ok dumb water question

Of course you can add it. Hell, you can add the water from when the ice melts in your cocktail if you like.

ALL non-alcohol liquid, including water in your food, counts in the 8 glasses.

Some alcohol counts, too. Beer and wine count, as they have far more water to hydrate you than the diuretic effect of the relatively low alcohol content would pull out of you.

I've read somewhere that a new study came out about drinking warm water with a T. of fresh lemon juice in it, twice a day, helps to lose a pound per week.
I've been doing this (drinking a warm glass of lemon water in the morning and one at night) and guess what? It works! (for me).


Plus, I usually count it as part of my water intake.

You just brought back so many memories from my childhood! I never see the sea ponies anymore. Time to get on ebay and find some for my daughter!

Before anyone tries to argue with me or anything like that, my opinion is due to the fact that I've had massive dehydration issues before and had to be careful with what I drank.

My rule of thumb is if it's got some sort of artificial something in it, then I personally don't log it in my water. (That doesn't mean I won't log it...I have a "beverages" section for anything other than water I just might happen to drink on rare occasion, like gatorade, etc.)

Listen to your own body. If you feel like you're getting enough water, log it like it's water and stick the 5 calories in a beverage or snack section or something like that. If you feel like you're not getting enough water, then log it under something else, and drink more water.

If spicing up water to not make it so blah is the issue, fruit is your friend. Squeeze a lime or lemon in it. Drop some chunks of pineapple, strawberries, etc and give your water bottle a good shake. Even though some things don't have calories or carbs, a lot of them do have sodium, artificial sweeteners, etc which have different physical effects on different people.




Edit: and by the whole "before anyone argues with me" thing, I mean that in the sense of, my opinion is based on personal experience.... not "Well weight watchers counts this," and "such and such famous writer person who tells you random things that you should know about yourself says that"

I have found the colder the water is the more I could drink it while I was getting into the "drink water" mode - I use the Crystal Light sorts of drinks as well. I live in North Dakota and we have a discount store in our town called Alco - they have this drink called Ice something or another and it comes in many flavors, is cheap and has zero calories, zero everything so that is kind of fun.

My Doctor said that tea and coffee count as part of your water intake - yes, they have a slight diuretic action, but not enough to counteract the amount of water in the mug. And certainly not enough to leave you dehydrated.

I didn't ask him about soda (pop) because I don't drink it.

I count Crystal Light! and Mio, too. I rarely drink just water.

I also count my decaffeinated iced green tea - I usually drink that all day long. I loooooooooooove it! I sweeten it with Splenda, but it's still "water" as far as I am concerned. Plus, I get the metabolism boost from the green tea!

It counts. But what is your goal? For me I have to count caloires right now, so that 5 calories I'd rather spend elsewhere. Find a water you like the taste of! Propel is good if you like flavored water. I drink a really good reverse osmosis water because the tap water here is awful. If you just want to cut out sugar - you found a winner!. I also will drink green tea (ones with wild blueberry and pomegramate) and sweeten with Toranni syrup (either vanilla or raspberry) which has 0 calories. Tea is a natural diruetic and I get the decafe version. I found that artificial sweeteners tend to make me thirstier so I try to stay clear of them as much as I can.

Try MiO -- its real good ((: