Drinking enough water is one of the biggest challenges on this new way of life. It helps cleanse you from the inside, and helps wash away those fat cells. But drinking enough, especially when you first start LCing, seems like a daunting task.

The minimum amount of water you should be drinking is 64 oz. There are 2 theories on how much more you should be drinking; add 8 oz for every 25 pounds extra weight you have, or divide your weight by 2.2.

So how much is 64 oz?

8 oz = 1 cup
4 cups = 2 pints or 1 quart
8 cups = 2 quarts = 64 oz
2 quarts = 1/2 gallon (so for those of you who thought you were required to drink "gallons", well it's really only a half a gallon minimum)

In metric measures, 64 oz = 2 quarts = 2 x .946 = 1.9 (let's say 2) litres

How does that compare to what you would have normally drank during the day before LCing?

1. Did you easily drink more than 6 mugs of tea or coffee a day? A mug is about 10 oz. 6 mugs of coffee a day is about 60 oz.

2. Did you drink a whole super jumbo giant sized 711 slurpie or soda? They are 32 oz. 2 of those filled with water would be your minimum water.

3. The average can of soda (in Canada) is 355 mL. If you drank more than 5 cans of soda a day, and it were water instead of soda, that would be just about 64 oz

4. Those big plastic bottles of soda - 2 litres, just about 64 oz

5. Do you drink pints of milk from those cardboard containers? 4 of those is the equivalent to 64 oz.

The bare minimum of 64 is NOT really as much as we think it is. It's a big number, but not really a lot to drink when you put it in perspective. Add in few extra glasses of water above the 64 oz, and you are still not really talking about a lot more. So lets stop wrestling with this big water hurdle. We probably already drank that much fluid before. We just need to replace it with good old H2O