Do you drink water?

Charlie_Alumni
Charlie_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 264 Empowering
in Coffee lounge

I have been trying to up my fluid intake and I was discussing this with a friend who recalled an article claiming that "one in three people go without drinking any water at all throughout the day".

I was surprised by the stat, do people not get thirsty?

So, do you drink water? If not, what do you drink instead?

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  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 10,798 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    We're all terrible for not drinking water in this house. So much so we bought a small whiteboard, so we could track our glasses of water throughout the day.
    We're definitely a lot more hydrated now, mainly because my sister is super competitive and now has to drink more water than me. 😆

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,923 Championing

    I only drink water. Still not as much as I should though!

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,653 Championing

    Drink plenty of water in tea and a bit of hma filtered water from the garden hose

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 2,968 Championing

    Just lime in water count

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 3,012 Championing

    Never drink the stuff, just in tea and coffee.

  • Jacsta
    Jacsta Online Community Member Posts: 28 Connected

    I go through phases of what I like to drink but I know overall I haven't been drinking enough.

    Im currently under tier 3 weight management and my first focus is to drink more so that 2L target a day is a thing I'm now trying to do. It's the constant needing a wee that annoys me as my kidneys adapt XD

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 13,861 Championing

    My brother bought me this water bottle to encourage me to drink more water.

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  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 3,012 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1049585#Comment_1049585

    I would be never off the throne if I drank 2 of water a day!

  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Online Community Member Posts: 220 Empowering

    35 years ago the spinal injuries unit suggested I drink 3 litres a day. I usually drink more than that.

    I always have four of the cordials I like available to add some flavour.

    I've had one bladder infection in my time as a wheelchair user, I caught that in a hospital. I'm confident my fluid intake helps with that.

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,004 Trailblazing

    I never used to drink plain water, always had some flavoured cordial in it. Now, I only drink water, apart from two coffees in the evening.

    Ironically, in the night & today, I've been very weird (more than usual) & not altogether with it, odd dizziness, stumbly, thirsty, crampy, sweating, headache, could fall asleep on a razor blade & been sick, then realised I've had heat exhaustion, even though I've upped my water levels. Thankfully only have the headache left, so will be upping my water intake again. Had to today, as all I puked up was water!! 🤣

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 3,012 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1049814#Comment_1049814

    That's a shame, JJ, it must be more important than ever down south, water drinking that is. I seem to be fine with limited fluid intake.

    I would need a catheter and a bag on a stand otherwise!

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,004 Trailblazing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1049839#Comment_1049839

    It has been with the hot spells we've been enjoying, no catheter needed either. Hardly pee'd really & that's with constantly filling my water bottle.

    You've had some heat up there, so, amazed you've gone through fine, @Ranald, made off tougher stuff, eh? 😁

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 3,012 Championing
    edited July 18
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1049969#Comment_1049969

    My youngest said it was 30C at TRNSMT the other weekend, but the hottest my part of Angus has been is 23C.

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,160 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1050042#Comment_1050042

    Ohh you're a proper north of Yorkshire northerner!!!

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 901 Championing

    I've had an aversion to water ever since my forestry contractor days. Drinking lovely sparkling stream water … very refreshing

    … until I went 30 yards up stream and saw the dead sheep swimming 🤑

  • Jacsta
    Jacsta Online Community Member Posts: 28 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1049689#Comment_1049689

    After a couple weeks the kidneys calm down lol

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 3,012 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1050069#Comment_1050069

    Different country into the bargain! At a more northerly latitude than Moscow apparently, lol.

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 3,012 Championing
    edited July 18

    @WelshBlue No dead sheep in Tennent's Lager, just so you know!

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 901 Championing

    @Ranald … been years since I've had one of them 🤩

    Tennent's Extra … I've made a couple of wrong choices after that stuff

    The only legacy my father left me was his alcoholism. I'm a strictly zero person now.

    Madri zero … that is lovely. The day they make a Newcastle Brown Ale zero I'll do roly poly's down the supermarket aisle. I won't be able to get up again but hey

    Awful thought … not doing that in case someone gives me water 😝

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