8 cups a day, What counts as water?

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  • dcuevas6235
    dcuevas6235 Posts: 135
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    Ask Adam Sandler.
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
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    water.
  • Sallybeee_fit
    Sallybeee_fit Posts: 36 Member
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    Everyday with this topic...

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    Lmfao.
  • Lovely_at_any_size
    Lovely_at_any_size Posts: 94 Member
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    I took a fitness course and water is only water.
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
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    I took a fitness course and water is only water.

    Your fitness instructor may need to review high school chemistry.
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,222 Member
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    When I did WW years and years ago, they told us we could use diet soda, flavored sugar-free water, unsweetened/sugar-free tea and black coffee for half of our days water if we wanted, but that they only counted for half of their volume. For example 4 cups of water, 2 cups of unsweetened/sugar-free tea, 3 cups of diet soda and 3 cups of black coffee would could as 8 cups of water.

    Personally, I do feel that the concept of drinking 8 cups of pure water every day being *absolutely* necessary is a bit outdated.
  • Yooperm35
    Yooperm35 Posts: 787 Member
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    http://www.livestrong.com/article/211083-why-do-i-need-to-drink-a-lot-of-water-when-dieting/
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
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    I don't log water at all. I just make sure I'm hydrated.
  • StheK
    StheK Posts: 443 Member
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    Sometimes I think people ask this question on purpose just to see the same people have the same arguments about it, day after day.
  • Dewymorning
    Dewymorning Posts: 762 Member
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    I don't actually keep track of how much water I drink.

    Everyday I have a glass of water or a cup of tea (black or green) on my desk and I drink it as i feel like it, refilling when I need to, and I usually drink a glass of water with my dinner at night, and I drink a bottle of water when I am at the gym, and I just assume that all this is enough, and log it as 8 glasses of water.

    If you are drinking 3-4 glasses of water a day and plenty of fruit and vegetables you are probably getting plenty of water to keep you hydrated.
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,222 Member
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    http://www.livestrong.com/article/211083-why-do-i-need-to-drink-a-lot-of-water-when-dieting/

    "To determine how much water you should drink daily, divide your weight in pounds by two. This is the amount, in ounces, of water you should drink each day. For example, a 180-pound man should drink 90 ounces --- a little over 11 glasses --- of water per day. If you exercise regularly or heavily, you may need to drink more, the Diet Channel notes."


    I'm sorry, but I am *not* drinking over 15 glasses of water a day.

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