Water intake

margpearce60
margpearce60 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 16 in Health and Weight Loss
I drink tea frequently during the day but it is so weak to the point that one teabag will last all day! Does this count to my water intake? I count milk used in good diary

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  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    Tea is just water with something mixed in. Why would you think it wouldn't be counted as water?
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    Any liquid counts, including coffee and soda. Water in your food counts. Monitor the colour of your pee to see how hydrated you are.
  • Emcelroy
    Emcelroy Posts: 1 Member
    Maybe. How many ounces of liquid go along with that 1 teabag? Making sure you get enough water is more about the total ounces of liquid you are drinking every day.
  • lazyprincesss
    lazyprincesss Posts: 11 Member
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    Any liquid counts, including coffee and soda. Water in your food counts. Monitor the colour of your pee to see how hydrated you are.

    Coffee has caffeine, which dehydrates you. Soda has sugar, which dehydrates you. Foods high in sodium dehydrate you. So those don't really help your water intake. When in doubt, drink more water. I aim for as close to 100 oz of water a day as possible. You should be urinating very frequently, and it should always be crystal clear.
  • Afura
    Afura Posts: 2,054 Member
    lazyprincesss wrote: »
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    Any liquid counts, including coffee and soda. Water in your food counts. Monitor the colour of your pee to see how hydrated you are.

    Coffee has caffeine, which dehydrates you. Soda has sugar, which dehydrates you. Foods high in sodium dehydrate you. So those don't really help your water intake. When in doubt, drink more water. I aim for as close to 100 oz of water a day as possible. You should be urinating very frequently, and it should always be crystal clear.
    Coffee and soda do not dehydrate you, those are long standing myths. Coffee contains caffeine which is a diuretic but that does not necessarily cause dehydration. The sugar in soda does cause minimal effects on hydration, but unless you are already dehydrated they shouldn't adversely impact you (in fact sugar and salt are given to people who are dehydrated - not large doses) and if you already dehydrated, a soda definitely wouldn't be recommended.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Tea is flavored water. Flavoring water doesn't make it something else. Don't try and make things more complicated than they need to be with ridiculous nonsense rules. There's so many studies that just being hydrated is what matters - not plain pure water from a fresh mountain stream or whatever silly rule people put on their water consumption. There's also tons of studies about the whole dehydration myth of coffee,etc. Weight loss isn't about punishment - enjoy your tea.
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