Water Experiment 001

I've been involved in a personal experiment since Sunday. "They" (whoever they may be.. doctors, scientists, health aficionados) suggest or better yet, recommend that you typically should be drinking 8 servings of water each day. Now in my perspective, I'll say 1 serving = 1 bottle of water, which is equivalent to 500mL. Well, since Sunday I've been drinking nothing but water. Hard to believe? You betcha! Water has been my arch nemesis ever since the birth of that bubbly sensation, Coca-Cola. So giving up that carbonated refreshment was no easy task, but somehow I had the willpower and dedication to do so. Error analysis would say I only botched the experiment twice: Monday I had a bottle of apple juice and Tuesday I drank peach iced tea. But for scientific purposes, we'll just let those slide.

Monday: I start off the day with a refrigerated bottle of water (the only way to go man! ICE-COLD!) I'm thinking, not bad.. not bad. By noon-time, I AM DYING FOR FLAVOR. One tiny morsel of sweetness. Something with sugar for pete's sake. So I soon cave and find myself asking for apple juice instead of water. Guilty? Yes. But do I care? Not really. Around dinner time, my food is accompanied by water so the count for Monday is 2 bottles of water.

2 BOTTLES OF WATER? Only two? I'm supposed to be drinking 8 bottles a day yet I could only manage to finish 2. I feel defeated so the next day I increase my intake and make it 3 and a half. Yesterday I drank 5 whole bottles. I am getting up there. But I stop myself and think, is it even humanly possible to drink 8 servings of water? Must I be part-camel in order to drink so much? Who the hell drinks that much water anyway? It is generally the case that if you drink enough fluid so that you rarely feel thirsty and produce between one and two liters of colorless or slightly yellow urine a day, your fluid intake is probably adequate.

So my struggle continues. I'll be triumphant when I'm finishing off the last drops of my eighth bottle. Until then, I'm signing off with my trusty water bottle in hand.


Midterm tonight. Party time afterwards. Wish me luck.

thanks for last night :)