Water Drinking Question

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  • Butrovich
    Butrovich Posts: 410 Member
    I don't eat a ton of vegetables and I HATE soup. So no, not really. People always say that your body will tell you when it needs water, but I'm never thirsty. When I do drink water, it just feels unpleasant.
    I have had issues with dehydration my whole life, including several fainting spells and low blood pressure,

    Sounds like your body is telling you to drink more water.
  • elinegri
    elinegri Posts: 18 Member
    I would be careful with water consumption especially if you drink more than 2L (67oz) of water daily.
    Your personal water intake is always going to be personal and different to everybody else's.

    Now I was like everybody else who thought drinking water everyday was healthy and my body needed it, but I found by only drinking 1L of extra water daily was making me feel weak, and I needed to constantly urinate. TMI I know but it was true. I went to the doctor and told her all of this and she even conducted a urine sample and her final conclusion was that I DIDN'T NEED TO BE DRINKING EXTRA WATER. Because I was never thirsty, I drank soup everyday and my main source of breakfast was a smoothie she says I saw drinking too much water and actually putting my kidneys in danger because of the overuse they had to endure.

    All I can recommend is:
    - Only drink extra water when you are exercising or thirsty
    - Add all other sources of water (soups, smoothies, drinks) into your daily water intake
    - Dehydration is rare and usually only affects those who exercise often
  • elinegri
    elinegri Posts: 18 Member
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  • elinegri
    elinegri Posts: 18 Member
    I don't eat a ton of vegetables and I HATE soup. So no, not really. People always say that your body will tell you when it needs water, but I'm never thirsty. When I do drink water, it just feels unpleasant.
    I have had issues with dehydration my whole life, including several fainting spells and low blood pressure,

    Sounds like your body is telling you to drink more water.

    Actually fainting spells and low blood pressure can also be a symptom of drinking TOO much water. I fainted and was taken to the hospital once, and they claimed I had drunk so much water I had diluted my salt stores too much to function. And all I had drank was 2L of water in a day.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    I don't eat a ton of vegetables and I HATE soup. So no, not really. People always say that your body will tell you when it needs water, but I'm never thirsty. When I do drink water, it just feels unpleasant.
    I have had issues with dehydration my whole life, including several fainting spells and low blood pressure,

    Sounds like your body is telling you to drink more water.

    Actually fainting spells and low blood pressure can also be a symptom of drinking TOO much water. I fainted and was taken to the hospital once, and they claimed I had drunk so much water I had diluted my salt stores too much to function. And all I had drank was 2L of water in a day.

    OP says she's dehydrated.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    So you KNOW you're dehydrated, KNOW you pass out and your question is will water help you lose weight?? It will help lower your sodium, which makes you retain water.
  • DMRinehardt
    DMRinehardt Posts: 34
    If nothing else convinces you to drink water......maybe this will....

    Picture yourself at 50. Look at the faces of 50 yo women (unchanged by surgery). You will see a wide variation of wrinkles, from almost none to very deep with sagging skin. The difference (when you take out special genetic exceptions) comes from who drank water and who didn't.

    You may not care when you are in your 20s, but take my word for it....it will make a difference when you are in your 50s. :)
  • julieshul
    julieshul Posts: 10 Member
    I wasn't drinking enough water to lose weight, and then I heard about Count Me Healthy bracelets. They are pretty expensive, but look like regular, nice jewelry and have little beads that you move from one side to the other as you count whatever you're counting! I move a bead every time I finish my 22 oz. water bottle, and it's nice to not have to pull out my phone every time this happens.

    I love it and totally recommend it. (You could do the same thing with a simple beaded bracelet for a lot less money, too...)
  • zyg65
    zyg65 Posts: 3 Member
    Its 2L of fluids a day and 20% of that is expected to come from food.
    It cna help with loss by supressing appetite, but im more bothered about assisting your bodies functions.

    Apparently

    1. Drinking Water Helps Maintain the Balance of Body Fluids.
    2. Water Can Help Control Calories.
    3. Water Helps Energize Muscles
    4. Water Helps Keep Skin Looking Good.
    5. Water Helps Your Kidneys.
    6. Water Helps Maintain Normal Bowel Function.

