Trouble with Water

I am with you there...I love diet soda. To make sure I drink my water everyday I make a rule (which I follow most of the time). after my coffee in the morning nothing but my water until I have at least 6 cups in. so that is a bottle of water in the morning, one at lunch and one in the afternoon. That leaves me 2 more cups for supper/workout. And if you stick with water you will find you want it more then the sweet stuff.

Good luck.

Looking into Crystal Lite or Slim Sticks to flavor your water would be a great way for you to get in the habit of drinking more while satisfying a little sweet. Also, Vitamin water or Propel. Now, don't get carried away because you will add sugar and calories with some of these enhancers and flavored waters, but it will be oodles better than sweet tea or soda. I like to drinks San Peligrino or Perrier with some lime or grapefruit in it-you can purchase it that way. Not really sweet but has the carbonation. One soda a day = 12 lbs of fat a year. So try whatever you can to get away from it!

I find drinking out of a straw really helps. And if I have 4 cups plain, then I allow myself crystal light. Try getting a 8 cup water bottle , fill it and mark it with times so that by noon you drank half.

I have found that if you drink filtered water, I can tolerate it more because it does not have the foul
Tastes or smells. Hope this helps.

Have a great day.

I was also like this. Try putting some lemon in your water, or other natural flavors. I also always drink a bottle of water on the way to work, because im distracted driving it doesnt really feel like im drinking as much as I am. I then fill up that bottle two or four times during work, and drink one more bottle on the way home. Thats a quick way to get a minimum of eight glasses not including what you have for meals. The only problem with so much water is that i always have to go to the bathroom. It can be annoying when you arent used to having to use it as much but i look at it as extra exercise walking back and forth the the bathroom as well as a great way to flush out the posions from my body.

Try DaVinci Sugar Free Syrups. Tons of flavors, I use it to sweeten plain yogurt too.

Get some decaf crystal light tea - although some people thing artificial sweeteners mess with your body, the science is pretty thin on the subject. I think you can get away with switching to that, then start watering it down more a little each day.

The science is pretty thin on a lot of this stuff. I think it differs a lot from person to person. For me, I have recognized a distinct relationship between artificial sweetener consumption and the desire to eat anything that isn't nailed down. Some recent experiments confirm that a relationship exists. Whether an individual is susceptible to the effect can only be determined by that individual.

SPARKLING WATER! It's so light and easy to drink - I find that still water just sloshes about in my tummy. It also feels less bland. I get a 2litre bottle every day on the way to work (only 59p!) and drink most of it by the end of the day.

If you like sweet tea try making your own Arnold Palmer. Brew your tea and then sweeten it with crystal light. That always seems to satisfy the sweet tea craving for me with little to no extra calories.

What has worked to get me off my diet soda is Mio Sweet Tea. It's portable too - I travel a lot so I can carry my little bottle with me to flavor my water wherever I go!! I love the taste!

Flavour your water.

Berries
Cucumber
Lemon
Mint

Theres many combinations. U wont even realise its water

Add Mio drops or crystal light to your water. There are also flavoured sugar free syrups like torani and davinci that you can use to flavour the water to make it more like soda.

SPARKLING WATER! It's so light and easy to drink - I find that still water just sloshes about in my tummy. It also feels less bland. I get a 2litre bottle every day on the way to work (only 59p!) and drink most of it by the end of the day.

I love La Croix lemon sparkling water. I thought it was the sugar in Coke that I loved but it was the carbonation. I would drink 3 cans of sparkling water, contained no calories or sodium.

However, now I don't have La Croix here and I'm sad. Perrier is too expensive and not as good as La Croix.

There is so much sodium in everything. Would you ever be worried about not having enough sodium whilst living in modern civilization? Your kidneys are not going to be overly stressed unless you are really drinking way too much water. Drinking more water is generally a good thing for just about everyone in most circumstances.

Stopping the sweet tooth when it comes to beverages has been trouble for me. I quickly began preferring this beverage to all others. It has artificial sweetener and a lot of vitamins. With other dietary changes and products, my sweet tooth has completely dissipated so that I prefer plain water to everything except an occasional glass of my personal product stock. There are lots of mentions of brand names here.

Some observations I have on the sugar cravings though, are that the cravings possibly come from low blood sugar levels and/or nutritional deficits. Occasionally eat some fresh whole super-fruits like blueberries to see if your sugar cravings decrease. A good deal of vitamin B6 from fresh whole tropical fruits like papaya and banana could help for getting energy from the carbs you ingest. Also eat some nutritious complex carbohydrates. Lentils are great; less processed oats are good too. With the grain/legume proteins and complex carbs, your desire for sweets should drop. If this is not doing it for you, it might be that your intestinal walls are polluted with some really bad stuff. Cleaning out your insides with lots of fiber is really where you should start. Once you do that, fresh fruit and other nutritious food is just about all that you would want anyway. How to get reliably clean without a cleanse product, I would have no idea.

Also in relation to blood sugar, I now take a product series that is equivalent to drinking two huge double mocha cappuccinos with two green chi tea every morning as my only breakfast. This is not Starbucks or something. It is specially formulated for weight-loss results. The mocha and low lactose dairy gives proteins that you need. The coffee boosts cortisol, kicking your adrenals, upping blood sugar. It is a jump start of stress in the morning. Too much can be bad insulin triggering stress; so watch out. But this gets the blood sugar up and the coffee/tea part without the mocha and dairy is repeated before lunch. The green Oolong tea has properties useful for diabetics and gets the fat burning rather than storing. That means less sugar being stored to fat; so more sugar is available in the blood without ingesting more carbohydrates. Oolong tea also has antioxidant properties. Like I said, this is all specially formulated for a specific metabolic effect. The coffee and tea you get from your barista may or may not have the desired effect; that coffee and tea is not formulated for weight-loss but according to your personal taste.

So I have more blood sugar than I am used too; most people say they have "more energy." I don't feel those sugar lows that bring me back as a slave to sugar for a quick pick-me-up only to be let down time and time again when the insulin kicks in to convert the sugar to fat. That sugar fix is an endless weight-gain cycle.