How much H2O do you drink daily?

How much water do you drink a day?

  • 8 twelve oz glasses or less

    Votes: 24 18.3%

  • 1 1/2 gallons

    Votes: 82 62.6%

  • more than 2 gallons a day

    Votes: 25 19.1%
  • Total voters
    131
Thaiclinch

Thaiclinch

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I generally drink 12 liters per day some times as high as 15 though, I almost feel like its too much sometimes but I cant stop drinking it lol.
How much do you drink a day?
 
On a normal day I put down between 3/4gallon and 1 1/4 gallons. On a hot ass day I would say as much as 2 depending on what I have to do at work. I am never really inside much so the temp. does have a large roll.:cheers:
 
Depends on what I'm doing. If it's a busy day at work, I won't be able to get as much, especially if I am doing something a little labor intensive which means I will be losing water as well. Most of the time I am at least at a gallon though, easily. Last night in the movie theatre I drank about 64 oz of water in a two hour period, easily lol.
 
I used to drink 1-1.5 gals per day but I've come to discover it was making me feel fatigued. Most days I keep it at about 3/4 to 1 gal unless it's very hot.

Poseidon helps either way.
 
I've been at about 2 gallons or more every day for the past 5 years. It's the only thing I drink except for coffee.
 
Thaiclinch said:
I generally drink 12 liters per day some times as high as 15 though, I almost feel like its too much sometimes but I cant stop drinking it lol.
How much do you drink a day?
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Are you sure. That is a **** load.

How do you Monitor your elecrolytes and body salts?

You can't stop drinking? Constant thirst is that not a sign of diabetes? Just a thought.
 
IainDaniel said:
Are you sure. That is a **** load.

How do you Monitor your elecrolytes and body salts?

You can't stop drinking? Constant thirst is that not a sign of diabetes? Just a thought.
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Yeah its a sign of Diabetes, but I am not diabetic, I think that I just run out of **** to do when I drive my truck so I drink H2O, I also cycle in a big gatorade to add electrolytes every 6 liters or so.
 
I prefer to stack my pedialyte with my gatorade and have 100cc intravenous injection of Saline solution stacked on 2 gallons of water.
 
I read somewhere that for every 100 grams of protein you need to drink a 1/2 gallon of protein......Anyone have any feedback on this?
 
Dr Packenwood said:
1 to 1.5 gallons per day, plus about 3-6 small cups of coffee, plus what ever I drink at the gym, plus at least one 8oz glass with dinner, and usually another before bed.

On rest days I don't drink as much, and when I'm supplementing with things that might raise my blood pressure I cut back a little.
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you cut back on water when you take things that raise your bloodpressure? why is that
 
Im thinking 1.5-2 gallons. sometimes I dont know I drink a lot of freaking water and dont really count. Tghats a guesstimate. The higher end of the scale.
 
I also take in more water on creatine days. I load creatine 30-40 grams three days strait than take four days off than repeat. Generally I try taking in a good amount of water. I guess it might be benifical to actually monitor and count water intake.
 
The body has many thirst regulation mechanisms - forcing a set amount of water in your body every day is just a dumb idea. Drink when you start to get thirsty, it knows when you need it.
 
fitnecise said:
The body has many thirst regulation mechanisms - forcing a set amount of water in your body every day is just a dumb idea. Drink when you start to get thirsty, it knows when you need it.
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Problem is the majority of the people don't know how to recognize this, and many acknowledge it as hunger.
 
Truthfully, I have no idea how much I take in, but it's definitely less on off days. I drink lots of milk with meals. At least 24oz with each whole-food meal. Usually about a gallon of milk ED. I tend to drink the water in between my meals. I'm guessing it's around 3/4-1.25 gallons.
 
smeton_yea said:
Thats a lot of water. I think Ill bump mine up. Might do some good. Im taking one-one and a half gallons maybe two.

There are very rare cases of people drownign there brain. i doint know how much water it takes to do this
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It's all about electrolyte balance. Too much water can dilute the solutes in your body leading to Hyponatremia if you're not replacing the sodium.
 
Thaiclinch said:
Interesting, is that a recognized formula to determine acurate H2O consumption??
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As far as a formula, I've always heard take your bodyweight and multiply that x .6 and drink that many ounces a day (ex. 200 lbs. x .6 = 120 ounces).

I don't do this, but as far as a formula, that's what I've heard.
 
take your body weight and / by 2.2 then X by 30. that will give you daily intake of fluid. and it will very on how much work,exercise,or the temp outside.
 
smeton_yea said:
I also take in more water on creatine days. I load creatine 30-40 grams three days strait than take four days off than repeat. Generally I try taking in a good amount of water. I guess it might be benifical to actually monitor and count water intake.
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how can you be "all natural" if you take creatine?
 
Right now about 6lt... I blame BA and my whole egg diet... And having water always visible (which motivates me to drink it)
 
1 gallon including the milk I drink but I only take creatine on workout days now. When I used to take it every day I was constantly thirsty and drank about half a gallon more.
 
I've got no idea about how much, in terms of gallons. But I'd say i drink between 2-2.5liters a day. Since i'm short (164cm) that's a pretty good effort!


i've heard of physique / fitness girls that drink 9 liters a day....crazy! It's a great way tho, drinking a lot of water, it helps with losing water weight.....yeah?
 
fitnecise said:
The body has many thirst regulation mechanisms - forcing a set amount of water in your body every day is just a dumb idea. Drink when you start to get thirsty, it knows when you need it.
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but the thirst suggests that your body is already dehydrated, you should anticipate your thirst and prevent it not react to it once it's already set in.

there's a fine line between forcing unneccessary amounts of water into your body and properly loading your body with enough h2o to last the day.
 
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