To ask if you drink a lot of water do you actually notice a difference?

Oh yes, many investigations @hashisucks! unfortunately I have some ongoing and long term health issues. It sucks, but that’s life.

I drink about 3-4 litres a day and it’s the best thing to help me lose my stomach/bloat. I can drop a dress size in a couple of weeks purely by drinking more water. I have it slightly warm because I find I can drink more that way. I also have a really strong bladder but I don’t know if that’s natural for me or because I’ve been drinking so much for years. It’s best to start the day by drinking a litre before you leave the house and then it’s easy to do the rest of it over the course of the day. I allow myself 1 decaf coffee per day but I don’t drink any other drinks. If anybody asked me what my secret was, it would be this!

Very little actual water here. Just juice, fizzy vitamins (in water) and plenty of decaf tea and coffee. No pop. I am not dehydrated, always feel well, skin ok, energy fine and rarely thirsty enough to need a glass or bottle of water to satisfy my thirst. OK in Summer and in very hot weather yes, and after a strenous bit of exercise, otherwise no.

I think this drink X litres of water a day myth has been debunked now, and it is not necessary. But if you feel it does you good go for it. I don't so I don't fill my bladder up unnecessarily and spend half my day in the loo or looking for one!.

I generally have 3-4 pints a day because once my water bottle is next to me I sip from it without thinking. My skin still looks shit, I'm still fat and i still cant sleep, but my wee is the palest of pale yellows.

I have a tiny bladder. When Ibe had to have ultrasounds and they ask you to drink 2 pints, half a pint is enough to put me at bursting point (absolute bursting!) so I don't find drinking water does anything for me apart from make me uncomfortable.

I have to drink 2ltrs due to medication, I don't think I feel any better for it but notice if I haven't been able to keep it up

I drink between 1.5 and 3 litres of water a day depending on activity and weather.

Dehydration is quite a pronounced bad feeling for me, more so since I had a stroke. Light-headedness, brain fog, crabbiness or headache. So I keep my Emotional Support Water Bottle nearby all day and keep sipping away.

You'll be grand, the whole hydration thing is an unscientific myth. Drink if you're thirsty. Elderly people may need an eye kept on them as in their case thirst might not function as well as it should, but that's about it. I know from many previous threads on this subject that people just won't believe this. But hey ho.

It's not even that if you get enough through tea/coffee/juice and whatever food people eat.

It's not healthier to drink more water than your body actually needs. Any excess just goes straight out and taken to extremes causes issues of it's own.

YES! I drink 120 Oz a day! There’s definitely a benefit!

I consume around 1.5 to 2 litres of water a day, and for my age (60), I have good clear skin and feel less tired.
I started this regime about 9 years ago on doctor's advice at the start of the menopause and it's served me well. Prior to this I was drinking less than half of this and feeling constantly fatigued and ratty, especially on hot days.
As others have said, your bladder does adjust to this and frequency of loo visits returns to normal after a few weeks.

This. I don't understand the hydration obsession. It's easy to drink enough liquid in a day without caring a water bottle everywhere you go. It's funny how this hydration fad coincided with multiple new ranges of bottled water and water carriers.

It's not good for you to drink excess water, just drink what's necessary. That's about 1.5 - 2 litres a day.

The only difference I notice is pissing like a horse throughout the night.

I drink lots of cordial, like about 6 litres a day. I can't stand just plain water, I know I should try to get used to it but I just can't!

I've drank loads since before I can remember so I can't say if it makes a difference really but I'm in my forties and have pretty good skin and am healthy overall despite a regular wine habit so I could say it is something to do with that.

A litre really isn't enough at all!

@catelynjane 😂I used to give my Dad a hard time and now I've morphed into him. I prefer tea (no sugar tho!) and used to have to force a glass of water down (I do drink it now to be fair, just not a huge amount).

That's handy to know

Haha, you could so easily be describing my dad - also a retired doctor (and a runner) and he mostly survives off various types of posh coffee I don't think I've ever seen him drink a glass of water unless we're in a restaurant and it comes free in a jug on the table, lol.

Nope, never noticed a difference. I probably drink about 2 litres a day plus liquid in food

I drink over 2lts a day and don't know if drinking less would have an adverse affect. Not helpful sorry. But I've got my newish bf drinking 2lts a day from fizzy drinks and he says he feels much better for it. I've always liked water though.
I Start the day with a large mug of warm water with lemon, have done for years, I've got him on to that also!

I don't drink any water, I have a large cup of tea in the be morning and a small one at night. I've suffered no ill effects and in my 50s.
I've tried drinking more and I feel no different but I don't sweat so I'm not really losing fluids. Maybe it'll catch up with me I don't know.

@catelynjane my Dad literally NEVER drinks water - he lives on tea (with 2 large sugars). He is 83 and a retired doctor. 😆How on earth did his generation survive 🤔

If drinking litres of water is so good for you, why doesn't my body want to do it? We shoud love it as it would offer an evolutionary advantage but instead I have to constantly remind myself and miserably force it down.

I saw Tim Spector on something the other day, or maybe on a podcast saying that the whole 'drink 8 glasses of water' thing is outdated and that if we need water, we drink because we get thirsty and not to obsess over it...

I feel the benefits. If I didn't drink enough I'd have headache, tiredness, chapped lips, dull skin, even my wee colour would be off! In this cold weather I find it hard to drink cold water but I sometimes have hot water with lemon instead, if I'm perished! Not sure the benefits are entirely the same, but water is water.