Water

[SoldierOfChrist]

Water is pretty good in making you feel good in a lot of ways. If you drink a lot fast enough then it'll make you feel really tingly but good. LoL that's just my own personal experience.

I've read that drinking a lot of water can help make arthritis not hurt so much. For those with arthritis I'm sure yall would try almost anything to get it to go away.

I've also read that there are a lot of people who don't drink enough water to keep them properly hydrated. It also said that some people's thirst function is so under developed that they confuse being thirsty for being hungry... I agree because when i started drinking a lot of water there were times when I really wanted water and times I just wanted food.

Drinking a lot of water can help you lose weight too.

It has been said that our bodies are something like 70% water, all of the cells in our body contain a small compartment that holds water, so drinking water helps to replenish all of that water in you and cleanse out wastes.

The only part about drinking a lot of water is that you'll pee a lot. LoL. But hey atleast you're getting water.

[UberHouseWife]

My mom read once that when your body gets to the point that its thirsty, you are already dehydrated. The book reccomended drinking so much water that you rarely even feel your body triggering thirst. :sick: Sounds like it makes sense, but I don't think I could rink that much water! LOL :eek:

I've gone through periods of my life where I drank 8 to 10 glasses of water a day, but I've never been able to keep it up. maybe I should get on a schedule... like force myself to have an 8 oz glass of water every 2 hours or something. It would definitely help me stop overeating & snacking between meals... :p

[Ann]

One thing that helps me is a bottle of water on my desk where I can see it (I work mostly at home so no office rules problem but many places permit something at/near the worksite.) I have taught myself the habit of drinking some at each change of task. Plus having 8-16 oz in AM works as well or better for me as far as a wake up as tea or juice.

Charles has a new thing of drinking water when he would normally want soda or tea or fruit punch and only having those if he still wants them after he has had water. But then he has always been better at drinking something than I am. Left to my own devices I can realize at 9 PM that I have had no fluid at all all day. I'm still not thirsty then but know I need to drink somethoing because the headache the next AM will be a doozy if I don't. Maybe my body thinks it is preparing for life on a desert Island.

[UberHouseWife]

Maybe you're a camel?! :blush:

[Ann]

Jasie I've been called a lot of things but never called been a camel before. But hey I do like camels. They have beautiful eyelashes.

[UberHouseWife]

LOL *bows* I'm glad to be the first :D

[lap7]

How does the Timothy scripture about drink a little wine for your stomach fit here ?
:foot: :spin: :lol: :rofl:

[Ann]

Don't know that it particularly does, LAP. As you know the water of those days was often polluted and could definately do a thing to the stomach.

[lap7]

Ah the time they are a chang'n.

The water and the wine are better and the water cost more than the wine.

I just Hyjacked this thread didn't I.

Sorry, I'll be backing out now, sorry.

[Ann]

Thanks LAP I needed that :D

[Knight of God]

I believe everyone should drink AT LEAST 1 gallon of water every single day!

[DustyBlue]

Originally posted by Knight of God
I believe everyone should drink AT LEAST 1 gallon of water every single day!
I drink about 3 QTs. I don't c how anyone could drink 1 gallon!

[Ann]

Let's think of it as cokes with meals for just a min (or ice tea or whatever) on a nice warm day when you've been active and you hit McD and the free refills on all soft drinks have you ever gotten a large (32oz) drink, finished it off and gone back for more and then gotten a 2nd refill to go? 3/4 gal right there at one meal.

How about the person who doesn't function without a cup of coffee in their hand. 2-3 cups at breakfast another cup or 2 mid morning and a couple of cups at lunch. 56 oz so far - 70 if they use a 10 oz mug and so on through the day.

Sometimes we think of drinking water as a thing we have to do in addition to all other fluids or as a hard thing. Now remember I've already been told I am a camel so I'm not really the one to talk :):blush::)

[DustyBlue]

that is true...I do think of it as something hard to do, but I try to make it fun. Drink so much at meal times & at commercial breaks in the evening. Stuff like that!

Love in Christ, Dusty
*smiles* Never been been called a camel...yet...lol

[butterfly]

I carry around a water bottle with me wherever possible so it has become a habit. Most schools will let you bring water to class and actually, I even bring a water bottle to exams. If you go out to eat a lot, try getting water with your meals instead of pop or coffee. It will save you a buck or two plus help keep you healthy. :)

[bigkat]

Originally posted by Ann
Let's think of it as cokes with meals for just a min (or ice tea or whatever) on a nice warm day when you've been active and you hit McD and the free refills on all soft drinks have you ever gotten a large (32oz) drink, finished it off and gone back for more and then gotten a 2nd refill to go? 3/4 gal right there at one meal.


You just have to make sure that you eat all of the ice that's in your cup though!

[Ann]

If one is in GA in the summer the ice wll melt quickly. :D

Cath I'm glad water is still free where you are here it's often either Cleveland city water which as the newspaper reminds us regularly should not be drunk w/ out boiling and if you forget one taste will remind you (but that is a good thing because 2 tastes and you may be busy for a week in the smallest room in your house) or as LAP said more expensive than wine or at least than cola. Example Helen Wndy's Biggie Coke or Tea $1.09 Water (16oz) $1.59. Not spring water, flat stale tasting water from some Fla. municiple water supply put in bottles and dragged up here. The least they could do would be sell Appalachian Springs water. For that I'd pay $1.59 or even $1.99. But no they ship that to Atlanta and off to other places far from here bec people in their own back yard almost don't order it. Am I ranting. Of course. Maybe I need some nice cold water.

[lap7]

This appears to be a serious issue, but to a simplier time in life; remember how our parents knew of those place on the side of a major highway where "fresh" water ran from the mountian side and we would stop and drink, as did many others ?

Fresh/clean water has slowly become a real issue.

Consider; Rev 8:10-11

10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water- 11 the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
NIV

Sign of the times?????????

[Ann]

LAP come to N GA and we'll show you a couple of such places but do come quickly before some developer builds a chalet retreat that pours runoff into the springs.

[lap7]

That's sad and makes me feel old.

[butterfly]

Ah yes, I keep forgetting I live in BC. We are definitely spoiled as far as our water supply is concerned. It's amazing though how many people here will always drink bottled water even though the tap water is just fine.

[UberHouseWife]

Our tap water up in Washington is fine too, though it does taste better if you get a faucet filter of a brita pitcher. :) The only time I drink bottled water is sometimes at church because they give3 it away for free during services...