8 glasses of water a day.

[rynochop]

Anyone remember that woman a couple years ago that was in a water drinking contest for some radio station and she went home and dropped dead??

 

[Cowboy Brian]

I drink around that, and I piss like crazy.

 

[67CowboysFan]

It's eight, eight ounce glasses of water a day. Thats only 64 onces of water. (half a gallon) An eight ounce glass is one of the smaller juice glasses, not the larger 16-20 ounce dinner glasses. You are supposed to drink it throughout the day, not all at once.

Water does many things for you. Flushes your system, increases your metabolism, decreases the feeling of hunger, helps keep you regular, help cushion your joints, helps the immune system, helps circulation, and stablize blood pressure.

As noted about hunger, it's a known fact that some people mistake being thirsty for hunger and end up eating rather that what they should be doing. Drinking water.

Drinking eight, eight ounce glasses of water a day isn't that difficult. If you drink a 20 ounce bottle of watch during the morning hours, one in the afternoon hours, and one in the evening, thats 60 of the 64 ounces they say you should drink. That won't cause you to go to the bathroom 5 times an hour either.

Drinking eight of the larger glasses will.

Actually most liquids will work. It doesn't have to be water. Fruit juice, soup broth, etc. Beer, caffeine, etc. are counter productive.

 

[Temo]

Many, many runners consume caffeine before races for the extra boost. I'm not sure it's as counter productive as people claim it is; certainly though if your goal is to get hydrated there are far better ways to do it.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

How is that working out for you?

meh...

 

[Bob Sacamano]

How is that working out for you?

It's working real good now. Although I also exfoliate my face once a night, then steam my face for 2 minutes. And after that, I swab my face with a mixture of 3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and one tablespoon of water using a cotton swab. THEN I splash my face a few times with cold water to close the pores.

I drink a half gallon of water throughout the day.