8 cups of water a day?

I always thought 1 cup was 8 ounces.

I faithfully drink 130 ounces a day---you MUST be drinking water in order to flush out the fat.

1 cup = 8 oz

1 cup most assuredly = 8 oz. And the 8 cups/day idea is actually not adequate for hydration. Your goal should really be more like 1/2 your body weight in ounces. Possibly more if you're doing sweaty exercise a lot.

i just make sure i have 4 pints lol(just about the same)

1 cup is 8 oz. And drinking water is a must. It will flush toxin from your body which will also contribute to your weight loss.

You need to drink plenty of water but, and I wish I could remember the source, someone asked where that number came from and could find no research to back it up. Apparently it is a guesstimate that took off. (Just checked it was an LA Times article. Snopes.com calls it false.)

Now eight glasses of Guinness...

Just a reminder that 8cups is the minimum *most* bodies require. Since our bodies are mostly made up of water your actual intake should be 1/2 of whatever your weight is. I weigh 150lbs so I drink 75oz at the minimum a day. I usually drink 150oz, but only because it is the ONLY thing I drink. Please remember that water is the only fluid your body actually craves. It NEEEDS it! :drinker: Good luck! and try each day to drink a little more

Can someone confirm that 1 cup of water = 4 fl oz, so if I drink 500ml this equates to approximately 4 cups.
8 cups of water is roughly only 1 litres, is this right? I struggle to drink water so if it's only 1 litre I am sure I can manage that.
Thanks very much :drinker:

I find it much easier to purchase a water jug that holds 64oz of water....which is the same as drinking 8oz of water 8 times a day....On the days I work out I definitely drink far more than (and have an easier time doing it) 64oz....but 64oz is the minimum you should be getting a day. If you're consuming fruit and veggies that have a high water content, green or other herbal tea, AND the required 64 oz of water a day you're headed in the right direction. I'm working on drinking my entire jug 2x daily now, even on my rest days. Your urine should be light yellow...definitely not dark. Once I cut out soda and sugary juices I found it easier to intake that much water. I am also a vegetarian so I get plenty of water from the fruits and veggies I eat all day and I do not drink anything other than water and herbal tea (w/o sugar)...at times when I start to crave something more than water I will add slices of fruit to my jug before bed and the flavor is amazing in the morning....without adding anything chemical like other water enhancers will do.

Thanks very much everyone for confirming it's 8oz. I will try harder to drink 8 cups full

Maybe drink directly from a 1 cup measuring cup. Get yourself a dry erase marker and write the number of water that you're drinking directly on the outside of the measuring cup, Don't write the next number, until you are drinking that number. That way, if you have to set your measuring cup aside for a while, you still know you which cup of water you are on. Before you know it, you'll be a 8. Once you've mastered drinking 8, start trying to get more. I've always been told you should drink 1/2 your body weight in ounces of water daily. (ex: 200 pound person = 100 ounces of water = 12.5 cups of water)

Struggle through one week of drinking the suggested amount of water. You will like the results so well you will gladly do it the next. it helps alot.

this is excellent advice--- and could not agree more....I did this way back when which is what connvinced me to do drink my 130 ounces a day.

I keep a 700ml bottle of water on hand at all times. If you drink 3 of those throughout the day, that's about 9 cups of water. I don't really drink anything else these days (learned that I resent drinking my calories & I've always been a big water drinker anyways).