Water - how do you do it?

[Mango]

I've never been a fan of drinking water, but my resolution for this year is to drink more water. Honestly, I've been trying but the taste is so bland. I have been drinking Dasani and trying to have a few bottles a day. I tried the Aquafina with berries but thought it was horrid.

Do you have any suggestions in regards to drinking water? Is the 7 glasses of water thing a day just an old wives tale?

I've always been a milk and juice drinker, and pop if I go out somewhere. Getting used to water is become a daunting task. I drink it when I play sports and work out but I don't enjoy it as much as the rest of the population seems to. How do you do it?

Help...

[Flashpoint]

Just "man up" and chug a filled container. Fast, efficent, and no trouble to do.

(or exercise to build up thurst)

[Hemi-Cuda]

many times when i'm really thisty the only thing that i crave is water. maybe it's how you're raised, but i've always drank a lot of water. but temperature is key, it has to be cold. in my current office job i have a 1 litre bottle that i fill half way and freeze overnight, so during my shift i'll always have a large ice chunk in my bottle to keep it cold. i find i drink a lot more than before i started doing that

[Reaper]

Personally, I find Dasani to be kind of gross. I just don't like the magnesium salts and minerals they add to it.

I installed a water filter and dispenser on our kitchen sink. Nice, clean, filtered cold water whenever we want it.

[BlackArcher101]

I only drink it when I'm at work (water cooler available) or I'm at home with my Brita. I refuse to pay for bottled water, way too expensive.

Couple years ago Brita had a water bottle that had a built in filter. I drank a lot of water when I had that. Sadly, they got rid of it and I can't find filters for my bottles anymore.

Maybe buy a water cooler?

[Sylvanfan]

Mentality. Try to convince yourself that water is what you want to drink.

Me being the cheap guy that I am really enjoys drinking a glass of water when I go out for dinner because it usually doesn't cost me anything and I view it as the extra 2-3 bucks can be spent on the food which is what I'm there for. I also have a Reverse Osmosis system in my house so I never have to go buy bottles of it. So aside from servicing the system drinking water costs me nothing!

[fanforever1986]

Aberfoyle springs. Best water out there.

Water has ENDLESS options! Cold, kinda cold, luke cold, luke warm, hot, steaming. Seriously though, the taste of water isn't what will make you fall in love with drinking it, it's how you feel after you drink 5 bottles of it every day for a week. You'll have more energy, more enthusiasm, everything really. I had no idea how crappy pop made me feel until I stop drinking it for a few months then had a can. The stuff should be illegeal to produce. It can dissolve a nail for crying out loud.

[CaptainCrunch]

little bit of scotch with your water changes the taste, and its easy to drink 7 of those in a sitting.

I drink the gatoraide bottled water when I work out and it tastes ok.

[habernac]

my wife is the same. Grew up drinking way too much pop, lots of juice, milk. Never enough water. The only way I can get her to drink more is to buy the bottled stuff. Personally, I think it's expensive as well, but I have her drinking water.

I fill my Nalgine bottle twice a day, try to drink 1-2 litres a day.

[OILFAN #81]

Originally Posted by Mango

I've never been a fan of drinking water, but my resolution for this year is to drink more water. Honestly, I've been trying but the taste is so bland. I have been drinking Dasani and trying to have a few bottles a day. I tried the Aquafina with berries but thought it was horrid.

Do you have any suggestions in regards to drinking water? Is the 7 glasses of water thing a day just an old wives tale?

I've always been a milk and juice drinker, and pop if I go out somewhere. Getting used to water is become a daunting task. I drink it when I play sports and work out but I don't enjoy it as much as the rest of the population seems to. How do you do it?

Help...

That is me 100% as well. I average 0 glasses of water a day. Even when we go on national trips for soccer I drink sport drinks. Only time I drink water is when I eat east indian food and I don't live at home anymore so that's only like once a month.

I do drink 2-3 L of Milk a day though.

[fredr123]

My wife and I dramatically increased our water consumption when we got a water cooler at home. It was a wedding present and I wasn't too keen on registering for it but boy am I glad we did.

Also with respect to the scotch and gatorade water comments above... I drank way too much scotch one time (it was really good expensive scotch, mind you) and drank three of those gatorade waters on the drive home. To this day I thank God that I did because I'm convinced that saved me from the hang-over to end all hang-overs.

[Bobblehead]

Just get a container of a comfortable size. I find 500ml-710ml about right for me. I can finish that much without it getting too warm. I buy a bottle of water with a squirt top, then when it is empty I'll just refill it and use the same bottle. I can wash it or recycle it and get a new one.

And just keep that next to you while you work.

I work at a computer and find that, as long as it isn't empty, I'll just take sips of it throughout the day without even thinking about it.

And if you need some flavour in it, get some sort of drink crystals but only put a little bit in; just enough so you can slightly taste it. I'll do that with Coutrytime Lemonade Crystals (which are almost pure sugar) but it only takes like a teaspoon to add flavour to a whole bottle of water. But I'll only do that when I get a craving for a flavour.

[Buff]

I bought a water bottle from the "tupperware" section in Canadian Tire and I take it to work with me. I fill it up from the water cooler and I drink away all day long. Some days I fill it up two or three times, sometimes just in the morning. It took me a while to get into this habit though. I would always have a pop or a slurpee at my side, but that got too expensive and not quite healthy. It started off with me filling up a coffee mug from the cooler. I eventually got tired of going to the water cooler umpteen times per day so I bought the bottle. I found that I also began to drink more water when I bought the bottle.

A friend of mine buys those Crystal Lite things and puts them in his water, though I suppose it defeats the purpose of drinking water.

[Phaneuf3]

well, here's my normal procedure for drinking water:
1) get glass
2) hold glass with opening facing upwards underneath the faucet
3) turn on faucet
4) wait until glass is full
5) turn off faucet
6) raise glass to lips
7) tilt glass, pouring liquid into mouth
8) swallow
9) repeat step 8 until glass is empty

now there are variations on this method but this should work for novices.
good luck and don't neglect the importance of steps 8 and 9

[SpitFire40]

I love water, I hate milk with a passion. It makes me ill thinking about drinking a glass of it.

Just try some with a slice of lemon in the bottle.. plain water not that flavored crap by Dasani. That stuff is nasty.

I drink probably a gallon a day.

[Hack&Lube]

Water is water, I just have a glass of it around whenever I'm doing work or surfing the internet and inevitably it becomes empty because I'll keep subconsciously drinking.

A water cooler at home does the trick easily. It feels much psychologically and refilling is fun.

I guess I end up drinking a lot of water too because I choke on all my food.

[Flames_Gimp]

just use a 500ml bottle, and fill it up 4 times... thats your 8 cups/day

[jam26]

I always keep a large bottle of it at my desk at work and have no problem going through that. When I work out, I drink 1.5 L and another litre after I'm done.
I am trying to phase out pop in favour of water. Haven't gotten there yet, but I do enjoy water. Getting a water cooler at home this week and that should help as well.

[Burninator]

I drink around 1.5-2 litres of water a day at work alone. Where it comes from isn't the most important but I do like it cold. I use to drink alot of pop, which water has subsituted now. From working out and mountian biking I started drinking considerably more water and it just sort of made it's way into as my everday beverage.

The more water you keep around you the more you'll drink it. I think you'll be surprised how easily it'll catch on, and you'll drink lots of it.

[Crazy Flamer]

Water is great if you are trying to loose weitght. It will also help you stay alert, fight fatigue and will help keep you regular.

try drinking it constantly thoughout the day. If you have troubles doing that, drink three glasses with each big meal: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.