20 Tips For Getting Your 8 Glasses of Water Daily

Sometimes drinking our eight glasses of water a day can be a real challenge Here are 20 tips to help you accomplish that feat!

1. Make a bet with a co-worker to see who can drink more water in the course of a day. (Online challenges work, too!)

2. Have a big glass of water at every transitional point of the day: when you first get up, just before leaving the house, when you sit down to work, etc.

3. Make it convenient - keep a big, plastic, insulated water bottle full on your desk and reach for it all day.

4. When you have juice (apple, grape, or orange) fill half the glass with water.

5. When you have a junk-food craving, down a glass of water immediately. You feel full quickly and avoid the calories, and it lets time pass till the craving fades.

6. Have one glass every hour on the hour while at work. When the work day is done your water quota is met.

7. Substitute a cup of hot water with a drop of honey for tea or coffee. (This one sounds gross to me . . . )

8. While at work, get a 20 ounce cup of ice and keep filling it up from the office water cooler. The key is drinking with a straw - you take bigger gulps and drink much more.

9. Freeze little bits of peeled lemons, limes, and oranges and use them in place of ice cubes - it's refreshing and helps get in a serving or two of fruit.

10. After each trip to the restroom, guzzle an eight-ounce glass to replenish your system. (I don't know about guzzling . . . )

11. Don't allow yourself a diet soda until you've had two to four glasses of water. You will find that you won't want the soda anymore or that just half a can is enough. (This one is tried and true for me!)

12. Let ounces of water double grams of fat: When eating something containing 10 grams of fat, drink 20 ounces of water.

13. Drink two full glasses at each meal, one before and one after. Also, drink one glass before each snack so you don't eat as much.

14. Carry a small refillable water bottle at all times and drink during downtime; while waiting in a bank line, sitting on the train, etc.

15. Use a beautiful gold-rimmed glass and fill it with cold water from the tap. (This is a funny one!)

16. Drink two glasses of water immediately after waking up.

17. Bring a two-liter bottle of water to work and try to drink it all before you leave work. If you don't finish, drink it in traffic on the way home - it's like a race.

18. Always keep a 24-ounce bottle of water handy while watching TV, doing laundry, making dinner, etc.

19. Add drinking two glasses of water to your daily skincare regimen. Drink, cleanse, moisturize, etc., then drink again.

20. Drink your water out of a big Pyrex measuring cup - it's a good way to keep track of how much water you are drinking.

Source: Dotti's Weight Loss Zone

I take a 16 oz bottle of water to work. Each time the bottle is empty I make two marks on the top with a Sharpie. I can keep track of how much I am drinking - and - sometimes when I see several marks it's easier to get more water in because I start thinking, Well, I'm this close. Might as well finish.

Crystal Light is great, too.

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there are a bunch of water threads already..

but a person does not necesarily need 8 glasses of water a day - that's pretty much beendebunked as a myth- you do get a lot of water from food.

What you shoudl be aware of is your hydration level - and one of the ways you can tell that is by checking the color of your urine.. barring any other health issues - your urine should be pale yellow to almost clear...

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Sorry, I missed the other water threads . . .

I've heard that a larger person needs to consume more water per day than the average person. That true?

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there are all sorts of formulas on the web and calculators etc -that base what water consumption on height/weight/activity level/environment/phases of the moon... One simple formula i've seen is 1/2 your body weight in ounces... but that's total fluids for the day - you do get fluid from some foods...

it really comes down to - drink as much water as you feel you need -though the urine color test is one that I like...

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*calculates*

I'd drown! lol

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The Urine color test is a great idea. ... Does it depend on how long it's been since you used the bathroom though? I know some days when I hold it for a super long time it's a lot more, eh, vibrant than when I go normally.

Drinking straight up water is something I have trouble with. I don't care for the taste, I hate to drink when I'm not thirsty (Which I rarely am) and I don't care for it even more from the tap. I drink a lot more water when I'm at my home though because we have a water machine.

I say find your favorite water! Whether it's tap, distilled, spring water or whatever... They all do taste different. Some bottled waters are far better than others. My personal favorite is Publix spring water. It's what I'm used to and it doesn't have any weird flavors.

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many doctors will tell you that "holding it" is one ofthe worst things that you can do - unlessit's an absolute emergency -

High doses of I beleive it's vitamin B can cause a certain neon ish vibrancy... but holding it shouldn't matter to the color..

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I didn't think of that. I see what you mean.


Yeah, there are a few brands of bottled water I will not drink. One in particular tastes like metal to me. Bleh!

Publix. Now there's a name I've not heard in quite a while. We don't have any of them here.

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I've noticed that, too, though. When I hold it longer than I should it's darker than normal. That's even when I drink the same amount of water every day.

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here we go again...

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No matter how hard someone tries to dispute it, the more water you drink the healthier you will be. Your body has to take nutrients from what you eat or drink. Wouldn't water be the purest thing you could put in your body. You can try your own test. Drink only water for a week, and then drink soda, alcohol, or whatever else you non water drinkers consume and see how you feel.

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I didn't say don't drink water... the point was people obsess over thinking they need to get xx amount of water in to their bodies because some article they read in magazine xxx told them to... when the reality is -there's no one size fits all number... if yu can drink that much great... if youcan't -- work on getting more into you -because chances are- you're not getting enough water... just dont go by the one size fits all number...

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I know this is a little off topic but didn't want to make another thread to spam the boards :P

I hate drinking tap water, but I don't mind bottled water, I know people say it's the same but I for one taste a differnce in ours.

If I'm drinking tap water I'll always drink something like orange squash but I've noticed today a pint glass of orange squash is about 150 calories (5.6 * 54/2), compared to a pint of diet coke that's about 15 cals (2.5*5.6)? O.o I couldn't believe that... 8 pints of water, then mixed would be nearly 2000 calories...

Any suggestions on something else to mix with tap water, or is it really better just to stick to bottled water then?

Thanks Steve

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Me too!

Well sometimes... most the time it's NEON. I'm hoping that's the vitamin I'm taking and not radiation.

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