What are your favorite beverages?

Coffee (drip and espresso), wine. Sometimes tea.

I don't have fluid intake goals, but other than probably 3 or 4 cups of water a day, I generally drink coffee, hot tea, and diet soda. During the summer I'll also drink iced tea and add Mio or Crystal Light to water. Also beer, wine, and bourbon on occasion, but I don't generally think of them as hydrating :drinker:

You don’t need a special “fitness” beverage, unless you are sweating a lot and need to replace electrolytes. In that case, a sports drink like Gatorade will help.

I mostly drink hot or iced tea. I have caffeinated black teas in the morning, and switch to herbal or decaf in the afternoon. Usually I don’t need sweetener, but sometimes I use a couple drops of liquid sucralose.

For a treat, I sometimes order Thai iced tea or coffee. Both have plenty of cream and sugar, but I love them. Other than that, I don’t like most beverages enough to use calories on them.

During the day I drink water, hot tea with milk, sugar free energy drinks, Powerade zero, and sometimes diet Dr pepper. At night I have either wine or hot tea usually. I never count my ounces of fluid I just keep an eye on my urine color.

Coffee, Earl Gray tea, sweet tea, bourbon, scotch, vodka, club soda

kami3006 wrote: »

I don't really drink fitness beverages. I just try to avoid drinking calories. My usual drinks are water, iced tea (unsweetened or with splenda), coffee, and coke zero. I also eat plenty of foods that contain a lot of water.

I go by urine color for hydration.

That's what I do too. I think it's a great way to make sure I'm getting enough fluids.

jamie_rael wrote: »

We've heard that we should drink eight 8 oz glasses of fluid daily. How do you reach your fluid intake goals? What are your favorite fitness/diet-geared beverages (obviously other than water!) to drink? What about seasonal beverages?

My favourite stands to be what is identifiably a vegan eggnog, only that I don't see it as eggnog for most of the year, but simply - a favourite spiced chai.

Water, coffee, propel with electrolytes, whiskey, bottle of wine, etc...

There really is no magical amount of liquid that everybody needs. Check your urine for pale yellow color, of it is...you are hydrated the correct amount.

Morning: Jamaican blue mountain coffee
Lunch: Coke zero
Evening: Johnny Walker blue label

Diet sprite and root beer, egg nog, milk, chocolate milk, and peach schnapps in diet sprite

I drink coffee with half & half in the morning, a coffee or hot tea mid-morning, water with lunch and for the afternoon, lemonade sweetened by stevia pre-dinner (I've been advised to get citrus in my diet on daily basis), and water with dinner. Sometime a beer or a glass of wine with dinner. Occasionally a cup of Dr. Pepper or orange juice with pulp - and "occasionally" means once a month or every six weeks. I log everything that has calories: half & half, lemonade, beer, wine, pop/soda, juice.

I used to drink iced tea (lemon slice, but no sugar...I liked it BITTER) but that ultimately led to dehydration and a kidney stone. So now I have it rarely and I find that it causes water retention in me.

I also have a weakness for Starbucks mint mocha. I try to stay out of Starbucks.

Mostly water, lots of water. Not because I have any sort of hydration goals most of the time, but because I like to drink water. In high school I would easily drink 48oz of water in the span of a school day. I also drink coffee when I have time and am near a good coffee shop (so not Starbucks and the like) and tea.

Tea (either hot or iced, from tea leaves or herbal). I sometimes put coconut or almond milk in it, and sometimes drink it by itself. Tea is a good way to drink a variety of flavorful beverages without calories. Flavored seltzer is another calorie-free beverage, although I don't drink it that often because carbonation is bad for teeth. A carbonation-free alternative to flavored seltzer is infused water. Cucumber, mint, berries, and melon are great for infusing. I don't drink anything special for exercise besides water.

Usually a glass of almond milk with breakfast, and regular water throughout the day, interspersed with the occasional La Croix sparkling water or unsweetened ice tea.

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