Alternatives to water?

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  • Juliarosemary66
    Juliarosemary66 Posts: 64 Member
    Hi! A fellow UK resident here! Our choices seem rather restricted compared to across the pond! I drink Green Tea and here's a radical idea- for a change from my chilled water I sometimes have it hot! It rings the changes!
  • SerendipitySkye
    SerendipitySkye Posts: 202 Member
    I bought an infusion cup. There is an insert in the middle of the cup that I fill up with frozen fruit. It not only flavors the water, but it keeps it nice and cold. I just keep filling it all day, and the flavor lasts and lasts. You can change up the kinds of fruit each day so you don't get bored!!

    Hope this helps!!

    ~Skye :flowerforyou:
  • northbanu
    northbanu Posts: 366 Member
    @tziol....

    There's nothing wrong with aspartame or sugar.
    I'll leave the dispute about aspartame to experts :) as there will probably be divided opinions. To my knowledge high excess of it is bad. With sugar, of course, your body needs it...but it is very easy to exceed the amount you need, which in consequence will have bad effect on you if exceeded often.
    Nope, no divided opinions about aspartame. The experts are all in agreement. It's the fear mongers and clean eating goofballs that have the issue. As for sugar in excess, all things in excess are detrimental. Consuming to much water and oxygen have caused a fair amount of deaths.
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  • Solar_Cat
    Solar_Cat Posts: 188 Member
    I like the mouth feel of something fizzy. When I crave that I drink seltzer. I like it plain, and I also like to flavor it with a little lime juice or lemon juice. A little goes a long way. No sweetener required! Works with plain water too.

    Note: There is a difference between club soda and seltzer. Club soda has sodium; seltzer doesn't.
  • tziol
    tziol Posts: 206 Member
    @tziol....

    There's nothing wrong with aspartame or sugar.
    I'll leave the dispute about aspartame to experts :) as there will probably be divided opinions. To my knowledge high excess of it is bad. With sugar, of course, your body needs it...but it is very easy to exceed the amount you need, which in consequence will have bad effect on you if exceeded often.
    Nope, no divided opinions about aspartame. The experts are all in agreement. It's the fear mongers and clean eating goofballs that have the issue. As for sugar in excess, all things in excess are detrimental. Consuming to much water and oxygen have caused a fair amount of deaths.
    </highjack>

    If there are no divided opinions then simply google about it and you will find out different opinions from experts. Of course, consuming too much of everything can be bad even the oxygen :-)) but this is something really outside from the discussion about diet. Is it easier (or even possible) to exceed the amount of oxygen you need during your daily lifestyle :-) or is it easier to exceed amount of sugar you need. If that wouldn't be true, we all would eat chocolates, cakes with no limit because we love it :)
  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
    BEER!

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  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    @tziol....

    There's nothing wrong with aspartame or sugar.
    I'll leave the dispute about aspartame to experts :) as there will probably be divided opinions. To my knowledge high excess of it is bad. With sugar, of course, your body needs it...but it is very easy to exceed the amount you need, which in consequence will have bad effect on you if exceeded often.
    Nope, no divided opinions about aspartame. The experts are all in agreement. It's the fear mongers and clean eating goofballs that have the issue. As for sugar in excess, all things in excess are detrimental. Consuming to much water and oxygen have caused a fair amount of deaths.
    </highjack>

    If there are no divided opinions then simply google about it and you will find out different opinions from experts. Of course, consuming too much of everything can be bad even the oxygen :-)) but this is something really outside from the discussion about diet. Is it easier (or even possible) to exceed the amount of oxygen you need during your daily lifestyle :-) or is it easier to exceed amount of sugar you need. If that wouldn't be true, we all would eat chocolates, cakes with no limit because we love it :)

    How about we continue to give the OP ideas for alternatives to plain water and keep the sweetener debate for another thread. If you have something you like to drink other than plain water, mention it without the judgement of others' suggestions. OP seems smart enough to figure out for himself where he wants to go regarding sweeteners, both artificial and natural.
  • alyssareyans
    alyssareyans Posts: 88 Member
    Propel Water is awesome. There's tons of flavors and zero calories. It's what I get whenever I'm feeling I just want something with flavor.
  • northbanu
    northbanu Posts: 366 Member
    @tziol....

