Water vs soft drinks, tea

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When you are trying to keep yourself hydrated, you should not drink any

type of caffeine at all. Whether it be in tea or sodas, caffeine is a

diuretic. It makes you pee more, so you lose more water.

Also, some people react to the aspartame in diet drinks (I know I do, I

get migraines from anything with aspartame in it). Along with the

migraine comes muscle pain, I don't know if the migraine causes the

muscle pain, or the aspartame does, so I just don't drink or eat

anything " diet " .. period.

Try adding some orange juice to your water or grape juice to the water

to give it a different flavor. But plain water is the best thing for

you.

If you don't like water, try drinking it through a straw while it is

very very cold. Or from a water bottle with a sports cap (so you can

just squeeze it into your mouth).

So how do you know if you have drank the recommended number of ounces a

day?

Try putting eight to ten 8 ounce bottles of water in the 'fridge. When

they are all empty, you are done.

I refill my water bottles from the tap or sometimes buy a gallon jug of

water and refill them from that..

the main thing is .. these are YOUR water bottles!

Let everyone else in the household use their own water bottles or drink

water from a pitcher in the 'fridge.

By keeping YOUR bottles separate, you will know how much water you have

drank during the day.