POLL- WATER amounts

Hi-I lose 2 lbs average per week and although I try for 8 8oz glasses of water a day, I only seem to average 4 glasses

I've been losing 2 pounds per week. I drink 8-10 cups of water per day...sometimes more, but never less than 8.

At first I lost 2-3 pounds every week. Now it has slowed to 1/2 - 1 lb per week. I have lost 55 and have about 30 to go. I drink at least 72 oz per day, but usually more than that. Some days as much as 100 oz.

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I lost about 2 pounds a week at first. Now I've been losing about 1 pound a week. I've kept my water intake between 64-100 ounces a day.

I lose between .7-1 lb a week and I drink anywhere from 100-120 oz of water a day, and if i went over my sodium, i add 16-24 ounces of water

Interesting that you add. That sounds smart. Perhaps that's part of the reason for the high number you've lost?

Maybe, but it has taken me a year and a half to lose that much, slow and steady is the name of the game. Good luck to you.

you can also do "skinny water" from the belly fat diet

water with lemon, limes, ginger and cucumbers sliced in it and kept in the fridge. or even frozen into your water bottle - i like it i dont do the ginger and i go easy on the cucs surprisingly i find they overpower the taste

I definitely second on the upping my water intake if I have a particularly salty day...

I lose about 1 to 1 1/2 pounds a week. I manage to down about 32 to 40 oz of water a day. I'm working on increasing my water intake.

To me it makes a difference to drink more water on saltier days, but it could be all in my head I should admit, but many times have I read that more salt equals more water retention, so i feel that if i drink more water it will break down the salt. I know that it keeps me motivated to drink more water.

And, when I first started watching what I ate on here, after about three weeks of not caring about my sodium, i came to a plateau where I stopped losing any weight. I was eating double sometimes triple the mount of salt I was supposed to. When I cut it down to the 2500 mg I noticed the pounds coming off again. Now I dont go over by more than 500 mg (most days under), and now as a precaution drink more water.

I lose about 3lbs of week, and I exercise like CRAZY! (Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred, for at least 2 phases =40 min, an hour on the elliptical, 40 min swimming, plus I walk everywhere) I'm usually under my calories, but sometimes I go a little bit over (100-200 cal) But I prefer not to eat my exercise cals, so I'm never actually "over"

And I drink at least 4L a day, but there's a lot of caffeine free tea in there, and I'm sure I sweat a lot of it out.

And yes, there is scientific back up to the " more water on saltier days," at least chemically speaking. Salt can only retain so much water, if you overload it's retention limit, the body flushes it out.

I'm having a pretty difficult time finding an article on this not linked to a fad diet or a detox plan, but if you trust me and my ability to read a biology textbook, there's your answer :flowerforyou:

Even if I have fruits all day (which this never happens haha) I would still drink the 100 oz of water. I crave water now, and if I didn't have a ton of it, I would feel dehydrated.

And yes, there is a scientific reason to up the water intake if you have a really salty day. It is actually a really complicated process involving the kidneys. The sodium and water in your body are in a delicate balance, and if that balance is disturbed, the kidneys have to make it right. When you greatly increase your sodium above normal, anti-diuretic hormone is released from the pituitary (due to increased plasma concentration) and causes the kidney to conserve water and concentrate the urine so that the balance of sodium and water can be at their normal ratio in your body. This excess sodium will eventually be expelled, but until it can be processed the increased water retention can make up for it. Of course this is GREATLY simplified, but you get the gist. So drink up, mates!

Do you all count the water in foods you eat towards your daily total?

I don't ... I only consider the actual plain water or green tea, etc as my daily total.