I personally am really into fitness and drink approximately 4 L every day.
I probably use the bathroom every 40 min-1hr.
EDIT: now i consciously think about i definitely do not go every 40 min-1hr…. kind of interested now to see how many times i go… maybe i should keep a tally
I always find it intriguing seeing how much water other people drink.
Please feel free to discuss!
I'm always thirsty, so continually sipping water except when I'm drinking coffee. That would get me to 4 or 5l I guess - I lose count of how many times I fill bottle.
I'd might as well set up my office in the loo. My Dr doesn't find an issue with it.
It depends on your weight, 35ml per kg is the recommendation:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2017-10-18/how-much-water…
I don't drink much but when I'm sick or unwell, I find that drinking more helps me recover more quickly. I'm curious to know whether those who drink a lot is healthier and less likely to get sick those who drink less.
for someone who works in mining, I drink roughly 4L per day. other blokes will easily achieve 5L per day, and maybe even more depending how far underground they are.
Was drinking 5l or more, sometimes even emptying my 10L water bottle, a day while charging development cuts underground.
and you pretty much just sweat it out
I probably use the bathroom every 40 min-1hr
Wow so many restroom visits. Wouldn't go down well at my employer
Does Pepsi and milk count? I drink 1L of milk for breakfast and then 2L of pepsi during the day.
That's gotta be atleast 2L of combined water per day.
It's 2L of fluids and counts to your fluid intake.
I'm kind of paranoid about how much water I drink, I hope it doesn't have bad effects? But I'm always thirsty and need about 3.5 - 4 litres of water per day, plus I drink tea and coffee.
Tea is a diuretic.
It depends on how many coffee's I drink a day and what size cup I use
I too am into gym and fitness and drink up to 5 litres a day, as a woman because I sweat big time and even tho in lockdown atm still exercise a lot at home. My drs r happy and my kidneys are very happy
Lufia if u r always thirsty and drink a lot just check to make sure u r not diabetic, not scaring u but is a sign always being thirsty
My PT told me 30ML/kg of you for body weight. If you are 80kg, you should drink around 2.4L a day.
Make sure you're going to the toilet every 3 hours or less.
On a non workout day about 3, on a workout day about 4.
Part of the water I drink is to counter the effect of drinking 2 double shot coffees, taking creatine and high protein intake. Gotta make sure I'm hydrated to keep my kidney healthy.
My blood report has always shown no deficiencies in anything and everything is healthy.
2-3L on a normal day if i exercise it could be double that
I'm old so can spend a long time sitting - and like to drink my coffee/tea from a large 600mm insulated mug which can stay hot with a lid for maybe an hour - I have 4 of those a day - coffee breakfast, tea ~1130am, coffee ~130pm and 430pm
this means I need to get up like every 40 minutes to p - which is a kind of handy stretch the legs exercise break anyway
tea I find eases the flow past the enlarged prostate (most men over 50yo I believe) - coffee only tends to restrict my flow (BPH)
at one stage I measured the capacity - max. about 400cc first empty, second time average 100cc - then double-dip I used to wait about 10 seconds for restart (enlarged prostate pushes up to prevent complete emptying first time - only after first empty and relaxing can the rest come out) - now older I have to deliberately concentrate for about 20 seconds to restart for final emptying
recently I read something about recommended water intake and calculated something like 1 cup (250ml) of water every (I forget) 40-80 minutes - which I found I hardly needed to p - only every 3-4 hours
so that was better - but then I started to get headaches
I read a common cause of headaches - dehydration.
so now I'm staying with the big mug - at least that's what my wife says …;-)
I hope you're taking salt tablets and not wasting money on any vitamins
How many bowl movements does everyone have? Sorry just curious.
once a week if i'm lucky and have a coupon for bowl ten frames get ten free.
I usually move a bowl for brekkie. Then sometimes at dinner.
Considering I don't eat cereal for breakfast not that much to be honest. Kinda concerned about my lack of bowl movements maybe 3 times a week.
Are you male or female?
Bowls don't differentiate between genders.
another interesting topic!!
once a day in the morning as soon as I wake up like clockwork…
Eat a very healthy diet and haven't had any issues with bowel movements
You should only drink water when your body ask you to not when you want to. If you force drink more than your body needs, you can actually get sick from water intoxication due to decreased electrolytes in the blood if you drink too much water. Remember when you are saying you drink 4L of water. Is that it? Do you eat too? Food have water in them in some form. Fruit and veg have lots of water in them (even if they appear to be dry like bananas) so you could be actually consuming more than 4L.
I only drink when my mouth becomes dry and when I have the urge for it. Never got sick and I'm a big guy. More when I'm at work as I am running around.
i only drink fine norwegian artisanal tap water, so whatever capacity the voss bottle is.
I am on medication that essentially opens my kidneys full blast, so I'm drinking about 7L of water and maybe 1-1.5 in tea/coffee a day.
I go to the bathroom maybe every 2-3 hours, try to push out as long as I can, don't want to train my bladder to be smaller etc
I border on stage 4 kidney failure, so my fluid intakes are a bit odd, and so is my urine output. if i only pee 800? ml a day its not really worth drinking 4L of wader!
It's spelled warder!!!!
