Drinking water

lorigrocks
lorigrocks Posts: 123 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Is there really such thing as drinking too much water?

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  • runningagainstmyself
    runningagainstmyself Posts: 616 Member
    From what I understand, it can be quite hard to do, but yes... you can drink too much water.
  • d3m1urge
    d3m1urge Posts: 38
    Yes. Water poisoning is a thing and people have died from it.

    But you'd have to consume monolithic amounts of it.
  • whovian67
    whovian67 Posts: 608 Member
    Only publicized about 1 person i can recently remember dying from water poisoning.... however, I think it is quite difficult to accomplish.. granted if your kidneys are functioning properly, your bladder is emptying properly, your heart and lungs are all good, I would think one would be symptomatic before fluid started shifting around in your body..
  • hitsnooze
    hitsnooze Posts: 79
    very difficult unless you're on ecstasy or something :P
  • lorigrocks
    lorigrocks Posts: 123 Member
    For example on MFP if I log that I have drank more than 10 cups of water per day it shows the cup over flowing lol...do I need to worry about that? I have already consumed 8 cups of water and it's only dinner time and I am heading out to kickboxing soon and will of course drink even more water.
  • thavoice
    thavoice Posts: 1,326 Member
    Some lady died a few years ago in a radio contest to win a WII or something stupid like that.

    Yeah..it is possible to have too much water but not very probable. YOu would almost have to be forcing yourself to continiously drink and chug and drink and chug it.
  • bernadettemariewagner
    bernadettemariewagner Posts: 1 Member
    This is probably off a bit, but a general rule, I think from a p90x book I had, you should shoot to drink 1/2 your weight in ounces. Plus 4 ounces for every half hour of working out you do.
    So I weigh 140 and work out for an hour, so I try to drink 78 oz each day. More if it's hot outside.

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