Sleep is HUGE for me. I make it a priority every night, forcing myself to go to bed at 10pm so I can be up at 6. And while your life might not be quite so easily manipulated, try to squeeze in a few more zzzzs if you can.

I notice that drinking more water helps me to not feel so hungry. I typically just fill up a 32oz cup I have and carry it around with me. When its empty, I refill it.

When I read the title I thought this post was going to be about having to get up twice in the middle of the night to pee if you really follow the "8 glasses of water" rule. Or is that just me?

Personally, I just feel a lot less bloated when I drink enough water, but I am a soda addict (and eternally thankful for diet coke and the like) so sometimes I go wild on that too.

This weekend I had about 2,5 l of diet coke every day and only about half a litre of water during gym time and I still lost 2 lbs. I tend to watch my water intake though and make sure I drink more water than diet coke.

You should def try it out though, every body probably reacts different and the caffein in coke might just be a culprit in your case, as much as that'd suck.

Good Luck either way :)

Originally Posted by bronzeager:
When I read the title I thought this post was going to be about having to get up twice in the middle of the night to pee if you really follow the "8 glasses of water" rule. Or is that just me?

:rofl:

I don't pay attention to my water intake, but I typically wake up several times in the night to pee!!

KCNC, I'm in law school as well! I don't envy you though, I'm in my last semester... a lot less stress (other than when I'm piled with journal work). Let me know if you need any advice on that front!

I've been trying to up my water intake as well, and I typically get anywhere from 5-7 hours of sleep each night. I'm wired a little differently, sometimes I wake up after 5 hours on my own even though I have no where to be!

Originally Posted by bronzeager:
When I read the title I thought this post was going to be about having to get up twice in the middle of the night to pee if you really follow the "8 glasses of water" rule. Or is that just me?

I thought the same thing! I try not to drink after 7 or 8 pm, otherwise I'm up in the middle of the night.

Originally Posted by LLBoldAsLove87:
KCNC, I'm in law school as well! I don't envy you though, I'm in my last semester... a lot less stress (other than when I'm piled with journal work). Let me know if you need any advice on that front!

I've been trying to up my water intake as well, and I typically get anywhere from 5-7 hours of sleep each night. I'm wired a little differently, sometimes I wake up after 5 hours on my own even though I have no where to be!

LL - so happy to hear it gets better. I'm killing myself to get C's at this point. Thank goodness for internships & the like :)


Well, I'm realizing today that the reason I don't drink water & only drink caffiene is BECAUSE I don't sleep. So I'm extra tired today. But still on the water wagon! :swim:

One good substitute for coke is carbonated water I like the lemon and lime flavored ones they have no sugar or artificial sweeteners

Oddly enough, I just read this article on CNN today regarding sleep and how it affects weight gain. It's geared mostly towards kids but seems there are similiar results for adults.

Originally Posted by Heather:
:rofl:

I don't pay attention to my water intake, but I typically wake up several times in the night to pee!!

That's me. I have a travel container that I bring with me everywhere. I estimate that it holds roughly 32 oz. I feel that if I can fill this thing up 3 or 4 times in a day, I've had plenty of water.

Also, if I get up 2 or 3 times in a night to pee, I know I've had enough for that day. I'm up a minimum of twice a night usually. And I still manage to get enough sleep. LOL

water is definitely the kicker for me. that's about all i drink, with the occasional cup of coffee (and i live in seattle!!). when i don't drink enough water, i can feel it the next day; i feel uber bloated and if it goes on for a few days, there is a difference on the scale.
also, i suffer from bouts of insomnia, and i get approx 3-4 hours of sleep per night when i do (for quite a few consecutive nights). i've never found it to impede my weight loss, but that's just me.
also, just so it doesn't interfere with your sleep, i would stop drinking water a couple of hours before bed. i hate waking up to use the bathroom, and if your anything like me, i have a hard time going back to bed.

I'm a diet soda addict and had kicked the habit. Fell of the wagon at Christmas and I guess when I went back on plan I kept drinking diet soda maybe 8 per day. Well last week I gained instead of lost despite having a clean week food wise. So I was wondering about the diet soda too. Does anyone understand the stuff about aspartame??? I know they say it gain raise blood sugar but I don't know if that should cause weight gain if you don't eat in response to the spikes. Anyway I am on water this week with a cup of green tea in the AM. I hadn't heard carbonated beverages are bad. Why?

Originally Posted by XLMuffnTop:
Oddly enough, I just read this article on CNN today regarding sleep and how it affects weight gain. It's geared mostly towards kids but seems there are similiar results for adults.

Sadly, whoever wrote that article confused correlation with causation. The research showed that "children who had regular sleep schedules and slept the recommended number of hours per night had the least risk of being obese or having unhealthy blood markers. In contrast, children who slept the least and had irregular sleep schedules had more than a fourfold increase in the risk of being obese and having unhealthy blood markers that indicate the beginning of other conditions."

However, because they didn't perform an experiment and manipulate the sleep people got, all we know is that sleep relates to risk of obesity. But we have no way of knowing if it's causing obesity, or if obesity causes kids to sleep more, or if something else causes both more sleep and obesity.