Drinking more water and constant toilet visits
Discussion
Apparently it is healthy for an adult to drink upwards of 2 litres of water per day. I know this because for the last 10+ years, everyone at work has been telling me, whilst carrying water bottles around with them all day long, constantly slurping away at them. These bottles seem to increase in size year by year.
Things reached 'peak hydration' this week, when I was sat in a meeting across the table from a colleague who had a water bottle that must have been verging on 3 litres in capacity. It was enormous. It looked like a plastic barrel with a handle moulded into it. It also had stupid things written down the side of it for each increment marker like 'you can do it', 'keep going', 'almost there'.
I have tried to indulge this practice of drinking more water, but it simply results in me going for a piss every 30 minutes which is highly inconvenient. I'll have a cup to tea to start the day, and all is fine, and then I'll drink a pint of water over the next hour, and thats it... I have 'broken the seal' as they phrase it, and I'm urinating like a racehorse for the next few hours. Sometimes I'll urinate, sit back down, then literally 20 mins later I'll be going again.
Anyone else trying to drink more water but ending up just finding it inconvenient?
Do things get better if I get used to drinking more water?
Why am I even doing it?
Things reached 'peak hydration' this week, when I was sat in a meeting across the table from a colleague who had a water bottle that must have been verging on 3 litres in capacity. It was enormous. It looked like a plastic barrel with a handle moulded into it. It also had stupid things written down the side of it for each increment marker like 'you can do it', 'keep going', 'almost there'.
I have tried to indulge this practice of drinking more water, but it simply results in me going for a piss every 30 minutes which is highly inconvenient. I'll have a cup to tea to start the day, and all is fine, and then I'll drink a pint of water over the next hour, and thats it... I have 'broken the seal' as they phrase it, and I'm urinating like a racehorse for the next few hours. Sometimes I'll urinate, sit back down, then literally 20 mins later I'll be going again.
Anyone else trying to drink more water but ending up just finding it inconvenient?
Do things get better if I get used to drinking more water?
Why am I even doing it?
It’s not new, this is Smack the Pony from the early 2000’s
https://youtu.be/t4TFcnuuyNs?si=RriugZ-ztHuWOMkc
https://youtu.be/t4TFcnuuyNs?si=RriugZ-ztHuWOMkc
That's just your body telling you it sufficiently hydrated, a bit like overfilling a watering can. What you should do with over-drinkers is call long meetings without a 'comfort break' 
More seriously though do watch yourself in the heat. It's very easy to dehydrate and one of the problems with dehydration is that your brain doesn't register it and starts making stupid decisions.
More seriously though do watch yourself in the heat. It's very easy to dehydrate and one of the problems with dehydration is that your brain doesn't register it and starts making stupid decisions.
Steve_H80 said:
That's just your body telling you it sufficiently hydrated, a bit like overfilling a watering can. What you should do with over-drinkers is call long meetings without a 'comfort break'
More seriously though do watch yourself in the heat. It's very easy to dehydrate and one of the problems with dehydration is that your brain doesn't register it and starts making stupid decisions.
I must have been dehydrated all my life.More seriously though do watch yourself in the heat. It's very easy to dehydrate and one of the problems with dehydration is that your brain doesn't register it and starts making stupid decisions.
Mont Blanc said:
Things reached 'peak hydration' this week, when I was sat in a meeting across the table from a colleague who had a water bottle that must have been verging on 3 litres in capacity. It was enormous. It looked like a plastic barrel with a handle moulded into it. It also had stupid things written down the side of it for each increment marker like 'you can do it', 'keep going', 'almost there'.
I’ve seen numpties in the office with those. Was never quite sure whether the words of encouragement related to drinking enough water or getting to the bathroom on time having drank all the water.One option would be to go all Sarah Miles, drink the water, piss in the bottle and then drink that.
