Am I the only person on earth who thinks it is a ridiculous task to drink 8 cups of water every day? I have tried this for the past week and I just cannot do it!
First of all, it is possibly the most time-consuming part of this diet. Not only do you have to stop and take a swig of water every 10 minutes but you also have to go pee just as frequently.
Secondly, if you are not near a source of clean, filtered water (my work just has tap), you would have to carry around a half-gallon jug with you or drop serious dough on bottled water, which is also bad for the environment.
Lastly, on the days when I attempted to drink that much water, even if I was careful to spread it out throughout my entire day, I felt so bloated and waterlogged that I actually felt sick to my stomach and got a splitting headache.
Am I really the only person on earth that cannot handle so much water in my diet? Before I started coming to this site, I rarely drank more than 2 cups of water a day, one usually being in the form of a diet coke. Unless I have been very active or it is a very hot, dry day, this has been the case for most of my life. And I suffer no ill health from choosing not to gorge myself on water every day. I am making a commitment right now to drink 4 to 5 cups of water a day, which seems to be the most I can drink without feeling ill. I have a stainless steel water bottle that is a 4 cup capacity, which I have promised myself to drink dry every day, and that leaves me room for a cup of tea elsewhere. I would love to hear from people out there who have either had complete or zero success with this water thing!