    There's nothing wrong with aspartame or sugar.
    I'll leave the dispute about aspartame to experts :) as there will probably be divided opinions. To my knowledge high excess of it is bad. With sugar, of course, your body needs it...but it is very easy to exceed the amount you need, which in consequence will have bad effect on you if exceeded often.
    Nope, no divided opinions about aspartame. The experts are all in agreement. It's the fear mongers and clean eating goofballs that have the issue. As for sugar in excess, all things in excess are detrimental. Consuming to much water and oxygen have caused a fair amount of deaths.
    </highjack>

    If there are no divided opinions then simply google about it and you will find out different opinions from experts. Of course, consuming too much of everything can be bad even the oxygen :-)) but this is something really outside from the discussion about diet. Is it easier (or even possible) to exceed the amount of oxygen you need during your daily lifestyle :-) or is it easier to exceed amount of sugar you need. If that wouldn't be true, we all would eat chocolates, cakes with no limit because we love it :)

    How about we continue to give the OP ideas for alternatives to plain water and keep the sweetener debate for another thread. If you have something you like to drink other than plain water, mention it without the judgement of others' suggestions. OP seems smart enough to figure out for himself where he wants to go regarding sweeteners, both artificial and natural.

    Sorry, mom. Damn, I been scolded. But of course you're right, earlnabby

    :wink: :flowerforyou:
  • Lottiotta
    Lottiotta Posts: 162 Member
    Obviously water is going to be the best thing to drink
    Liiiies! Water isn't inherently cleansing or healthy or magically wonderful compared to other fluids. Other fluids are mostly water anyway.

    Calorie-free drinks include tea - I really like fresh mint leaves and honey in hot water but it can be a faff unless you've got a mint plant somewhere nearby. A little bit of honey isn't many calories at all, really.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    I like the mouth feel of something fizzy. When I crave that I drink seltzer. I like it plain, and I also like to flavor it with a little lime juice or lemon juice. A little goes a long way. No sweetener required! Works with plain water too.

    Note: There is a difference between club soda and seltzer. Club soda has sodium; seltzer doesn't.

    That is why I love my SodaStream: my tap water is really hard and tastes funny from the chlorine and chloramines so I filter it in a Pur pitcher and fizz some up when I want it. Plain, filtered tap water with CO2 added gives me the fizz mouth feel without the extras that come with things like club soda and mineral water (not to mention not having to haul cases of cans or bottles upstairs to my apartment and haul the empties to the recycling dumpster in the basement parking).
  • ChildrenCryinNCoffee
    ChildrenCryinNCoffee Posts: 477 Member
    Depending on my mood, I either have:

    Rose Lemonade Water (Organic Rose water + fresh squeezed Lemon juice + Monk Fruit + filtered water)

    Watermelon Mint Water (semi-frozen Watermelon + fresh Mint leaves + filtered water)

    Pina Colada Water (1 oz of Coconut water + 1 oz of 100% Pineapple juice + filtered water)

    or I make protein drinks, like my current favorite:

    Protein Pumpkin Spice Latte (2 Tbsp Pumpkin puree + 1 tsp PP Spice + 1/2 cup Vanilla Almond Milk + 4 oz hot coffee)
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    I make my own vitamin water. I take a big pitcher(or container) add water and then slice up some fruits and sometimes cucumber as well. I let it sit overnight and you have a delicious flavored water that has vitamins and is good for you without the artificial sweeteners.you could always take seltzer and add a little bit of juice to flavor it(or even the vitamin water) if you want something fizzy.
  • Hadabetter
    Hadabetter Posts: 942 Member
    Hi everybody

    I've been drinking purely water for about 3 weeks now, it's been great, but now I'm starting to get a little bored...

    I completely cut out coffee when I started my new lifestyle and I'm not missing it too much, so I'm not actually bothered about drinking that.

    Does anybody know any alternatives to water? Obviously water is going to be the best thing to drink and also the main, but is there anything that I can have that is equally as good (as a treat, so to speak)?

    Thanks in advance!

    A

    I know a registered Dietician who calls fruit "the water you chew". And many vegetables contain a lot of water. Also, milk is almost 90% water. Then, if you're like me and have no angst about diet sodas, they are almost 100% water.
  • ArdieAgain
    ArdieAgain Posts: 27 Member
    I've always liked Crystal Light. But I almost never use it as strong as they suggest - I put it in a 20 oz bottle of water or else it is too sweet for me.

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