ChevronB19 said:
It’s not new, this is Smack the Pony from the early 2000’s
https://youtu.be/t4TFcnuuyNs?si=RriugZ-ztHuWOMkc
https://youtu.be/t4TFcnuuyNs?si=RriugZ-ztHuWOMkc
ChevronB19 said:
It’s not new, this is Smack the Pony from the early 2000’s
https://youtu.be/t4TFcnuuyNs?si=RriugZ-ztHuWOMkc
https://youtu.be/t4TFcnuuyNs?si=RriugZ-ztHuWOMkc
That literally could have been the meeting I was in
The stupidly massive water bottle I mentioned could have been that water cooler bottle but with a handle.
Ridiculous.
Mont Blanc said:
Apparently it is healthy for an adult to drink upwards of 2 litres of water per day. I know this because for the last 10+ years, everyone at work has been telling me, whilst carrying water bottles around with them all day long, constantly slurping away at them. These bottles seem to increase in size year by year.
Things reached 'peak hydration' this week, when I was sat in a meeting across the table from a colleague who had a water bottle that must have been verging on 3 litres in capacity. It was enormous. It looked like a plastic barrel with a handle moulded into it. It also had stupid things written down the side of it for each increment marker like 'you can do it', 'keep going', 'almost there'.
I have tried to indulge this practice of drinking more water, but it simply results in me going for a piss every 30 minutes which is highly inconvenient. I'll have a cup to tea to start the day, and all is fine, and then I'll drink a pint of water over the next hour, and thats it... I have 'broken the seal' as they phrase it, and I'm urinating like a racehorse for the next few hours. Sometimes I'll urinate, sit back down, then literally 20 mins later I'll be going again.
Anyone else trying to drink more water but ending up just finding it inconvenient?
Do things get better if I get used to drinking more water?
Why am I even doing it?
And how many visits overnight?!!Things reached 'peak hydration' this week, when I was sat in a meeting across the table from a colleague who had a water bottle that must have been verging on 3 litres in capacity. It was enormous. It looked like a plastic barrel with a handle moulded into it. It also had stupid things written down the side of it for each increment marker like 'you can do it', 'keep going', 'almost there'.
I have tried to indulge this practice of drinking more water, but it simply results in me going for a piss every 30 minutes which is highly inconvenient. I'll have a cup to tea to start the day, and all is fine, and then I'll drink a pint of water over the next hour, and thats it... I have 'broken the seal' as they phrase it, and I'm urinating like a racehorse for the next few hours. Sometimes I'll urinate, sit back down, then literally 20 mins later I'll be going again.
Anyone else trying to drink more water but ending up just finding it inconvenient?
Do things get better if I get used to drinking more water?
Why am I even doing it?
I’m the same, don’t drink enough water probably because I know I’ll be draining the weasel all day/night
Does the body every acclimatise or does it get progressively worse
I've always drunk a lot, if I'm dehydrated it triggers migraines for me. I have just a 1L insulated metal bottle, no stupid markings. One of the girls came in the office the other week with something at least 3L, it was hilarious.
I just go by colour of urine. Your tolerance will increase over time, just needs some bladder training, it will improve. I'd suggest building up slowly. On any given day, I probably drink min 3L water and similar in tea & coffee. I very rarely have to go through the night, and always the last person on a car journey that will need the toilet.
I just go by colour of urine. Your tolerance will increase over time, just needs some bladder training, it will improve. I'd suggest building up slowly. On any given day, I probably drink min 3L water and similar in tea & coffee. I very rarely have to go through the night, and always the last person on a car journey that will need the toilet.
Takemeaway said:
And how many visits overnight?!!
I’m the same, don’t drink enough water probably because I know I’ll be draining the weasel all day/night
Does the body every acclimatise or does it get progressively worse
Usually no toilet visits overnight. It's not really a thing for me.I’m the same, don’t drink enough water probably because I know I’ll be draining the weasel all day/night
Does the body every acclimatise or does it get progressively worse
If I stop drinking water at about 4:30pm, when I leave my desk, then by 10pm it has mostly left my system. I help flush it out with either beer or red wine between 5pm and 10pm.
I don't know if it's my ADHD brain but I tend to forget to drink water during the day. Don't drink tea or coffee, either. Some days I can literally have had nothing to eat or drink by the middle of the day and not feel like there's a problem.
