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AIBU?

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to not drink water?

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sugagi · 17/08/2020 16:07

i literally don't drink plain water. i drink a can of coke zero with my lunch and another with my dinner, i try to drink green tea with my breakfast but.. this almost never happens and i give in and have an iced coffee/milk tea (cold, milky tea), it's really bad, i get headaches but i can't bring myself to drink water.

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LynetteScavo · 19/08/2020 08:14

YABU.

Just stick a straw in and drink some water.

Or stay dehydrated, if you prefer. Aren't you slightly overweight and constipated?

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sugagi · 19/08/2020 08:28

@LynetteScavo don't you think i've tried?

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speakout · 19/08/2020 08:31

sugagi

What happens why you try? Are you anxious? Do you throw up?

vanillandhoney · 19/08/2020 08:33

@LynetteScavo

YABU.

Just stick a straw in and drink some water.

Or stay dehydrated, if you prefer. Aren't you slightly overweight and constipated?

Why would not drinking plain water make you overweight or constipated?

There are plenty of other drinks out there that can hydrate you, as well as plenty of food options.

It isn't "water or die".

LynetteScavo · 19/08/2020 10:15

It's obviously not water or die - or the OP wouldn't be here! I got very dehydrated as a child- my tongue went peculiar. I was allowed to drink anything I wanted after that. At home I would drink tap water but but I wouldn't drink water from any other tap. I'm If we went on holiday I was allowed to drink fizzy grapefruit juice or fizzy cherry aid, much to the horror of my parents relatives and friends (my siblings weren't even given squash at home). I grew up in a time where taking a water bottle to school or sports wasn't a thing. We got a glass of water with our school lunch and that was it. We survived. These days I drink fizzy water or water from my own house tap. I wouldn't want to drink tap water from anywhere but would if bottled water wasn't available. I appreciate I'm very spoiled. I have been known to dissolve a Berrocca to help strange tap water go down. Funnily enough I've never had an issue with drinking alcohol I do drink lots and lots of herbal tea these days, and definitely feel better if I'm hydrated and have had at least a litre of water or herbal tea on top of my morning black coffee.

I still think the OP is BU, and should down some more liquid.

spacemonkeyhat · 19/08/2020 10:30

I drink plain hot water (not in the heatwave!) in a mug as I don't really drink plain water and I hate the taste of synthetic flavours in squash etc.
It helps cut down the number of cups of (decaf) tea I drink too.

I don't drink very much compared to some people, if I drink that same as others I spend 1/2 my day running to the loo!
If I didn't have the worlds smallest bladder I would drink more, but it's not worth it to be constantly needing the loo and it would mean I couldn't go out much as I would always need to have access to a toilet.

Baaaahhhhh · 19/08/2020 10:45

You only need so much water though. IME people who drink a lot of water, DH for example, just pee all day, that's what the body does, regulates it's requirements. I only drink plain water if it is very hot, or when I come back from a long walk. OP I am not in the habit of drinking loads of water either. I have mostly weak black tea and coffee. I don't like fizzy canned drinks, or anything too sweet. If I am really thirsty I will have a splash of cordial with water.

LeSquigh · 19/08/2020 10:59

I also don’t remember people drinking water as a drink of choice when I was growing up. I didn’t think this was a thing until bottled water was a regular thing.

I was never a big drinker but do now have a 1.5 litre bottle on my desk and try and drink that throughout the working day if I’m at work. At home I drink squash (and a few fizzy drinks a week).

I do think your body just gets used to what you have. Certainly when I started drinking more fluids I was going to the toilet constantly and it was a right pain in the arse. Even now if I know I won’t be able to access a toilet easily for a couple of hours I just don’t drink.

OneTC · 19/08/2020 11:06

How many of the water guzzlers have completely clear urine?

I reckon we're looking at the first generation that routinely overhydrate themselves and maybe in 20-30 years we'll think that rinsing your system of minerals and nutrients was a shit idea, but I dunno

LioneIRichTea · 19/08/2020 11:11

Water guzzlers

Baaaahhhhh · 19/08/2020 11:11

Gosh yes.... when I was growing up, we had a cup of juice with breakfast, a mid morning, usually warm, mini bottle of milk (yum), a cup of water with lunch, probably some sort of squash when you got home, and another cup of water with dinner, and we ran around all day!

