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Do you drink your 2 Litres of water per day?

  • 07-11-2007 5:12pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Apparently 2 litres per day is th recommended daily amount for us humans. Pighead would have to say he probably drinks about half that amount. Tried the whole 2 a day thing a couple of years back but it played havok with the old bladder.

    Without fail Pighead would wake up at ungodly hours with a bladder fit for bursting. And as everyone knows the last thing you want to do is get out of your warm cozy bed to go for the wee wees. Which is why sometimes, Pighead didn't. Theres only so long a man can wallow in his own urine so eventually brought my water consumption down to 1 litre. No wee wees but mouth started getting dry and sticky. Not a good look.

    Anyway, recently Pighead has upped his DWA(Daily Water Allowance) to about 1.375 litres and while the night time wee wees have so far stayed away, the early morning wee wees have started to introduce themselves. Is there a balance where you can get your DWA without having to compromise with your bladder?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,471 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Mine is approx 0.25 of the daily allowance.

    I'm not in good reach of a toilet all day, therefore a sudden urge to urinate would be inconvinenent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 891 ✭✭✭redfacedbear


    Wasn't there a documentary on the BBC a while ago that said that this 2l a day was a bit misunderstood?

    Apparently you get the majority of the 2l normally through your diet (food and drinks) and you don't need that much extra to top it up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Drink when you need to drink water, i.e. as soon as you start to feel dehydrated. IMO, science can work out the exact amount everyone needs to drink each day as everyones body is different.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    stop drinking at about 7pm - simple


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    don't forget all the water in tea, and well, anything u consume really.

    Plus, 2 litres is a bit vague. It should be different for like, warm temperature vs cold. Whether or not ur sweating. How fat u are.

    It's all a load of b0ll0x IMO


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    i only drink something if it's caffeinated.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Eat lots of salt and your body will retain more water.












    you may eventually die of a heart attack, though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    irishbird wrote: »
    stop drinking at about 7pm - simple

    errrrmmmmmm :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    irishbird wrote: »
    stop drinking at about 7pm - simple

    Despite the fact the pubs open until AT LEAST 11:30pm?

    Don't be silly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Been reading F&D

    It's an often quoted 'fact' that we should all be drinking two litres of water a day. However, according to a 2002 review in the American Journal of Physiology, there seems to be little or no scientific basis for this.

    The possible source of the two litres claim is a 1945 US study, which concluded that under normal circumstances most people need around two litres of fluid a day. But this can come from other suitable drinks and from food. For example, a baked potato is 70 percent water. *


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    irishbird wrote: »
    stop drinking at about 7pm - simple
    Oh yeah very simple. Apart from the fact you're not taking into consideration Pigheads penchant for cream crackers at 9pm whilst watching the 9 o'clock evening news?

    Have you ever eaten crackers without water? Are you suggesting Pighead forsakes his water and lives with the dried crackers lodging in the old gullet? Frankly irishbird you don't know what you're talking about. No harm done though. Suppose you weren't to know about Pigheads evening snacking habits.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    If I'm working, yeah throughout the day I would. Not plain water though, usuaully with lime cordial or something, plus coffee.
    Off work at the minute and all I'm drinking is coffee, tea and diet coke and not in huge quantities. Probably a bit dehydrated.
    I wouldn't subscribe to this forcefeeding yourself a set amount daily; if you're thirsty you drink something, if you're doing something exerting then you know to replenish lost fluid. Your daily needs too would depend on your bodysize, shape and maybe your age.
    Only time I drink a lot of bottled water is with a bad hangover...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    GaNjaHaN wrote: »
    don't forget all the water in tea, and well, anything u consume really.

    Plus, 2 litres is a bit vague. It should be different for like, warm temperature vs cold. Whether or not ur sweating. How fat u are.

    It's all a load of b0ll0x IMO
    How much water do you drink a day GaNjaHaN? We all need guidelines in life. Pighead has taken 2 L as his guide. What do you use? That Username is pants by the way. You've a lot of growing up to do boy.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Marc Easy Backstroke


    I've no idea how much water I drink, but it's quite a lot, especially when I'm in front of the computer. Cup after cup. It amazes me how little some people drink


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    And what about that whole "You can tell if your dehydrated by the colour of your wee wee" thing. Is that true?

    Supoosedly a nice pale straw colour is perfect whilst that dark yellow colour means you're about to die of dehydration. Pighead loves when it comes out perfectly clear. Makes him feel like his body is a temple and everything is in perfect working order.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,480 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    always make sure to get my 2ltrs in. sometimes have more, which is probably dangerous...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I would drink well over 2 litres a day when I'm in Mammy's house but since I moved to Galway I drink way less. I won't drink the tap water because it tastes really weird. I do have 5 litre bottles of water in the house but it's so much trouble to pick the bottle up, open it, pour it, spill it, clean up, put the lid back on, put the bottle away.....seems like a lot of bother really.

