2 days-Please a tip to drink more water!!

[ANDA40]

Hello again!!!

I finished and the 2 day and believe me I didn't cheat at all!!!
This is wonderful cause in other diets the second day I had already cheating.
I must say that I had a problem these days, cause I start and PMS too.
Usually I pain a lot in PMS and I have terrible headaches.
I was fight to drink more water, as I was read in a thread, butI was drinking only 7 glasses and in the end I took a Depon cause it was inpossible to stop the headaches.

In anyway I feel very proud cause I didn't stop the diet and I didn't cheat at all!!

Maybe someone to help me and to have some tip how to drink more water, specially in the start. A friend of mine said me to put a little salt in every glass but I don't know if this is right.
Usually I was drinking only 3 or 4 glasses a day!!!

Thank you again for your support

[Waterbabe_Helena]

Re: 2 days-Please a tip to drink more water!!

Dear ?
Have several rashers of smoked bacon for breakfast. That will make you thirsty!
Congrats on day 2. I have been exactly where you are and I'd never made it past day 1, either. I cannot beleive my eyes that I am now on day 35, and yet it is true. Once you get past two weeks this diet is so easy it is child's play.

If you go to USER CP (top of page) and click on signature you can add your stats to your posts (like what you see under my name) and add your location, age, starting weight and goal weight, and write "Day 2 cheat free". Each time you log in, you can change that number and it will help to keep you on track.
Helena (in the UK)

[ValidRouge]

Re: 2 days-Please a tip to drink more water!!

Just force yourself to drink a little more. Once your body gets used to getting water more frequently, it will actually start to crave more and more. Then you'll be trying to keep up with your body's demands for water.

[sadie147]

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Yup joy is right, if you keep drinking more, it will become a habit for your body. I found the replacing all my other drinks with water helped too, no more diet pop with meals etc. Now i would never think to drink a pop with my meals...water is such a habit.

You will also find as you get more into induction ketosis will make you thirsty, that will help you form that habit in the beginning too.

[abstractillusions]

Re: 2 days-Please a tip to drink more water!!

I always had problems getting my water in, there are a couple things i do:

1) fill a 2 liter bottle with water and drink from that that way when i know its gone i have 1 more to drink.

2) Before AND after i go to the bathroom i take 5-10 long gulps of water each time. Believe me lol in the beginning this really gets a lot drunk

3) Whenever i get up from my desk no matter what the reason, i grab my water bottle and drink until i am back at my desk or if i am going to see someone i drink 5 long gulps before i go in and see them and 5 when i get back to my desk

4) If someone stops at my desk to talk or ask a question etc, i reach for the water bottle.

5) i take a 33 ozer in the car with me and try and drink one on the way to work and one on the way home (1.e i have a 30-40 ride each way).

6) Drink 10 long drinks before you eat ANYTHING!!

i always leave the water bottle where i can see it. I use the 2 liter as a guide, i drink to of them a day. I try and get 1 1/2 of the 2 done before i get home from work.

Hope it helps, in the beginning it will be a conscious effort but as time goes on it just becomes habit. And the more water you are drinking and less of the other stuff, the more thirsty you will actually feel and will drink what you need to automatically.

Good luck.

[Waterbabe_Helena]

Re: 2 days-Please a tip to drink more water!!

I cannot cope with 2 litre bottles, too unwieldy. I like 1.5. litres, which is 2 1/4 pints.

This is what I do:

Buy 2 x 1.5 litre bottles of water and 2 x 1/2 litre bottles, fizzy or flat.

Drink the water and keep the bottles.

Each morning, fill up these 4 bottles, and put them where you work. If you dislike drinking from bottles keep refilling a pint glass till 2 litres are gone.

Always carry a sports bottle of 1/2 litre with you everywhere and keep sipping from it.

Put the other 1/2 a litre bottle by your bed. Drink half when you get into bed and half when you wake up.

Gradually increase intake, for example drink 1/2 litre before sleep and 1/2 after.

[ANDA40]

Re: 2 days-Please a tip to drink more water!!

