Do ALL teas count as water ?

For me, I only count actual plain water as my water intake. I don't consider tea, coffee or even flavored enhanced water in my diary as water intake.

Is your pee clear?

I hope not totally clear! It should be pale yellow. If it was always clear, I'd be worried about electrolyte imbalance.

Any liquid "counts" as water. Tea, coffee, soda, juice, milk, soup, etc. Most food you eat contains water as well. An apple is 85% water. Tracking fluid intake is really pointless. If your urine is pale yellow then you're hydrated. It's that simple.

No, it does not...............

Other liquids are just other fluids but they are no longer water.

We should be drinking at least 64 ounces of pure water per day in addition to what other fluids we are intaking.


All of these comments are so misguided. Ugh.

Oh, that's right. If you add sugar to water it suddenly becomes a new substance that's found only on the periodic table of elements. Or maybe your body has a special, store this liquid that isn't water, reservoir that other people do not have.

It's water plus whatever you added to that water to make it taste different.

You can also count juice, milk, soda and even pee as water because... 99% water with other things added to it.

(I don't recommend drinking pee however. That's just gross and should only be considered in life or death situations, or if you're Bear Grylls.)

The great water debate.

There are a lot of things we are taught in school that are very much wrong. Tea and coffee (etc) not having water the body can utilize is one of those wrong things. So, some people, even professionals, have outdated mythological information. Even milk has water in it. If only water counted for hydration there would be a lot more dead people. Some people prefer to drink a lot of water. I have that preference, but I still know that the other things I drink contribute to hydrating me. And on a day I choose a lot of green tea, I don't force feed myself more water than I need.

If only water counted as water then babies fed only breast milk wouldn't survive either.

I don't even bother tracking water. That whole 8 cups is based on how much hydration you need from all sources, including food. And the source of the study for where the whole 8 cups came from seems to be some mystery, it's just what everyone "knows".

I track just because it's there. But also I found if I get 6-8 cups at least I don't wake up in the middle of the night with a split lip and dying of thirst. But I count stuff that is liquid, regardless of whether it's "pure" water.

If only water counted as water then babies fed only breast milk wouldn't survive either.

Ding ding ding! Ladies and gents, we have ourselves a winner.

Any liquid "counts" as water. Tea, coffee, soda, juice, milk, soup, etc. Most food you eat contains water as well. An apple is 85% water. Tracking fluid intake is really pointless. If your urine is pale yellow then you're hydrated. It's that simple.

No, it does not...............

Other liquids are just other fluids but they are no longer water.

We should be drinking at least 64 ounces of pure water per day in addition to what other fluids we are intaking.


All of these comments are so misguided. Ugh.

water = H2O - i.e. a molecule made of two hydrogen and one oxygen atoms. Just because a few other atoms get in it, it doesn't stop it from being water. In fact if you want to get technical, the water you find in totally natural sources, e.g. springs, rivers, oceans, is not remotely pure. They contain all kinds of minerals and other impurities. 100% pure, as in totally distilled water, which only contains water molecules and nothing else, does not exist in nature. If you're talking paleo, no palaeolithic person ever drank pure water, because the ability to distill it that finely didn't exist until recently.

So if you're saying that adding something else to water disqualifies it from being water, almost no-one drinks water ever. Except that they do, all the time, because adding stuff to water doesn't actually stop it from being water.

I only started counting my tea toward my 10 glasses of water a day. Makes it a lot easier though 'cause with 10 glasses of water and on average 2-3 teas a day all I was doing was drinking, peeing and logging lol

Any liquid "counts" as water. Tea, coffee, soda, juice, milk, soup, etc. Most food you eat contains water as well. An apple is 85% water. Tracking fluid intake is really pointless. If your urine is pale yellow then you're hydrated. It's that simple.

No, it does not...............

Other liquids are just other fluids but they are no longer water.

We should be drinking at least 64 ounces of pure water per day in addition to what other fluids we are intaking.


All of these comments are so misguided. Ugh.

Please quote references, true scientific studies, medical journals et. I'd like to know exactly where it's proven we need that little or that much water.

Her doctor said so!!!

For me, I only count actual plain water as my water intake. I don't consider tea, coffee or even flavored enhanced water in my diary as water intake.

Thank you...............someone else that exhibits some common sense.

Why do you feel the need to attack/insult while making your point. It is ok to debate something in a mature way.

I didn't attack or insult anyone. I stated my opinion and I stated exactly what my Dr's and my dietician told me.

Water is water and if it is coffee, tea, soda or juice then it is not water............exercise a little common sense. So, I guess you feel that they attacked me??

so far I had only seen you calling people ignorant and lacking common sense. It isnt very becoming, and certainly not a way to get people to respect anything you have to say.

you might want to think about that.

This does not mean I support anyone who attacks you in any way.

have a good day.

I count is as water becuase all I add is 2 packets of Splenda ... I would still push yourself to drink more water beyond the tea. It never hurts

It could mess up electrolyte balance if you drink too much water over the course of the day, so it COULD hurt, actually. But that all depends on how much she's drinking and her sodium/potassium intake.

For me, I only count actual plain water as my water intake. I don't consider tea, coffee or even flavored enhanced water in my diary as water intake.

Thank you...............someone else that exhibits some common sense.

Why do you feel the need to attack/insult while making your point. It is ok to debate something in a mature way.

I didn't attack or insult anyone. I stated my opinion and I stated exactly what my Dr's and my dietician told me.

Water is water and if it is coffee, tea, soda or juice then it is not water............exercise a little common sense. So, I guess you feel that they attacked me??

so far I had only seen you calling people ignorant and lacking common sense. It isnt very becoming, and certainly not a way to get people to respect anything you have to say.

you might want to think about that.

This does not mean I support anyone who attacks you in any way.

have a good day.

No longer commenting in any of these general forums.

If only that were true

I water the plants in my office with whatever's left in my mug at the end of the day, generally stale black coffee, sometimes tea, sometimes diet soda.

They all appear to be turgid.

For me, I only count actual plain water as my water intake. I don't consider tea, coffee or even flavored enhanced water in my diary as water intake.

Thank you...............someone else that exhibits some common sense.

Why do you feel the need to attack/insult while making your point. It is ok to debate something in a mature way.

I didn't attack or insult anyone. I stated my opinion and I stated exactly what my Dr's and my dietician told me.

Water is water and if it is coffee, tea, soda or juice then it is not water............exercise a little common sense. So, I guess you feel that they attacked me??

so far I had only seen you calling people ignorant and lacking common sense. It isnt very becoming, and certainly not a way to get people to respect anything you have to say.

you might want to think about that.

This does not mean I support anyone who attacks you in any way.

have a good day.

No longer commenting in any of these general forums.

Yay!!

I had a nutritionist once tell me that since caffiene is a diuretic don't count caffienated teas and coffees as water,

That advice has been revised.

I had a nutritionist once tell me that since caffiene is a diuretic don't count caffienated teas and coffees as water,

That advice has been revised.

As we all know people who lost a few pounds on an internet are all knowing and better suited to tell someone than someone that goes to constant seminars to keep up with their license and such.