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    What do you count as water?

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    • Posts: 28 Member
      Again, Thanks to all for the input. Just reading all the ways everyone looks at various "fluids" was enlightening by itself. I'll admit that it is rare that I drink plain old water. I drink plenty of Powerade Zero and Crystal Light type drink so I am plenty hydrated, just not getting enough plain water. I'll have to find a way to work some in going forward...
    • Posts: 1,058 Member
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      well, then I am a ding dong since my Diet Coke is more than 99% water I count it as water.

      Yes you are, dingdong.
    • Posts: 8,059 Member
      Yes I've seen new studies show that A cup of coffee could actually help with your run... my doctor is not one that believes this and is always on my case to keep coffee or caffeinated drinks to 1 per day (and she is a runner and NOT old).
      6 cups of coffee a day has been shown to reduce the risk of diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's, stroke, hypertension, cancer, and Parkinson's disease. I'd avoid a doctor that tells you not to drink it.
    • Posts: 441 Member
      I only count actual water and seltzer water, but that's pretty much all I drink.

      These two are what I count as my water intake as well.
    • Posts: 693 Member
      if it doesnt come out of a tap then its not water dont cheat yourself, H2o only
    • Posts: 118 Member
      I know right! But my question to you is...
      Why are all of your chem eng. professors dead?

      'Cause I'm old :)
    • Posts: 118 Member
      if it doesnt come out of a tap then its not water dont cheat yourself, H2o only

      The water in my diet coke came out of a tap. The tap may be in Atlanta or Mississauga, but it is tap water.

      and tap water is not H2O only. It has fluorides, salts, chloramines, etc.
    • Posts: 307 Member
      I only count water, tea/coffee etc are caffine so I dont count them. The only extra one I would count if is I have a (neat) tonic water
    • Posts: 118 Member
      I would count tonic water as pop as it has 90 calories in a 8 oz can of Canada Dry Tonic Water.
    • Posts: 8,059 Member
      if it doesnt come out of a tap then its not water dont cheat yourself, H2o only
      So if I draw it from my aquifer it isn't water?:huh:
    • Posts: 2,080 Member
      Water is just that H20...tea and other beverages are not counted as water even though they are mostly made from it...so 2 litres of just plain old H20 per day is the minimum...
    • Posts: 595 Member
      Water. Period.
    • Posts: 118 Member
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      So if I draw it from my aquifer it isn't water?:huh:

      You probably have to explain what an aquifer is. :wink:

      use "well" and the people here will probably understand that better. :tongue:
    • Posts: 1,653 Member
      Anything that contains H20 will hydrate you, with the possible exception of, like, milk of magnesia.


      That means fruit, vegetables, most any food really... Diet soda, coffee, tea, those all hydrate you.


      Overhydrating is as much of a problem as dehydtration.

      Coffee does not hydrate. It is considered a diuretic.
    • Posts: 118 Member


      Coffee does not hydrate. It is considered a diuretic.

      Please read the entire post. Coffee does not dehydrate if you are a regular drinker of it. I can provide peer reviewed papers to explain if necessary.

      All liquids hydrate.
    • Posts: 137 Member
      I count water and water only. :)
    • Posts: 821 Member
      I count just about everything as water. I make my pancakes with water, so I count pancakes. My cake recipe also calls for a cup of water, so I count cake as water. Soup, brownies, hamburger helper, tuna, casseroles.
    • Posts: 118 Member
      I believe this conversation thread could be a sequel to this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
    • Posts: 1
      Just water.
    • Posts: 319 Member
      I just lick the sidewalk after it rains and count it as food for all the nutrients I pick up in addition.. :)
    • Posts: 1,296 Member
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      So you're suggesting that drinking coffee not only contributes nothing but actually subtracts from your water balance ? Science does not agree with you. Welcome to the mythology zone.

      Coffee shouldn't be logged as water, it isn't water, it's coffee. If coffee should be logged as water then moonshine should be logged as water, since it is wet and did start out as water.
    • Posts: 167 Member
      I count water as water :noway:
    • Posts: 3,566 Member
      If coffee should be logged as water then moonshine should be logged as water, since it is wet and did start out as water.

      Ask me how I know you didn't do very well in high school chemistry
    • Posts: 3,566 Member
      I just eat packets of crystal light. Good enough
    • Posts: 279 Member
      water and tea
    • Posts: 516 Member
      I count water and occasionally non-caffeinated herbal tea.
    • Posts: 9,003 Member
      I just eat packets of crystal light. Good enough

      :laugh: :laugh:
    • Posts: 23
      It's not tricky at all...

      I count Water as Water. Nothing more, nothing less.

      I count Coffee as ....coffee.

      I count Tea as....tea.

      I count Wine as....lots of fabulous calories.

      If you're trying to get fit, then get back to basics. Water is Water.
    • Posts: 43 Member
      I only count plain water too. I've read places that you're actually supposed to drink an additional glass of water for each cup of coffee or tea you drink, because they're so dehydrating. I try to do that, but sometimes 10 glasses of water a day is impossible ...
      plain and simple, just water. I don't count coffee, or anything. If I have the occasional crystal light or something like that I count it as water, but I don't really like them, very powdery.
      In short, water is what I log as water :)
    • Posts: 4,323 Member
      Water. Period.

      see i just count water.
      period i log as "iron supplement"
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