Water Drinking Challenge #2

You can continue to chat here. Please feel free to join in at any time - whether it be needing to drink more for upcoming IVF, or just for general wellbeing.

Your Previous thread left off here

Thanks Sherie... this is such a helpful thread... such a simple, cheap way of drastically improving our health... so often it's the simple things in life we forget and overlook.

750ml so far... one cup with the added goodness of pure lemon.

Ok I 500ml cup down and no soft drink,got a head ache coming on, ......neeeeeeddddd caffienne......arghh. I'll try to be strong. I agree Bath it is a great motivational thread.
I definitely need prompting in winter to drink water.

900ml for me today so far..I'm a bit slow today ;) Better catch up!

i dont think im going to do very well today... i have only just started drinking water now :( oh well...will see how i go

Hey Linz, just out of curiosity what do you drink when you wake up in the middle of the night and you're thirsty? I have at least 2 drinks of water... at least a few sips... every night. I keep a glass on my bedside table, and if I forget to put one there DH puts one there for me before he gets into bed (he always comes to bed later than me). Maybe it's just 'cos I'm BFing but I kinda have always needed at least 1 drink each night... all my life... I'm not a thirsty kinda person, don't have diabetes or anything... it's just a night thing. Although hopefully doing this water challenge it might stop because my body will be properly hydrated during the day.

Heya ALL...
Havent had any today, yet, but i had just under 1l yesterday...
Keep the good work happening :)

Starting my drinking today! w00t!

I always start my day with a cup of tea to stay awake with, and now I've had that, time to start - as I said in the other thread, I'm aiming for three 600mL bottles a day - That would be an accomplishment for me seeing I don't even drink water usually!

ok up to 1.5L now! hurrah!

OK - too late to start today (without spending all night wearing a track to the bathroom)

As of tomorrow I will be able to utilise the new filter jug I bought last night. It holds 1.8L so that will be a good start :)

I've only gotten part of the way through one bottle of water :( I should face that I cant drink water!

Hi Ladies.

Liz - great idea...I am going to start 2morrow....gotta carry the bottle with me all day. I find drinking cold water out of the tap is easier than having it colder out of the fridge....

My bottle 1.2lts how much should we have each day?

I also (like Bathsheba) take a few mouthfuls each night and leave the bottle near my bed so if I wake during the night I also have a drink...trying to make it a habit

mrsaym, I loved the idea beforehand, and thought it would be good to do!

I have had 2.5 today, but 2 cups of coffee, so that probably cuts out the .5 !!! But I wore a track to the loo today at work! Will keep going and try for a few more glasses before bed!. Thanks for the motivation :)

I had...let me see, 1.5L plus about 400ml....just under 2L yesterday but i also had a coffee and a 12.5k run (which was no fun will my full bladder i can tell you!) where i sweated about 4L out. LOL

No running today so i'll see how i go.

Bec

Hi girls, just noticed this thread and i think i'll join in too. I hardly ever drink water.
I don't feel the need to drink it (i know we need 8 glasses a day though! i know how important it is) like i don't get thirsty! strangely enough. i think its because i am used to not drinking it that my body just doesnt tell me its thirsty anymore does that make sense?
I don't wake up thirsty either, like if i pee in the middle of the night, i just pee and go back to bed without even thinking about thirst....
i drink diet coke... LOL how bad am i.... and cups of tea (3 per day) so thats water too i guess

Renstar - i was the same as u ..... some days i would hardly drink at all because i wasnt thirsty... the first day i started this challenge was the hardest because i just wasnt thirsty... but it gets easier i promise :P

I done my 2L's today.... pretty good seen i started at 2pm lol

congrats Nikki thats great!!! wow 2L! You don't need any more than that otherwise you can overwork your kidneys... having TOO much water can be just as bad as too little... (underwork/overwork the kidneys)... unless you do lots of exercise etc then of course you need more.
does that mean your "thirst" buds have come alive again? hehe what i mean is, now you are drinking again, have you felt you can tell when you are thirsty now? whereas before you couldnt? (like me).