POLL- WATER amounts

TheGoblinRoad

If you don't mind, I would find this helpful to know, just for my own thought process, for those of you who manage to stay within your calories:

1- What's your average weekly weight loss?

2- How many oz (or liters) of water do you drink daily?

Mrsfun44

Hi-I lose 2 lbs average per week and although I try for 8 8oz glasses of water a day, I only seem to average 4 glasses

CinthyNair

I have an average weekly weighloss of 1-2lbs, but i managed to down 80oz of water a day.

lmr9

I've been losing 2 pounds per week. I drink 8-10 cups of water per day...sometimes more, but never less than 8.

RebelRenny

Regarding the water. I have a 20 oz water bottle. If I drink 3 of those in a day, it is close to the recommended 64 oz (8 glasses of 8 oz).

I aim to finish the first by 11 AM, the second by 3 PM and the 3rd by mid-evening. This makes it easy to get my daily quota.

Hope this helps.

vickim26

At first I lost 2-3 pounds every week. Now it has slowed to 1/2 - 1 lb per week. I have lost 55 and have about 30 to go. I drink at least 72 oz per day, but usually more than that. Some days as much as 100 oz.

cheri822

weight loss 1-2 lbs a week.
I drink at least 72 oz. But I basically only drink water, I don't really like anything else anymore besides green tea.

barbiecat

:flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
I lost about 2 pounds a week at first. Now I've been losing about 1 pound a week. I've kept my water intake between 64-100 ounces a day.

courtney_love2001

1. For the first few months I was losing 2 a week, now it's more like 1 (if I'm lucky!!). I'm just taking it slow and eating right/exercising. Whatever happens, happens because I'm decently happy with my body right now...

2. I have 3 bottles of water that I drink each day at least. It is about 100 oz I would say. Most of it comes in the late afternoon when I'm trying to get rid of the ungodly amount of sodium that I eat each day! Darn that deli meat and cheese....

TheGoblinRoad

Ok, seems like most of you are drinking much more than I usually do and have made good progress. I think the missing "ingredient" for me is the water. I just don't drink enough. Probably 20 oz a day plus whatever's in the food. I'm going to aim for 3 liters a day instead (abt 100 oz) which is what the Mayo Clinic online is recommending for men.

TKelly06

I lose between .7-1 lb a week and I drink anywhere from 100-120 oz of water a day, and if i went over my sodium, i add 16-24 ounces of water

TheGoblinRoad

I lose between .7-1 lb a week and I drink anywhere from 100-120 oz of water a day, and if i went over my sodium, i add 16-24 ounces of water

Interesting that you add. That sounds smart. Perhaps that's part of the reason for the high number you've lost?

Magenta15

I am with you, i have a hard time getting my water in i think it is my missing element as well as hard as i try to up my green tea and water just to get enuff fluids in a day.... it's so hard for me i am not sure why????? arg! i need to smarten up! i even bought a tall pretty pink water bottle to keep on my desk and keep full i just need to fill it more often, i swear im part camel! it's not that i drink bad stuff i just don't drink much of anything!!!!


:flowerforyou:

TKelly06

I lose between .7-1 lb a week and I drink anywhere from 100-120 oz of water a day, and if i went over my sodium, i add 16-24 ounces of water

Interesting that you add. That sounds smart. Perhaps that's part of the reason for the high number you've lost?

Maybe, but it has taken me a year and a half to lose that much, slow and steady is the name of the game. Good luck to you.

TheGoblinRoad

I am with you, i have a hard time getting my water in i think it is my missing element as well as hard as i try to up my green tea and water just to get enuff fluids in a day.... it's so hard for me i am not sure why????? arg! i need to smarten up! i even bought a tall pretty pink water bottle to keep on my desk and keep full i just need to fill it more often, i swear im part camel! it's not that i drink bad stuff i just don't drink much of anything!!!!


:flowerforyou:

It's hard for me because it automatically makes feel (irrationally) like I'm going to drown. (When I was a kid I fell into a swimming pool with a leg cast on, and couldn't get out. My brother saved me)

UGH. But I can alleviate this by adding just enough crystal light to make the water a bit lemony. Somehow it helps.

Magenta15

you can also do "skinny water" from the belly fat diet

water with lemon, limes, ginger and cucumbers sliced in it and kept in the fridge. or even frozen into your water bottle - i like it i dont do the ginger and i go easy on the cucs surprisingly i find they overpower the taste

BrendaLee

I drink on average about 4 cups/ day, and I lose 1-2 pounds/ week. I drank more in the summer, and my weight loss has been about the same.

courtney_love2001

I definitely second on the upping my water intake if I have a particularly salty day...

