How much water do you drink a day?

I have a 2 litre jug which gets half filled in a morning with water and ice and refreshed after my sleep. I now struggle to drink tea so only have one cup and maybe one coffee or a milky bedtime drink per day. Other than that I drink my water very happily and have found that it makes me feel better than drinking tea all day, digestive wise. Each to their own though.

Yea, so 5 glasses a day makes you healthy. Lol.

Thanks SueD I shall definitely put that on my shopping list!

Indinana, Bottle Green's elderflower cordial is widely available from supermarkets and local shops. I love it, especially with some sparkling water when I'm really thirsty.

Absolutely love it roses, and had forgotten all about this delicious cordial! We don't have a Waitress near us, but next time we pop down to Cornwall I'll make a point of visiting one there to buy some if I can't find it anywhere else.

Anyone like elderflower cordial? I buy this from Waitrose, and it makes for a very refreshing drink in Summer, lots of water and an icecube in it.You could even add a drop of gin ( nobody would notice!)

If a drink is sugar free make sure there is no aspartame in
google aspartame there are lots of information about it.
I wrote to the heath department about 2 years ago asking why they didn't use stevia which hasn't got the side effects aspartame has they replied aspartame has been tested and stevia hasn't.

Heckter for constipation have 1 magnesium oxide pill a day

I don't know how much water fluid I drink in a day and I don't care. I drink when I'm thirsty. It's very simple: we have this body that tells us when we're thirsty and hungry. Only very young, very old, or people with certain illnesses don't have this reliable system. Even animals who can't count have this system.

Just realised yulle above drinks 11.2 litres of water, putting us all to shame.

She must spend her days on the loo...

Not keen on water, but drink 3-4 cups tea/coffee throughout the day together with the odd diet fizzy drink.

A Berocca tablet added to a glass of water makes a palatable drink.

I never used to drink more than a glass of water a day but now I have found a system that works for me. In the morning I fill a jug with 11/2 litre of water and top up with 1/2 litre of either cranberry or grapefruit juice .....sugar free of course. That makes quite a nice drink. Add an ice cube and drink it through a straw......it will be gone in no time.

The world-renowned Mayo Clinic recommends drinking water with meals Heckter www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/digestion/faq-20058348

I always have water with my meals and never have indigestion. As you say, we are all different.

Everyone is different, and their fluid requirement is specific to them. As a fitness instructor we were told, once someone is thirsty, it is too late: you are dehydrated, so small quantities should be taken throughout the workout/day. Not a litre at a time, unless you have a health problem. Hydration is indicated by the colour of your urine: it should be a very pale straw, which it will be whether you drink tea, coffee, milk, juice, soup, salads, whatever.
If you drink fluids with your meal, I understood that it prevents efficient break down of the foods into its component parts. And a friend said that if she drank water, she couldn't eat as much. As she was eighty, and skinny, I felt that she should be drinking her fluids between her meals.
The problem with tap water is that it is chlorinated, and chlorine is toxic: for some people even in such tiny quantities, they could well be sensitive to that amount of chlorine.
Alcohol dehydrates more than caffeine. I used to only drink wine at weekends, and at weekends, guaranteed, I would get leg cramps at night. Cramp is an indication of dehydration. I thought that was pretty telling!
Dehydration becomes more of an issue as we age: we dessicate, which is why we are more likely to get cystitis. If you catch it early enough, and drink enough (boring!) water, you could possibly avoid taking anti-biotics. Another suggestion is to take a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate (an alkali)in a glass of water 2-3 times day - suggested by my GP. I avoided anti-biotics that time.
And I have been constipated for years, despite drinking at least three litres of liquid a day (4 mugs herb tea, and a minimum of 8 mugs weak tea with milk,) and a minimum of an hour and half hours of exercise per day. Our requirements are so individual.

Not enough. I work in the community and there are no public toilets in Wakefield. I have got to know the GP surgery's and supermarkets very well - no I am not shopping in my uniform I just need a wee !!!!!!!!

Following some major surgery I had to drink 6 litres a day, for a couple of weeks, that was a struggle, I had to drink 2 liters as soon as I woke before my stomach new what was coming. Thank goodness I had a drain in, so didn't have to get up for the loo.

The 2 litre rule was debunked last night on the BBC programme Healthy Foods - as others have already said on here the recommended amount per day is 1 litre, not 2.

I find plain water very hard to keep drinking. I like Aldi flavoured water , 4 bottles for under a pound, nil calories. You should drink 2 litres to keep healthy but hard to manage that amount.

According to the BBC (See thread healthy foods) 1 litre is plenty and it can be anything liquid. Milk is particularly good because it stays in the body longer

We"re lucky to have pure water from a borehole & it's no trouble for me to drink 2 litres a day. Apart from 2 cups of decaf coffee in the morning & the odd alcoholic beverage, it's all I do drink - everything else seems to have a lot of sugar. We rarely drink tap water when we're away & have to buy bottled water to get the taste we're used to from the tap at home

The necessity of drinking loads of plain water was debunked some time ago and this was endorsed in the experiments shown on a 'healthy foods' programme on BBC 1 last night. It's mainly marketing by the producers of bottled water that's been passed off as nutritional advice but is bunkum. Obv sweetened drinks and even fruit juice carry a sugar load but tea coffee and milk are all perfectly OK liquids.

Cranberries are acidic so if you "can't be doing with an acidic drink", cranberry juice does not seem the brightest suggestion from that nurse, quite apart from the sugar load.
Most fruit is acidic, but alkaline-forming in the body, which is why I thought cranberries would be good (I've got the reduced sugar version). Having now looked into this, though, it seems that cranberries are moderately acid-forming, while on the other hand lemons are actually highly alkaline-forming in the body. So perhaps I should return to my homemade lemonade. Oddly, though, since I switched from lemonade to cranberry juice, the soreness has virtually cleared up
Cranberries' chief claim to fame is their ability to prevent UTI's, because they 'contain proanthocyanidins, or PACs, which prevent bacteria — including E. coli, the bacteria responsible for up to 90 percent of urinary tract infections — from adhering to and infecting the urinary tract.' (getfit.jillianmichaels.com/cranberry-juice-acidic-alkaline-2061.html)

I'm sure I read somewhere that drinking too much water (not sure how much is too much) will deplete you of the water soluble vitamins

I drink lots of liquids throught the day but most importantly a mug of warm water with fresh lime or lemon first thing in the morning,then blended fruit juice and green tea at breakfast.Then warm water throught the day!

I find I need to drink more than I would normally do. I seem to have reached that age where I don't feel thirsty when I should. I try to drink 2 litres of water plus a couple of mugs of tea and coffee in a day. I don't like fizzy drinks including sparkling water, so tap water is fine. I have gall stones and drinking water seems to pre-empt an attack.