Like the OP, when I do drink water it goes through me at what feels like twice the speed of any other drink. For an important reference I can sit for 2 hours and drink 4 pints of beer before normally needing to brave the pub toilets. If I drink a pint of water I've got about half an hour before things require evacuation.
Like the OP, when I do drink water it goes through me at what feels like twice the speed of any other drink. For an important reference I can sit for 2 hours and drink 4 pints of beer before normally needing to brave the pub toilets. If I drink a pint of water I've got about half an hour before things require evacuation.
Forester1965 said:
I don't know if it's my ADHD brain but I tend to forget to drink water during the day. Don't drink tea or coffee, either. Some days I can literally have had nothing to eat or drink by the middle of the day and not feel like there's a problem.
Like the OP, when I do drink water it goes through me at what feels like twice the speed of any other drink. For an important reference I can sit for 2 hours and drink 4 pints of beer before normally needing to brave the pub toilets. If I drink a pint of water I've got about half an hour before things require evacuation.
Same.Like the OP, when I do drink water it goes through me at what feels like twice the speed of any other drink. For an important reference I can sit for 2 hours and drink 4 pints of beer before normally needing to brave the pub toilets. If I drink a pint of water I've got about half an hour before things require evacuation.
If I forget to have a drink then absolutely nothing happens. I hate drinking anything soon after I wake up, so I wait until I'm in the office (or at my desk if WFH) but then I get busy with stuff, forget, and it can be lunchtime by the time I realise I haven't had anything to drink, and the reminder will be lunchtime itself, not because I feel thirsty or anything. A few weeks ago I got to 3pm and realised I hadn't drank anything at all.
I can have a couple of beers and not much happens.
But yeah, if I drink a pint of water I'll be pissing like a racehorse within 30 mins or so.
I usually drink getting on for 6L of water a day. Have done for years and it's almost like a habit now. 2L bottle in the morning, another in the afternoon and then another in gym in the evening. Just use a standard 2L 'Volvic' bottle though. The Stanley bottles a lot of women have now do make me laugh, some of them are enormous!
I do find if I don't have enough I start getting a headache.
I do find if I don't have enough I start getting a headache.
Many many many years ago, there weren't plastic water bottles around the whole time and the sky didn't fall down.
When we felt thirsty, we drank.
It's evolutionary.
In this doctor's opinion, carrying plastic bottles around all the time and "chasing" the "I must keep hydrated with X litres" is balls.
Socioenvironmental polydipsia
When we felt thirsty, we drank.
It's evolutionary.
In this doctor's opinion, carrying plastic bottles around all the time and "chasing" the "I must keep hydrated with X litres" is balls.
Socioenvironmental polydipsia
I drink plenty of water generally, during the day it's all I drink with the odd green tea thrown in, I don't monitor how much, I just drink when I fancy it or feel that I need it, sometimes though at the end of a busy day, in the car I think my god I've not had anything to drink since this morning, that's why I've got a bit of a headache, however I'm still alive!
The Stanley Cup things though, just odd, pretty much universally used by women and as we all know, women love a fad and the more expensive the better, the wife has a (fake Stanley Cup), I didn't think she has ever managed a whole one, she however doesn't take it out in public.
Girl at work has a fake Stanley Cup, she is constantly drinking from it and is constantly in the loo.
The Stanley Cup things though, just odd, pretty much universally used by women and as we all know, women love a fad and the more expensive the better, the wife has a (fake Stanley Cup), I didn't think she has ever managed a whole one, she however doesn't take it out in public.
Girl at work has a fake Stanley Cup, she is constantly drinking from it and is constantly in the loo.
The appropriate amount of water to drink will vary depending on body type, metabolism, level of activity, temperature, humidity... A brick s
thouse who spends all day breaking rocks in the hot sun is going to need a lot more water than a mouse who sits at a desk all day.
My recommendation is to go by the colour of your piss.
thouse who spends all day breaking rocks in the hot sun is going to need a lot more water than a mouse who sits at a desk all day. My recommendation is to go by the colour of your piss.
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