02/23/10: Water

So I'm here to talk about water today.  I drink water.  I drink lots of water.  I love water.  Sometimes I feel the need for flavor and I drink SF Kool-Aid in some cases and in other cases, I just add lemon.  But, primarily, I drink water.  Iced tea is good sometimes, too.  But water is what you will find beside me most of the time.

I read on Amy W.'s blog about this cool water bottle she found at Target.  I had read just before that of her using a regular ol' throw away bottle and ticking it off with a marker as she refilled it.  She tried to achieve six ticks a day on a 20 oz bottle.  And then she found this bottle at Target.  On the rim of the cap there is a bezel that rotates to how many bottles you've had a day.  It has 6 ticks and the bottle holds 26 oz.  I loved the idea.  So I mentioned it to my sweet hubby this weekend and he went and got a 2-pack.  He is using one himself.  (Sorry for the pic clarity, these pics were taken with my phone which somehow is super sensitive to the natural quiver of my hand.)

So, based on my current weight, I should be striving for 127 oz's of water a day.  That means I should be filling/refilling the thing a total of 5 times.

Yeah.  Can't do it!  I drank 3 yesterday.  I was peeing water by 6pm last night.  And I knew, just knew, that if I kept going and drank anymore I would not sleep through the night.  I was not about to give up the beauty rest (it doesn't work, but I'm hopeful even after all these years that it might start) to pee all night long!

So I drank the 3 and said...it's ok.  If I was still peeing out anything that even remotely looked yellow I might have continued.  But it was clear as clear could be.  I still sipped a bit through the rest of the evening, but I gave up trying to drink 2 more refills.  And I'm glad I did.  From 6-9 I peed five more times.  And the last time...it was still clear as clear could be.

That was 78 oz's I drank.  I will be happy when 78 oz's (or less) is proper for me!