Day 13 : WATER

11/28/2015
Steps11421 (A New Record ) 
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WATER, I HATE IT, ALWAYS HAVE!
And I've been chronically dehydrated for years. Drinking mostly coffee doesn't help.
Especially in the cold months, as I sip it most of the day.

This probably started as a baby when I was bottle fed a formula of evaporated milk and Karo syrup.

Yes, the Boomer generation was weaned on sugar, a corporate and medical wet dream.

By the time I was old enough to pick up a glass by myself, whatever was in it had to have a large sugar content.

Catholic school didn't help either. In second grade, we got the option of chocolate milk at lunch, and by third grade, I never voluntarily drank cow's milk again.

Like most of my generation and the ones that followed, our liquid intake generally consisted of Coke, Pepsi or any product made from sugar and water.

Over the decades my system slowly rebelled, and I started to back away from sweeteners. But to this day, six decades later, I still hate the taste of plain water.

So now we start the next step of the Diet 1.

Water

First, get yourself a handful of juice glasses. Those ones that hold 3 to 4 ounces of liquid like at restaurants. The little ones they serve juice in because you can't afford 8 ounces of the stuff.

Now before you go to bed at night, line up three or four of these on the kitchen counter filled with water. In the morning, as you stagger into the kitchen to get your day going, down at least one of those glasses of water. Do it before your coffee, tea, toast or TV.

Do another on your way out the door. At work, have a juice glass with a big number 1 sitting on your desk, to remind you. And use it.

I'm writing this plan from the view of someone who hates the taste of water.

You may love it, lucky bastard! The point is to start adding a lot more water to your Diet 1.

In the morning, before you eat, and all through the day.

Take a picture of those glasses lined up on the counter and post them on your desk, desktop or phone.

And just like counting your steps every day, start counting glasses of water.

Disclaimer

This is not some crazy water diet. 

We are simple using water to help cut back on some our over eating, and to replace some of the sugar filled drinks we normally have.  
It has long been proved that the 8-8oz. glasses of water minimum per day, is a misnomer. 
One source is from a 1945 note from the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council that said adults should take in about 2.5 liters of water per day. They also noted at the time that we get most of that just in the food we eat. 

No one actually specified drinking water alone.

So, no wild and crazy stuff. Just slow down, eat small, and exercise more. 

Good luck!

KRASH

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