"Oh, but I just love drinking water!" said all my high school friends ever. It felt like. Actually I'm only thinking of one specific person whom I really love and who really meant it when she said it, but I still hear it often enough that I feel ashamed, like I'm doing something wrong in feeling open animosity towards that one substance your body needs more of than anything else to, you know, survive.
Drinking water as your go-to beverage of choice is just a snooze-fest to me. I'm a sweet tooth. Almost anything else is more interesting.
But I know drinking the right amount of it will help keep me all properly flushed and stuff.... blah, blah, blah... and also help me lose weight so I've Just. Gotta. Do It.
Three 20-oz water bottles a day is the goal. (In addition to the vegetable juice I will probably consume for breakfast and dinner and also NOT counting any water I chug down as a replenishment after working out).
After a week and a half, I'm finding this one of the most annoying aspects of my challenge, and I'm seriously tempted to cut it back to two water bottles a day because I'm drinking a lot more unsweetened herbal tea than I was expecting and I never feel thirsty for a third bottle and it's making me have an even closer relationship with ye olde water closet than I already had (which was quite close enough for my tastes already, thank you very much).
I'll think about it. But I'll try to give "the three" at least three full weeks.
In the meantime, here's a dumb quirk to expound upon. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you....
(drumroll)
The SMART WATER bottle!!
Let the product endorsement begin. Isn't it smooth? Isn't it lovely? Doesn't it make you feel chic to drink from it? And isn't it nice how it doesn't crinkle loudly enough for the whole office floor to hear every time you pick it up? (Less obvious from just the sample photo).
The funny thing here is I'm not plugging the water (which... tastes like very lovely bottled water designed to make us feel better about our drinking choices, don't get me wrong) but I'm plugging the bottle. I really, really like the shape of the bottle. It is, for whatever reason, pleasing to me and I am more likely to drink dutifully if it comes in this bottle and say, an Evian bottle or a Dasani bottle.
I CANNOT EXPLAIN IT ANY BETTER. I AM JUST WEIRD THAT WAY.
So I buy two or three, drink and refill their contents until the bottles get so scuffed and gross I can't stand it any more, and then buy some more.
Also, my cats really love playing with the lids when I'm done with the bottles.
Water and I have had a turbulent relationship over the last few years. I rarely drank any of it until I went through some serious dehydration a number of years back. Then I started drinking the equivalent of at least 6 bottles of water a day (and that was the minimum!).
ReplyDeleteI don't really do that much anymore, even though it helped me feel better drastically. Because like you, I would much rather drink something that is a little sweeter. So I tried to find a healthy alternative. My sister-in-law introduced me to the Propel packets, which give the water a sweet taste, and add vitamins and antioxidants to the water with zero calories. I've been sticking with these for the most part for the last year or so (though I do tend to stick with straight up water when I'm doing an intense workout).