Can coffee count as water? I fail to see why not?
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Black coffee and the ice in my smoothie get counted.4
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And wine is a fruit, right?6
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DorothyM11 wrote: »And wine is a fruit, right?
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it...2 -
DorothyM11 wrote: »And wine is a fruit, right?
To be fair, the difference between cake and bread isn't in the ingredients, it's in the proportions.
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Counts for me. I have a lot of coffee and my pee is almost almost clear. I don't drink too much "pure water".2
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Post Bariatric patients have to watch their water intake. That little modified stomach can only handle one job at a time (eat OR drink). I common post surgery admission is dehydration from not getting enough fluids in.
Soooo, I start my day with water, carry a water bottle with me, and finish my day with a glass of water.
I find water also to be the most obvious treatment for a headache.7 -
If coffee and diet coke don't "count" as water then my Dad has somehow managed to live to age 80 without drinking any water for decades. He has a couple of coffees in the morning and a couple of diet cokes throughout the day and that's it. He accidentally took a sip from my sister's glass of water a few years ago and almost did a spit-take... made a face like he just tasted something awful and said "that tastes terrible, what is it?".14
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mburgess458 wrote: »If coffee and diet coke don't "count" as water then my Dad has somehow managed to live to age 80 without drinking any water for decades. He has a couple of coffees in the morning and a couple of diet cokes throughout the day and that's it. He accidentally took a sip from my sister's glass of water a few years ago and almost did a spit-take... made a face like he just tasted something awful and said "that tastes terrible, what is it?".
People claiming that it's hard to drink water usually annoy me (it's just water, what's the big deal, it tastes neutral and thirst-quenching), but that's hilarious.
I really think the best analogy is one someone already gave upthread. If drinking some water and eating some chocolate covered espresso beans counts as drinking water, why wouldn't drinking the water with the beans in it count?4 -
I tend to be routinely dehydrated, so counting my water reminds me to drink something, whether tea or water (I only sometimes drink coffee). For those folks surprised that people need to track fluid consumption, yes, some people need to be reminded to drink. If I don't track it I end up peeing dark yellow. I track tea, because if I didn't I sometimes wouldn't drink anything at all in a day. How do people drink plain water?3
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Well I don’t “count” water at all so it doesn’t make a difference to me lol6
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I think one of the reasons for the drink 8 glasses of water a day rule was to fill your stomach with liquid, which keeps you from feeling hungry. But that always used to be a standard answer for WW clients who weren't losing -- if you drank your 8 glasses a day you were going to 'flush out the fat'.2
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I may be missing something... Why wouldn't you just log your coffee as coffee and your water as water? I may be the exception here but I have always consumed a lot of water all day long... and about half a pot of coffee every morning. My actual water intake is already between 4 and 5 litres a day, if I added my coffee total to that it would start to be a little excessive!6
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I don't know, man, the water tracking authorities might have an issue with that.
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Currently I don't log water or coffee, but I wouldn't mind forcing myself to track coffee, as I tend to drink too much some days and want to know how it affects me. Maybe I'll start logging only coffee as water.1
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I count water only when I’m medicating. I count the glass I swallow the tablets with. Helps me keep track of whether I’ve remembered to take the correct number in a day
. Otherwise, not at all. I drink so much coffee, tea, diet soda, and multiple glasses of plain water every day, I’d never remember to log it all anyway.
As others have said, if your pee is pale straw colour, you’re well hydrated.3 -
jamesakrobinson wrote: »I may be missing something... Why wouldn't you just log your coffee as coffee and your water as water? I may be the exception here but I have always consumed a lot of water all day long... and about half a pot of coffee every morning. My actual water intake is already between 4 and 5 litres a day, if I added my coffee total to that it would start to be a little excessive!
So because you decide to play accounting with a spreadsheet and not add something, does your body pay attention to the spreadsheet or what you actually put in your body?
If you drank 5 litres of water and 1 litre of coffee, guess how much water you actually drank? if 6 litres is excessive to you, stop drinking that much.16 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »mburgess458 wrote: »If coffee and diet coke don't "count" as water then my Dad has somehow managed to live to age 80 without drinking any water for decades. He has a couple of coffees in the morning and a couple of diet cokes throughout the day and that's it. He accidentally took a sip from my sister's glass of water a few years ago and almost did a spit-take... made a face like he just tasted something awful and said "that tastes terrible, what is it?".
People claiming that it's hard to drink water usually annoy me (it's just water, what's the big deal, it tastes neutral and thirst-quenching), but that's hilarious.
I really think the best analogy is one someone already gave upthread. If drinking some water and eating some chocolate covered espresso beans counts as drinking water, why wouldn't drinking the water with the beans in it count?
And that logic is partly why I gave up Weight Watchers during the Smart Points Plus period. They had all non-starchy veg at zero points back then (maybe non-fatty fruit, too). But if you used their cookbooks, suddenly there were points involved. So... if I separately logged 3 cups of assorted non-starchy veg, 1 tsp of oil, and 3 oz of tofu, I had 2 points, but the minute I saw those same ingredients in "Tofu and Vegetable Stir-fry," it shot up to 6?
Their logic was, "Well, the cookbooks also list calories per serving and we want the points to line up with that." Or something. It's been over a decade, I might be misremembering. But it just didn't make sense to me.8 -
Poisonedpawn78 wrote: »jamesakrobinson wrote: »I may be missing something... Why wouldn't you just log your coffee as coffee and your water as water? I may be the exception here but I have always consumed a lot of water all day long... and about half a pot of coffee every morning. My actual water intake is already between 4 and 5 litres a day, if I added my coffee total to that it would start to be a little excessive!
So because you decide to play accounting with a spreadsheet and not add something, does your body pay attention to the spreadsheet or what you actually put in your body?
If you drank 5 litres of water and 1 litre of coffee, guess how much water you actually drank? if 6 litres is excessive to you, stop drinking that much.
By your logic you should count soup, and the water in your oatmeal, and
98% of the value of your milk...7 -
jamesakrobinson wrote: »Poisonedpawn78 wrote: »jamesakrobinson wrote: »I may be missing something... Why wouldn't you just log your coffee as coffee and your water as water? I may be the exception here but I have always consumed a lot of water all day long... and about half a pot of coffee every morning. My actual water intake is already between 4 and 5 litres a day, if I added my coffee total to that it would start to be a little excessive!
So because you decide to play accounting with a spreadsheet and not add something, does your body pay attention to the spreadsheet or what you actually put in your body?
If you drank 5 litres of water and 1 litre of coffee, guess how much water you actually drank? if 6 litres is excessive to you, stop drinking that much.
By your logic you should count soup, and the water in your oatmeal, and
98% of the value of your milk...
Very good, now you're learning.16 -
jamesakrobinson wrote: »Poisonedpawn78 wrote: »jamesakrobinson wrote: »I may be missing something... Why wouldn't you just log your coffee as coffee and your water as water? I may be the exception here but I have always consumed a lot of water all day long... and about half a pot of coffee every morning. My actual water intake is already between 4 and 5 litres a day, if I added my coffee total to that it would start to be a little excessive!
So because you decide to play accounting with a spreadsheet and not add something, does your body pay attention to the spreadsheet or what you actually put in your body?
If you drank 5 litres of water and 1 litre of coffee, guess how much water you actually drank? if 6 litres is excessive to you, stop drinking that much.
By your logic you should count soup, and the water in your oatmeal, and
98% of the value of your milk...
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