Yeahnahmum · 19/08/2020 11:13

I never get thirsty not even after finishing a gym session and a sauna . Or it even after eating a bag of crisps

So i tend to go somedays without any water at all. It is always a struggle to get fluids in me because it i basically have to force myself.( Imagine it is like being made to eat when you are not hungry )

So it is a daily battle. Ever since childhood. Never had thirst then either. Weird isnt it . And unhealthy. Wish i could be thirsty 😊 then drinking a beverage became a fun exercise

EBearhug · 19/08/2020 11:41

I drink mostly water because I don't like tea or coffee. I will occasionally drink fruit teas or mint tea when it's icy cold outside. I used to drink fruit juice, but they're quite high in sugar. There's a wide range of cordials these days (also usually sugary), not just basic squash. I do occasionally have a diet Coke, but I'm not that keen on the fizz - I'd rather have still water than sparkling. I haven't tried the cold tea infusions, but have a friend who's very keen on them.

These days there are far more options of things to drink besides tea, coffee, squash or fizz than there were in my childhood, and I am not thought of as quite so weird for not wanting tea or coffee. If it were me I would just experiment a bit with different juices, cordials, infusions and so on, to find something I liked. (Though if it were actually me, I am quite happy with a pint of water out of the tap.)

It's mostly being phosphoric acid which means Coke will clean coins, not the aspartame (not that that's a great thing in quantities.) You can also put coins in vinegar, or tomato sauce, or brown sauce, to clean them.

Bwlch · 19/08/2020 11:46

My husband uses citric acid (as in fruit juice) to clean heavily rusted metal.

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sugagi · 19/08/2020 12:02

ashamed to say i'm drinking a big glass of no added sugar cloudy lemonade right now i did have a strawberry milkshake (literally mashed strawberries with milk in a glass, not the sugary bottled stuff) for breakfast (with banana chips), and ill probably have my usual coke zero with lunch and dinner i tried drinking some water earlier, managed to force back about half a glass, but couldn't manage more than that

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OneTC · 19/08/2020 12:15

One thing I find interesting in discussion of water is that people are perfectly prepared to accept that people of different height/weight etc have different requirements when it comes to calorific intake but seem certain that everyone should have a one size fits all approach to hydration

So no questions about the op height, weight or activity level as there would be with someone asking a food question but a load of people willing to give definitive answers as to correct levels of intake

GrolliffetheDragon · 19/08/2020 12:21

It’s hard to imagine not liking water for most people as it sounds like not liking oxygen or something.

I used to drink water. Then I got pregnant, had severe sickness and water was the absolute worst for triggering it. Can't easily drink water now, so I usually don't.

Marahute · 19/08/2020 12:23

Lord that level of daily fluid intake (note, not water - fluid!) makes me feel a bit poorly (not to mention thirsty) to be honest. (not envy)

Although that said, we're all different and I'm not sure why other posters are getting quite so worked up about it. The OP is a grown adult and can make her own life choices at the end of the day.

OP if you don't like water or squash, then just stick to fluids that you can tolerate and if you can up your intake of high-fluid foods too then that will do you no harm either.

Although I do think that drinking regularly is often a matter of creating the good habit. I'd start taking a drink out with me if I was you - regular small sips throughout the day isn't as hard to achieve, as trying to down a whole glass of something (particularly something you don't like) in a short space of time.

I drink a lot of caffeinated drinks (my toddler is an awful sleeper) but also sip on water or squash throughout the day. I definitely feel the effect if I'm particularly busy and forget to drink as much as normal. I do wee fairly often (although not an abnormal amount) throughout the day, but to be honest that's just a normal bodily function so I don't begrudge it.

Throckmorton · 19/08/2020 13:11

ashamed to say i'm drinking a big glass of no added sugar cloudy lemonade right now

Why are you ashamed @sugagi, it's liquid and it hydrates. If you like cloudy lemonade, have at it and enjoy! I reckon I get most of my liquid intake from decaff tea :)

musicaljojo · 06/09/2020 09:16

Have you tried squash, flavoured water or those new cold infusion tea bags?
If you are getting lots of headaches then your body is crying out for more hydration.

SimonJT · 06/09/2020 09:22

The general rule is a litre per 25kg of body weight on a day that isn’t hot/doesn’t include exercise.

So for me that would be four litres, most of my drinks are just water, the rest are beer. I have type one diabetes so only want to be monitoring sugars for a drink I really like.

There isn’t a huge problem getting your fluids from lemonade etc, but the worry wouldn’t be hydration, it would be the impact on your blood sugars and your teeth/gums.

VenusClapTrap · 06/09/2020 10:06

nobody walked around with a water bottle when I was a kid. People had a drink with each meal, maybe a mid morning cuppa, plus something if they did sport. But that was it. People weren’t dropping like flies or pebble dashing their surroundings with kidney stones.

I found the Atlantic article linked to earlier in the thread very interesting; I’m not at all surprised that the 2l of water a day propaganda came from bottled water companies like Danone.

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