Thank you so much for your help!!!
Really I had dissapointed cause I believed that I will never manage to drink my water. I will try the tip with botle cause is so nice for me. I working all day front of my pc so sometimes I forgot to drink my water.
I did another nice change for me today. I cut off the cofee at all and I start to drink two cups of tea all day.
So no problem with aspartame and milk.
I really tea help me very much more that decaf cofee and I haven't problem to drink without sugar, aspartame and milk.

My best wishes to all of you.

P.S. Helena your help with signature is so useful. I did my signature very easy. Thank you so much!!!

[Waterbabe_Helena]

Re: 2 days-Please a tip to drink more water!!

I work in front of a PC all day, too. Put a big glass on your desk in front of you, and your bottles under the desk. Keep looking at the glass and drink, drink, drink all day!

EASY!

[abstractillusions]

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i have a 33 ozer sitting on my desk lol but i use the 2 liter to fill it, i don't put the 2 liter on my desk lol Sorry if that was unclear. This way i only have one bottle to fill twice in a day instead of carrying around a lot of bottles or forgetting about nurmerous bottles someplace or remembering bottles or how many i have left if i leave or whatever. I keep the 2liter under my desk, its room temperature but i don't care for ice cold water and i drink more this way.

I know what its like to get lost in your work, you would always bring a little oven timer with you that dings once or something or is quiet and set the alarm for every 15 minutes or 1/2 hours to drink something. Or set your calendar appts on your computer to pop up to remind you and set the snooze for 15 minutes or 20 and keep hitting snooze everytime you drink. You won't need this forever just until you are in a habit maybe a month or so. You will figure it out.

[soappedaler]

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Here's my tip. I work at home so I keep a 16 oz. glass by the sink First thing in the morning I drink a glass. Everytime I go to the bathroom I drink another glass of water. When I think about it drink another glass. When I leave the house I always have at least one 16 oz. bottle of water in the car. I drink and drive. A drink a glass of water before I go to bed too. First thing in the morning and last thing at night are now a rigid habit.

My husband does this. He has 8 matches on top of the microwave evertime he drinks a glass of water he puts one of the matches in a shot glass. That way he knows he's had at least that much during the day. I need to get him some thing more decrotive than matches to keep track.

[cleochatra]

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I like to add oil of oregano drops (one per about every 8 ounces). Not only does it add a fun flavor to the water, but it also acts as a fungicide, which is one of the things Dr A mentions in his book is good for you generally.

I'd start out at a low amount. It's pretty pungent, but it adds zip to your dihydrogen oxide!

[ANDA40]

Re: 2 days-Please a tip to drink more water!!

I didn't know this about origano oil!!! I have read the book but maybe I didn't mention it. I will try it, I like me oregan, I use to put them in all roast meats!!!

Again thank you all for your help!!!
I was try to upload a picture of me now, but maybe I did something wrong and isn't working.
At last I put a photo of me in my profile!!!

P.S. Cleo the different for your past is magnificant!!! You inspire all of us!! Congratulation thouasand times!!!

[abstractillusions]

Re: 2 days-Please a tip to drink more water!!

Does he have a favorite sport? lol You can get miniatures of the ball it uses or tool the sport uses. Most guys i know LOVED marbles and played marbles as kids, maybe get him a whole bunch of marbles.

grins or iffn you wanna get intimate lol you can buy lil woman's lips and for every one he has in there at the end of the day, he gets a kiss lol. Play a game that he gets a kiss you get to choose where etc..... Or some fun stuff like that for both of you, and you can do the same with yours that you have to drink.

[cleochatra]

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ANDA-- You are absolutely stunning! Thank you for sharing a picture! You can put it into your signature line in much the same way you did in your profile, and it will be seen with each post.

Thank you for the very generous compliment! You are so sweet! {{{ANDA}}} Welcome to ADBB!

[addicted2carbs]

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Tried and true: Drink with a straw, it will go so much faster! It's a pretty lazy way, but hey, whatever it takes right?