    That said, I love water, and drink it, well, like water when I'm back in Cork!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    There must be at least 2 litres of water in 8 litres of beer.

    You would have thought so anyway.


  • Registered Users Posts: 747 ✭✭✭uglyjohn


    a friend of mine tried it once, only the version he heard was 8 glasses of water a day.
    He didnt know most of it is in food already, and he misread and thought it said 8 litres a day.

    So for about a month ( i didnt have the heart to tell him, it was just to funny) he went around with a bottle the whole time, between class (this was years ago) he ran to the jacks to refill the bottle and piss streams of crystal clear water.

    i think the most he ever got up to was 6 a day before he quit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Jigsaw wrote: »
    There must be at least 2 litres of water in 8 litres of beer.

    You would have thought so anyway.

    In northern beer?
    I'd say it was closer to eight...
    ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,488 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Pighead wrote: »
    Oh yeah very simple. Apart from the fact you're not taking into consideration Pigheads penchant for cream crackers at 9pm whilst watching the 9 o'clock evening news?

    Have you ever eaten crackers without water? Are you suggesting Pighead forsakes his water and lives with the dried crackers lodging in the old gullet? Frankly irishbird you don't know what you're talking about. No harm done though. Suppose you weren't to know about Pigheads evening snacking habits.

    Pighead needs to harden up. I once ate a full pack of Jacobs Cream Crackers sans any water/fluids whatsoever while watching Saving Private Ryan after coming home from a night out.

    That might be weird to you, but it made sense at the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    I'd say I drink 2+ litres of tea per day. Does that count?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Conor108 wrote: »
    I'd say I drink 2+ litres of tea per day. Does that count?
    Is your wee wee brown? If so, then no, it doesn't count.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    Drink 2 litres a day. Don't drink tea or coffee, I just don't like them.
    So I always have a bottle of water beside me, like how other people have coffee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭pretty-in-pink


    Its approx 8 glasses- the hi-ball type. I probably drink more though. Air con and pollution make you dehydrated more. As does caffine. And alcohol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15 Jack300


    I tend to drink more than 2l a day, in fact today I must have drank closer to 6 and just now when I got up to come down to the computer i felt all woozy...maybe i should cut down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    The fitness forum would be proud to have you lot...:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    The fitness forum would be proud to have you lot...:rolleyes:
    The giggly spanners and crappy usage of smilies forum would also be proud to count you amongst its members.

    Lose the rolly eyes smiley babes. It ain't big and it ain't clever.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,872 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Pighead wrote: »
    And what about that whole "You can tell if your dehydrated by the colour of your wee wee" thing. Is that true?

    Supoosedly a nice pale straw colour is perfect whilst that dark yellow colour means you're about to die of dehydration. Pighead loves when it comes out perfectly clear. Makes him feel like his body is a temple and everything is in perfect working order.

    Absolutely true.

    If you have too much salt in your system it'll be all dark and thick as your body is trying to expell the salt. Also if you are dehydrated to even things up.

    All clear doesn't mean healthy necessarily, Mr. Head, it means you have too much water in your body and your urinary system is addressing the balance. :)

    God bless school biology!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    Pighead wrote: »
    The giggly spanners and crappy usage of smilies forum would also be proud to count you amongst its members.

    Lose the rolly eyes smiley babes. It ain't big and it ain't clever.

    Pighead...u are a d*ck! Do you normally talk to girls like this....


    I used to think you were funny, now I'm a tad upset tbh...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    Too much water dilutes your blood though doesn't it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭pretty-in-pink


    Pighead wrote: »
    The giggly spanners and crappy usage of smilies forum would also be proud to count you amongst its members.

    Lose the rolly eyes smiley babes. It ain't big and it ain't clever.
    A pighead post with no 3 person formatting? Somebody call the vatican........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    uglyjohn wrote: »
    a friend of mine tried it once, only the version he heard was 8 glasses of water a day.
    He didnt know most of it is in food already, and he misread and thought it said 8 litres a day.

    So for about a month ( i didnt have the heart to tell him, it was just to funny) he went around with a bottle the whole time, between class (this was years ago) he ran to the jacks to refill the bottle and piss streams of crystal clear water.

    i think the most he ever got up to was 6 a day before he quit.

    Too much water can actually kill you, it depletes the sodium content in your body. You need to have a certain level of sodium in your body.

    I probably don't drink 2 litres per day. Maybe about a litre, if even that. I mainly drink caffeinated drinks during the day and juice also. I'd drink more water at home though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Pighead...u are a d*ck! Do you normally talk to girls like this....


    I used to think you were funny, now I'm a tad upset tbh...
    Listen babes, its nothing personal but Pighead says what Pighead sees.