Look every one is different. I don't excercise. I have a relatively small build. I probably drink about 1 L a day in fluids plus some oats, milk and meals adds to about 2 L of fluids a day.
It really depends on your body mass and body needs. Just drink to what your body tells you. No need to measure and Chuck like 5 litres Everytime you're thristy.
Don't understand the fascination and focus on drinking a set amount.
Your own body tells you when to drink, why not just listen?
Problem is people sometimes don't know how to listen to it.
Dry lips, headache, yellow/smelly urine. They aren't aware that their bodies are struggling and how much better they'll feel overall if they just upped their water intake just a little. Doesn't have to be a lot at all.
ive never focused on drinking a set amount.
More ive just drank when im thirsty and I was curious to how much water I drank. Easy to measure when you drink from a bottle and you can gauge how mnay bottles you go through.
7am - wake up and drink 2 x 200ml glass of water
7:30am - take a 400ml urination.
i have no set "goal" for water intake as I don't measure everything that I consume that has water in it 🤷♂️
I do. An average cookie has 2 teaspoons of water in it, a muffin has a quarter cup of milk in it when moist, but only an eighth cup when stale. Working out the water content of fruit is easy, you just weigh the fruit on your pocket scale and look up the water to weight ratio on your reference table, do a few quick calculations, and you are then ready to pull out your fruit ripeness table to determine if the level of ripeness has significantly altered the water content of the fruit. Then just load your favourite statistical package and run a three point analysis to determine the probability within 95% confidence that you've got the water content correct. Some people recommend running all the calculations twice to achieve 99% confidence, but personally I think that's taking it all a bit too far.
The whole drink heaps of water thing is highly overrated and unnecessary. In the winter you won't need that much… Of course this will vary depending on whether you are training hard, temperature, bodyweight, height etc. But honestly just go by your pee. If it's a very pale yellow you're good. Clear and your fully hydrated. Peeing a lot and you're over-hydrated.
I agree with all your points!
Peeing a lot is a big one people don't factor. You shouldn't need to pee every hour. Every couple hours maybe… but also not just once or twice a day either!
OP, if you are going to the toilet every hour you're drinking too much.
Roughly 2L a day (just actual water, easy to do)… and on physical exertion or a hot day, more.
Your body is made predominately of water!
People often mistake hunger for thirst, and reach for snacks instead of water.
On waking in the morning, 2 good size glasses of water to re-hydrate your body- and bam you're already 600-700ml and you haven't even had breakfast yet.
Ignoring whatever you have with breakfast (milk, orange juice, tea, coffee etc), you have another glass of water around mid morning… that'll get you to 1L. Maybe a tea or coffeeas well?
Around 1pm (or whenever you have lunch) you have a single glass with food (helps digestion as well).
About 4pm when you want a snack to get you by to dinner, but with it you have a glass of water.
Then at dinner, you've got a glass of water sitting at the table with your food. You're around 2L done already. It's just normal slow and steady throughout the day to keep hydrated.
Before bed have a glass after brushing teeth to keep things moving along while you sleep, and you can see that 2-3L a day isn't excessive at all.
If you play any sport or are working in the garden on a warm day, then 3-4L is easily done, and again… not excessive.
Your body needs a regular supply of water for all sorts of reasons…and in conjunction with all the food and other drinks you have throughout the day, consuming 2L per day shouldn't be a struggle, it should be normal.
Your lips and your urine should be your guide.
- Dry lips and itchy eyes, and especially with a headache is an indication you're probably dehydrated.
- If your urine is yellow, same thing.
- It doesn't need to be crystal clear, but if its got anything more than a slight yellow tinge then that's no good.
- Remember, your wee is landing in water that's already clear. The colour in the bowl is after its diluted with that clear water! If you can change the colour of the that water substantially, then you aren't drinking anywhere near enough.
agree with everything you've said…
I probably don't go every hour that's a bit of an exaggeration now I think about it and consciously think about how often I go lol..
Every morning I boil water with my 1.7L electric kettle and that's my goal. The next morning I expect it to be empty before I boil new water.
During lockdown this seems a bit excessive. I move much less but pee more often so leftover water from the previous day is okay.
2 or 3 refilled Pellegrino bottles(750ml). I'll drink many schooner size glasses throughout the day as well. 4-6 of those
If it's a busy day and I skip water. I'll know about it.
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Funny how drinking 8 cups of water a day seems impossible, but 8 beers & 7 shots in two hours go down like a chubby kid on a seesaw 😂
Does flavoured milk and pepsi max count as water? And how about coffee?
you go to the bathroom 10 times a day?
Wtf
The recommendation to drink at lest 8 glasses of water a day turned out to be a hoax bought and paid for by the bottled water industry (Nestle and the like). Our bodies are pretty apt at using and conserving water. Of course we need to be mindful, not aloof, of our thirst, but there's absolutely NO NEED to drink when not thirsty. OTOH, if you're so thirsty that you're drinking 5L a day, as some say it here, and dripping in sweat is not in your job prescription, then you're probably pre-diabetic, and your body is trying to rid itself of the excess sugar it can't get into your cells—not even to metabolise into fat!—bc of insulin resistance.
posting from chernobyl?