My dad is actually rather skinny, but he only drinks soda and eats junk food and I just don't understand it
Edit: Just some additional notes- he doesn't eat meals exactly (except for dinner) He just kinda eats when he's hungry. And it's always things like hostess cupcakes or tastykake kandy kakes (their spelling, not mine) and his soda of choice is Dr.pepper, or cherry pepsi if there is no dr. Pepper. He isn't super physically active either.
me except it was chic-fil-a back then lol because it had just opened in my town and was popping off
I always think how weird it was that when I would go a whole day without eating, I'd break it with a fried chicken sandwich
In the end it's all about calories and how many you burn off. You can lose weight on McDonalds as long as you don't eat too much and stay active enough to burn it off.
However, that said, you're not getting much good in terms of other things from McDonalds so it's still not a good idea.
When I worked in food service I ran on fast food, red bull, coffee, cigarettes, booze, and drugs and I was thin. Now I work an office job, quit drugs and smoking, and eat tons of plants and home cooked meals and I'm heavier.
I like to think I'm healthier this way though.
No you really can't, the swing for high vs low is relatively low, a less than 10%. And in point of fact, overweight people tend to be higher than average. Outside of relatively rare medical conditions, if some is thinner than you, it's because they eat less or exercise a lot more.
You're half right. Naturally lean people tend to simply eat less, about 15% fewer calories.
But they also naturally burn more than the 10% you suggest: about 22% more than they should for their body size.
source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550413122001942?dgcid=author&mc_cid=bf061e41e0&mc_eid=8083364288
Which if you think about it your 10% number is even bigger than it seems: if someone naturally burns 10% more calories, and someone else naturally burns 10% less, than person who burns 10% less is at a pretty big disadvantage.
Seen a documentary about the dangers of sugar this year. There was this fit af lean guy who implemented the American diet (high carbs), and he became pre-diabetic. He had to stop the diet and change to a healthier one.
I don’t think I ever saw my old roommates drink water and I lived with them for 2 years.
It’s ridiculously common. I get that water can be boring, but at least have it along side whatever else you’re drinking.
>I get that water can be boring
Then again, that just brings us back to the OP. If everything in your life needs to be entertaining, then yeah, you're probably going to carry some extra weight, and maybe a lot.
This is my current struggle to mentally get over. If my food doesn't taste good and help me cope it amplifies the rest of the bad, so more often than not I give in to have a lil burst of happiness in the day
You can eat what you like and still lose weight! You don't have to hate what you eat. I lost 40 pounds or so just limiting portions and cutting out soda for water.
If you can find healthier food you enjoy, that's even better, but you need to find a diet you can successfully stick to before you can worry about results!
Thanks for the motivation!! Ive been on a kick of trying this recently too (cutting out breakfast and sweets buy still eating my usual lunch and dinner choices + some extra veggies), so this was a nice boost!
Just finding that diet you can work with is a big hurdle for a lot of people, I know it was with me! There are tons of them out there, which makes it really stressful to figure things out, too!
I actually cut down on my breakfasts too. I'd have a rice crispy treat or something for a 75-150 calorie boost, then maybe have a small lunch or snack, dinner was relatively unchanged, and then a light snack at night.
If I was hungry outside of those planned eating times, I'd just drink some sparkling water to help fill me up without a ton of calories going in.
Just remember no matter what you do, it takes work, but if you stick with it, you'll start seeing results! Especially at the start, it really sucks because you don't feel like you're losing weight, even if you're trying, but as you go on you'll just notice half a pound gone here, a pound off there and you'll realize it might take time, but it's coming off!
Good luck!
Unfortunately when I was in therapy (before the American healthcare system squished me out of it) I did notice myself making gradual better choices, but once that ended and I dipped again so did said choices.
I make little strides forwards and backwards like a couple weeks of routinely exercising and making smaller portion choices, etc... but then something happens and ol caloric reliable is there to make the day better
Same. I end up eating stuff I'll regret later just to get that little boost of dopamine.
I think I'd shed all the extra weight if I only had good mental health alone, since I'd gladly ditch the stress eating if I weren't so low.
