How can you drink so much water!?!?!

ryanxo77
ryanxo77 Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I need some advice on drinking water. Sounds easy right? But I see some people are shooting for 150oz a day. How do you not pee every 15-30min?
I am a coffee drinking, ex beer drinker, and love salt. I know my body craves salt due to being dehydrated. I try my best and drink 2 bottles (32oz total) a day and that’s enough. I can’t stand to drink more than that. What’s the best way? Advice please
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  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    edited September 2019
    ryanxo77 wrote: »
    I need some advice on drinking water. Sounds easy right? But I see some people are shooting for 150oz a day. How do you not pee every 15-30min?
    I am a coffee drinking, ex beer drinker, and love salt. I know my body craves salt due to being dehydrated. I try my best and drink 2 bottles (32oz total) a day and that’s enough. I can’t stand to drink more than that. What’s the best way? Advice please

    When you're dehydrated, your body needs water, not more salt.

    I drink between 72 and 80 ounces of water daily. I'm not peeing all the time. Water intake is necessary for flushing out water retention.

    ETA: I didn't get my numbers right. I have a headache and somehow the wrong water consumption got typed out. I corrected above. 😳
  • Joanna2012B
    Joanna2012B Posts: 1,448 Member
    Water is my first drink of choice. Have you tried putting fruit in it to add flavour. How much coffee do you drink in a day? Try replacing a cup of coffee with a cup of water. Drink an 8 oz glass of water right when you get up in the morning before consuming anything else. I am sure you wouldn't pee anymore than you would drinking other fluids. Actually coffee goes through me faster than water.
  • yourfitnessenemy
    yourfitnessenemy Posts: 121 Member
    I just....drink when I’m thirsty. Which is always 😂.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    I typically drink a total of 64 oz of fluids.

    I fizz up a liter in my SodaStream, flavor it with a few drops of extract and pour it into a 32 oz lidded double wall tumbler with a straw. I sip on it regularly over the course of the day. When it is gone, I drink whatever I feel like (soda, Mio, water, etc) IF I am thirsty. The rest of my fluids comes from coffee, tea, fruit, soups, or whatever else I eat or drink daily.
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    Generally thirst is a good idea that you need more water. This may not be true for people who have issues with insulin.

    The only time you may not want to wait for your thirst is if you are in a situation where you may be depleting at an excessive rate like being active outside on a very hot day. In those cases go ahead and drink more.
  • cbihatt
    cbihatt Posts: 319 Member
    I don’t even count my water. Some days I feel like I drink a lot, other days not so much. I don’t really spend much time thinking about it.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    ryanxo77 wrote: »
    I need some advice on drinking water. Sounds easy right? But I see some people are shooting for 150oz a day. How do you not pee every 15-30min?
    I am a coffee drinking, ex beer drinker, and love salt. I know my body craves salt due to being dehydrated. I try my best and drink 2 bottles (32oz total) a day and that’s enough. I can’t stand to drink more than that. What’s the best way? Advice please

    How much coffee are you drinking? Caffeinated or not, you can count that towards your fluid intake.

    Some people do have water goals that are needlessly high. However, people with hot, sweaty jobs, do need a lot of water. People who eat a lot of high water foods like fruit need less.
  • NoHookUpZone
    NoHookUpZone Posts: 1,531 Member
    I keep a 62oz bubba mug at work. I basically keep it in front of my face. Sounds odd, but I can type and still have it sitting in front of my keyboard so I'm constantly sipping on it.
    I pee every 30 mins lol
  • Evil_Queen43
    Evil_Queen43 Posts: 6 Member
    I am currently on 2000ml and it's only 5pm. How do I do it? I put the water in the glass, I put the glass to my lips, I drink the water...
    Yes I pee frequently but how do you think waste products (like fat) leave your body?! Pee and poop...and if you have a good amount of fibre, as you should, then you need the water to help the poop too.
    Cut out the salt, drink the water.
  • kq1981
    kq1981 Posts: 1,098 Member
    kimny72 wrote: »
    I don't?

    I drink probably 24-32 oz of plain water per day. I also drink coffee, tea, diet soda, and sometimes some Crystal Light/Mio. I eat a lot of soup, and some fruits & veggies, all which supply hydration as well.

    Why do you think you're dehydrated? Is your urine still dark colored towards the end of the day? Dry mouth? Dizzy?

    Completely out of context and irrelevant to the OP but I have NO idea why anyone has disagreed with ur post?!?! You're saying what you consume and asked some relevant questions. Frustrating :neutral:
  • kq1981
    kq1981 Posts: 1,098 Member
    edited September 2019
    kimny72 wrote: »
    kq1981 wrote: »
    kimny72 wrote: »
    I don't?

    I drink probably 24-32 oz of plain water per day. I also drink coffee, tea, diet soda, and sometimes some Crystal Light/Mio. I eat a lot of soup, and some fruits & veggies, all which supply hydration as well.

