Is 8 cups of water a day really needed?

Yes! Water is the most important thing! Tea is good too. But if you only have 2 cups of black tea per day, & 4-5 cups of water, you'll be in much better shape.

You do really need the water to help flush out the salt and other bad stuff. Your urine should be almost clear. For every caffeine drink you have you need to drink equal amounts of water to counter act it. Looks like you need to find a way to intake more water.
Get a water bottle that is around 32oz. just remember to fill it up twice in a day. Once you get used to drinking that much water you'll start to crave it. On another note you need to have plenty of water to make up for what you loose during your exercise routine. You do not want to get dehydrated. The water will help you so you don't get muscle craps or swelling.

I read somewhere that 8 cups actually isn't needed, but water really does do the body good. When I first started this thing I thought 8 cups would drown me, but now I drink about 2 liters a day, sometimes even more! I noticed my skin clearing up and feeling a lot softer, too. I use a 1L SmartWater bottle to keep track of how much I drink, maybe you could try that out if you want.
Also, I try to drink a cup about every hour, that seems to help a lot. Lol, and I know this is a little weird but I love drinking water while I take a shower. It feels really good for some reason. o_o Good luck!

Additional note: caffeinated drinks increase the dehydration (so does beer of any kind). Tea (ice tea and ice coffee) contain caffeine. Those phoney-baloney "energy" drinks are often triple-loaded with caffeine. Caffeine causes the heart to over-tack itself...places too much of a workload.

Try going to your bathroom. Stand by the toilet and try to flush it 10 tens consecutively. You will easily see it does not function well because it had no time to refill itself. Simply put, that's what happens when the heart is forced to race caused by drugs, like a caffeine overdose.

Depending on what else you eat, you do get some water from just food too and the 8 cups of water isn't an absolute rule. However, plenty of water isn't bad for you. True it is possible to drink too much water, but you have to try really really :huh: really hard to do it. That said, some things I do to get myself to drink the water. Put a little flavoring in the water such as lemon, juice, peppermint extract, light tea flavors (the kind you get by brewing the same teabag/leafs more than 4-5 times), or caffeine free herbal teas. Make my food such as oatmeal or pasta a little more watery. Sometimes I convert my pasta into tomato noodle soup by adding more tomatoes, milk and water, and having less pasta. Get myself a pretty water bottle that I want to use and show off :bigsmile: ... I sip more and it makes me want to walk to the water fountain to fill up the bottle. I keep one at the gym too so I go through the act of filling it up before my workout and make sure I drink it all before I leave b/c old water in my gym locker is :noway:. Mostly it's know yourself and knowing how to convince yourself to do things once you realize it is probably good for you. Hope the tips help and good luck!

ya, there is a must for you to drink more than 8 glassess of plain water per day...
maintain drink the plain water more than 2000cc if u can..i'm also trying to do tis target everyday, its also very hard for me to do it..
if i drink more than 2000cc i will run to toilet every 15minutes, it make me very frustrated...
avoid drink sweet drinks..if u dun like drink the plain water u can try add some lime in your plain water to make it more tasty..
water is important to flush out all the waste and extra cholesterol from our body, carry all the vitamin to our body cells, it can also prevent us from constipation,its also very important to maintain our skin turgor during slim down period...
maybe u can try drink 700cc before lunch, 00cc before dinner, 400cc after dinner...increasing it slowly..
do not drink too much water at night because it burden to our kidney..our kidney's function is slow down at night
do not drink too much of caffeine and tea per day coz it can cause calcium lost in our body but one day 1cup of tea and caffee is ok..

Its so true. Your kidneys need the water. When I was prego with my son I was really sick during the whole pregnancy. I know have 3 kidney stones on each side because I got dehydrated too may time. Plus my nutrition was poor during the pregnancy. Its not worth the pain. Kidney infections and kidney stones are the worst pain I have ever felt and I have had 2 c-sections. Find a way to drink the water.