I don’t drink coffee or other hot drinks nor can I drink dairy products due to lactose intolerance, but I Looooove my iced tea and I have to have my one can per day of Diet Dr. Pepper. I actually do drink water, too, but seldom exclusively.
The only time I cut out everything but water was during my two pregnancies. It wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t easy either. One gets so dependent on that morning caffeine jolt. Decaff was allowed, but without the caffeine jolt, what really was the point of it?
It’s still a running family joke that the first thing I asked for after I gave birth was a glass of iced tea!
I drink mostly water. I’ve probably had, literally, a half a can of soda in my entire life. I really can’t stand carbonated drinks so soda doesn’t work for me. Probably good since I’m one of those people that if I liked it, I’d have 5 or 10 a day. When I like something, I tend to like it a lot.
I tried to like coffee, turns out I’m mildly allergic to it. Kept making my throat itch. Even drinking juices made from the coffee cherry (that taste nothing at all like coffee) did it to me as well. It’s not listed as a trigger (neither are some of the other things that do it to me), but the symptoms are the same as other Oral Allergy Syndrome symptoms (I’m mostly birch). So, no coffee for me. If I’m really dragging, I have caffeine pills.
I’ll sometimes drink V8 splash, but that’s it for juice.
Other than that it’s water, milk or chocolate milk, that’s really it.
Until about two years ago, I drank only Diet Coke, milk, or orange juice. That was it.
Then my kidneys crashed and those three beverages were not allowed anymore.
Now it’s a single can of Diet Canada Dry ginger ale in the morning and water for the rest of the day. I keep my water bottle filled with ice and tap water - I was drinking over a gallon a day, but have to decrease it now that I’m on dialysis.
I drink water, and go back and forth with how good I am about it.
I was SO good last year about drinking two 48-oz insulated glasses of ice water at work, every day. (The office has filtered water; I have a Brita filter.) I don’t like water unless it’s ice-cold.
This past winter, I was so cold that I got out of the habit. Ice water was about as attractive an idea as skinny-dipping.
At my best:
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[li]2 cups of coffee in the AM. [/li][li]Lunch, with a soda (either real Coke or diet Doctor Pepper). Don’t drink the whole thing. It’s really to take my lunchtime meds (I can’t take pills with water). [/li][li]Afternoon, the rest of the water. [/li][li]If I’m really sleepy, I’ll have a coffee or the rest of the soda around 2:30 for the caffeine. [/li][li]When I get home, a mocktail or two of cranberry-pom juice and diet lemon-lime soda.[/li][/ul]
I spent 30 years in Forida, where there are a lot of private wells. And the water coming out of them stinks of sulphur. It’s foul. Even municipal water is awful.
That’s why I didn’t drink much water until I moved to New England. I wouldn’t even use Florida’s well water to make ice cubes to put in soda – you can literally smell the sulphur over diet Coke. gags
I by no means limit my fluid to only water, but it’s by far the majority of what I drink. For a while, I drank mostly Mountain Dew. At least a liter a day. And then, one day, I decided to stop and I just switched to water for most things. Zero effort.
I used to be a fairly heavy coffee drinker as well as a moderate drinker of Diet Coke. I was away for the Easter long weekend and there was no Coke (diet or otherwise), so I just went without. When I got home I decided that, if I could go without for four days, I could give it up completely.
I now drink two cups of coffee a day (the last being no later than 3:00pm) and water. I’ve never been a drinker of alcohol, so if I go out to dinner I drink mineral water since it seems a bit more festive than tap water.
I can’t say I feel any healthier for reducing my coffee intake and eliminating Diet Coke but I’m certainly saving some money.
About 70% of my fluid intake is water, wholly unflavored because water should taste like water not chemicals and carbonation. The rest is milk and sometimes fruit juice (mostly 100% varieties). A few times a year I drink cocoa, soda, and alcohol, but never tea, beer, wine or coffee.
A few years out of high school I only drank water for two years, I had been drinking so much soda and shit previously that I quickly lost ten pounds, this was part of an overall weight loss plan I just made up for myself and I lost 60 pounds in 6 Months from 240 down to 180. I think not relying on daily caffeine combined with the weight loss really helped my natural energy levels as I had way more energy afterwards.
I’ve always been mostly a water drinker. A half-glass of orange juice and a cup of coffee in the morning, maybe an additional mug of tea at work if I’m really sleep-deprived. But other than that, plain tap water, preferably with lots of ice.
Sometimes I’ll have a glass of wine with dinner on the weekends, or a lemonade or herbal tea or something, but I almost never drink soda. I’ve basically just lost my taste for it - the older I get, the more I start reading labels and prefer not to ingest all those artificial additives. Sometimes I’ll have a natural root beer or ginger beer or iced tea or something, but basically never more than one.
I have a couple of cups of coffee in the morning but after that it’s water the rest of the day, with lunch, dinner etc… I not a big fan of sugared beverages at all, I just end up thirsty.
If I drink plain water I will throw it up faster than it goes down.
I have no idea why it happens
I thought I was weird until I found two other people like me.
Really? I almost always drink water at restaurants (unless it’s a nice dinner and I’m having some wine) and I’ve never thought to adjust the tip. Now I feel all guilty and stuff.
Up until about 7 years ago (I’m 24) I drank everything but water. Soda, tea, hot chocolate, juice. Now I pretty much only drink water. During the winter I switched from plain water to chamomile/green tea to keep warm because I don’t like warm/hot water on its own.
I switched mainly because I had gotten braces & the thought of drinking all that sugary stuff with braces on bothered me & made me feel like the sugar was sticking in between the brackets. I had braces for 3 years so water & nothing else became the usual for me.
I gotta say my skin has gotten better because of this. On occasion I get a craving for soda or something sugary & I have maybe one every two months or so. Generally the craving goes away.
I drink 90% filtered tap water, a cup or two of decaf coffee per day in the winter, or the same amount of carbonated lemon-lime or berry carbonated water (no sweetener). Occasionally iced tea. Maybe a can of Diet Coke per month that I usually regret (chemicals).
My problem is that at restaurants, I feel like such a cheapskate if I only have water to drink so I end up having something I don’t really want.
My diabetes doctor gave me a cap of 2 soda pops per day. So I switched to mostly ice water, which I found rather boring. But getting either Lime or Lemon juice concentrate, and putting a squirt into the ice water works for me.