Tips on how to drink your daily water?

U just drink it, I don't drink water because I'm thirsty. I drink because I know I have to. Somewhere between 12-15 cups a day.

Days like today when I just wasn't feeling it and wasn't very thirsty, I added some flavor drops (sugar free kool aid drops today) to my water at work, and tonight I'm drinking ice water with a straw. It feels like more than water.

Please remember everything is a guideline, you may only need the equivalent of 4 glasses a day when some else needs 12. Now before we get super technical as to why there is a fairly easy way to monitor. Pay close attention to the color or your urine. Very light yellow to clear is ideal. Any darker then very light yellow and you need to drink more. Really simple as that....

Drink beer if it fits your budget. There is no reason you need drink 64 oz of water a day. That's totally broscience along with drinking 1/2 your weight in ounces.

Your urine should be pale yellow, that's how you tell if you're hydrated. You get fluid from the foods you eat (an apple is 85% water) and other things you drink during the day. Your body doesn't care if it gets hydration from an apple, your morning coffee, the soup you had at lunch or your beer after work. It's all fluid and it all keeps you hydrated.

There's also no magical weight loss properties to drinking a lot of water. It doesn't flush out fat but drinking too much can flush out vitamins and minerals that your body needs. The only advantage to drinking a lot when dieting is that a large glass of water before a meal may help you eat less.

I drink a lot of cold herbal teas (made with just the tea and water), or I put lemon juice in my water, for flavor. I always have a very large glass with me when I'm home (it's actually a large vase--LOL), and I just make sure I drink...sipping all day. If I notice I haven't drank anything significant in a couple of hours, I make myself drink half the glass. I also make sure to drink a couple of 8 oz glasses before I work out in the morning, & always drink during my workouts. When I go out, I always have my water bottle with me. Once you get used to drinking more water, your body will crave it, and it won't seem like much of an effort.

I have a 24oz tumbler that I fill with ice water every morning and take to the office with me. It's always on my desk and full of water, so I drink on it without really thinking about it. I tend to average 62oz at least in a day this way, but I don't stress over getting X ounces, so if I happen to only get 24 oz in a day, I don't worry. Honestly, the best thing I did for my water intake was to stop tracking it and just limit drinking other things. I still drink tea and soda and coffee, but now it's a conscious choice to do so instead of just the first thing I grab.

I also drink a lot of cold herbal iced tea. I have an Iced Tea Maker (by Mr. Coffee), and that makes brewing it really easy.

I try to stay away from sugar free stuff (like Crystal Light), simply because it seems to trigger sweet cravings for me.

I like to drink hot tea in the evenings, or flavored seltzer water (not the stuff with artificial sweeteners, but just flavored club soda) with a splash of cranberry juice

Drinking 64 oz of plain water gets old, so you have to change it up a bit from time to time..

I like my water icy cold, so I freeze a bottle until it's just mushy and then drink/crunch the ice for an hour instead of snacking on crap, it's a good diversion technique when I'm craving chips/crunchy food too

I drink about 300-500ml of water with breakfast, and always have a bottle of water on hand throughout the day, which makes up at least another 500-1000ml. I make sure I drink a huge glass at dinner, around 500ml, sometimes a bit more, (makes me feel fuller too) and on top of that at least 500ml of water intake is made up of my icy drink.

You can try adding lemon juice to the water which aids with digestion, diet cordial, or get a Soda Stream and make your own fizzy water.

I've had five kids so I know what pressure is like on your bladder when you drink so much, but if you take it in smaller amounts over the course of the day instead of in big forced drinks then its not as bad. You could also try to get yourself in the habit of having a small drink when you do something else, so maybe when you wash your hands you have a cup of water or something?

Here's some ideas to make your water a bit more interesting to drink but sorry that no beer is added to any of them :drinker:

http://skinnyms.com/fat-flushing-recipes-flush-fat-with-these-5-delicious-drinks/