counting green tea as water

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  • Maggie_Pie1
    Maggie_Pie1 Posts: 322 Member
    WATER is a diuretic. Diuretic has nothing to do with dehydration. All a diuretic does is help eliminate excess water. Can this myth please die?

    THANK YOU!

    Ay-yi-yi!

    You can't have caffeine because it's a diuretic! You can't have salt because it makes you retain water! So, if I put a teaspoon of salt in my diet soda, THEN can I count it as water? just kidding, of course.
  • TourThePast
    TourThePast Posts: 1,753 Member
    Is there a magician in the tea bag that waves a magic wand and makes the water disappear? :huh:
    Yes of course there is, the only reason you haven't seen him is because he is hiding behind the caffeine. :bigsmile:
  • CBurns85
    CBurns85 Posts: 6
    I don't count mine, but not intentionally--I'd just never thought of it.
  • TourThePast
    TourThePast Posts: 1,753 Member
    You can't have caffeine because it's a diuretic! You can't have salt because it makes you retain water! So, if I put a teaspoon of salt in my diet soda, THEN can I count it as water? just kidding, of course.
    The claimed 75% of Americans who are supposed to be permanently severely dehydrated, who simultaneously have too much salt in their diet so are also retaining too much water, are obviously retaining a completely different sort of water, silly!

    Or maybe it's that they are storing it in different places...

    Hey, I bet if someone bothered to do the research they'd find that some parts of the body were permanently bloated and other parts were permanently dehydrated. I'm claiming that my huge *kitten* is the bit that's bloated with water from excess sodium. *nods*
  • grrrlface
    grrrlface Posts: 1,204 Member
    I count everything, even though I only drink water and green tea. If it has calories I log it aswell.my boyfriend drinks no water at all, he can't stand it. He drinks diet soda and tea or coffee with milk and sugar, he's not dehydrated and is steadily losing weight with no effects of dehydration.
  • Maggie_Pie1
    Maggie_Pie1 Posts: 322 Member
    Hey, I bet if someone bothered to do the research they'd find that some parts of the body were permanently bloated and other parts were permanently dehydrated. I'm claiming that my huge *kitten* is the bit that's bloated with water from excess sodium. *nods*

    My boobs are dehydrated. j/k, they are a respectable C.
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