Water? Really?

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  • MrTolerable
    MrTolerable Posts: 1,593 Member
    It's true.. I try to have AT LEAST 100 FLoz daily.
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    I don't agree with your doctor, unless the additional fluid intake causes you to eat less.
  • MrTolerable
    MrTolerable Posts: 1,593 Member
    I don't agree with your doctor, unless the additional fluid intake causes you to eat less.

    maybe he would feel more full and naturally get to a maintenance or caloric deficit?

    idk.. I don't understand the doctors reasoning either.
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    I don't agree with your doctor, unless the additional fluid intake causes you to eat less.

    maybe he would feel more full and naturally get to a maintenance or caloric deficit?

    idk.. I don't understand the doctors reasoning either.

    Yep, that's basically what I was getting at with eating less.

    As an aside, I also don't believe it's necessary to exclusively drink plain water. There's nothing wrong with hydrating yourself through other means provided that you're able to adequately hydrate yourself. I drink coffee, I drink some diet soda here and there, I drink other flavored beverages/etc. I also drink some plain water but not much.

    I've never seen any reason why it has to be plain water, and if people prefer to use other means then it doesn't make sense to me that we have people who try to convince them otherwise. That's really only going to reduce enjoyment.
  • Rianne90
    Rianne90 Posts: 229 Member
    24 oz is just shy of 710 ml, not even a liter of water (fluids), how do you not walk around with a massive headache every day?
    I don't think drinking water will make you magically lose weight (though apparently some anecdotal evidence exists), but it will make you feel fuller, and that might cause you to eat less.
    For me personally there are 2 major benefits to drinking enough water (for me 2-3 liters is enough, roughly 67-101 oz., YMMV) are regular bowel movements and nice (not dry/flaky/itchy) skin.

    Whatever floats your boat obviously, but I can't imagine how drinking 24 oz. (not water) can work for anyone in the long term..
  • mygnsac
    mygnsac Posts: 13,413 Member
    I know the feeling. Getting up to a minimum of 64 ounces per day was incredibly difficult for me. I didn't hate water or anything, but for someone who rarely drank more than 30 ounces a day, that just seemed like so much! I worked on it a couple years ago, and now it's just daily routine. I prefer to drink it chilled or with ice, don't like stale room temp water. Now and then I also like adding lemon juice or infusing it with fruit. I keep this little bright blue (eye catching color) 8 ounce cup in the kitchen near the water dispenser on the fridge, and every time I go in to the kitchen for something, I fill up that little cup and knock back 8 ounces. Usually by the end of the day I've drank near 64 ounces just doing that. Keeping a water bottle in the car and at work usually ensures I will drink another 20 or so ounces while I'm out and about.
  • ALKNica
    ALKNica Posts: 50
    In my opinion, there is water, and then there's good tasting water.

    Years ago I went on Spring Break to the New Orleans area. The water from the tap tasted mildly of sulfur. Up until then, I was perplexed when people said they didn't like water. I boiled the water and cooled it in order to make it taste more palatable.

    Water from plastic bottles can sometimes taste strange to me too. I prefer using filtered pitchers such as Pure or Brita.

    Even then if you have stinky things in your fridge such as garlic or fish, the water sometimes will get those tastes in it.

    In the Kansas area, when the reservoirs get low, the water starts tasting like algae.

    So the very many different reasons why water might not be to someone's liking are numerous.

    If the issue is just the "plain" taste, the options have been outlined by other posters.
  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    Is your doctor named Dr. Oz? As long as you're drinking, you're getting water. Juice, soda, tea... they're all nearly 100% water. You need to be mindful of any calories, sugar, acid, etc in those things, but they all do a good job of hydrating you. The only beverage that actually dehydrates you is alcohol.
  • Branstin
    Branstin Posts: 2,320 Member
    Your doctor is an idiot, and that WebMD article is stupid.

    Unless you are overseeing the health of the OP or have a better insight into the OP's medical history then your advice is just as stupid.

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