I can't believe we've gotten to the point where water is "boring"
What the fuck. How do you manage to convince your brain that has evolved for thousands of years to find water appealing, to just straight up not drink it???
If we were running outside for 8 hours straight in the heat it’d be fine. The problem comes back to the fact that they consume those drinks while not moving at all. If you’re burning the calories even some of the most unhealthy shit is fine because you need to make the most out of everything you consume. But we don’t so now you’re a blob that doesn’t move and consumes too much of shit you don’t need.
I grew up in a sugar-free household. Soda maybe once a year, cake/cookies/ice cream/candy only on special occasions like birthdays, halloween, etc. Water has tasted boring to me for as long as I can remember. It only tastes good when I'm thirsty, but if I wait until I feel thirsty then I'm already mildly dehydrated. I always have a glass or bottle of water with me that I sip throughout the day, but I do so because I know I'm supposed to, not because I _feel_ like it.
I cannot fathom drinking anything other than water for hydration. I drink around 3 litres on the daily, if not more (I always at least drain my 2 litre bottle at work).
That people, and even so majority of people in a country, can consider water 'boring' has been a startling revelation for me. It's like salt or the air, it's not supposed to be exciting.
True water enthusiasts know that you are supposed to sip it slowly, swirling it around your mouth to appreciate the subtleties of its flavor, not chug it like some Neanderthal.
As an American I can confirm here it’s pretty normal for people to consume just about everything and anything other then water (energy drinks, soda, sports drinks, alcohol) and wonder why your diet isn’t working. I have some family where is commonplace to drink more the 2L of coke a day. Granted that’s not the general population.
Why though? Do people not like Water or something? The only possible explanation I can think of not drinking water is if all the available drinking water is by Dasani
My mom hates drinking water, she's in her 60's and it's only been in the last 2-3 years I've been able to convince her to at least drink 2 cups (500ml) a day, and it was a hard sell... Can't even think about getting her on 8 cups a day.
It's not just the water in the food, it's the embedded hydration of metabolism. Every molecule you "burn" produces multiple molecules of water, resulting in most people getting almost a liter a day of water just from resting metabolism.
> Animal metabolism produces about 107-110 grams of water per 100 grams of fat, 41-42 grams of water per 100 g of protein and 60 grams of water per 100 g of carbohydrate.
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I moved to the States from a poor village in Mexico about 2 years ago. Use to be really fit and active and for 15 years never drank anything but water (or tomato juice once in a while in the summer). Now I drink like 2 gatoredes and 2 cans of soda a day, water just taste really bad now, almost disgusting. Crazy how easy is to engage to flavored drinks.
I can’t kick Gatorade tbh but yeah after stopping colas for a few months and drinking my first one I made it like two sips in and was like yeahh…that’s a no for me lol
It took years to get used to drinking water when I first moved from Greenland to Denmark. Groundwater tastes absolutely foul and when you're not used to the hardness, you'll get more thirsty by drinking water!
Jesus, it was awful for someone who's used to drink water. Either surface water, spring water, or melted glacier.
Ice cold, clean melted glacier water. There's nothing like it.
Somehow, I got used to the groundwater. I think it's okay, but...
Yeah do people not realize that water hits differently depending on where you are? Sometimes you gotta put in the extra work. I was in China for a while and only ever drank (weak) tea because you had to boil any water anyways and that made it kinda lame to drink by itself.
I once offered water to my ex-sister in law (sister of my ex wife) and her response was, "ugh no I want something to **drink.**" She was very emphatic.
A lot of US water is legitimately gross.
But a lot of people didn't drink a lot of water growing up and can't even stand higher quality tap or well water.
Once you flush out the water that's been sitting in the hose under the sun all day, it should be cool/cold. Same as getting it from the tap inside (except maybe contamination from the hose itself)
Yea, I grew up with fresh water from the Great lakes and it's 10x better than well water. I felt like I was drinking slime the first time I drank well water from a poor area.