    Why do you think you're dehydrated? Is your urine still dark colored towards the end of the day? Dry mouth? Dizzy?

    Completely out of context and irrelevant to the OP but I have NO idea why anyone has disagreed with ur post?!?! You're saying what you consume and asked some relevant questions. Frustrating :neutral:

    Either my woo-stalkers have acclimated to the new button, or my paranoia that I'm being watched and monitored has been confirmed and I'm lying about how much water I drink :sunglasses:

    I knew you drank more than you said.... I'll be watching... 😂
  • floofyschmoofer
    floofyschmoofer Posts: 209 Member
    On the peeing front, I will say you and your bladder adjust to it if you do decide to drink that much water.
  • firefoxxie
    firefoxxie Posts: 381 Member
    I just like water :(
    I found that always keeping it in front of me while I'm working or watching something helps. I end up mindlessly sipping on it. You can get your water intake other ways such as tea, coffee, soup, fruits.. You can try flavoring you water.
  • mom2kpr
    mom2kpr Posts: 348 Member
    edited September 2019
    floofyschmoofer wrote: »
    On the peeing front, I will say you and your bladder adjust to it if you do decide to drink that much water.

    I find this to be true. When I first increased my water, I went much more often. After about a week, it was back to normal. I drink less water on the weekends, so Mondays, I make a couple extra trips to the bathroom, by Tue it's back to normal.
  • slbbw
    slbbw Posts: 329 Member
    I drink anywhere from 60-120 oz a day depending on thirst levels. I drink a lot of tea as I find it easier to drink than water. On days I drink a lot more than usual I do end up peeing a lot but it just increase my daily step count so I consider it a win.
  • tcunbeliever
    tcunbeliever Posts: 8,219 Member
    I'm a 12-15 cup a day kind of person...but I'm active and I'm in a hot and humid climate, so not only do I sweat buckets every time I walk outside...but I'm also at that special time in a girl's life when it's perpetually summer no matter what the external temperature is...so I'm sweating and feeling incredibly warm most of the time even inside in the air conditioning.

    I just drink when I'm thirsty...beyond that, I don't deliberately drink more unless I am having dark urine...which generally only happens if I get stuck at my desk and can't get a refill on my water.

    Unless you have having symptoms of dehydration, there's no reason to have a specific water goal.

    Many people use water as "filler" to keep them feeling full between meals and such, but that's a technique for controlling food consumption more than anything else.
  • duskyjewel
    duskyjewel Posts: 286 Member
    I drink to thirst and typically stay in the 3 to 4 range on that chart. I am healthy and my bloodwork, blood pressure, resting pulse etc all look great. There is no reason to force yourself to drink more than a gallon of water a day (1 gallon is 128 oz) and it could even be dangerous to do so if you are not replacing salt and potassium appropriately.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    mom2kpr wrote: »
    floofyschmoofer wrote: »
    On the peeing front, I will say you and your bladder adjust to it if you do decide to drink that much water.

    I find this to be true. When I first increased my water, I went much more often. After about a week, it was back to normal. I drink less water on the weekends, so Mondays, I make a couple extra trips to the bathroom, by Tue it's back to normal.

    Totally same for me. In years before joining MFP, I used to drink about 34 oz of liquid in an average day (10 oz coffee, 12 oz diet soda twice, almost never any water). Now it's about 100 oz, and sometimes a lot more. I'm not in the restroom every half hour or even every hour, like I was in the first week of increasing my liquids!
  • hmhill17
    hmhill17 Posts: 283 Member
    I drink 100+ ounces of water a day. Plus coffee and 1 soda. I fill three water bottles with 70 ounces every morning and refill them when 2 are empty. And I usually keep one with me at all times. It started as a way to drink less soda and save money and became a habit that I did because it was supposed to help me eat less.

    Yes by the end of the day, 100-150 ounces in, I do feel like I'm in the bathroom a lot.
  • k8eekins
    k8eekins Posts: 2,264 Member
    edited September 2019
    ryanxo77 wrote: »
    I need some advice on drinking water. Sounds easy right? But I see some people are shooting for 150 oz a day. How do you not pee every 15-30min?
    I am a coffee drinking, ex beer drinker, and love salt. I know my body craves salt due to being dehydrated. I try my best and drink 2 bottles (32oz total) a day and that’s enough. I can’t stand to drink more than that. What’s the best way? Advice please

    By preference, I ONLY drink water, but I will occasionally enjoy 3 cups of green tea or chai tea, which I'd only just started with again for the past week. When having to consider drinking water when you'd otherwise opt for other beverages, you must first not regard it like a herbal concoction of torture.

    Consider the following, to best gauge the right volume for yourself depending on your expenditure:
    • Bodyweight
    • Climate Eg I live in the desert country, at a high altitude with strong wind miles per hour.
    • Activity level

    Depending on your beverages of choice, you may work on upping your water-intake per 8oz or 16oz to start, as your first drink of the day, soon after you awake, on an empty stomach. You may do so too before your other meals/snack times.

