Your daily water and beverage intake

ARCADIA · Post by **ARCADIA** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:29 am

Just curious, trying to know if I'm normal or not

I don't drink alcohol at all, but often feel excessive thirst so I gulp (water, soda and other sweet beverages) like crazy and piss a lot. I may have a small bladder...but can't stop drinking.

PainAmplifier · Post by **PainAmplifier** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:39 am

ARCADIA wrote:Just curious, trying to know if I'm normal or not

I don't drink alcohol at all, but often feel excessive thirst so I gulp (water, soda and other sweet beverages) like crazy and piss a lot. I may have a small bladder...but can't stop drinking.

Might want to see a doctor to make sure, those are supposed to be 'classic' signs of diabetes.

http://diabetes.about.com/od/symptomsdi ... mptoms.htm

It's not a 'sure sign', but I think it would be a good indication that you shouldn't ignore things either.

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:46 am

definitely see a doctor about it. I drink a lot im hardly ever without a drink in my hand. I am not dibetic but it was nice to get it checked out never bee too careful.

TLDragoon · Post by **TLDragoon** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:00 am

Yeah, definitely get it checked. Even if it isn't anything, at least you'd know, plus preventive action will save you a lot in the long run.

Daedalus · Post by **Daedalus** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:29 am

Could also have something to do with your intake. Soda is high in salt and caffeine, both which increase urination and dehydration if you drink a lot of it.

I drink mostly unsweetened tea. I'll have a diet soda or something every once in a while, but too much sweet stuff makes me sick.

jp · Post by jp » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:29 am

I drink a lot. But I'm like, 6'6". So... I think I'm supposed to drink a lot.

Mainly drink skim milk, orange juice, water, and sometimes sweet tea. No sodas for like, years now.

jormungand · Post by **jormungand** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:45 am

I drink a ton of water and lemonade, and occasionally a soda here and there. After having two surgeries for kidney stones I make it a point to drink constantly. I piss all the time, but 99% of the time it's crystal clear.

orange · Post by **orange** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:54 am

i have a water filter and drink water constantly

water is amazing

ARCADIA · Post by **ARCADIA** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:09 am

I've been having lots of soda (but choose diet usually) for like 3 years, guess better switch to drink water only. thanx for that link btw

themachinist · Post by **themachinist** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:49 am

Milk during breakfast, water any time after that. I love water. I chug a cup of water at regular intervals during the day. And man, I know what you mean about having to pee alot. I feel all liquids I drink run through my body after like 1.5 hrs and i have to pee again.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:55 am

if it wasent for the fact that i turn into a cranky bitch without my morning tea i could proboably go all day without a drop of anything... im not a heavy drinker at all, i hardly ever drink anything with my meals for instance..

ed: i proboably drank a full size olympic swimmingpool of alcohol in my days tho but thats another issue.. and its hardly every day.

Plasmo · Post by **Plasmo** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:26 am

I drink more alcohol than water most of the time. I'm 182cm and german

junkeR · Post by **junkeR** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:05 pm

I drink throughout the day but not a ton.

The two things I do not ever want:
- Diabetes
- Kidney Stones

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:54 pm

Coffee
Milk
Water
Beer
Wine

(pretty much in that order across the course of the day.)

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:02 pm

Plasmo wrote:I drink more alcohol than water most of the time. I'm 182cm and german

I get thirsty rather quick so i drink a lot, but i can't stand water.
It's just meh. It doesn't have any noticeable taste.
so i drink a lot of instant tea. that's not exactly healthy or good for my *cough* athletic body, but i just can't get used to drink plain, boring water ^^

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:06 pm

I have about 4-5 glasses of milk a day. Sometimes an energy drink.

