Drink It Up

Water it is an essential component of life. This makes up about 60% of an adults body weight and plays a vital role in all of lifes processes.  Even the air we breath must have a certain amount of humitdity in it so that it does not dry and irritate our airway.

However, we often fail to consume enough of this vital resource in its simple form (plan ole water, no soda, juice, coffee or tea).  We lose over 13 liters of waters each day just to carry out our noraml daily activities and that needs to be replaced.  The average person needs to consume 8 cups of water (additional water is received from food sources) So drink up. Being properly hydrated will help you in so many ways.
Being properly hyudrated:
1)  makes your skin look smoother and thus you appear younger.

2) helps you to lose weight.  It not only makes your stomach fill full, but it also aids in digestion and absorption of your food so you derive more nutritets from what you consume. There fore your body gets adequate nutrion and doesn't send out siganls that you need to hunt for more to eat.

3) makes you feel more energized or on the other hand beig dehydrated makes you feel lethargic.  a minute amount of reduction in your water levels can effect your overall feelings of well being but not be enough to trigger the thirst response.

4) improves your exercise perfomance.  Let's face it no one wants to exercise strenuously while feeling thirsty.  That being said even being dehydrated in a small amount can cause your muscles to feel fatigued sooner than you will feel thirsty.  Exercise requires additional water so be sure to hyudrate before, during and after exercise.

The above are just a few reasons drinking water should be a part of your dialy health routine.  You may be thinking that is all well and good, but, I don't have time to sit and chug a half of gallon of water and I don;t have time to spend the entire day running to the bathroom.   Well let me assure you drinking water all at once is acutlaly not the best approach.  Its far better to sip it through out the day.  If you are not much of a water drinkier now then let me encourage you to buy a refillable water bottle not the kind with the plastic label on the outside that come in the cooler at the covnience store but an honest to goodness (such as the ones below)

 Then if you have trouble making it a habit set a reminder on your smart phone (say every hour) and every timethe alarm sounds drink half a cup of water.  You can also use an app such as myfitnesspal by myfitness pal llc or drinking water by chickpin. Or you can choose a simpler method such as a trigger, such as everytime you checkthe time, or look to see if you have a new email. Once it becomes a habit (which takes about 21 days and the topic of another post) you can drop the crutches if you desire.