Do all beverages count towards your water intake?

Pooks1n1Schmoops
Pooks1n1Schmoops Posts: 199 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I drink a lot of iced tea and I was wondering if that counts towards your water intake or no because it's a diuretic? I don't really like water by itself :(
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  • Pooks1n1Schmoops
    Pooks1n1Schmoops Posts: 199 Member
    No one is commenting! Booooo
  • akshayam29
    akshayam29 Posts: 44
    every fluid that you drink and every water content food that you eat count towards your water intake. i am guessing its diuretic because of the caffeine content in the tea. one of the side effect of high caffeine intake is the frequent urination.
  • mgs68pony
    mgs68pony Posts: 306 Member
    Good question.......sorry no answers for you.

    Good Luck!
  • majordlite
    majordlite Posts: 266 Member
    I don't count things like diet soda or almond milk to my water count, but I do count anything that I use water to make (Crystal Light , tea, those sorts of things). Hmm, I also don't count coffee...hadn't considered that even though I make it from water. :-)
  • chayoxela
    chayoxela Posts: 23
    I count anything that's a liquid toward my water count, but I consider it a liquid count ;-) That includes, for me, tea, water, milk, juice, etc.
  • jynxxxed
    jynxxxed Posts: 1,010 Member
    I only count water, personally.
  • 3LittleMonkeyMom
    3LittleMonkeyMom Posts: 259
    My nutritionist told me not to count anything but pure water as part of my water intake.

    So, I drink nothing but water and my one bowl of coffee in the morning. :)
  • FuneralDiner
    FuneralDiner Posts: 438 Member
    I count tea because it is mostly water anyway.
  • julesw734
    julesw734 Posts: 100
    I dont add it to my water intake due to the fact it has some calories. I do add any drinks other than water to my calorie intake though, but I am not sure what is the proper way to add any liquids to your water.. I would ask a nutritionist if they know.. Good luck..
  • jsidel126
    jsidel126 Posts: 694 Member
    Any drink under 10 cal/serving I log as water. (the majority of what I drink.) Other more caloric driinks I log as what they are...
  • dougii
    dougii Posts: 679 Member
    My doctor says it all counts but I still try to get in 8 servings of water (some with Mio) every day on top of the food and other liquids that can be counted.
  • supplemama
    supplemama Posts: 1,956 Member
    I only count water. Not coffee, not tea, not wine. Water.
  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    Anything liquid and also water content in food count toward your daily water intake, with the exception of maybe alcoholic beverages. Caffeine is a diuretic, but in most caffeinated beverages, the amount of caffeine is not enough to have a diuretic effect that is large enough to cancel out the fluid in the drink. If that makes sense (sorry, my mind is not forming sentences very well after a long day!). So you can even count coffee towards your water intake. Which is good news for me, since I like to drink a lot of it in the mornings!

    I wouldn't count alcoholic drinks, because I believe the diuretic effects of alcohol are stronger than those of caffeine, and alcohol is notorious for dehydrating you.

    So, good news if you don't like water too much! :bigsmile:
  • becki1815
    becki1815 Posts: 51 Member
    Diet soda has no calories, yet it dehydrates you and causes weight retention in the belly area. So personally, I only count pure water.
  • jadedzen
    jadedzen Posts: 221 Member
    i count water and unsweetened, non-caffeinated teas. if i drink caffeine i try to drink +2 water.
  • litatura
    litatura Posts: 569 Member
    I make sure that I get my 8 glasses of water a day, but I also usually have a cup of tea and a mini can of Diet Coke most days.
  • Pooks1n1Schmoops
    Pooks1n1Schmoops Posts: 199 Member
    There are no calories in iced tea. :)
    I dont add it to my water intake due to the fact it has some calories. I do add any drinks other than water to my calorie intake though, but I am not sure what is the proper way to add any liquids to your water.. I would ask a nutritionist if they know.. Good luck..
  • Pooks1n1Schmoops
    Pooks1n1Schmoops Posts: 199 Member
    Lol @ wine. That would be nice. I don't count the others either, I just wondered if tea counted.
    I only count water. Not coffee, not tea, not wine. Water.
  • Pooks1n1Schmoops
    Pooks1n1Schmoops Posts: 199 Member
    I wouldn't count soda either. Too much sodium
    Diet soda has no calories, yet it dehydrates you and causes weight retention in the belly area. So personally, I only count pure water.
  • Pooks1n1Schmoops
    Pooks1n1Schmoops Posts: 199 Member
    I'm going to count it. Otherwise, I would have no fluid at all lol. I did drink a 16 ounce bottle of water today, but I added lemon juice. Yay
  • FelicityEliza36
    FelicityEliza36 Posts: 252 Member
    Juice, coffee, soda. None of that sounds like WATER to me lol sorry.

    Water is like water. From the faucet. From Poland springs. Etc.

    Although, I have the same problem and CANNOT drink plain water no matter how hard I try.

    So I usually add iced tea, crystal light, mio, or even slim quick to my water & then count it.
  • laceybrobie
    laceybrobie Posts: 495 Member
    i count water only. everything else I log as it is.... tea, coffee etc.
  • FelicityEliza36
    FelicityEliza36 Posts: 252 Member
    I'm going to count it. Otherwise, I would have no fluid at all lol. I did drink a 16 ounce bottle of water today, but I added lemon juice. Yay

    Any time you have WATER and then add a flavoring that counts as water :) So I think your iced tea counts. Try to stick to NO CALORIE teas and stuff though with your water. And maybe try alternating, thats what I try to do. One 16oz glass of crystal light, then 16 oz glass of just water, and vise versa.
  • meganelisabethallen
    meganelisabethallen Posts: 1
    I'm not sure of the exact answer - but I do know of people who put fruit in their water to help with the taste - cucumbers, watermelon, any citrus fruit....

    Hope that helps!
  • cgraylyon
    cgraylyon Posts: 292 Member
    Tea has caffine. I have always been told to drink an additional cup of water for every cup of something I drink that has caffine. I always drink water or crystal light. I know it's not the best, but I can't drink water everyday, all day!
  • Josette89
    Josette89 Posts: 244
    I only count water as water... :) that's all I drink so I guess it wouldn't be an issue for me. For best results though, I'd drink 8 cups of water water. I live in AZ so I have to drink water or I'll die of dehydration with all the exercise and heat. haha.
  • LisaGore1
    LisaGore1 Posts: 41
    I only log water consumption as water all other drinks I log as what they are in my meals.
  • iuew
    iuew Posts: 624 Member
    pretty much everything you are drinking is 99+ percent water. i would add the caveat that drinks containing caffeine or alcohol will have a diuretic effect, so make sure it's decaf if you want to count it for hydration.
  • GCAsMom
    GCAsMom Posts: 120 Member
    I drive my family bonkers with my opinion on water. My feelings are that as soon as you put something in water, it becomes something else. If everything was water and not tea, etc, it would be called water and not tea or kool-aid or whathaveyou. So my four cups of green tea is logged as green tea, coffee as coffee. Even sparkling water gets logged as such. Only plain water gets the water glass click. :) fwiw, I used to hate plain water until I cut the pop and committed to drinking it.
  • jasonheyd
    jasonheyd Posts: 524 Member
    http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/wonders-of-water

    http://www.3fatchicks.com/water-myths-and-facts/

    re: coffee/tea being diuretic: http://coffeescience.org/media/athletic

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