I don't really drink water, and don't plan on doing so, but at least my current drinking habits beat constantly sucking away on coke.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:13 pm

Plasmo wrote:I drink more alcohol than water most of the time. I'm 182cm and german

I love you Plasmo.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:16 pm

i only drink alcohol if i'm out socialising, so my daily intake is probably:
3-4 cups of tea/coffee
1 litre of regular coke
1 glass of grapefruit juice

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:22 pm

http://diabetes.about.com/od/symptomsdi ... mptoms.htm

I had those weakness problems with my hands and feets some weeks ago, it luckily vanished after a week (never occured before/after)
Also i often felt bad whenever i was eating something sweet like chocolate etc,
Though i suppose i kinda rather have another problem with my stomach, which is not less annoying of course

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:47 pm

I stick to water and beer, usually a few glasses of water and between 1 and 4 beers a day depending on how strong the beer is. If I go out to eat and I can't get a beer, I'll get unsweetened iced tea. Once in a long while I'll drink lemonade.

orange wrote: water is amazing

It sure is. Having grown up in a house with a well, all municipal water tastes like shit to me. Filters are the next best thing.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:53 pm

if taking a work day for example:

-starting out wit a large cup of coffee.
-first break: getting a 1,5 ltr bottle of either diet coke or diet orange soda (drinking about half of it)
-between first break and lunch break: finishing of the bottle
-lunch break: buying a second bottle and drink some + always some freshly made coffee too.
-finishing of second bottle in the afternoon.
-when home from work: CC cranberry and some beers at the rest of the evening.

On days off: mostly CC cranberry and beer.

I've been told I drink a lot (both alcoholic and non alcoholic for that matter).

honorless · Post by **honorless** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:11 pm

Jockel wrote:i can't stand water.

...But I force myself to drink it anyway (at work) because otherwise I get hungry and start raiding the snack machines.

Lots of ice helps.

Other than that, not-from-concentrate apple juice fucking rules. Actually, any juice is pretty good as long as it's not from concentrate.

KindGrind · Post by **KindGrind** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:40 pm

I only drink coffee (6-7 cups a day), milk and water. Always hated the taste of sodas... and juice doesn't do it for me (too damn sweet!).

As pretty much everyone else said, go get yourself checked. Just in case...

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:06 pm

I drink water and coffee, nothing else.
Coffee to get awake in the morning.
And water to drain out all of the toxics I (voluntarily) get in through a day

Violent Ken · Post by **Violent Ken** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:30 pm

Drinking only 40% of a whisky bottle...I just take the alcohol...

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:55 pm

I have several plastic bottles ready to be filled with nice tap water lying around in my room at any time. Thankfully the tap water in our region is very good. I tend to get headaches pretty quickly if I don´t drink enough.

Other than that, I really love Redbush/Rooibos (which is surprisingly cheap in certain stores) and recently I discovered decaffinated black tea - I stopped my caffeine intake a year ago completely, and it´s nice to be able to drink pot after pot of this without getting cold sweat or having to stay up for a week.

And @Arcadia, I have a friend that described that excessive thirst and he got diagnosed with diabetes shorty after (his father is a doctor so he quickly saw what that was about). Good luck

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:59 pm

I fill my huge Sigg water bottle with filtered water several times a day. I think I usually meet the recommended 8 glasses of water a day. I also have approx. 2 alcohol drinks a day. Red wine and martinis (gin + vermouth) mostly, though I occasionally drink whisky or vodka. I try to avoid sodas and don't drink as much juice as I should. I no longer drink cow's milk, only soy milk.

Now you know way more than you wanted about my drinking habits.

Leandro · Post by **Leandro** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:32 pm

Lots of water when I exercise, otherwise not so much because I pee all of it, I wonder if it's normal

And Cachaça occasionally

SamIAm · Post by **SamIAm** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:08 pm

I've noticed that once you get used to drinking the amount of water that you're supposed to get - which is apparently about 2 liters a day - you start feeling really shitty if you don't have that much.

Personally, I get this weird side effect where I will start sneezing a lot if I am dehydrated. I guess my big nose is the first thing to get declined water when my body is short.

Triple Lei · Post by **Triple Lei** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:39 pm

No alcohol, rarely soda. I have a glass of orange juice in the morning and milk only from bowls of cereal. I have my SIGG bottle (1.0 L) for water for the rest of the day.

Been meaning to drink more tea, though...

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