When I had to stop drinking wine, I found Canada Dry Sparkling water. Poured into a small glass I could pretend quite easily it was a "real drink" sitting next to me. Now I drink it all the time because after decades I still can't take the tapwater here; it's supposed to be well within the safe parameters but the taste is less palatable than I've found anywhere in the world. Canada Dry is also the cheapest of the sparkling waters that I've found.

This was like a reminder for me. Thank you for posting this.. Guess I been replacing some of my much needed water with tea and Diet Rite.. My bad

I love water!!! I have a 64 oz. mug that I fill up everday (sometimes 2 times). By the end of the work day, I've had the water I need for the day. Of course, sometimes I drink water at home too. I've had lots of comments on how big my mug is, but I'd be lost without it.

I've found that, now that I'm used to that much water, I don't feel right when I don't drink it all. I can definitely tell the difference. So to those of you who have trouble drinking water - get a big mug and fill it up everyday.

Thanks for the info -- It is so much easier in the summer for me to drink a ton of water, but in the winter months, I tend to slack off on the water intake. Thanks for the information -- I am going to go down a few glasses of water now!

Water is great!! Took me until now to realize that. I don't miss soft drinks at all anymore and water is the reason. All this time I thought when you are thirsty, go put some ice in a glass and look at the fizz rise. I drink about a gallon a day and its not hard to do if you don't think about it. I use two Aquafina liter bottles and freeze them. I drink one and leave the other on the window sill. By the time I finish the first one the second is ready. I do this over and over and sometimes end up drinking 5 or more by the time I go to bed at night.
I gotta mention I did see on a late news show the other night about a fraternity being under investigation for hazing. They made the guys drink enormous amounts of water through funnels. They said the guys did suffer from water poisoning. But they were talking about a huge volume of water and not a bottle at a time.

my daily intake of water was almost zero... I wouldn't drink it at all, perhaps 8oz, perhaps 16oz... no more... (except during exercise days when I drank 4x8oz) since I started Atkins I am drinking 16x8oz average... and I don't even notice it. My body just asks for it all the time. And yes, I have to run to the service every hour or so, but feel really good for the rest.

Right now, having woken up 1 1/2 hour ago I have already taken 4x8z.

Holland also has very good tapwater, so no problem with that either.

What a cute phrase! I find myself going to the service about every 20 minutes; I suspect my bladder is the size of a thimble.

I read something the other evening that said that to calculate how much water you need take your weight, divide by 2 and use that as the number of ounces of water to drink per day.

nursey15 thank you so much for taking the time to retype this. I think this could and should be a posty on the site. I have been trying with good success to increase my water intake and now I have a great source of information on why I should continue doing it.

yes, thanks so much for this info. it was just the motivation i needed to get my water drinking back on track! i'm going to send it to my mom as well!

science really hasn't proved anything as usual...liquid is as liquid does.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea...ms-al080802.php
http://www.canoe.ca/HealthMayeMuskColumns/010213.html
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/03/1...r_glasses030314
http://stupidevilbastard.com/archiv..._hold_water.php

Thanks for the article. I sent a copy to my father, who started Atkins with me around New Years. Man was he a tough one to get convinced about the water, I had to make a bet with him. I told him if you try 8-8oz glasses for two weeks and you lose less then you did the first two weeks, I'll buy you a flat of your aspartame loaded soda! He went for it.

The bet is over and we both kind of won. He now takes 6-160z bottled waters to work in a cardboard container; ya know the kind they make for beer bottles. He brings the container back home, along with the lids each night, to show my step-mom, and she refills his travel pack for the next day!

One of his chief complaints when he made the switch to water was that he was thirsty all the time.

I sent him the following info, a friend of mine posted it on another board. I don't know if it is gods truth, but it sure made sense to me.

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For every molecule of sugar your body stores, there
are 3 or 4 molecules of water attached, IIRC. Hence,
when your body switches to burning fat for fuel, it
first burns all of its stored sugar reserves, shedding
the attached water molecules in the process. This is
why many go to the restroom frequently in the
beginning.

As soon as you put sugar in your body again, your body
fills up it's stores of sugar, and attaches water
molecules to the sugar. Most people can store
anywhere from 5-15 pounds of water/sugar in their
body.

Initially, you shed off the water when going into
ketosis. After the initial water loss, your body
goes into ketosis, or fat burning mode, and the fat
burning begins.

When you go off the wagon, your body is back in sugar
burning mode, and is holding water with the sugar
molecules. Your body will not release the sugar/water
until the stores of sugar are burned off. Your body
will always burn sugar first because it is easier
(requires less energy) for your body to use for
energy, and your body always tries to store sugar.

The reason why people get thirsty, is that your body
is not retaining water, so the water you drink gets
used in the body right away, rather than being
retained for later use, or along with sugar.

This is great, has put the water thing in better perspective, will work harder at it. What about the current fashion of flavoured sports water not quite cordial. Is that just as good?