Just Add Water
:: Insert head-smack here ::
I know how to do this, really, I’ve done it before. How could I forget the drinking water part?
To be perfectly honest I’m not much of a beverage girl. We have coffee in the morning, but if Jeremy didn’t want it I wouldn’t make it. As a kid I had milk or water with meals, but now I don’t. I don’t crave milk, juice or soda. I drink diet soda instead of grabbing a handful of cookies. And I often forget about water altogether. One of the things I often forgot in the first weeks of working out at the gym was my water bottle. After paying over $1 a bottle for water whenever that happened I quickly caught on to remembering my Sigg bottle. At home I rarely have a glass of water. At the nanny family’s house I’m more apt to keep a cup of ice water around (not sure why it’s easier there).
I do know however that in order to get the pounds off the scale (and my thighs) I’ve got to drink a decent to significant amount of water. For me the important time is after dinner. I usually want to munch something while hanging out in front of the TV. If I drink 2-3 glasses of water between 8-11pm I see a difference on the scale. No lie. This of course is in addition to working out and tracking my calories.
It makes sense, it’s just something I tend to forget. So I’m here to remind you, just add water. 
March 31st, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Really?? I don’t think much about water, although I’m fairly sure I don’t drink enough of it. I drink coffee, water, and a diet soda (once in a while) but have never paid attention to it. I had no idea it was connected to weight loss; if anything I would have guessed that it would *add* pounds to the scale — the water poundage sitting in my belly/bladder!
Learn something every day… (She says, going to get a glass of water)