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• I keep a huge glass of water at my desk throughout the day. The only time I chug it is at the gym. : MagicWishMonkey
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  I just have a 750ml bottle that I refill constantly. : yoonix
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    I do this. I drink on it all day and refill it 6x : Slowtreme
    • Got a 500ml bottle and keep refilling constantly. : Navy Spitfire
    • Same size, I refill mine around 5 times. : pturvz
• I keep a 2L jug on my desk and usually drink two a day at work. At home taper off into the evening so I ... : hussdelrio
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  Whoever said water suppresses appetite is a filthy liar. I've had 60+oz since lunch, and I'm still fuckin... : shyguy74
  • It doesn't suppress appetite, but in a lot of cases, your brain has difficulty differentiating between mi... : yoonix
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  ^ just curious: do you guys do this for any particular reason? : indosauros
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    Drink the right amount of water? Because it's good for them, probably. : Nixx2004
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      Where in the manual does it say how much is the right amount? : not work safe
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        and does the moisture in food and soft drinks count? : not work safe
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          Caffeine is a diuretic (makes you piss more). So some drinks might actually dehydrate you, yeah? : Nixx2004
          • however, soda's also hydrate you. do they make you pee more than you take in? no, they don't. : ibrokn
          • Sweet jesus, that's completely false. : Bold
          • Coffee is a diuretic not caffeine : grandmasterlee
          • Oh, how I loathe urban myths. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/health/nutrition/04real.html : Skrynkelberg
      • my nutritionist said 2L for women, 3L for men is right if you are trying to lose weight : smax
    • http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp : bipolar
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      lol people actually believe this is the "right amount" :D Good one, Nixx. : endozoan
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        Yeah I know, I kinda re-read the original post and had second thoughts about my post, heh. Basically, ... : Nixx2004
        • Water poisoning! It's pretty hard to drink too much if you are peeing when your body tells youto though. : SigENeaT
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          Ugh, this is wrong, too. PLEASE read the Snopes article. You've managed to quote nearly every myth about ... : Bold
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            Not wrong if this is what was meant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_poisoning : SigENeaT
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              No, he meant the "most people don't drink to much part", which is debunked. : Skrynkelberg
              • Argh, I meant "most people don't drink enough". : Skrynkelberg
  • So I have to work less. : The Key
  • I feel really good when I drink enough water. : Blucklesworth
  • a couple glasses of water a day keep the kidney stones away : electroly
• i drink about two liters per day. one 24oz in the AM; one in the afternoon. a pint or so with dinner. ... : EvilDolemite
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  I keep a Nalgene bottle full of water at my side all day long. : ateam311
  • Same here. 1L bottle. Very easy to drink down 3L or more of water in a day : riptyde
• I try to drink in big bursts so hopefully I have time to get at least a little big thirsty in between. Bi... : Hemtroll
• I just started counting my water. i dont drink enough. this must change. : hirez
• one quart in the am (chug it at once) one quart before bed. : proclone1
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  The whole overdosing on water craze is the dumbest thing of all time. Drink when you're thirsty! Your bod... : Albemuth
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    you're already dehydrated by the time you're thirsty : proclone1
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      This. : Nixx2004
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        This seems important when running a marathon or up and down a field for several hours. I fail to see how... : passingstranger
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          I can hear your kidneys crying from here. : SigENeaT
          • The liver is probably crying more... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
    • WRONG. This urban myth needs to die. The thirst response is incredibly fast, for obvious survival reasons : Bold
    • this assumes that the rate of fluid loss is absurdly high. it's probably true if you're performing strenu... : skryte
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    I'm of the same opinion. : cerealSAM2
    • So's snopes: http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp : cerealSAM2
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      ditto. I bet these people eat a ton too when they aren't hungry because by the time they are hungry they ... : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
      • Haha, best response. : Skrynkelberg
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    If drinking 8 glasses of water reduces the probably of getting a kidney stone by 1% then it is completely... : lord cecil
    • Yes. However, there appears to be no evidence whatsoever that this is the case. : master_disaster_17
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    basically. but if you are trying to lose weight, the more water you drink the better. : smax
    • Within reason. Drinking water should simply be used to 'treat' hunger pangs. : master_disaster_17
• 32oz bottle I refill all day long. Probably 2-3x a day (or maybe more if I get thirsty) : bolange
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  Isn't it annoying to have to pee so much? : passingstranger
  • Real men can hold it. : Crabs Jarrard
• we got some serious H20 lovers on the shack : devpaul
• I drink it from the tap in the middle of the night and all day during work : shakybonez31
• there is water in beer. so i guess yeh i do : CoRDS
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  There is water at the bottom of the ocean. : greasyjohn
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    Are you sure about that? Can you prove it to me? I've never been there myself. : Nixx2004
    • Not really sure. Heard it here :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU : greasyjohn
  • remove the water : rgoer
• I drink out of a bottle which has a wider than normal opening. The water comes out quicker so its easier ... : SigENeaT
• small glasses, or a few swallows at a time out of my big glass. my roommate, though, will stand at the si... : biskits
• i carry a boost bottle around. i think its 750ml. I drink one before lunch, one after, and then one in th... : radula
• I've got two liter water bottles in the office that I fill when I come in, and every two hours or so afte... : MacemanInTW
• You guys must pee a lot. : dex.collins
• I don't drink until my lips burn and there is that really thick saliva on my tongue. : Vividvoid
• You Americans never cease to amaze me. First I learn that 41% of you don't know that man and dinosaurs di... : Skrynkelberg
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  All of you lovely gentlemen who are debating the merits of drinking a lot of water, I invite you to read about the thermic effect of food (TEF) and its relationship to cold water.
  
  Christ, shackers will debate anything on the basis of a fucking Snopes article.

  Jan 05, 2011 3:32am PST
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  All of you lovely gentlemen who are debating the merits of drinking a lot of water, I invite you to read ... : yoonix
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    now I'm interested. Do you have some links to share? : umegastar
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      http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/reprint/88/12/6015.pdf Other studies show a different picture, but th... : yoonix
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        interesting read. And cold water is 22c which is room temperature so it isn't from the fridge. That... : umegastar
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          There's another study I saw that couldn't replicate this at 22c, but still managed to replicate an increa... : yoonix
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            yeah and the TABLE 1 in this study shows that most studies made couldn't see a difference, and the ones w... : umegastar
            • Yeah, but most of them can pretty much agree that there's a legitimate TEF effect with cold water. A ... : yoonix