So much water!
 

I tell you what, I get tired of drinking so much water all the time and having to go to the bathroom all the time because of it! How do y'all manage your water?

I know. I hate having to go to the bathroom all the time. But it havent bothered me lately. I guess Im not drinking enough water right now....

Water is something I struggle with. And I hate having to go to the bathroom all the time, reminds me too much of being pregnant, haha. I just keep telling myself how good it is for me, and how much my body needs it. Sometimes that works, sometimes it dont.

I use Mio to make it tasty and I'm used to the peeing.. It's good for my kidneys! I only go once every other hour now, and once before bed and when I get up. I've got my bladder on a schedule, LOL. I drink about 130oz of liuid a day. (Water, hot black tea, hot green tea and coffee, and maybe a can of cherry coke zero if i need a sweet fix!)

:)

Ah, soda... I might have a glass of Diet Dr. Pepper with my dinner tonight to help spice things up a bit. I just get so sick of waterwaterwater all the time!

If you don't feel like drinking so much water, drink less.

Personally I feel most people are drinking way more water than is neccessary.

I drink so much herbal tea it's downright ridiculous! I have 20-oz coffee mugs and I have a least 4 of them every day.

My "soda" is this stuff made by Nuun called "Natural Hydration" - little tablets very lightly sweetened with Stevia Leaf Extract -- I have one or two a day. Then I also have a 20-oz water bottle that I polish off at the (water w/ lemon or lime juice) and I work out almost every day.

In the end, I get at least 120-oz of water a day. That doesn't count the ice coffee I make with unsweetened almond milk every day. Whew!

Yep, I'm in the bathroom constantly. My DH jokes that I'm going to start getting thank you notes from Charmin. Hah!

I think the body adjust somehow. All people are different but I noticed with me i pee more at first, then couple of days later i pee less even drinking the same... strange.

When I'm on-program, I drink 2-4 liters of water a day (depending on my activity level and how much fluids I'm losing). My body adapts within about a week to the higher volume of fluids. To me, any fluid except alcohol counts. I drink a lot of regular and decaf green tea and herbal teas, as well as pure water. I never drink soda and rarely have any other sweetened type drink or juice.

I have alsways loved wate. try eating some ice. My mom did this when sge was prego with me and she lost weight. I have done this since I was little. I like the way it taste lol. I think smartwater and aqaufina taste the best! we fill a 5 gal jug and keep it in the fridge. that water taste good to me too :)

Oh man, how I agree...Totally.

You simply don't have to drink all that water. It is one of the oldest diet myths out there.

I lost 190 pounds in 16 months and never once did I make myself drink water. If I was thirsty after excercise or mowing I'd drink a glass or slam some from the garden hose, but other than that I just drank coffee, or tea, or whatever, whenever. I don't have time to to visit the bathroom 20 times a day. Oh...and I have never had a UTI or any other "infection" from a lack of water. All that water is just not nessary. If you eat plenty of vegetables and drink if you are thirsty, you'll be fine.

Yeah, most days I have a bottle in the morning, 2 glasses at lunch, a bottle with a snack, a bottle when working out, and 2 glasses of water with my dinner. I think that's gracious plenty! Probably just the 2 at lunch and 2 at dinner would suffice, lol.

At work I always kept a full water bottle next to me, that way if I wanted to drink I would. I ended up drinking as much as I needed with out overdoing it or forcing myself.

Plus, all those trips to the cooler for refills and trips to the bathroom were a great way to waste time.

Now I'm on mat leave and I find I'm not drinking as much as I did.

And it's a myth that keeps growing to urband legend proportions. The amount of water recommended is steadily increasing (and the number of foods/liquids that are "counted" are decreasing).

LoriBell - Hose water tastes so yucky! I had to laugh at your post.

Lin

I go to the bathroom a lot. Don't know what else to tell ya, other than avoid the caffeine which makes it worse.

Hose water ... YUMMY! :D

I only drink when I'm thirsty. My problem is that I'm ALWAYS thirsty. But you really only need to drink when you're thirsty.

I know, I know, garden hose water isn't the most tasty, :D...but when you spend 3 hours push mowing the back 10, (for excercise) it tastes pretty darn delicious! It also helps to water a few plants (to clean out any critters that might have crawled in), before you take your first gulp! ;)

I used to drink from the hose all the time when I was a kid... really, on a hot day it can be quite refreshing!

Hey the plasticky dirt taste is half the fun of hose water.

You've noticed that too, eh? The dehydrating properties of caffeine are greatly exaggerated!

To the original poster, may I HIGHLY recommend drinking to your thirst and not a drop more? Our bodies are marvelous creations and water needs are dealt with without any need for intervention from experts and their recommendations. Other than verifying when you feel hunger that it isn't thirst you're misidentifying (happens surprisingly often to those of us with screwy hunger cues) just drink calorie-free (effectively, in the case of coffee, where the calories are negligible) fluids like water, coffee, or tea, until your thirst abates and voila, you'll be set ;)

I only drink water when I am thirsty or to fill me up so that its easier not to overeat in a restaurant.
Google snopes 8 glasses water a day
from a CBS article -

"If you're thirsty, drink," said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb. "If you're not thirsty, you needn't drink."

I just follow my intuition, if I want to drink I drink water. No need to torture yourself. Plus even if it flushes out my toxins, it might flush out my nutrients I've been eating too! (OK I don't have a link for that, thats just my personal suspicion)