Weekly 1000/100 Challenge!

68 oz and 275 calories down! 32 more oz and 825 more calories to go. Might be tight...

I'm fairly new to this site and wanted to join the challenge. Now is this 1000/100 in a day or over a period of time. I think the most i've been able to burn was like 700 calories and that was taking a cardio sculpt class at the gym.

It is for one day

110 oz Water 800 calories burned so far )

I could maybe burn that many calories on a weekend day but would never have time on a work day. But why in the world would I want to drink 100 oz of water in one day?!? That doesn't sound healthy.

The *current* (we know how these things change often!) recommendation is to drink half of your body weight in ounces of water per day, minimum. Drinking 8 glasses was a standard recommendation, meant for people of average weight. However, the larger you are, the more you should drink. I am 214 pounds, so I should be drinking a minimum of 107 ounces per day. If you live in a hot, humid climate (which I do) or if you consume high amounts of sodium (which I sometimes do), you should often drink more than that, especially on days that you exercise. I generally consume between 100 and 160 ounces of water per day depending on how hard I exercise that day - burning 1,000 calories like this challenge suggests would cause me to be on the higher end of that spectrum and reasonably so.

Check out this water consumption calculator: http://nutrition.about.com/library/blwatercalculator.htm

Also, I have read (at work, so I don't have time to look for sources) that the danger in consuming too much water (like the water intoxication you hear about in the news where people are hospitalized or die from drinking too much water) is not in how much you drink, but how fast.

I could maybe burn that many calories on a weekend day but would never have time on a work day. But why in the world would I want to drink 100 oz of water in one day?!? That doesn't sound healthy.

The *current* (we know how these things change often!) recommendation is to drink half of your body weight in ounces of water per day, minimum. Drinking 8 glasses was a standard recommendation, meant for people of average weight. However, the larger you are, the more you should drink. I am 214 pounds, so I should be drinking a minimum of 107 ounces per day. If you live in a hot, humid climate (which I do) or if you consume high amounts of sodium (which I sometimes do), you should often drink more than that, especially on days that you exercise. I generally consume between 100 and 160 ounces of water per day depending on how hard I exercise that day - burning 1,000 calories like this challenge suggests would cause me to be on the higher end of that spectrum and reasonably so.

Check out this water consumption calculator: http://nutrition.about.com/library/blwatercalculator.htm

Also, I have read (at work, so I don't have time to look for sources) that the danger in consuming too much water (like the water intoxication you hear about in the news where people are hospitalized or die from drinking too much water) is not in how much you drink, but how fast.

I have never heard that recommendation from any medical association or organization. Everything I've ever seen (from a medical org) says you just need to drink enough liquids so that your urine is fairly clear.

I'm done 4 Today 160 oz Water and 1267 calories Burned ))

Hey, Gary, Will the days when you post the challenge show up in our newsfeed, or will you just be posting a forum topic? Thanks.