Im realizing that I’ve actually been chronically dehydrated for a good portion of my adult life and I’m looking to change that. I just don’t enjoy drinking water (as silly as that may sound).
Any advice is appreciated.
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is this a “how to eat an elephant” type of question? (one bite at a time)
Start by adding some flavour, like slices of lemon or orange. In time you’ll start to like how hydrated you are. Just don’t put sugar into it.
cucumber is great for this
career change to a warehouse. you’ll go through like 20 bottles a day
Walter with lemon or lime taste and lots of sizzle
Electrolytes
Add flavoring, like ginger + citrus, melisse, tea. Some teas also can make you more thirsty.
Get the flavor packets, don’t let people shame you for it either! Just get fucking hydrated!
My wife also hates drinking water. I then bought a soda stream and her consumption increased 5X. No flavoring. Just water.
I have since bought an external soda bottle to reduce cost.
I hate having to deal with the canisters but the spicy water definitely makes my partner and I both happier (no syrups/sugars) as well. I got my sodastream used for around $25 so the most expensive part for me were the canisters.
I’d love to one day hook it up to a bigger CO2 tank but I need a place with a bigger kitchen first
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It helped me a great deal to get a hydration backpack usually intended for sports. I dont even leave the pc a lot but its 3L of water storage that can be consumed while having both hands free (except start&end for like 3 seconds). It needs a bit of getting used to drinking out of a mouth piece but else its the most convinient way of drinking water
I had this exact conversation with an (online) coworker. I will just drink feel compelled to cups of water, sometimes multiple in a row, and feel refreshed. They don’t exactly taste good but we’re wired to find it pleasant.
My coworker said he had to basically remember to drink water. When he’s exercising it’s more instinctual.
Well I was shocked the first time I actually met this coworker, at the Dubai office where he works from. The water there felt wrong! Apparently I was having good tasting water my whole life. I was kind of dehydrated the entire trip. Literally all the water there didn’t feel refreshing, honestly. It comes out of desalination factories, I get it, it’s still water, but it’s something to think about. I’ve appreciated my delicious Lebanese mineral water a lot more since then.
I hope this doesn’t sound out of touch, I understand most people in many countries can just drink tap water safely, and bottled is seen as a luxury and not a cheap necessity like it is here. But maybe try changing the water? All the answers here feel blasphemous to me. Cucumbers? Flavors?
Water tastes better with a few grains of salt or a slice of lemon in it (it’s got what plants crave)
Tap water? If so, try filtered water, get a good, credible filter and filter the water. Depending on where you live there’s a fair amount of materials in the water that make it unpleasant.
Try adding more water to dishes you eat, have soup and put in a couple ice cubes and drink all the broth.
There’s various ways to flavour water to make it more enjoyable. Common ones are listed by Witchfire, but there’s also commercial products that may help. Just try to avoid the ones with caffeine in them.
Really, you have to probably train yourself to enjoy water. Have a piece of chocolate or something with water. Associate it with positive acts. Pavlov yourself.
Literally whatever helps you. If drinking a bottle of coke zero every day makes you stay hydrated, it’s a healthy choice.
Personally I bought an insulated flask that I carry around everywhere cause I can’t stand room temp water. Just takes a while to find a good flask that’s easy to clean and won’t accumulate mold as much.Get your doctor to prescribe it and/or treat it like medicine and take your prescribed “dose” on a schedule.
