ok, here is one for all you health peoples!!

get this.. so I am not a huge fan of water, but I drink atleast a cup a day..i tend to forget, so I normally drink it at night... well.. here lately I can feel how dehydrated I am... Cotton mouth always, lips feeling chapped, yada... i also end up drinking this huge cup of water with a sleeping/pain pill.. just cuz i am awesome like that.. haha..

are there other ways to get water, with out drinking it? lol! I know I need to be drinking more, but i tend to just space it untill my throat starts to dry out.. i need tricky ways here!

Ive always been a dehydrated person, everytime I end up in the ER, I have to sit in a room for 5hours getting 2-3 fast drip IV's to pump me back up..

You could get an I.V. put in and not have to worry about it!

But really. I bought one of those nifty stainless steel bottles (reusable) and keep it filled and on my desk. I drink at least one of them every two hours. The benefits from being well-hydrated go on and one, but the ones that top the list: more energy, fewer hunger spikes, better skin, better weight balance and you won't be sent to hell when you die. Okay, that last one isn't necessarily true, but I heard it on the internet, so I believe it.

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hahaaaa.. I know all the percks of it, and it helps with weight loss, with is just dandy with my fat ass.. lol.. but I cant remember to drink it! I can make me a cup of water, but it doesnt mean I will drink it! tho for some strange reason, if I find a old water bottle full of water, it tastes amazing to me! like, buy a bottled water, and hide it for 2 weeks.. like in ur closet, then drink it.. lol.... i use to have 4 bottles in my room but my daughter broke them all.. and when I was a teen, I would drink a gallon a day!

Ahhh. Ever see that skit (I can't remember what show) with Bob Newhart as a therapist and his method of treating the patient is to scream at them to just "STOP IT!" I can't remember the details, but there was an bulimic, a drug addict and some others. To each one he would yell, "Just STOP IT! STOP MAKING YOURSELF THROW UP [or use drugs, or whatever]!!!"

So to help you. . .

"DRINK YOUR DAMNED WATER!!! EVERY HOUR. DO IT. DO IT AND DON'T STOP!!!"

There. See if that works.



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maybe you should text me every hr to remind me?

Ah, if you can carry your phone with you at work*, then you can just set the alarm to go off once an hour, can't you?

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*I want to know where you work that you can carry
your cell phone, on your person, while on the clock.

well i dont work right now because my county alone has a 10% unemployment rate. but my last...well...all my jobs I have been able to.. hahaha... Need to be able to be reached if my daughter is ill or hurt, and to make calls.. haha

Um... Just drink it! Its as simple as that. No one can say some magical incantation here thats gonna help you be more hydrated. Just have some discipline and drink water.

Where do you live?

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new mexico

where they give jobs to idiots who dont qualify for just because they are not white.... we have american indians here called Navajo's..omg.. dont even get me started on most them lazy people!! its soo bad where I live

OH YEAH. We chatted about this. Sorry. I get people confused. If I I don't have a file on you in front of my face, it gets all blurry.

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Set up Google calendar to send you reminders on your cell phone at given times. It's a free service.

You need a Gmail/Google account, which is free as well.

ONE cup a day? How do you manage to survive?
I drink at least 4 liters a day.

Christa -

Do you drink sodas, or eat a lot of fruit, or soups?

i eat a good fair shair or fruit, I make my own oj smoothies.. hehe


because its a 30oz cup.. hahahaan so i am getting ennuff water, but not enuff to stop this crud

A 30oz cup.. is less than 1 liter, while 3 liters a day is advised.
The absolute minimum is 1.5 liters a day, and that increases with physical activity, temperature and sickness.

You are not even remotely drinking enough.

if your insistant on wanting to get water out of food you COULD try something like cucumbers or iceburg letus which are basically mostly water anyway (have you ever seen how much water comes out if you grate and squeze cucumber? WOW).

But seriously how old are you? in most healthy young adults and children the body will TELL you to drink when it needs water. It cant stop you ignoring it but it will make your life unpleasent if you do (dry mouth being the BEST of the symptoms, denigrating into dissness, intolerance to hot enviroments, iritability, confusion sizures, unconciouness and eventually death)

Asguard, you're a doctor right?
Tell her 30Oz a day isn't enough..

sure, as soon as you tell me what an OZ is

Oh and im NOT nor have ever said i was a doctor. Im a student PARAMEDIC, personally i think ambos know more than the adverage doctor but *shrug* thats nither here nor there

30 Oz = 0.887 liter
I'm not sure what units you guys use. Let me know and I will post the conversion.

Close enough