Drinking Water. Why? having a hard time hitting up 1 gal per day

[C3RB3RUS]

Can anyone provide me with some great reasons why i need to drink a gal of water a day.

Links would be awesome BB.com has a decent one. http://www.bxdybuilding.com/fun/topicoftheweek131.htm

[>Good Luck<]

gallon a day is recommended but u can get away with less if you don't jam your self full of every pill you can swallow and every supplement you can find. as long as your pee is nearly clear, youre doing well. yellow pee, not enough water. also if you are one gear, sick to a gallon lol

[Times Roman]

that claim is a little deceiving. your body needs a certain amount of fluids per day. you get some of that by eating. not all of it has to come from drinking water.

[bass]

I was told to drink at least one gallon and I did, but was in the bathroom every 15 minutes and my pee was clear like water, my body was rejecting most of it, basically I was taking more than what my body needed. so I started to listen to my body, I drink when I am thirsty, and don't force my self.

[Times Roman]

I was told to drink at least one gallon and I did, but was in the bathroom every 15 minutes and my pee was clear like water, my body was rejecting most of it, basically I was taking more than what my body needed. so I started to listen to my body, I drink when I am thirsty, and don't force my self.

sometimes, for me, i'm thirsty because I've depleted my electrolytes, which cannot be replaced by water only. drinking water in this situation will not cure the thirst. i've been in this situation plenty of times, and when it does happen, the more water i drink, the more bloated i get.

[NaijaBoy]

To be honest, I try to drink half my body weight. 8-10 cups is what I normally do. I've never succeeded drinking a gallon a day for more than 5 days in a row. I'm bloated and got to pee every 10 minutes

[tarmyg]

An absolute “minimum water requirement” for humans, independent of lifestyle and culture, can be defined only for maintaining human survival. To maintain the water balance in a living human, the amount of water lost through normal activities must be regularly restored. While the amount of water required to maintain survival depends on surrounding environmental conditions and personal physiological characteristics, the overall variability of needs is quite small. Routes for water loss include evaporation from the skin, excretion losses, and insensible loss from the respiratory tract. Humans may feel thirst after a fluid loss of only 1 per cent of bodily fluid and be in danger of death when fluid loss nears 10 per cent. Prior physiological studies have generated “reference values” for a daily human water requirement. Table 3 summarizes several estimates of total daily water requirements for a “reference” human. Minimum water requirements for fluid replacement have been estimated at about three litres per day under average temperate climate conditions. When climate and levels of activity are changed, these daily minimum water requirements can increase. In a hot climate, a 70-kilogram human will sweat between four and six litres per day without a comparable change in food intake or activity. The National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S.A. separately estimated minimum human water requirements by correlating them with energy intake in food. They recommend a minimum water intake of between one and one-and-a-half millilitres of water per calorie of food (1 -1.5 ml/kcal). Note that a food calorie is equivalent to a kcal of energy. In this article, the energy content of food will be represented by kcal's. This does not include the water required to grow the food consumed, which is discussed later. With recommended daily diets ranging from 2,000 to 3,000 kcal's, minimum water requirements are between 2,000 and 4,500 millilitres, or 2 to 4.5 litres per day-comparable with the data presented in Table 3 [ 14]. Using these data, a minimum water requirement for human survival under typical temperate climates with normal activity can be set at three litres per day. Given that substantial populations live in tropical and subtropical climates, it is necessary to increase this minimum slightly, to about five l/p/d, or just under two cubic meters per person per year. A further fundamental requirement not usually noted in the physiological literature is that this water should be of sufficient quality to prevent water related diseases.

*Average daily water requirements for survival

Source	Average daily water intake in liters per capita per day
Vinograd [8];Roth [9]	2.5b
World Health Organization [IO]	2.5
White et al. [4]	I.8 to 3.0
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [I 1]	2.0
National Academy of Sciences [ 12]	2.0
Saunders and Warford [ 13]	5

* During normal activity and temperate climate.
(b) This value represents the actual fluid requirements measured for
early space flights. The recommended intake minimum for Apollo
astronauts under routine conditions in the command module was 2.9
liters per day.

REF: http://www.bvsde.paho.org/bvsacd/cd17/basic_wate.pdf

[Times Roman]

To be honest, I try to drink half my body weight. 8-10 cups is what I normally do. I've never succeeded drinking a gallon a day for more than 5 days in a row. I'm bloated and got to pee every 10 minutes

i'm confused. so are you saying 8 to 10 cups is half your body weight?

[Bonaparte]

i'm confused. so are you saying 8 to 10 cups is half your body weight?

I assume he meant .5 fl oz/lb of body weight. But yeah, could have been clearer.

[skaz915]

Idk scientifically why but I get thirsty if I don't. I drink the better part of a gallon from the time I leave to go to the and and when I get home.

[GirlyGymRat]

i drink also drink more then .5 fl oz/# body weight but this cardio bunny sweats more then most of the other women but i do workout hard. drink 24 oz on my drive into work.

i didn't drink hardly any water until i started working out. my massage therapist KNOWs when i am under consuming water by the touch of skin and my body drinks up the massage cream.

BTW, kidneys get used to processing larger quantities of water just like training. the first couple of weeks running to the bathroom every few minutes….later, not so much!

[C3RB3RUS]

i pop a lot of supps