"trebor4258" wrote in message
nk.net...

"B-D_" wrote in message ...
I don't see the point in "you must drink 8 glasses of *pure* water per
day" rule, because you can drink additionally any other lo-carb beverage
if you're at the end of the day meeting that 8 glasses requirement of
pure water.

So let's say I drink 8 glasses of water and in the meantime I drink two
glasses of strong tea. The stomach is one and only one, so all this
water and tea gets mixed up and at the end in there and it's the same
like drinking 10 glasses of strong tea mixed 2:8 with water creating
some sort of weak tea taste. Which still tastes better than pure water!

But drinking this mix is not correct, according to the "pure water" rule
followers...
They would say:
You *must* drink 8 glasses of pure water on top of those mixed glasses!

Absurd?

You be the judge... suggestions?

--
B-D_
Atkins since 11/24/03
199/191/165

Even the so called "experts" have backed off of this one in the past few
years. IIRC, they're counting all fluids now toward the "recommended
daily"
intake of water. Duh!

Not drinking plain old water was one of the last things that I held out on
in trying to embrace LC as a WOE instead of a diet. Never really liked
water in the first place, and had no plans to change. One of my remaining
hold outs is caffeine and I just "ain't givin' up" the coffee.

For most of the first year, I finished my morning pot of coffee then
usually
switched to diet sodas, tea, or some other flavored low-no calorie
beverage.
Invariably I'd get hungry around lunch time and did my best to stay LC and
it all worked. I did notice, however, when I grabbed a diet soda (Splenda
sweetened, aspartame sweetened, or even saccharine sweetened) I'd end up
hungry within an hour or so of finishing it.

Ran out of sodas one week and was too lazy and cheap to hit the grocery
without them being on sale, so after I finished my coffee that day, I
made
a big cup of ice water and sipped on it for the rest of the morning. I
really didn't even notice it at the time, but I didn't get nearly as
hungry
as I did when I was drinking the sodas.

Can't really explain it, but for me, even the "fake" sweetness of the
alternate drinks drives my hunger pangs and plain old water doesn't.

I still grab a soda now and then, but I'm not drinking as many of them as
I
used to and have probably doubled or tripled my "pure water" intake.

"Water? Never drink it... fish fu*k in it."
W.C. Fields