does coffee count

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  • Miss_Maree
    Miss_Maree Posts: 33
    Coconut water and milk are great for hydration btw! And goes great with coffee!

    However, it is also a diuretic so too much again could end up dehydrating you. Pay attention to your body signals. Headaches, the runs, fatigue, and even hunger pangs could mean you are dehydrated. And of course... Thirst is the best indicator! Lol
  • GardenGirlie
    GardenGirlie Posts: 241 Member
    How can you possibly have problems drinking enough water?

    Just drink it...its easy

    Believe it or not everyone is different and drinking water is not easy for many people, myself included. It is actually quite a chore for me and at times can definitely cause some nausea. I know it is important so I am working very hard at 48 years old to become a water drinker for the first time in my life.

    In response to the OP, I only log plain water because I rarely drink anything else. This is the only way I can manage to barely get my 8 cups a day.
  • darrensurrey
    darrensurrey Posts: 3,942 Member
    Hyponatreamia?

    Last year we had a student (elite sports bod) collapse due to drinking too much plain water. He hadn't taken an electrolyte drink out with him.

    Yes, I know. Doesn't happen often. But with the heatwave here in the UK it has been repeated a lot on the heatwave health information. Those who honestly believe only pure water hydrates are more prone to it.

    That's scary. Perhaps ice cold Bovril is the way forward in sports nutrition. :bigsmile:
  • jdm_taco
    jdm_taco Posts: 999 Member



    Believe it or not everyone is different and drinking water is not easy for many people, myself included. It is actually quite a chore for me and at times can definitely cause some nausea. I know it is important so I am working very hard at 48 years old to become a water drinker for the first time in my life.

    In response to the OP, I only log plain water because I rarely drink anything else. This is the only way I can manage to barely get my 8 cups a day.


    Not picking put I cannot comprehend what is difficult about drinking a glass every hour or so... if not 2 times that amount. Do people just hate water or forget to drink it?
  • keith_w61
    keith_w61 Posts: 20 Member
    After I read all the posts, and thank you to everyon who posted, i was thinking about the 8 cups a day, and how there isn't any medical evidence of need. I thought why would they want you to drink that much and thought - to keep you fuller, so you dont feel as hungry as you might if you didnt drink that much.
  • herblackwings39
    herblackwings39 Posts: 3,930 Member
    I count most liquids as water.
  • GardenGirlie
    GardenGirlie Posts: 241 Member
    For me personally water is difficult because of an incident as a child eating some poisonous plants with some other neighborhood kids. We were all in our house when our parents had found out doing the syrup of ipecac induced vomiting evening. For whatever reason the 4 glasses of water I had to drink as part of this process caused me to hate water from then on.

    I am drinking it now but it really is not easy. But I do think it is very important to do so.
  • Showcase_Brodown
    Showcase_Brodown Posts: 919 Member
    Yes, absolutely coffee counts as water intake. Unless you are consuming huge amounts of caffeine, you won't need to "compensate" with extra water. To you, it's coffee or soda, but to your body it's WATER plus other added stuff. It doesn't care if they were mixed together when you swallowed.
  • ncmedic201
    ncmedic201 Posts: 540 Member
    I count coffee under my foods because it has nutrients. I don't log water. As long as my pee looks OK then I know I'm getting enough fluids. You don't have to drink 8 glasses a day.
  • casmithis
    casmithis Posts: 216 Member
    I only count water as water. Not because of anything else other than it says "water". If it said "coffee" I would keep track of that there. Silly I know but I just do as I'm told. I'm not overly fussed about the number of glasses either I usually get a headache way before it tells me I haven't had enough. Then I drink a coffee (or 8).

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