57:31 AM

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"http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp"

Finally. The truth!

1/6/2010 11:57:47 AM

i thought tea was a diuretic or something and dehydrates you though

1/6/2010 11:58:16 AM

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"not a fan of the metric system are we?"

nah i rather use ouncessssss

1/6/2010 12:04:21 PM

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"i thought tea was a diuretic or something and dehydrates you though"

pretty sure the dehydration idea stems from the assumption that caffeine causes dehydration and as such, it would be dependent on the caffeine content of the tea (where green tea is pretty low)...but even then i can't imagine black teas have any significant effect

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1/6/2010 12:05:26 PM

supposively you only retain like 2/3 of the water from teas and sodas. idk i just heard that somewhere

1/6/2010 12:06:00 PM

GT coulda used Bobby Boucher last night

1/6/2010 12:12:16 PM

the water thing is stupid. what you should do instead is drink water when you are thirsty. Unless you are planning for some upcoming major activity its the best plan.

1/6/2010 12:24:14 PM

about 1.5 gallons a day, although some of it is in the form of diet soda at lunch and my PWO shake. the rest contains crystal light or benefiber. I almost never drink water by itself.

1/6/2010 12:25:05 PM

At least one of the posters in this thread has clearly had water on the brain for a while, judging by their mental impairment.

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1/6/2010 12:29:33 PM

^^ but im never really thirsty

1/6/2010 12:29:39 PM

Fill up my Nalgene in the morning and drink it in the car.
Fill it up in the evening and drink it home.

Thats 2 liters a day.

1/6/2010 12:37:00 PM

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"At least one of the posters in this thread has clearly had water on the brain for a while, judging by their mental impairment."

I LOL'd



Oh and I always carry one of those big aluminum water bottles with me but some days I just get this big water craving and drink it like whoa... others I only drink tea and coffee and milk.

1/6/2010 12:44:29 PM

if you're never thirsty that means you are getting enough water

1/6/2010 12:48:01 PM

lol guess i get all i need from beer?

1/6/2010 1:27:34 PM

drink enough water so you don't feel thirsty

your body is pretty good at letting you know when you need shit... like water, for instance.

1/6/2010 1:29:29 PM

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"the water thing is stupid. what you should do instead is drink water when you are thirsty."

Wait? So you're telling me that our bodies are able to tell us when we need water, which has worked for thousands of years without needing some doctor tell us that we need to drink 8 glasses of water a day? And are you saying that people who say, "I don't ever really feel thirsty," obtain their water content throughout the day by drinking or even eating other things?

What you're saying is crazy talk.

1/6/2010 1:42:59 PM

waiting to drink until you are thirsty isn't the best plan


you become dehydrated before you feel thirsty

1/6/2010 1:47:42 PM

i drink shit during the day when i feel like it. if i'm actually thirsty i chug a bottle of water.

1/6/2010 1:51:41 PM

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"waiting to drink until you are thirsty isn't the best plan you become dehydrated before you feel thirsty"

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1/6/2010 1:54:10 PM

A lot of people confuse hunger for calories with thirst for water.

1/6/2010 2:02:15 PM

I usually drink 1.5-2 liters of water a day if at work. If I'm not at work its a fair amount less.

1/6/2010 2:07:58 PM

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"you become dehydrated before you feel thirsty"

How dehydrated? 10%? 1%?

What are the long term adverse effects of being dehydrated for the short amount of time it will take me to become thirsty?

you don't know do you

1/6/2010 2:54:35 PM

the people who drink tons of water are the same as the type of people who buy detox stuff to rid their bodies of "toxins"

your body has it covered, don't worry about it

1/6/2010 3:03:00 PM

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"waiting to drink until you are thirsty isn't the best plan you become dehydrated before you feel thirsty"

If I was going to run a marathon, I would concede the point to you. But for every day sitting on your ass and minor workout, I think the system that has been in use for thousands of years works good enough. Diluting your urine with excess water is nothing more than just a waste of water.

1/6/2010 3:03:05 PM

meh, waste of money, tap water or even filtered tap water isn't gonna be that wasteful considering we only actually drink a very small portion of the fresh water we use... (why we don't use non-potable water for toilets and urinals is nutty (work environment at least) keep your dogs out of it at home)

1/6/2010 3:12:09 PM

I drink usually ~120 oz out of my nalgene (tap water) a day, plus 2 glasses of unsweetened tea with every meal and i'd assume the glasses are about a pint each.

1/6/2010 3:25:36 PM

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"the people who drink tons of water are the same as the type of people who buy detox stuff to rid their bodies of "toxins""

really? got some evidence to back that up, or are you talking out of your ass? yeah, thought so

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"your body has it covered, don't worry about it"

this is also pretty damn retarded...your body doesn't have jack shit covered when it comes to a plethora of toxins that we ingest on a regular basis...do you even know what a carcinogen is? are you aware of the fact that a very large number of carcinogenic chemicals do not occur naturally and, because of this fact, that your body cannot necessarily negate the effects of ingestion/inhalation/absorption/etc?

hell, asbestos is natural and it fucks you up...just imagine what the stuff made in a lab can do

maybe your point was that your body will tell you if it's thirsty or not...if that was your point, i'll agree that for a healthy human being, that is how it is indeed supposed to work...but to pretend like your body has all toxins covered is absolutely retarded and you should learn to organize your statements into related groups

1/6/2010 4:03:02 PM

i'm talking about detox diets and fasts that remove "toxins" i know that there are dangerous chemicals that can accumulate in your body. a GNC detox or detoxifying isn't removing any of those, if you have mercury poisoning or something you should go to the hospital.

and most carcinogens are natural, they've always existed
http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/detox.html
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/detox_overview.html
http://www.skepdic.com/detox.html

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""Toxin" is classic pseudoscience terminology. --Ben Goldacre, M.D."

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