The Inconvenience of Water

You can drink too much water ya know. Look it up, water intoxication. Once my urine is clear then I'm drinking enough, anymore is overkill and 2 gallons sounds insane .

Lol I hear ya. I do think that I'm peeing a bit less than I was in the beginning. Just a bit though. The inconvenience for me is that every time I go to refill...I have to walk past my bosses office which I hate. aaaand people are ALWAYS bringing in sweets/treats to share, they leave them in the kitchen and I have to look at it every time I fill my water lol.

I hope it tapers off soon because I have been drinking about a gallon of water a day now for about a week and WOW! The urge to have to pee comes suddenly, comes often, and is so annoying! On the plus side...it is almost entirely clear now, no odor whatsoever, and my skin is looking better. AND I figure I burn about 2-5 calories doing the potty dance every day! :laugh:

LOL! I told my job that I was going to calculate how many calories I burn in my mad dash to the restroom (which isn't close and seems even further when you REALLY have to go!). Obviously the burn on the way back to my desk wouldn't be as high.....:bigsmile:

I used to have this problem, but after awhile I guess my body just got used the water. I drink 80 ounces/day, and I do about 6 hours/week of cardio with a bit of strength training. According to the calculator that was just posted, I'm spot-on for my size. It's worth it--at the very least it keeps me away from the soda because I don't really feel like drinking after drinking all day!

As far as I understand, and have been told by my doctor, you only need to drink enough to make you pee a light yellow. If it's dark, you are either dehydrated or have something else going on, and if it's pretty much colorless, you don't have to drink quite so much.

Don't forget you get fluids in some of your foods too.

Sorry to say, I don't think it ever gets better... and since I'm trying to work, I end up putting it off until my back teeth are floating and it's critical! Or, something really complex will come up and I'll have to say, "Hang on --- I can't concentrate on this until I pee..."

Worse still - the older I get, the more often I wake UP to go! *sigh*

Before lifestyle change:
Drinking MAYBE 8-16oz of fluid a day--at most! And never water, always OJ, *sometimes* milk. Every now and then I would have a few glasses (never more than 4) in a day, but there were plenty of days (most, actually) where I didn't drink anything. Not even with meals (you guys are probably like :huh: ). I just wasn't a "drinker"


After lifestyle change:
I drink at least 64oz (8 glasses) of water a day and try to strive for more :drinker: . When I first started I was literally peeing every 20 minutes. It was ridiculous. I think it was so often for me because my bladder had no idea what the hell was going on :laugh: I live about 20 minutes away from where I work and there were times I would go right before leaving the office--only to find my hand firmly placed over my slacks in a not-so-place and my hips and legs dancing from side to side during the drive home...and not because of a good song on the radio. Sometimes slamming my foot against the foot rest on the floorboard of the car multiple times would help as well. There were many times I though I wasn't going to make it and weighed which option would be better--pulling off on the side of the highway and hoping I didn't get a ticket for indescent exposure (or pictures/videos of my lady parts posted online by passerbys! :laugh: ), or how much trouble I would go through trying to clean the seat of my car. Thank God I used to hold it in as long as I could as a "game" when I was kid. The practice came in handy. :happy:

After several months things have gotten better. I also space out my water intake a little better, too. Instead of drinking slowly over the course of the day, I'll try and guzzle 20oz in a short amount of time (about 20min) and then do my business when Mother Nature calls shortly after. Then there's only 44oz left to go! Rinse (hands) and repeat! Bewteen doing that and my bladder finally growing a bit (I assume), I pee about once and hour. A lot better than once every 20min!! :laugh:

Good luck to everyone and hopefully that wasn't TMI!

The rule of thumb is take your body weight and divide by two. That's how many ounces you should drink a day. And if you exercise a lot, drink a little more. If you eat food with lots of water in it (melon and whatnot) drink a little less. I pee ever 20 mins to half hour so I know what you are going through. I have to stop drinking about 3:30 so that I don't have to pee on the train at 5pm! Good luck!

if you go to this site, there is a calculator that will tell you how much you should drink to help you lose weight.

http://nutrition.about.com/library/blwatercalculator.htm my doctor actually had me do this in his office about 2 weeks ago.

That site is awesome if you exercise less than 90 hours per day..but it's a great site!

And I thought a day only had 24 hours..

drinking all that water is a myth....

http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/05/12053524-let-go-of-the-water-bottle-youre-plenty-hydrated-people?lite

and this is only one of many, many studies done on this subject. Also debunked is the "caffeine is dehydrating" myth.

Drinking water doesn't help weight loss unless it makes you eat less or walk more (to the bathroom). If you're peeing 12 times a day, you're not dehydrated and you can cut back.