How To Drink More Water
The ‘recommended’ daily consumption of water is somewhere around 60-80 ounces. It’s about 8 glasses every day, which sounds kind of hard to do.
By drinking more water you can lose weight, solve problems and achieve approximately 10 other things! So how can we do it? wikiHow has a few steps to upping your water intake.
Carry water with you everywhere you go in a bottle or other container. Before long, you’ll find yourself reaching for it without a second thought.
Keep a glass or cup of water next to you whenever you’ll be sitting down for a long time, such as when you’re at your desk at work. Drink from it regularly as you’re working.
Try wearing a digital watch that beeps at the beginning of each hour. Use that as a reminder to pour yourself a glass of water. Vow to drink that water before the next beep. If you drink only one small (6 ounce or 180 ml) cup per hour, you’ll have consumed 48 ounces (1.4 L) by the end of an 8-hour workday.
Get a water purification system. Purified water tastes very good and may help make drinking water more appealing to you. Be aware, though, that as you grow accustomed to purified water, you may find that tap water leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
Plenty more after the jump.
How to Drink More Water Everyday - [wikiHow]
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Oscar says on March 14th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Most of the people I know who got used to drinking purified water don’t just get a bad taste from tap water but gets sick from drinking it. They probably lost the immunity to some bacterias present in tap water.
I guess it’s a lot safer to drink purified water. But what if there isn’t any available?
Joe Briefcase says on March 14th, 2007 at 11:04 am
I am religious about drinking water. What I do is keep a gallon jug on a little table near my desk. One of the first things I do each day is put that jug of water out, and it’s close enough I can see it. I keep a glass bottle with a lid on my desk, and fill it up frequently.
I don’t drink the whole gallon (usually).
I tried many things to remind myself, and seeing it sitting there is definitely tbe best.
Brian Wilson says on March 14th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
The trick in our office is to keep filling up our water bottle and using those little sugar free mixes. There are so many now my co-workers mix and match with each other.
Kay says on March 14th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
One drop - and only one drop - of food grade Grapefruit essential oil in 16 ounces of water is absolutely delicious. You will start craving it. An added bonus: your breath will smell very nice.
raj says on March 14th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
The recommend daily amount of water is actually based on body weight. Not everyone is supposed to drink 8 glasses. There is also such a thing as over-saturating your body and damaging your bladder with too much drinking. That said, I try to drink about a litre a day, though I’m about 220-240 pounds.
Beth says on March 14th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
There’s this great way to tell if your body needs more water - you get this odd sensation in your mouth.
It’s called thirst.
Seriously, why drink more water than you think you need? Surely it’s a better idea to have a jug always on standby for when you feel the urge to drink, rather than just automatically chugging down a couple of deciliters every hour, however you’re feeling?
Rick Curran says on March 14th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
People often forget that you get a lot of your daily intake of water through the food that you eat as well as the actual liquids you drink. It’s not really necessary to drink water just for the sake of it, you’ll just find you make more trips to the bathroom!
It is also dependent on the type of lifestyle you lead, someone working outdoors doing manual labour will need more than your average office worker.
Alex says on March 15th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
I may not bring water around with me but I make sure that a drink enough every after meal. Sometimes I go about 1 liter of water after a meal. Of course it takes me some time to finish it.
Eric says on March 16th, 2007 at 9:55 am
What about ‘water substitutes.’ Yes, I know that my morning coffee wouldn’t count, but I drink around 3 cups of green tea at the office and usually fruit juice with lunch. Do I still need to drink 8 glasses of water on top of this? How big is the glass? I’ve heard 8 glasses, and I’ve heard 8 cups, which are two very different things.