Glass of water is what size ?

Further up, someone said, "Take your body weight in pounds. divide it by 2. thats how many FL OZ of water you should drink a day."

Seems like a lot to me.

per my nutritionist friend. DO NOT GO BY THAT ANCIENT RULE!!!!
Take your body weight in pounds. divide it by 2. thats how many FL OZ of water you should drink a day.

so you want me to drink 13 glasses a day?? I can barely get to 4/5 :laugh: no chance in hell, unless I cut away every other fluid intake, which I don't see happening....ever.

That's understandable. It took me quite a while to get down enough water, but if you do cut out all other beverages like say...diet sodas (which although they have no calories...they contain sodium), then in turn you tend to lose more weight and feel better. I feel a lot better now that I only drink water. Maybe a diet soda once in a while. It's hard to get used to, but it does make me feel better

A pint is two cups. Here is what the tracker says:

Water Consumption

We recommend that you drink at least 8 cups of water a day. Click the arrows to add or subtract cups of water.

A cup is a standard measurement of 8 ounces, which is about 237 ml. Close enough to 250.

This is nitpicky but just to correct, a cup is not a standard unit of measurement, a cup means different things in different countries. In Canada and Australia, a cup is 250ml. In the US, a cup is half a pint. In Japan, a cup is 200ml.

It makes following recipes quite interesting!

Actually it is a standard measurement. Just because different countries have different standards doesn't invalidate that. And one could assume that a US site would use the US standard. But thanks for your smart-alec reply, all the same.

Oh excuse us, lets all hail The US of A center of the world! Yes this may be a AMERICAN site so the standards are American, but there is a place called the rest of the world where other "cup" measurements exist, and there are INTERNATIONAL people using this ALL AMERICAN site who have different cup and measurement standards so it is good for us to know those differences, which is what this poster was pointing out.

LMAO I just nearly spit out my (Australian 250ml) cup of tea because of reading this :laugh:

plus there is such a thing as water intoxication

Overhydration occurs at 90g/kg in rats... It would take around 7 gallons of water for me to 'overdose' from water and die.

This is hilarious. 3 pages about a cup of water? Does no one use the google anymore?

35ml of water per KG of body weight is recommended. Everyone is different...so forget the 8 glasses a day crap. For me it means 2100ml a day.

Also tea, coffee will actually dehydrate you and that means drinking that nice plain water was a waste of time.

Also tea, coffee will actually dehydrate you and that means drinking that nice plain water was a waste of time.

that's been debunked in several studies , you have to drink 6+ cups before it has even a moderate affect. I'd drink less than 6 cups (48 ounces) to avoid the caffeine levels that would disrupt sleep though

My nutritionist gave me those simple rules:
1- Track your input.
2- The only output that should be colored is the morning's one.
3- If you drink alcohol, you should subtract one cup of water per consumption (12 oz of beer, 5 oz of wine, 1.5 oz of spirits) since alcohol dehydrate your body.
4- If you train, you should drink more.
5- If you wait until you get thirsty, it means that you waited until being dehydrated.
6- Avoid adding sugar or sweeteners in the water in order to keep it tasteless and avoid keeping the crave for sweet taste.
7- If you drink large numbers of glasses of water in a day because of exercise or heat, just make sure that you've got an adequate intake of minerals to compensate what you're losing with the output, just as runners do during a marathon.

Here's the way I make sure I drink enough:
- I keep a pitcher or a bottle next to me at all time, whether I'm at work, training, watching TV...
- I fill up my glass whenever it's empty.
- I drink with a straw (much easier as I found and it's the ways bars make money because they know people drink much faster this way).
- I drink all day long, starting my day with a glass before doing anything else.
- I don't drink too cold water, cool-warmish water being easier to swallow and to process by the body.

By the way, don't hydrate too much. Paracelsus said "The dose makes the poison". There is such thing as too much as a good thing. There's a story of a woman who died after drinking too much: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16614865/ns/us_news-life/t/woman-dies-after-water-drinking-contest/. Also, look for potomania, a pathology developed by people who are obsessed by the need to drink even if they are not thirsty (similar to what we could call a liquid form of bulimia).

Drinking water is not only good for you but it also helps you losing weight. Just drink enough so that you feel good and pee clear.

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