|
If you're like me then you wonder how in the world to drink 64 ounces of water a day and still have a life outside
of the bathroom. I have a few suggestions on how to make happen.
Drink water on purpose. Find
times when you can drink water easily - when you don't have to go far from the bathroom. I like to do this in the evening
- take a little transition break in my day, separating the day from the evening, before I eat dinner or before I have
a cocktail, I drink water. A very large glass, say 16 ounces. I don't gulp it all at once, but I keep at it until
it's done, in say, 20/30 minutes. This will hit your bladder like a ton of bricks UNLESS you are dehydrated, which means
you need another 8 ounces in the same sitting, sit it a little slower than the first 16 ounces.
Okay, so we've
drunk 16 ounces, our bladder has cleared, we are ready for dinner. But that's only a fourth of our daily need. So let's
backtrack. Another great time to drink water is on the way to work. Drink water on an empty stomach because
if you add water to a mix of food and acid or alkaline juice (all in your stomach), then you dilute the acid or alkaline and
make digestion harder. Drink 16 ounces on the way to work, go in empty your bladder and THEN have a little breakfast - feasible?
We are up to 32 ounces by now, only half of what we need. Let's spread out the rest, have 8 ounces before lunch,
give the water time to go to your bladder, then eat. This has the added effect of sating your hunger and you could
easily eat less, which is a nice. As you get ready to leave work have 8 ounces prepared to drink on the way home.
We need 16 more ounces to finish this day. I suggest you do it this way: eat fruit with your breakfast, fruit for
a mid-afternoon snack and a lot of vegetables for dinner. Fruits and veggies (especially raw) are loaded with nature's
own water, it's already filtered and full of nutrients. And best of all, the fibers in the fruits and veggies
carry the water deep into your intestines where they hydrate everything in a lovely manner as they get digested.
And we are done. We drank water "on purpose" meaning we did it when we knew we'd have an empty stomach
and be near a bathroom. I'd even go so far as to substitute real juice and milk ounce for ounce with
the water.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Drink the very best water you can get your hands on. That would be water that is filtered
by reverse-osmosis , solid carbon block or distilled. Distilled water has parted company with most of it's
minerals (ones we need even) and flavor, but that's a small price to pay for the purity of it. Take a good vitamin/mineral
supplement and eat fantastic healthy food to make up for it.
"Natural" spring water, the kind we buy
in all those plastic containers, could have many bad things floating in it! We live on a very crowded planet - more people,
more pollution. All the water that exists on the Earth right this minute has always been here - we just keep
recycling it. You could be drinking water that once was part of the cellular makeup of Abraham Lincoln, it goes round and
round and round. For me that is a lovely sentiment but all the more reason to purify it.
In your home, install
a water filter, use it for all your water needs, cooking and drinking, pets, plants, brushing teeth, etc. - bathe
in it if you can! When buying a filter always "request a NSF International Listing. The NSF is an independent,
not-for-profit organization that tests and certifies drinking water treatment products." Your unit should meet or exceed
their standards on all measurements: cysts and contaminants, including - VOC's (pesticides, herbicides, and chemicals),
endocrine disrupters (PCBs), trihalomethanes (cancer-causing disinfection byproducts),heavy metals, MBTE (a gasoline additive),
chloramines, and asbetos. (above information taken found in From Fatigued to Fantastic! by Jacob Teitelbaum, MD.)
And last, don't drink water from those individual plastic bottles. The chemicals that make up
that thin plastic are slowing leached into the water. If it tastes like plastic that's because it is! Filter your water
at home, put it in glass or aluminum bottles, carry it with you when you go.
Drinking water well can be your own
personal art form, start today, do it correctly. Your body with thank you for years and years to come.
2007 © Lisa Henderson, NC-LMBT #4665. This article not to be copied for commercial use.
|
|
|
|
|
