"1 cup of water"

1 cup is 8 fl. oz.

Always has been and always will be 8 ounces. That's why my 16 oz Ozarka is easy to count. I just count by 2's, makes it a breeze!!

1 Cup = 2 Gills

Just ignore, people on this site don't always feel the need to be kind.

I just estimate since I know how much the glass holds. If I drink 12 oz and mark 1 cup, then the next time I drink 12 oz I might mark 2 cups. Truth be told, I haven't been tracking water in a long time. But I agree with the other posters who mentioned using a sports water bottle that comes with markings on the side. I have one that holds 16oz and one that holds 22oz, so I just know I have to drink 2 or 3 per day depending on which one I am drinking from.

No one belittled you that I can tell, your question was poorly constructed and led to confusion. You read their tone as critical when most were being pretty straight forward and blunt based on the context. You should have used the word "glass" or "mug" not cup. Cup is a form of measurement in your context. A cup is 8fl oz. I was also unsure until your second post whether you knew that a cup is 8fl oz and not 12 or 16.

I use a 16oz glass. I count 2 cups for every glass I drink. My tea mug which is about 335mL or 1.4 cups I tend to count as one cup because I often refill my tea before its empty- and really, when is drinking more calories-free fluids than you log a bad thing.

I consider a cup 8 oz. so if your glass holds 12 oz drink two and you have completed 3 cups of water. If it's 16, then you have had 2 glasses of water. Also, I count a regular sized bottle of water as 2. Hope this helps.

ETA when MFP is counting it's going by 8oz cups, for a total of 64oz of water in a day. that's the general rule of thumb. However, it's been suggested that you drink half your body weight in oz

I'm not stupid i understand that a cup is 8 oz. But I didn't know if people actually measured it out or if they counted it as one still when using a normal sized drinking glass which usually holds closer to 12-16oz.

Thanks for being rude.
People don't ask questions to be belittled ...

Well, you did ask what people consider a cup to be. If you meant to ask how people log a glass, that's a different question. And the interface in MFP that logs water states cups as the unit of measure.

So while I don't generally condone mocking people, I also don't condone getting in a snit because answering the question you really wanted answered in the first place would have required psychic abilities.

1 cup of water is not a universally known concept -- especially for those who use metric measurements and are not familiar with the American cup, which for all I know without looking it up, may be different from an Australian cup. We are an international community.

But this brings up another question. Why 8-cups of water per day? Well, as it turns out, this "common knowledge" has very little science to back it up. More recent understanding of our need for fluids looks more at the color of your urine than how many glasses of water you drink per day to ascertain whether you are well hydrated. If your urine is light yellow or straw colored you are doing fine. If it is bright or dark yellow, you need to hydrate more.

Also, anything you may have heard about coffee or tea or milk, etc., not counting for hydration turns out to be false. Anything you drink contributes toward hydration. Even vegetables and other solid foods that contain a lot of water contribute toward your hydration.

There is no research to show that drinking a specific amount of water results in weight loss. For some folks and at some times, however, drinking that glass of water or plain iced tea will keep other foods out of our mouths and help us lose weight just as doing some crochet might keep food out of your mouth and help you lose weight.

So, consume enough water containing stuff to keep your urine straw colored and your kidneys happy. If your urine is darker yellow, drink more. If your urine is pink, you either need to call the doctor or you are like the 20% of us who regularly get beeturia from eating beets.

.. srsly?

When is a cup not a cup?

When you're from somewhere other than America.

I'm not stupid i understand that a cup is 8 oz. But I didn't know if people actually measured it out or if they counted it as one still when using a normal sized drinking glass which usually holds closer to 12-16oz.

Well if your glass holds 16oz, then when logging it in, log 2 cups of water even if it's just one glass you drinking. Then you'll only have to drink 4 of your glasses to get the daily 8 cups of water. :drinker: