Posted by Bob on December 13, 1999, at 23:45:16
In reply to Re: Lithium, Day 11, posted by S. Suggs on December 13, 1999, at 21:46:43
If you want to keep track of how much water you are drinking, one method I've used in the past is to use one of those travel mugs that fits into a car/minivan's cupholders and some rubberbands. Make sure you know the volume of the mug. Every time you finish a mug of water, put a rubber band around that bottom section of the mug that goes into the cupholder.
Using that trick, I could make sure I was staying on target for drinking a mug an hour while at work. That got me close to a gallon between 9 and 5. At the time I was trying to drink 1.5 gallons a day, so it made my pre-work and post-work loads much more manageable.
So set yourself a goal and see if it's sufficient. If not, up your intake.
Bob
Okay, I know someone out there is wondering why drink 1.5 gallons of water a day. It was part of a fitness/diet plan that really worked well (before my zoloft 40). The water was to help both with the fat burning and workout strain repair issues ... plus, if you drank it gradually like that and as cold as you could stand it, you'd always have to force your body to warm itself back up from the chill it would give you. A little simple thermodynamics to burn off a few extra calories for "free". How many, I dunno ... but more than drinking cool water instead of ice-cold water.
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