TheGoblinRoad

I definitely second on the upping my water intake if I have a particularly salty day...

What if you had a day where everything you had was fruit. Still lots of water?

mscocoa30

I lose about 1 to 1 1/2 pounds a week. I manage to down about 32 to 40 oz of water a day. I'm working on increasing my water intake.

a00link

I definitely second on the upping my water intake if I have a particularly salty day...

Does that have any scientific backing to it? I was thinking about that today actually so I'd love to know. I working on some weight loss but I happen to love me some Taco Bell on occasion and well my meal from there is almost a days worth in itself. If there was a way I could even minutely counteract that, I'd be down to know.

Oh, and to answer the thread question; Today I'll have drank 9 glasses, or so I assume. I estimate it pretty well so I might be off by a few oz give or take. However until I started consciously doing it a few days ago, I drank significantly less. I'm hoping this change will help flush my system both on a 'losing weight level' but also it's supposed to help with better skin and such. I just started counting and trying to shed the lbs so I don't know how that factors in yet for me. But I'll let you know on friday when I see the first change.

TKelly06

To me it makes a difference to drink more water on saltier days, but it could be all in my head I should admit, but many times have I read that more salt equals more water retention, so i feel that if i drink more water it will break down the salt. I know that it keeps me motivated to drink more water.

And, when I first started watching what I ate on here, after about three weeks of not caring about my sodium, i came to a plateau where I stopped losing any weight. I was eating double sometimes triple the mount of salt I was supposed to. When I cut it down to the 2500 mg I noticed the pounds coming off again. Now I dont go over by more than 500 mg (most days under), and now as a precaution drink more water.

Magenta15

OOOOH i forgot one ingredient :noway: fresh mint leaves too!!! oops :flowerforyou:

you can also do "skinny water" from the belly fat diet

water with lemon, limes, ginger and cucumbers sliced in it and kept in the fridge. or even frozen into your water bottle - i like it i dont do the ginger and i go easy on the cucs surprisingly i find they overpower the taste

pkgirrl

I lose about 3lbs of week, and I exercise like CRAZY! (Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred, for at least 2 phases =40 min, an hour on the elliptical, 40 min swimming, plus I walk everywhere) I'm usually under my calories, but sometimes I go a little bit over (100-200 cal) But I prefer not to eat my exercise cals, so I'm never actually "over"

And I drink at least 4L a day, but there's a lot of caffeine free tea in there, and I'm sure I sweat a lot of it out.

And yes, there is scientific back up to the " more water on saltier days," at least chemically speaking. Salt can only retain so much water, if you overload it's retention limit, the body flushes it out.

I'm having a pretty difficult time finding an article on this not linked to a fad diet or a detox plan, but if you trust me and my ability to read a biology textbook, there's your answer :flowerforyou:

klybarger

"It's hard for me because it automatically makes feel (irrationally) like I'm going to drown. (When I was a kid I fell into a swimming pool with a leg cast on, and couldn't get out. My brother saved me) "

I don't think that's an irrational feeling because of your experience! But, as we've said so many times before on this site, it's just what's been ingrained as part of our habits. I find that when I'm good and drink my 8 glasses of water a day, that my body actually craves that much water. And I'm quite sure I mistake my dehydration for food cravings!

courtney_love2001

Even if I have fruits all day (which this never happens haha) I would still drink the 100 oz of water. I crave water now, and if I didn't have a ton of it, I would feel dehydrated.

And yes, there is a scientific reason to up the water intake if you have a really salty day. It is actually a really complicated process involving the kidneys. The sodium and water in your body are in a delicate balance, and if that balance is disturbed, the kidneys have to make it right. When you greatly increase your sodium above normal, anti-diuretic hormone is released from the pituitary (due to increased plasma concentration) and causes the kidney to conserve water and concentrate the urine so that the balance of sodium and water can be at their normal ratio in your body. This excess sodium will eventually be expelled, but until it can be processed the increased water retention can make up for it. Of course this is GREATLY simplified, but you get the gist. So drink up, mates!

lmr9

Do you all count the water in foods you eat towards your daily total?

CinthyNair

Do you all count the water in foods you eat towards your daily total?

I don't ... I only consider the actual plain water or green tea, etc as my daily total.

lmr9

Do you all count the water in foods you eat towards your daily total?

I don't ... I only consider the actual plain water or green tea, etc as my daily total.

OK, good - that's what I do too. Thanks!