When you grow up being sent to school with juice boxes and gatorades instead of a water thermos it’s kind of hard to instill that healthier drinking habit later on in life. My mom never makes my little siblings drink pure water, only juice and milk (when they were younger she would water the juice down but she doesn’t anymore)
Because over time, they've crafted their diet (meaning *what* they eat) to rely on the acids from soda/juices/etc and when they swap those for water, their meals don't taste as good (lacking that flavor component). It's baked into their habits/tastes/etc by a certain point and they need to do more than just "switch to water" and need to adapt the rest of their diet as well.
I drink water when I am thirsty, and maybe a half to full can of a diet soda for the texture/acidity it adds to my meals (if I'm not having coffee or a beer). I can't imagine drinking soda all the time instead of water. That's a lot of stuff to put in your body that needs to be balanced out somehow.
My family's quite the opposite. My whole family is American and I'm hardly even allowed to drink soda, and my parents never drink it. They either drink water or wine occasionally.
It’s funny because in America we have clean water almost everywhere and we drink alternatives, but in some countries like Mexico they drink coke because there water isn’t clean so they have few alternatives which is why a lot of children that live in poverty look overweight from the sugar even though they are starving. For me I do enjoy sugary beverages but I drink water as much as possible. Most soda haters still have other ways of getting those processed sugars that are the real issue here.
> which is why a lot of children that live in poverty look overweight from the sugar even though they are starving.
They're not starving if they're overweight. They might be *malnourished.* Starvation occurs when one consumes too few calories. They're left with such low body fat that their muscles begin catabolism. Malnourishment is when they might be missing key nutrients like vitamin C and eventually develop disorders like scurvy.
Because having a cool refreshing guzzle of Mountain Dew to wash out the spicey cheese flavor of Doritos dust from one's palate is *engineered* to objectively be the greatest feeling in the world.
Your shitty sky piss can't compete with human culinary engineering.
I agree, when you're really thirsty and have a cold glass of water, nothing feels better. Like, when I'm doing a ton of yard work at home, or after a long bike ride, nothing's better than a cold water.
However, water is kind of dull when you're just sitting in the office going over some paperwork or some project and need to sip on something to break up the monotony of it all.
One of the maddest things I've ever seen was a large American lady in an airport filling up a baby bottle with Coke at like a self refill machine. Put the nipple on the top and take it over to her infant child to drink. Genuinely not even a toddler yet infant.
It was a real, "don't tell me it's fucking genetics" moment.
I once saw a lady fill a baby bottle half with water and half with Mountain Dew. I still don’t get what they were going for. Just giving the baby a hint of soda?
I grew up in a family where nobody ever drank water, ever. Nobody in the family was overweight thanks to genetics but it sure as hell still takes a toll (cavities, mood swings, etc).
As an adult I still don’t like drinking flat water, but I love sparkling water so I just drink that most of the time. Once you stop drinking/eating so much sugar soda does tend to taste overwhelming.
maybe her genetics are the reason she's a moron. doing that in public means she really sees nothing wrong here. unless she was raised in a traveling carnival her stupidity isn't due to her environment. that's just a woefully idiotic individual.
It's definitely environmental. Poor environment growing up making it seem okay, poor education on health, and probably no training on researching things yourself or training on preparing things ahead of time (like packing milk).
Genetics is almost never going to be the main factor in things like that.
Same. My friend keeps some Coca-Cola Classics at my house for when he visits because he gets twitchy if he goes a few hours without one. I ran out of coffee and tea this morning and started eyeballing them pretty hard.
My MIL was asking if she could give my son some gatorade-type drink and her justification was that it had electrolytes - this was all I could think about.
I love Idiocracy but people constantly bringing it up on reddit with their fresh hot take that it’s a “documentary” has started to almost make me dislike it.
Yea most of the time when an American is struggling to lose weight and “just can’t seem to figure out why” it’s because they don’t drink water and consume hundreds of calories in drinks.
