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09-17-2009, 08:41 AM
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Water intake and spacing it out during the day
Ive been talking with my wife about her water intake cause shes complaining shes retaining water. She claims shes drinking a gallon a day but the only time i ever see her drink water is a cup or 2 at the gym during our evening workout. So apparently shes drinking 3 litres of water at work (she works 5am to 10am) and then comes home and only drinks another 24oz or so for the whole rest of the day. We workout usually around 5pm too. Im trying to tell her shes still probably dehydrated for half the day (after the workout at 6pm till she gets up the next morning and gets to work and gets some water in her). Make sense?
I mean its not enough just to drink a gallon a day if you drink the majority at one time and just pee it out right? Needs to be spaced out.
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09-17-2009, 09:18 AM
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Yeah man. Hydration is a 24 hour thing. Its not just achieved in a few hours or whatever and intake needs to be steady, and she should be compensating for the workout with increased intake.
Water retention (esp in females) can be caused by a multitude of different things, obviously many more in females. Water intake is one part and may be her problem, but it could be something else. Tell her to keep her intake more steady. Tapering off is fine, but 24oz in a 19 hour period couldnt keep anyone hydrated.
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09-17-2009, 09:23 AM
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Trying to tell woman to drink water is like telling us not to take protein. I don't get it? Every day I tell me gf she doesn't drink enough water. It usually goes like this:
Wake up. "I have a headache" How much water did you drink? "I don't know, like a couple of glasses" Ok, you are dehydrated drink more water. "But I drank enough" OR Wake up "Ugh, my stomach hurts and I don't feel right" and then the same conversation continues. Dumb b!tches
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09-17-2009, 11:38 AM
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Mitch, you sure she isnt miscalculating when she says she is drinking 3 liters at work? Perhaps she is including water in coffee, juices, etc..?????
Because 3 liters is close to 3/4 of a gallon and it just seems mighty unlikely for a female to drink 3/4 of a gallon in only 5 hours of time.... I say this off the fact that I work from 7:30 to 4pm (8.5 hours) and I barely get down 3/4 of a gallon myself in this time and this is 3.5 hours longer than she is working.
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09-17-2009, 12:12 PM
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09-17-2009, 01:39 PM
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Thats more than I drank while in Basic Training, and they woudl even force us to down 1 liter canteens on top of our normal intake. I think I usually capped out at about 2-2.5 gallons some days. I'd be impressed if she really could take in that much without puking.
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09-17-2009, 03:07 PM
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I drink 3-4 gallons per day. Religiously.
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09-17-2009, 03:22 PM
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You must piss on the 8's huh? Meaning every 8 minutes and you are in there draining the Boyd lizard... 5:08, 5:18, 5:28, 5:38, 5:48, 5:58, 6:08, etc, etc And what about night time, you getting up to piss too or do you taper off the water intake in the last few hours?
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09-17-2009, 03:52 PM
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(BU-HUH)..LOL j/k I know you meant that for Boyd
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