TC x 2

[denny]

Saturday night's sleep:
Got to sleep around 5:30am. Woke up 11:30am-ish. Didn't get up.

Sunday's food:
Double-lolly :)
Pasta with tuna mayo.
(step back in amazement as Denny eats something healthy! by the way, I make huge portions of this stuff, so it's a pretty good meal for a day)

Sunday's drinks:
Don't remember. Not a lot, judging by lack of drinks containers around bedroom.

Remembered to take an Echinacea capsule and vitamin C.


Last night's sleep:
Got to sleep around 2am. Woke up around midday. Haven't really got up.

Today's food:
Half a pot of soup, half a dozen slices of bread.

Today's drinks:
Swigs of Orangina, Ribena and Oasis. Around half a litre in total, maybe.

Remembered to take an Echinacea capsule and vitamin C.


Okay, so we've established that I consistently drink far less than anyone who's expressed an interest here so far thinks I should. But I'm never particularly thirsty - how on earth can anyone want to drink 2 litres (of any liquid) a day??

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

It's actually quite easy to drink that much liquid a day - myself, I usually have about two pints of water throughout the day at work, plus a couple of cups of tea/coffee, plus fruit juice and water with meals.

A lot of the time, when you think your body's telling you it's hungry, it's actually telling you it's thirsty.

The two litres thing is just a guideline, and ignore people who tell you that tea/coffee don't count - if you're used to drinking it, your body compensates for the slight diuretic (makes you pee) effect of the caffeine anyway.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Maybe the fact that I've not been a caffeine addict since I was a kid is a major factor in me not drinking enough? I've never liked tea or coffee, only drinking them for stimulant effects on rare (once a month or less) occasions, mostly back when I was at Uni. I also stopped drinking things like Coke and Dr Pepper years ago, as they used to upset my stomach after drinking them for a few days. If I think hard, I could be tempted to say this was the period when I started to be thirsty much less often - perhaps it wasn't thirst, it was caffeine cravings?

I figured I would ignore the 'water only' comments, as most of the fizzy drinks etc that I drink list water as by far their major ingredient anyway... I can't see that a few percent of flavours and colourings is going to stop the water component of a drink doing me any good in the way of rehydration.

Possibly the other factor in me not drinking is that I don't eat multiple meals a day - usually just one, plus snacks. Maybe I'd drink more if I had to wash food down with it.