How much water do you drink a day?

Go on Jalima name and shame them!
No-one you know!!

DD1 (hope she is not reading this)

I love water and always drink tap water. I can't understand why people buy bottled water in this country where the tap water is perfectly good and wholesome.

I buy some fizzy water to offer guests at home and the only other time I buy water is at the airport when I have to throw away my tap water to get through security. Then I buy a copy of the Telegraph (not my normal paper but quite good to read occasionally) because I get a free bottle of water with it in Duty Free.

Sorry, but drinking water is barely any different to drinking anything else that isn't alcoholic or sugar laden, so if drinking water is a chore then just drink tea.

I have a glass of water on waking and another at bedtime - other than that I drink copious amounts of tea and an occasional latte when I'm out and about.

How can you be not drinking enough? When you need fluid you have this built-in warning system called "thirst".
I only drink black coffee or water as they are all I like. Two of my daughters have never drunk anything hot. As long as it's not full of sugar we can all drink what we want and don't need to monitor our intake.

Not enough, especially when I'm fishing. I always promise myself I'll drink more than one small bottle but never get around to it - too absorbed to think about it. Then when I get home, I feel awful because I'm dehydrated. We tend to drink more tea and coffee when we're at home during the day, but if I do drink water it's usually in the evening. Tizliz I am another who will not put water in my malt! Sacrilege !

Wine might not count as a liquid but it's one of your five a day!

My Spanish Doctor, who is brilliant, says that liquid is liquid no matter what form it comes in ( except alcohol, of course lol)

I would say that I drink almost a litre of water a day plus tea and coffee. When it is very hot my intake of water rises dramatically. I know very quickly if I am not drinking enough by the colour of my urine which is normally almost colourless. I think it could be possible that as we age we need to drink more as the kidneys are not functioning quite so well and blood pressure tablets can also affect them.

I meant to say water unless it is laced with coffee. I am like Lona I do not like water, especially the fizzy variety.

I drink more water while I am taking my chemo because a handful of tablets twice a day needs a lot of washing down. I take a cool bag to bed with two half litre bottles of water for drinks during the night and for taking early morning tablets. Taking into consideration hot drinks as well I probably drink two litres of fluid a day. If I remember rightly this is the amount given in the information leaflet, when I left hospital.

Not much just water but I do drink lots of cups mugs of tea. Best drink ever. I do occasionally drink warmed water, part hot from kettle and part tap. I don't like very cold liquid when I am hot and thirsty.

rosesarered no water in my whisky, I know the distillers recommend it but I prefer it nest. I do however drink plenty of other fluids, does wine count ?

Enough water in my tea,coffee fruit and vegetables. I don't like water.

There have been lots of papers written and advice given over the years that support the information that it doesn't have to be plain water as long as you are hydrated throughout the day so all drinks, provided they are not loaded with sugar are good and count towards the total. Your body will tell you if it needs fluid - you will be thirsty, skin dry, constipated - all those lovely things. Have a nice cup of tea when you want one.

I never drink coffee unless it is laced with coffee.

Yes, quite, kitty. The fad about tea not being a healthy drink is nonsense. Tea becoming the normal drink of the working classes in Britain is one of the main reasons the industrial revolution started here: it meant, for the first time in history, that people had a safe (i.e. not contaminated) fluid to drink in plentiful quantities.

I have one of those metal drinks bottle which I fill 2 or 3 times a day and take up to bed with me so I do drink plenty of water and 3/4 cups of tea a day.

I'm trying to be more healthy too so this is timely. Nothing like the end of a relationship to get you to reexamine your lifestyle! My husband is a big meat eater and I've been having far more fish and vegetarian meals since we split up. Definitely feeling better for it.

Roses!

A jug is a good idea Jenty thank you.

Go on Jalima name and shame them!

Not enough apparently.
I am assured by someone who shall not be named that tea and coffee are dehydrating and that I need to drink about 6 medium sized glasses of water a day.
I probably average about 2 (plus teaand more tea).
I drank rooibosch (?) tea for years then suddenly went off it.

And I drink loads of tea.

I add it to my glass if whisky now and then ( just a splash.)

I think so kitty

I know I don't drink enough water, but a jugful just seems so...daunting!