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How about (black) tea or coffee, as a drink alternative, might be a diuretic, but satisfying ? your chart does need seem to show a tasty beverage for breakfast ?
 
booyaka said:
first couple of days yes - after that no. You body adapts to it and it's great to lose weight.
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Not sure there's a lot the body can do to adapt to your consuming a couple of litres more fluid than you need a day, unless you've become a camel :)

I think it's more likely that you adapted to peeing twice as much as you used to.
 
Just check your urine colour against a hydration chart and adjust your water intake appropriately.

Personally I drink more than 3 litres of water a day so I'm always very well hydrated. Quite an easy habit to get into as I was coming from a diet coke addiction and transferred it over to a sparkling mineral water addiction.
 
I find a few slices of lemon, lime and ginger give water some much needed flavour. However I mostly do just chug plain old corporation pop as I forget to take the lemons, limes and ginger to work with me! :D

I do also sometimes just have a little dash of Robinsons or similar in water if weve got it in at home as I have my cordial very weak anyway and the amount I put in isnt enough to be worrying about the sugar content etc.

Do you take BCAA's? If you are going to the gym then another idea might be to get a large 2l bottle of water and just use one of the small scoops of the powdered, flavoured BCAA supplements you can buy (I prefer Protein Works' iBCAA compared to MyProtein's BCAA - Berry Blitz is a nice flavour). It would be very weak but would give the water a little flavour and you'd be getting the added goodness from the BCAA's in there too which can't do you any harm!
 
R.O.S.S.I said:
Do you take BCAA's? If you are going to the gym then another idea might be to get a large 2l bottle of water and just use one of the small scoops of the powdered, flavoured BCAA supplements you can buy (I prefer Protein Works' iBCAA compared to MyProtein's BCAA - Berry Blitz is a nice flavour). It would be very weak but would give the water a little flavour and you'd be getting the added goodness from the BCAA's in there too which can't do you any harm!
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I'll just leave this here:

Alan Aragon said:
Hey everyone, a frequently recurring topic is BCAA supplementation. A lot of folks are simply unaware of the actual data, so they needlessly waste their hard-earned cash on BCAA supps. This might not be music to the ears of folks locked in a routine of taking their favorite supp, but my hope is that it gives some of you food for thought, and ultimately helps you zap an unnecessary (and potentially detrimental) item from your supplement shopping list.

The high-quality proteins in our diets are comprised of appx 18-26% BCAA as it is. Supplementing with extra BCAA on top of that can range from adding extra unnecessary calories (and metabolic burden), to actually inhibiting optimal use of ingested amino acids [1].

Let me also add that whey protein has a stronger anabolic/anticatabolic effect than its equivalent in supplemental EAA or BCAA [2]. It's no surprise that supplemental BCAA has an equivocal track record in the research [3,4]. For those concerned about "going catabolic" doing fasted cardio without AA supplementation, my colleagues and I found no difference in body comp effects between fed vs fasted cardio when total protein is sufficient (both groups retained their LBM) [5]. As for the ability of BCAA to inhibit muscle soreness, note that this is always compared to a non-protein placebo.

It's LOL to supp with BCAA to begin with (instead of an intact, high-quality protein such as whey, which provides the rest of the EAAs as well as other co-factors for anabolism -- but it's all moot if you're getting enough total daily protein anyway). Here’s a salient quote from a recent review [6]:

"Thus, as we speculated, consumption of crystalline BCAA resulted in competitive antagonism for uptake from the gut and into the muscle and was actually not as effective as leucine alone in stimulating MPS. Despite the popularity of BCAA supplements we find shockingly little evidence for their efficacy in promoting MPS or lean mass gains and would advise the use of intact proteins as opposed to a purified combination of BCAA that appear to antagonize each other in terms of transport both into circulation and likely in to the muscle.”

The only people who are not wasting time & money on supplemental BCAA are those who must maintain a low-protein diet, or a diet with restricted amounts of high-quality protein. With that all said, if your total daily protein is optimized, and you don't mind consuming the functional equivalent of really expensive flavored water, then be my guest. :)

1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27175106
2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22451437
3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20110810
4) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15930475
5) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25429252/
6) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26388782/
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If you don't know who AA is, google him.
 
Maccapacca said:
Same here. Lost loads of weight and with the water I put a pinch of himalayan salt in each pint. Saves you peeing all out in half and hour. Most bottled water has a touch of salt.
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This is a poor idea.

If you feel drinking excessive amounts of water is good for you, then okay, but don't add salt to it to try and trick your body into retaining it. A healthy body is meant to dump that extra fluid.

I doubt that 'a pinch' of salt would have any notable impact in reality, but if it did, it'd be making that water hang around in all of the of the places you didn't want it to (ie, your blood vessels, raising your blood pressure).
 
eh ? did you post that (breakfast idea) in the right thread, or do you represent temptation ;)?

About infusing or adding stuff to water (salt, lemon etc) , I thought that was meant to help with rapid hydration, prevent the liquid passing straight through
and reduce/distract from hunger - but could not find any references to substantiate that ? is it a myth
fizzy water I guess may also have similar accelerated absorption like champagne ?

[ ... & BCAA's (which I had never heard of before today) as infusions, are deprecated ...]
 
I don't believe sparkling water is any more easily "absorbed" - I just personaly enjoy drinking it more.

Drinking 3 litres per day is not particularly excessive though activity levels and climate are obviously a factor.
 
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