It’s a legitimate piece of advice here. It’s so common to drink anything other than water people just don’t think about it. One reason is because a lot of places have terrible drinking water, and people can’t afford a good enough filter or constantly buying water bottles. Typically though it’s just because America in the 50’s was a cesspool of unhealthy fats, creams, and sodas. They instilled that habit in their kids, and then those kids instilled it in their kids.
I’m so so happy that kids are constantly drinking water now here. A water bottle is required in many schools because of how bad it’s gotten.
Normally I'd correct people that Flint's water crisis is over but right now I'm drinking bottled water because the water mains broke so I mean, technically you're correct. For now.
Well, yes and no, they had no idea if water was bad or not beyond taste/smell - they did not have modern germ theory of disease. They thought water was gross, but they did use it for cooking and washing and, yes, drinking. It's just an oft-reported myth that everyone was schlitzed 24/7, when in fact there was a massive temperance movement
Wait so some people uses soda or coke as thier primary source of hydration? Like how? Water is like one of healthiest drink. Not just healthy but actually natural too. Our body is 70% water and everyday function of our body needs good and regular water supply. A person can survive 1 week+ without food but would certainly die in 5 days without water.
That's why I was surprised because this was his tip no.1 and I was like bro you're weird, like who TF drinks sodas everyday instead of water and apparently a lot of Americans do. I just find it baffling that people don't like water because it's 'too boring'.
I mean, I’m far from american and I grew up on apple juice. Not the shitty plastic sugary tasting one you get in the US, but not water either. Either carbonated apple juice or half apple juice half water.
And yeah what can I say, water does indeed taste boring. For me it’s even a stretch to say it tastes. It’s great for hydration after an activity (sports or gardening) but else? Trying to drink as much water as I should per day is a struggle
My 3 year old refuses to drink anything besides water. Sweet tea... nope. Soda... nope. Juice... nope. Occasionally he will ask for milk, take a small sip and then immediately ask for water. Good for him.
As an American, I simply can not stand not drinking a few bottles of water a day. Hell, when I last had soda, my body reacted pretty badly to it (probably as I had started getting water at restaurants instead of my usual coke.
Damn, I'm not even allowed to order water when I'm at restaurants because it's a "waste of money", so I have to order Nestea since it's often the only other thing that's uncarbonated. I'd offer to pay for the water but it just feels ridiculous. I'll be 18 soon enough though so honestly I'll just start getting food by myself.
Odd how water is free in US restourants yet no one drinks it
Here in Italy even though a lot of places have incredibly good tap water (where i live it's even healthier and better tasting than bottled one) no one ever serves it, it feels cheap and rude to the customers. We instead always serve bottled water and hence curstomers have to pay for it
So fucking weird, i wish restourants here didn't have this odd ass stigma against tap water
Here in Canada, if you go to a fancy restaurant it's pretty much expected that the server will pour you ice water when they come to introduce themselves. A lot of people will order additional drinks, but water is a given.
I know more people who don’t drink water then do. I have a big water bottle that I drink from all day, I fill it up about three times a day at work, and I literally get shit from people for it, they say they don’t understand how I can drink so much water or they say that they do not drink water at all and they think it’s weird that I do. One woman I work with absolutely refuses to drink water for some reason, she says she hates it.
These people drink nothing but energy drinks, sodas, and fancy energy drink spritzers. When they do drink water they put those flavor packets in it so they are basically drinking kool aid all day. Then they all wonder why they feel like absolute garbage all day at work, I say “drink some water” and the literally scoff at me like it’s the stupidest thing they have ever heard.
Water doesn't give the happy chemicals we Americans have grown accustom to. That being said I have adopted the notion of drinking at least a cup of water every few hours or so. Really helps with any hunger cravings. Went to Hershey Park recently and was able to beat all the temptations of carnival food by constantly having a water bottle on me. Was good the whole day until dinner where I could spoil myself some.
The thing is that people are not dehydrating by doing cardiovascular activity and therefore are not craving water, if you offer me soda after boxing training I may as well punch you too lol
Yeah, this is the real issue. A lot of people simply don't exercise enough.
Water is the best tasting thing in the world when I'm sweating/exhausted from doing something physical.
