How much do you drink during the day?

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I'm constantly feeling tired /hungover on a morning and I think maybe I'm not drinking enough fluids.
Il have a cup of tea on a morning -and drink half
Then a 500ml bottle of water a day (sometimes don't even drink it all )
Could this be why I'm tired all the time ?

I have an 80oz water bottle with built in straw that I keep at my desk. I mostly drink it without thinking.

At the weekend when I’m not at my desk I drink an 8oz glass of water about every hour. I take a bottle with me if I go out. I ask for water with meals out.

I’m not a particular fan of drinking water but I manage as I know it’s what I need.

I don't drink anywhere near as much as I should.

My Sunday morning routine is to take the dog for a 2 hour walk. If I have more than 1 cup of tea before I leave, I can only go about 40 minutes before I'm rushing home for a pee.

Same at work, I can't drink too much otherwise I end up bouncing in my chair before the end of a 1hr long meeting.

The recommendations for adult women vary from 1.6l to 2.5l per day, although there's not much evidence for any of these. We excrete about 500ml urine per day, so that's an absolute minimum demand to avoid lethal dehydration. As a GP I've had a patient suffer hyponatremic (low sodium) seizures from excessive water ingestion of up to 6l per day. Drinking to thirst seems a generally sensible approach.

I drink around 2-3 liters of water per day and a few cups of camomile tea.

Definitely not enough water. Currently have a tea.

400 mls of tea x 2 on getting up.
200m mls of tea mid morning.
200 mls of tea after lunch.
1 litre or more of water throughout the afternoon.
1 litre of water over evening and up to bedtime.

Crikey. Do you spend most of your day having a wee? I'd never be off the loo drinking that amount!

I often don't drink enough either. On an average day I will probably have 1 decaf coffee in the morning, and maybe 2 pints of water/squash throughout the day. Which I think is probably less than 1.5 litres. I should try to drink more.

Haha no. Maybe four times a day. I have one of those 900ml water bottles which I just sip away at and refill throughout the day, so I suppose I'm not drinking enough in one go to have to pee that often.

I'm assuming that the people you are examining are there for a reason and not a random selection of the population though? There are probably loads of people who drink the same and that are perfectly healthy.

Drink when you are thirsty, humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years relying on their body to tell them when they need to drink. It's only in the last few decades that we've been told (without any scientific justification) that we need to drink 2 litres of water a day or more. Nice little earner for bottlers of water and drinks bottle manufacturers though!

I agree, there are a small number of people for whom thirst doesn't work well, particularly elderly people. But it is a very efficient mechanism for the rest of us and all we need. But unfortunately I have been on enough of these threads on mumsnet over a number of years and know that people just won't be convinced of this.

I don’t drink any plain water at all. I have made it to my early sixties without any problems. My parents and grandparents were the same. They lived until their nineties.

I once read somewhere and I can't think where, was look at how the bladder works. It works on a fill up at once and void process. It was saying that taking the odd sips of water throughout the day from sports bottles with markers on, rather than drinking a big drink every few hours then voiding is better for the bladder and can prevent it becoming overactive or giving wrong messages when to need a wee.

@TheSmallAssassin there are there for other reasons. My point was (after doing this for years and working in hospitals and outpatients for 20 years) lots of people don't drink enough and lots of people have no idea of the damage it is causing them and a lot of those people genuinely don't care either and that's up to them!

Large cup of tea with breakfast, about 500ml of water with lunch, a herbal tea in the afternoon, another 500ml of water with dinner and a herbal tea after.

At work I keep a pint glass of water at my desk and drink from it all day - I probably top it up three to four times during the day.

Non working days I take a litre water bottle out with me

I really struggle to get liquids in, I just cant drink very much

Im meant to have 2 ltrs a day but never make that, and my liquid consumption is tea only, never water, just cant get it down me. I think Im doing well if I get about 1300-1500 ml in but it takes a lot of work. I never feel thirsty.

Its the colour of your wee you need to pay attention to, needs to be a pale/greeny colour.

Can someone tell me if coffee and tea are classed within the recommended water intake? That's where I'm confused.

Its 'liquid', not 'water'.

Obviously water is better, the ENT person who posted upthread makes the point that there is a difference in how the body is in people who solely drink tea and coffee as their liquid (me) and people who drink water. I was told this myself, it applies to me, but I just cant drink water, I cant get it down me

People say ' 2 litres of water a day', its 2 litres of liquid a day (not booze obviously!)

So that you are regularly flushing through liquid in your kidneys, your wee should be 'the colour of pale hay' - I saw it referred to as this once! A sort of very soft, pale greeny colour, no yellowing to it

YOu also get liquid from foods so people that eat a lot of salads and fruit will have moisture from these too. I notice when I eat more carbohydrate foods compared to high protein I wee more and my wee is paler.

Im advised by the nursing team Im under to have 2 litres but never ever have I reached that goal.

Drinking plenty is also helpful for when you need to get blood taken. It plumps up your veins.

@saintsript That is really interesting. I have had chronic post nasal drip for years, allergic rhinitis. What does the damage you see, look like? I also drink similarly to those you describe and really struggle to drink water.