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[JanTx]

In another thread I was reading about water - how important it is. Someone else wrote about how much they DON'T like to drink water and that's me. Just don't like the stuff. So ... here's what I do:

Sprinkle a little Crystal Light in there to flavor it.

Set goals - 16 oz before 10 AM, 16 more before lunch. etc.

While I'm in the kitchen I drink 16 oz. (I'm on 5+1 so still fix a meal.)

I reuse 16-oz water bottles - I've written numbers on the lids and know I have to make it through 4 of them at least.

I start out at work (school) with ice and 16 oz in a mug. That's gone by 10 AM so I dump my shake in on the same ice. Then when that's gone I dump another water bottle in on that same ice again and it's flavored by the shake. (Good with the vanilla - not so good with the chocolate.) I rinse it all out at lunch and start with fresh ice and drink that mug-full with my soup at lunch. Then another mug for the afternoon.

Now - I'm a NEW Newbie so that's pretty basic for the rest of you, I'm sure. Got more ideas for how to get that water down - especially when you REALLY don't like it?

(Of course, all this still has me struggling to fit in a rest room break among the 7 classes I teach before lunch, but so far I've managed without too much trouble.)

[Nancy]

You've established some good ways to slug it down, Girl!

I have two bottles of water in my car at all times (and more in the trunk).

I drink one bottle of water on my trip away from home
and the other on my return trip -
no matter how far I travel - my personal rule is to suck one (minimum) down!

Like you, I usually add some water to my shaker jar or shake mug and drink it - I call it 'pale ale.'

It certainly is watered down but having some sort of flavor helps to get it down - I mix, nuke and eat my Medioatmeal right from the jar and then fill the jar with water, swish and slurp.

Ahh...slurp 'n burp.

It may sound gross but it works for me - keeps me slender and my tummy filled.

Here's to ya, Kid!

Buh bye 180's...

[JanTx]

The scale was actually 178.5 this morning, but ... I've been so indoctriinated against weighing every day that I don't like to report that I did. I'm STILL going to weigh often - I'm a chart-making, number-keeping freak - but I don't like to report it.

[Nancy]

Don'tcha just those digital scales?

Whaddya mean

I've been so indoctriinated against weighing every day that I don't like to report that I did

I STILL weigh every time I go to the sandbox!

I also look at my reflection in the mirror
every time I pass by and exclaim,

"Mmm-mm! Don'tchoo look migh-ty fine!" ;)

I have a mirror in every room...

[JanTx]

Ahhhh ... a kindred spirit! I KNEW I was going to like this place!

I can judge how I'm doing by how I avoid or live on the scale. When I start avoiding it - there's a reason. Right now I might as well carry it around with me from room to room. You never know what instant that next 1/10 will fall away!

How comfortable this forum is! Thanks!

[Nancy]

Jan ~

Before I began Medifasting, I had not weighed for years...

I avoided the evil scale.

I thought he was a fiend,

now he's my friend.

[LongWay2go]

Jan,

I was never a water drinker either, in fact, once I'd finished off at least a pot of coffee in the morning, I didn't drink anything - nothing - the rest of the day except occasionally a half glass of water or something like diet soda with supper.

Water has been my biggest challenge so I came up with a rule. I must drink 1 bottle of water between each shake and one after my last shake of the day, before bed. Sometimes I get busy, realize it's shake time and I haven't finished my bottle yet so I chug it down, have my shake and fill the bottle up again.

I start the day with a fresh bottle, but refill it throughout the day and my "reward" at the end of the day is chucking that bottle in the trash! Over and over in my head, I keep chanting "Water is my friend, water is my friend".

~Gerald