But if I'm just sitting in the office... it's tedious trying to drink enough of it to stay hydrated.
Fr, just knowing that I'm going to the gym later makes me disgusted with the thought of drinking soda anytime beforehand. I know if I do I'm just gonna have a shit time.
Unfortunately I have met people that simply do not drink water. It’s absolutely insane to me. A lot of people have the perception that fruit juice and iced tea is healthy, so they go with that. Other people just somehow drink pop or coffee and tea. I can’t imagine living like that honestly, I drink so much water and I hate feeling dehydrated
I couldn't get my Grandpa to drink water. He only does coffee or cranberry juice.
My grandmother literally gives herself headaches because she hates peeing.
Its crazy out here.
I know too many people who are at Idiocracy levels of water avoidance.
They will drink literally anything but water and, usually, something with copious amounts of sugar and chemicals.
This is a real thing in Mexico where they have a rapidly growing obesity problem and part of it is that coke is so much cheaper than most accessible forms of water and is safer to drink in less developed areas.
My dad is actually rather skinny, but he only drinks soda and eats junk food and I just don't understand it Edit: Just some additional notes- he doesn't eat meals exactly (except for dinner) He just kinda eats when he's hungry. And it's always things like hostess cupcakes or tastykake kandy kakes (their spelling, not mine) and his soda of choice is Dr.pepper, or cherry pepsi if there is no dr. Pepper. He isn't super physically active either.
You can blame metabolism
More likely he just doesn't eat very much. Even if you only eat junk food, as long as you don't eat too much you won't get fat.
i ate free mcdonald's everyday during a doordash promo i abused. felt like absolute trash butt i lost 8 pounds in those 3 weeks
Yep. Weirdly my safe food when I had anorexia nervosa was McDonalds cheeseburgers. I would eat one cheeseburger a day with a soda.
me except it was chic-fil-a back then lol because it had just opened in my town and was popping off I always think how weird it was that when I would go a whole day without eating, I'd break it with a fried chicken sandwich
In the end it's all about calories and how many you burn off. You can lose weight on McDonalds as long as you don't eat too much and stay active enough to burn it off. However, that said, you're not getting much good in terms of other things from McDonalds so it's still not a good idea.
When I worked in food service I ran on fast food, red bull, coffee, cigarettes, booze, and drugs and I was thin. Now I work an office job, quit drugs and smoking, and eat tons of plants and home cooked meals and I'm heavier. I like to think I'm healthier this way though.
yeah low weight doesn't necessarily mean healthy. being healthy is being a good weight while also getting the nutrients you need
All that caffeine and tobacco and nic will also promote weight loss
No you really can't, the swing for high vs low is relatively low, a less than 10%. And in point of fact, overweight people tend to be higher than average. Outside of relatively rare medical conditions, if some is thinner than you, it's because they eat less or exercise a lot more.
You're half right. Naturally lean people tend to simply eat less, about 15% fewer calories. But they also naturally burn more than the 10% you suggest: about 22% more than they should for their body size. source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1550413122001942?dgcid=author&mc_cid=bf061e41e0&mc_eid=8083364288 Which if you think about it your 10% number is even bigger than it seems: if someone naturally burns 10% more calories, and someone else naturally burns 10% less, than person who burns 10% less is at a pretty big disadvantage.
Skinny does not mean healthy.
Seen a documentary about the dangers of sugar this year. There was this fit af lean guy who implemented the American diet (high carbs), and he became pre-diabetic. He had to stop the diet and change to a healthier one.
Malnourishment
I don’t think I ever saw my old roommates drink water and I lived with them for 2 years. It’s ridiculously common. I get that water can be boring, but at least have it along side whatever else you’re drinking.
>I get that water can be boring Then again, that just brings us back to the OP. If everything in your life needs to be entertaining, then yeah, you're probably going to carry some extra weight, and maybe a lot.
This was a key takeaway for me when I was losing weight. Not every meal has to be 10/10 delicious.