    You use the wrong smileys, you're high pitched giggling makes poor Pighead wince. You never start threads about interseting topics such as toolboxes or bumboys. Basically you're an underachiever Cheeky_gal and if theres one thing Pighead can't abide its an underachiever.

    Anyway Pigheads glad we had this little chat. Now go get some water into you.x


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭Sarn


    I don't drink enough water. Thankfully our kidneys are designed to retain water if we're not drinking enough. As people have mentioned we get a lot of our water from our food (about a litre). Of course environmental as well as personal characteristics need to be factored in. The problem with tea, coffee and alcohol is that they cause you to lose more water due to their diuretic effect (increased urine production).

    Too much water will kill you (as would too much of anything). There is one good way to work out if you're very dehydrated.....thirst.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    Pighead wrote: »
    Listen babes, its nothing personal but Pighead says what Pighead sees.

    You use the wrong smileys, you're high pitched giggling makes poor Pighead wince. You never start threads about interseting topics such as toolboxes or bumboys. Basically you're an underachiever Cheeky_gal and if theres one thing Pighead can't abide its an underachiever.

    Anyway Pigheads glad we had this little chat. Now go get some water into you.x

    Give me 5 examples of cases where I have used unneccessary smileys? Five. In the words of Dragan, back up your statements with proof Pigman...

    And underachiever? Let me tell you I have achieved more in my lifetime more than you have in yours...FACT! And you're old dude, I'm still young as they say....

    Also; high pitched??? I didn't realise you could hear people on this...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    No


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,197 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Give me 5 examples of cases where I have used unneccessary smileys? Five. In the words of Dragan, back up your statements with proof Pigman...

    And underachiever? Let me tell you I have achieved more in my lifetime more than you have in yours...FACT! And you're old dude, I'm still young as they say....

    Also; high pitched??? I didn't realise you could hear people on this...

    Don't feed the troll.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    Slow coach wrote: »
    Don't feed the troll.

    I think it's time someone brought this dude to his knees...he needs a good challenge and I'm all for it! Cheeky gal fears no one now bring it bitch!

    Pigman, you've met your match, I will bring you down...downtown!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Give me 5 examples of cases where I have used unneccessary smileys? Five. In the words of Dragan, back up your statements with proof Pigman...
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54361077&postcount=38
    A classic Cheeky roll eyes smiley. Absolutely no need for it.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54371450&postcount=71
    Another roll eyes here. You also questioned Blowfish' intelligence. Shocking stuff.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54359881&postcount=6
    Not content with slagging off most of the blokes on the site you decide to throw the rolly eyes smiley at the women. Nobodys safe from your horrible roll eyes.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54290155&postcount=274
    You really do seem to have it in for women don't you. You've got issues babes.


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54372282&postcount=29
    Worst one of the lot here. You hurt a lot of peoples feelings here, including Pigheads.

    Theres 5 examples from the last week alone. Cut down on the smileys babes. Rolling your eyes makes you look like a silly billy. Respect.

    Back on topic, Pigheads away for a glass of water and a cream cracker.


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    Pighead wrote: »
    Oh yeah very simple. Apart from the fact you're not taking into consideration Pigheads penchant for cream crackers at 9pm whilst watching the 9 o'clock evening news?

    Have you ever eaten crackers without water? Are you suggesting Pighead forsakes his water and lives with the dried crackers lodging in the old gullet? Frankly irishbird you don't know what you're talking about. No harm done though. Suppose you weren't to know about Pigheads evening snacking habits.


    no, piggy darling, you wash your crackers down with beer, or probably in your case a nice cup of tea :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭Oman


    i find pig's heads provide me with all the water i need. its full of water and is very tasty too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    I'm drinking 8 Litres of water a day at the moment. Peeing like a racehorse, but it's a necessary evil. It's only for another week then it's back to my regular 3-4L a day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    .retreyaw rof seltil 2 ym gnitteg ofed md'I os yad a eeffoc fo spuc 01 knird I


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    .driew saw taht woW


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Pigman II wrote: »
    .retreyaw rof seltil 2 ym gnitteg ofed md'I os yad a eeffoc fo spuc 01 knird I
    Whats a wayerter?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    It's water with a typo that wouldn't delete. Amazing these backwards writing computersglitches. I prefer this new forward writing one tho.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭Oman


    Pigman II wrote: »
    It's water with a typo that wouldn't delete. Amazing these backwards writing computersglitches. I prefer this new forward writing one tho.

    ɹǝʇʇǝq ɥɔnɯ sı ʇxǝʇ pɹɐʍɹoɟ sıɥʇ oɟǝp


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Anyway, yeah water. Don't really see the point. It's too cold in this country to bother. Drink loads when I'm abroad in hotter climates but here's not really the place. Here unfortunately if you want a mouthful of h2o you can usually just open your gob whilst looking up at the sky.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭Oman


    all i drink is diluted orange which is mainly water. So i think i get my 2 litres


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