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H20hhhhhhhhhhh... yep, you guessed it... today’s focus is on the importance of water...
glug glug glug...
To Do
Hydrate! But to be more specific, take a moment to actually do some fact-finding and taste-testing. Yes, it may be ‘only water’ but since you should drink lots of it (and are mostly made up of it) you may as well find a kind that you actually like, at a price you like as well
Nourish Yourself
Make a point to drink a sufficient amount BEFORE meals
(HealthDay News) - "Close the diet books and skip the pills. The latest weight-loss trick may be as simple as gulping a couple of glasses of water before you eat.
A new study found that middle-aged and older adults who drank two cups of water before each meal consumed fewer calories and lost more weight than those who skipped drinking water.” read more: http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/642324.html
Get Up & Go!
It is a given that if you sweat you must replenish the fluid lost. Here is some info on
What to Drink When You Exercise: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=55637
Tools
If individual water bottles are bottling up your space (and budget), consider using a water filter. Consumer Research rates the top 3: http://www.consumersearch.com/water-filters
Tip
Not drinking the almighty 8-10 glasses daily? Don’t despair, there is more to it (or less in some cases) than you think. The Following two articles filter the fact from the fiction on the subject:
- http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=eight-glasses-water-per-day
- http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp
Tweak
Consider a flavored water if you just can’t bear the taste of regular water... our Love Yourself Lovely program is about finding ways to nurture, not punish, ourselves. “The American College of Sports Medicine recommends flavored drinks when fluid replacement is needed during and after exercise to enhance palatability and promote fluid replacement.”
What are your thoughts and feelings about water? Psychologists have a heyday with this stuff
Thought
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." - Bruce Lee (sigh)
"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it” - Lao Tzu
- Drinking water actually boosts your metabolism! It’s even good for your eyes
- Trivia: Hot water freezes faster than cold water
- All about water: “Water is often referred to in the sciences as the universalsolvent and the only pure substance found naturally in all three states of matter” http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Water
A friend asked me about what water means in her dreams.... of course I have no idea what goes on in the depths of her psyche, but here is a fun little site page on the subject: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art365.asp
TreatDo something fun IN water:
- lounge in the jacuzzi
- frolic in the surf
- play Marco Polo with some youngins
- take a water aerobic class
- lounge in the jacuzzi
- frolic in the surf
- play Marco Polo with some youngins
- take a water aerobic class
Blogs & Articles
- The Joie de Vivre Lifestyle blog post on hydration way back when: http://joiedevivrelifestyle.blogspot.com/2010/09/high-time-for-hydration.html
- Article on the Health Benefits of Water Consumption: http://www.medimanage.com/my-diet/articles/Health-Benefits-of-Drinking-Water.aspx
In Sum
Water water everywhere. More than 70% of our world’s surface is covered in the stuff so enjoy it in all its forms and glory
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