How to drink more water?

Many years ago, I got into the habit of drinking a cup of water every time I went to the bathroom. I also keep a bottle of water next to me all the time. I have one in the office, one in the living room, one in the bedroom. Whenever I'm thirsty, I drink. I drink with meals: coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon or evening, a diet soda at lunch. On my runs, I drink a sip/gulp of water every two miles as practice for race day. Start with making a conscious effort to include more liquid, then it will become habit.

OTOH, if you aren't actually dehydrated, then you may not need to do anything. I had a friend who never drank anything. He ate a lot of fruit and vegetables and soup, so felt he got all the liquid his body needed.

Why drink water if you don't like it? Drink carbonated water, tea, whatever you like. If it has calories then log the calories. Simples
If you work an office job you could also put a big cup/glass or whatever is acceptable to you. Maybe you start drinking automatically. Other than that: water also comes from food, like soups, fruits, everything that is mildly juicy or liquidy. Thus still not a problem if you get all your liquids from that.

I drink a lot of water now, but previously I'd just forget, or had to time when I purposefully dehydrated myself (worked in emergency response). I started drinking a glass of water any time I went the bathroom (like another poster mentioned). In my experience, if you are chronically dehydrated and you start drinking more water, expect to pee a lot for the first couple days, but after that it will sort of normalize.

Drink it out of a snazzy, opaque water bottle. Don't know why but this works for me. I think I don't like seeing the water when I drink it🤷‍♀️

I once heard a motivational speaker say in a talk that don't drink your water. Eat your water and drink your food. I am trying to accomplish that by having bullet proof coffee and lots of cucumbers and 🍉 watermelon.

I leave a cup near our water dispenser. Everytime I go in the kitchen, I drink about 4-6 ounces. Lol, I'm in the kitchen a lot.

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Buy yourself a pretty water bottle and a reusable straw.

Using a straw tends to increase fluid intake according to research. I find this works.

Personally I like to see my water levels so I get transparent bottles. I need the visual reminder of how much is left. Out of sight is out of mind for me.

Some water bottles also allow you to track how many refills you've had.

Aim for 2.7 liters for women and 3.7 liters for men, according to the Mayo Clinic. I think in terms of liters since getting in 11.5 cups sounds intimidating but 2.7 liters doable even though I'm American.

It's honestly not that much since 1 liter equals 33.8 fluid ounces or 16.9 ounces x 2, which is the amount you get in 1 water bottle from the store (16.9 ounces). Just refill it approx 4.5 times after the first bottle for 2.7 liters to get the water down. (2.7 liters = 91.3 ounces approx; 91.3 ÷ 16.9 = 4.5 approx (rounding up)

So that's 5.5 bottles of 16.9 ounces of water. It's doable.

So just average out your bottles during your day. 1 bottle per hour or so so you're not constantly peeing all the time. Gulping it all down at once or in a short time span is when that tends to happen. Also happens when you increase your fluid intake but it'll pass.

Use flavorings with no artificial sweeteners. I really messed up my gut by using those flavor drink packets all day in my water. There's now research showing they can possibly be harmful to your gut microflora. I found it to be true in my case. Wish I'd known that before. They can ease the transition though I found to drinking plain water.

Just buy a bottle of lemon juice if you like and add to water. It's what I'm doing when I can't stand the taste of water. Makes it go down easier.

Be careful with drinking tea, coffee, and soda as they're considered weak diuretics to increase your intake (caffeine) as they'll make you pee more since that's a concern. Save it for home.

Yeah, I get kidney stones every so often. It's major fun. Not.

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I Cheat..20oz of water I do 5oz-10oz Seltzer delicious flavors... I rarily do full Seltzer, no need the water takes on all the flavor of the Seltzer, plus I read alot carbonated is not great for you. My water always tastes yummy which makes it easy to down, I have (3) 20oz
Plastic reusable bottles that I refill

*Ps I've done the above w/ Sprite it worked really good, but I was over the sweetness after a few days,and went back to my seltzer add-in.