Water?

adonnelly13
adonnelly13 Posts: 24 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Is there such a thing as drinking to much water? I drink around 15 ish 8 oz glasses a day which is almost double what they recommended on here!

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  • s1lence
    s1lence Posts: 493
    yes there is a thing as drinking to much water. Weird but it's called water poisoning. You have to drink a lot like over a gallon in a very short amount of time. It makes your body flush everything good and bad out of your system.
  • starliner
    starliner Posts: 3 Member
    a speaker at our TOPS meeting suggested drinking a half your body weight in oz. every day. That is a lot but I am trying to do this. Do not drink this amount at one time but throughout the day.
  • lizard053
    lizard053 Posts: 2,344 Member
    I drink 13-18 glasses a day. Never had a problem. Doctor says keep it up. I don't think you have a problem. Unless you are working out hours a day, you shouldn't run into problems with low electrolytes. And that's really the issue of too much water, diluting out the electrolytes in your blood stream. If you're worried about it, throw an extra pinch of salt on your food!
  • Hollyjd1019
    Hollyjd1019 Posts: 148
    I read somewhere if you are trying to lose weight to cut your weight in half and that is how many oz water you should drink in a day. Unfortunately I can't remember where I saw it. It wasnt here.

    I imagine, like everything else, you could get too much.
  • Hollyjd1019
    Hollyjd1019 Posts: 148
    a speaker at our TOPS meeting suggested drinking a half your body weight in oz. every day. That is a lot but I am trying to do this. Do not drink this amount at one time but throughout the day.

    We must've been posting at the same time. ;)
  • Alexstrasza
    Alexstrasza Posts: 619 Member
    You can drink too much water. But 15 glasses a day isn't too much. Too much would be if you like sat down and just inhaled an entire gallon, lol.

    I drink anywhere from 8-15 glasses a day and I actually feel like absolute crap when I don't.
  • adonnelly13
    adonnelly13 Posts: 24 Member
    Ok, i drink my water through out the day. Not all in one sitting. and its all I drink (besides the occasional cup of coffee/tea/sugar free hot chocolate, yum). I'm glad to hear that everyone else drinks just as much waster as me!
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    You'd have to drink an awful lot of water but there's a condition called hyponatremia whereby, in a nutshell, you have stripped sodium & electrolytes from your body. It's caused the deaths of several marathon runners as the symptoms are often confused with dehydration and re-hydration exacerbates things.

    For most of us mere mortals the only side effect from drinking lots of water will be frequent trips to the bathroom.
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    Drink when you're thirsty, stop when you're not. However many cups that takes is the correct number. Simple.
  • adonnelly13
    adonnelly13 Posts: 24 Member
    "Drink when you're thirsty, stop when you're not. However many cups that takes is the correct number. Simple. "


    This is pretty much what I go by now! I don't force myself to drink, but I tend to be thirsty!
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    :drinker:

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