    I probably dont always drink 2l, but its 2l of fluid so tea and coffee count. Juices etc.

    Btw MFP isnt just about weight loss, it also includes nutrition, fitness and a healthy lifestyle. You sure are coming up with some challenging questions. Like the reason to lift weights. Just look at the people who have done what you want to do and listen to how they got there.

    This is the only advice I've seen in this thread that is worth listening to.

    No, water isn't going to magically make you lose weight. It's not going to somehow stimulate you to pee out calories or fat or anything else. If you're peeing at all, you're removing the waste from your body well enough.

    On the other hand - yes, passing out is not normal. Yes, you do need to drink more water.

    The 8 cups a day recommendation on the tracker originally comes from a study done around the 40s where it was shown that 8 cups of fluid would be necessary to burn an average number of maintenance calories. However, people have since taken this study to mean you must drink 8 cups of water alone. What it actually means is fluid from all sources: food, coffee/tea, juice, soda, sports drinks... whatever. And a recent study found that, including all of these sources, the average American drinks 14 cups of fluid per day.

    Next time, you should google things like this and find out for yourself. People on these forums have some very strange - even superstitious - ideas.

    Losing weight isn't magic. There is no silver bullet. Calories out > calories in = lose weight.
  • TeamGetFinesFirstLady
    TeamGetFinesFirstLady Posts: 12
    Water does in fact help you lose weight, I normally drink a gallow a day, It helps keep me full, I add fruits and veggies to keep from having that bland taste and also because fruit infused waters aid in inch lose weight loss, digestion, skin purifiying, etc, because it is all natural. Drinking water is alot better than drinking sports drinks which contain alot of sugar.
  • lshipley1
    lshipley1 Posts: 36 Member
    She just wants advice. I really don't see the need to be sarcastic
  • Project2015
    Project2015 Posts: 43
    Actually your body needs water to maintain every single organ in your body. It helps keep acne down, as well as helping your kidneys filter out toxins throughout your body, you absolutely need to remove the toxins, and sodium in your body. Sodium raises your body weight, and keeps lipids that form adipose cells. [fat cells] also water filters out toxins in the muscles, helping them grow and expand to raise endurance, and higher endurance helps build your ability to exercise longer, and faster.
    water removing toxins from your muscles also keeps you from getting muscle knots, and "charlie horses"
    It also helps you sleep better as well. it also clears your pores throughout all of your skin, helping you sweat, and you need to sweat to cool your body while you're working out. water keeps your body running. its not just about weight loss.

    -reference. [Im a med student]
  • La5Vega5Girl
    La5Vega5Girl Posts: 709 Member
    I hate water. hate. hate.
    but my dr looked at my bloodwork and said, "You do not drink water" and I said "how do you know?" and he said "this number right here." and he pointed to a blood test which SHOWED that I didn't drink enough. BUSTED. he said it is horrible long-term. I am basically dehydrating slowly. kidneys NEED water to function properly.

    I now make a 4 qt. pitcher of fresh water each morning and add lemons/oranges/limes and drink the whole thing over the course of the day. NO I do not think it is going to help me lose weight, but I want to live to be my grandmother's age (she is a healthy 91, living on her own!) so I am following dr's orders.

    :drinker:
  • La5Vega5Girl
    La5Vega5Girl Posts: 709 Member
    I don't eat a ton of vegetables and I HATE soup. So no, not really. People always say that your body will tell you when it needs water, but I'm never thirsty. When I do drink water, it just feels unpleasant.
    I have had issues with dehydration my whole life, including several fainting spells and low blood pressure,

    Sounds like your body is telling you to drink more water.

    Actually fainting spells and low blood pressure can also be a symptom of drinking TOO much water. I fainted and was taken to the hospital once, and they claimed I had drunk so much water I had diluted my salt stores too much to function. And all I had drank was 2L of water in a day.

    well obviously this isn't the case with the OP because she admits to not drinking water.

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