    For now since you're not a fan of water, try to build up to at least 25% of half your body weight of water in oz. During your high activity days, you'll need to work on shattering your water-intake ceiling as best you can. Pace yourself with how you'll go about this, to not ruin your efforts.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,252 Member
    edited September 2019
    "Approximately 80 percent of total water intake comes from drinking beverages and water. While consumption of beverages containing caffeine and alcohol have been shown in some studies to have diuretic effects, available information indicates that this may be transient in nature, and that such beverages contribute to total water intake.

    While the AI     (Adequate intake) is given in terms of total water, there are multiple sources of such water, including moisture content of foods, beverages such as juices and milk, and drinking water. While all of these can contribute to meeting the adequate intake, no one source is essential for normal physiological function and health"

    Page 8: Suggested Citation:"Summary." Institute of Medicine. 2005. Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10925.

    "Recommended intakes for water are based on median intakes of generally healthy individuals who are adequately hydrated; individuals can be adequately hydrated at levels below as well as above the AIs (adequate intakes) provided. The AIs provided are for total water in temperate climates. All sources can contribute to total water needs: beverages (including tea, coffee, juices, sodas, and drinking water) and moisture found in foods. Moisture in food accounts for about 20% of total water intake. Thirst and consumption of beverages at meals are adequate to maintain hydration.

    Selected Food Sources: All beverages, including water, as well as moisture in foods (high moisture foods include watermelon, meats, soups, etc.)

    Adverse effects of excess consumption: No UL     (upper limit is specified) because normally functioning kidneys can handle more than 0.7 L (24 oz) of fluid per hour; symptoms of water intoxication include hyponatremia which can result in heart failure and rhabdomyolosis (skeletal muscle tissue injury) which can lead to kidney failure."

    http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/Files/Activity Files/Nutrition/DRI-Tables/9_Electrolytes_Water Summary.pdf

    accessed via: https://www.nap.edu/read/10925/chapter/1#xix


    Yes, your normally functioning kidneys will have you up and about peeing often in order to handle excess fluids. Gives you extra steps and a reason to move. FOR MOST PEOPLE, it is also probably not necessary to set goals and desperately try to add huge quantities of water to what you are already consuming. It is unlikely that you were severely out of whack in terms of hydration in the first place and still healthy enough and around to read this. And yes, a quick gut check as to whether I am hungry or thirsty before consuming calories has helped many an overweight person. But downing liters of tepid, or warm, or cold, or lemony, or acv, or fruit flavoured water over and above what you would normally drink? Not so much so!
  • FireyChimera
    FireyChimera Posts: 155 Member
    Honestly, I have never measured the amount of water I drank, I just drink when I am feeling thirsty. I drink first thing in the morning and through the day, and during meals and after. I don't force myself to drink and I feel just fine. We don't need to drink a certain amount everyday, nature knows how to tell you to drink :) If you find water boring when you are thirsty, there's also herbal tea, juice, and fruit infused water you can make at home.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,223 Member
    Evil_Queen43 wrote: »
    I am currently on 2000ml and it's only 5pm. How do I do it? I put the water in the glass, I put the glass to my lips, I drink the water...uth-h-ello
    Yes I pee frequently but how do you think waste products (like fat) leave your body?! Pee and poop.l.akelnd if you have a good amount of fibre, as you should, then you need the water to help the poop too.
    Cut out the salt, drink the water.

    To the bolded: Nope-It-A-Nope-Nope-NOPE.

    Fat leaves mostly via C55H104O6+78O2 --> 55CO2+52H2O+energy.

    Um, wot?

    You exhale about 84% of it (like @quiksylver296 said), and the other 16% is water.

    Here's a consumer-friendly version of the story, but it's consistent with cold, hard science:

    https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/12/16/371210831/when-you-burn-off-that-fat-where-does-it-go

    Drink enough to achieve pale urine as mentioned above (or, if you get lots of water-soluble vitamins, it'll be neon-bright yellow, but not darker brownish-yellow), and you're likely fine.

    If you're actually under-hydrating, and stressed by frequent urination, then increase intake (and output) gradually over a few weeks. Make an effort - as long as you're near a bathroom - to "hold it" as long as reasonably practical, then go. Your tolerance (and holding capacity :lol: ) will increase.
  • sam_juggins
    sam_juggins Posts: 45 Member
    I drink 13 odd cups of coffee a day and maybe a can of coke that's it. I've never understood the hype about drinking gallons of water to help you lose weight. Yes I pee a lot as I am sure my bladder is the size of a sultana! :D but I have to go up and down stairs to the loo so I think of the added steps ;) . I usually make a coffee too as the the kitchen is down the hall. 2 birds, one stone and all that!

    I'm a #CoffeeJunkie
  • sexynurse801ms
    sexynurse801ms Posts: 37 Member
    I drink at least 104 oz of water a day. It's my preferred drink. I only have to urinate once every 2-3 hours.

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