I often see diet advice articles that recommend people “increase your water intake to at least a liter a day” (for example). This surprises me, as I drink much more than that normally.
So how much water do you drink a day? Just water, not counting water taken in through fruit or soda/tea. For the purposes of my question, water flavored with fruit will count (water with lemon), but fruit juices will not.
Can you state your gender, age and normal intake?
female, 25, 4 liters a day typically
I rarely drink just pure water because I don’t like the taste. I’m more likely to drink it in a restaurant because they’ll have it iced up, nice and cold.
I’ll make tea or coffee, or drink a diet soda. I eat foods with a fair amount of moisture in them, too, including soup, fruit, and vegetables.
You don’t need to drink except when you feel thirsty, anyway, and caffeinated drinks aren’t dehydrating. The ‘8+ glasses a day or you’re dehydrated’ is a myth. If I drink when I’m not thirsty I pee it out within a very short period of time.
38, female.
Male 65
I have 4 bottles of 32 oz water in my refrig. I sometimes add lemon. I drink them all and replace them every day. I never drink water because I think I should.
I drink 5 cups of coffee a day too. Black coffee is good for you.
I haven’t paid much attention, but probably around a litre a day. I’ve just returned from the sweltering South, where I probably had 2l/day.
Female, 23, at least 2 liters a day, usually more. I rarely drink anything besides water.
Male, 23.
Very rarely will I drink water. Maybe if I am at work and I want to waste time or am inexplicably thirsty, and even then it’s a small glass.
I live on soda and milk.
I drink 4-5 glasses a day at work, with a further 2-3 at home. So I suppose about 2 litres per day.
Male, 45
I drink 16 oz most days unless I’m out in the heat for a long time.
Even then I usually add a little Da Vinci sugar-free syrup for a hint of flavor.
F/39
I was drinking betwen 3 liters to 4 liters of water a day till last week( for almost 2 months ). It was summer here in India and temparatures between 35 to 40 degrees C.
I probably drink a couple liters a day, depending on the temperature.
Does seltzer water count as water? (Bubbles, but no sweetener.) If so, I drink about 80-100 oz in a typical day (but I’m nursing currently - I think I was drinking closer to 60 oz before I got pregnant).
A lot of water. A 2-liter bottle on vacation leaves me thirsting for at least a second bottle. At home, I have very good, chilled, filtered water from my fridge, and I drink a lot. No problem with diabetes or anything, I’ve always drunk a lot of water.
Female, 26. I drink about 1 litre on a sedentary day, and 2-3 litres in Summer. On weight training or cardio days (usually 5x a week) I’ll drink another litre, and another 2 litres in Summer.
Male, 23
5-6 Litres a day along with 1-2 litres of (very weak) coffee and often .5-1litre of juice. That’s (estimatedly)averaged though. How much i drink varies wildly day to day.
I think I drink just under a liter on most days. All of my friends call me a camel. I’m just not thirsty as often, for some reason.
Male, 49.
Plain water? NONE.
I manage OK with my normal liquid intake but that’s hardly copious. A typical weekday involves a glass of orange juice when I get up, a mug of coffee when the canteen at work opens, a can of something fizzy (currently Coke Zero, but it varies) to wash down my sandwich at lunchtime, a similar something fizzy with whatever meal I eat when I get home and probably a cup of tea with my “supper”. And that’s my lot.
If I drank the sort of volumes other people have reported, I’d never be out of the bog…
I’m a great believer in plain ol’ water, but I have to admit I’m surprised by the volumes reported in this thread. I’m a guy and I go through 3/4 of a litre to 1.5 litres per day, I guess, with some juice in the morning and maybe a glass of something (milk, wine, beer, whatever) with supper and no soda or coffee. But three and four litres of water during a regular day? I go through that much when I’m on a fairly strenuous summer hike, though I take care not to drink just water on a hike.
39YO male. My sense of thirst is screwed up: when I’m short on moisture, I don’t get thirsty, I get hot. Actually start sweating a little bit, which exacerbates the need for rehydration.
I’ll wager I drink at least three liters a day. Nighttime sucks, as I seem to bounce between “overheating, must drink water” and “gotta pee now.” It’s extremely rare that I get through a night without having to get up at least once to drink water and/or pee; more often, it’s at least twice a night.
I was tested a few years ago for diabetes insipidus; whereas diabetes mellitus is the disease most people are familiar with (body has trouble managing sugar levels), DI is a condition in which the body has trouble managing water levels. In any event, I tested negative; they don’t know what my deal is. One of the tests was a 24-hour urine collection. They say “normal” is 1-2 liters of urine per 24 hours. I had to quit after 16 hours because I had filled up the 2-liter bottle they gave me.
Diuretics? I have a cup of coffee, sometimes two in the morning. Every couple of days I have a beer with dinner. But that’s about it, nothing too major.
Why just water? Water is everywhere, even in foods.
56, Male, about a pint a day of Just water.
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