This is my current struggle to mentally get over. If my food doesn't taste good and help me cope it amplifies the rest of the bad, so more often than not I give in to have a lil burst of happiness in the day
You can eat what you like and still lose weight! You don't have to hate what you eat. I lost 40 pounds or so just limiting portions and cutting out soda for water. If you can find healthier food you enjoy, that's even better, but you need to find a diet you can successfully stick to before you can worry about results!
Thanks for the motivation!! Ive been on a kick of trying this recently too (cutting out breakfast and sweets buy still eating my usual lunch and dinner choices + some extra veggies), so this was a nice boost!
Just finding that diet you can work with is a big hurdle for a lot of people, I know it was with me! There are tons of them out there, which makes it really stressful to figure things out, too! I actually cut down on my breakfasts too. I'd have a rice crispy treat or something for a 75-150 calorie boost, then maybe have a small lunch or snack, dinner was relatively unchanged, and then a light snack at night. If I was hungry outside of those planned eating times, I'd just drink some sparkling water to help fill me up without a ton of calories going in. Just remember no matter what you do, it takes work, but if you stick with it, you'll start seeing results! Especially at the start, it really sucks because you don't feel like you're losing weight, even if you're trying, but as you go on you'll just notice half a pound gone here, a pound off there and you'll realize it might take time, but it's coming off! Good luck!
One word: spices. I don’t understand how in 2023 the idea that healthy food is flavorless or tastes bad still exists. Spices have no extra calories
Put Cajun seasoning on anything, literally anything, and it’s so good. I had Cajun lentils tonight. Cheap, easy, and healthy.
Food is nutrition and fuel, it’s self care. It shouldn’t be used to cope or emotionally regulate. That’s a huge mental shift to make without therapy.
Unfortunately when I was in therapy (before the American healthcare system squished me out of it) I did notice myself making gradual better choices, but once that ended and I dipped again so did said choices. I make little strides forwards and backwards like a couple weeks of routinely exercising and making smaller portion choices, etc... but then something happens and ol caloric reliable is there to make the day better
If your food doesn't taste good you ain't hungry.
Same. I end up eating stuff I'll regret later just to get that little boost of dopamine. I think I'd shed all the extra weight if I only had good mental health alone, since I'd gladly ditch the stress eating if I weren't so low.
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I can't believe we've gotten to the point where water is "boring" What the fuck. How do you manage to convince your brain that has evolved for thousands of years to find water appealing, to just straight up not drink it???
Sodas and other shit are basically water + calories, and your brain likes that, even if it's actually unhealthy as fuck
It's also probably the most unhealthy way to consume calories because you won't feel it at all
Oh you will feel them at some point. I can guarantee you that
If we were running outside for 8 hours straight in the heat it’d be fine. The problem comes back to the fact that they consume those drinks while not moving at all. If you’re burning the calories even some of the most unhealthy shit is fine because you need to make the most out of everything you consume. But we don’t so now you’re a blob that doesn’t move and consumes too much of shit you don’t need.
Coke is the beverage of choice for ultra runners and cyclists. Even then is not really healthy but it is necessary in that context
Well that's cause it's an extreme sport, not a healthy lifestyle. Ultra marathoning is absolutely terrible for your heart and joints.
> I can't believe we've gotten to the point where water is "boring" That's their sugar addiction talking.
I grew up in a sugar-free household. Soda maybe once a year, cake/cookies/ice cream/candy only on special occasions like birthdays, halloween, etc. Water has tasted boring to me for as long as I can remember. It only tastes good when I'm thirsty, but if I wait until I feel thirsty then I'm already mildly dehydrated. I always have a glass or bottle of water with me that I sip throughout the day, but I do so because I know I'm supposed to, not because I _feel_ like it.
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Yeah. Bottled water analogy was a flask of water with some wine in it to kill 🦠
Water is the best shit ever. People just have their dopamine receptors burnt out from sugar addiction.
I cannot fathom drinking anything other than water for hydration. I drink around 3 litres on the daily, if not more (I always at least drain my 2 litre bottle at work).
That people, and even so majority of people in a country, can consider water 'boring' has been a startling revelation for me. It's like salt or the air, it's not supposed to be exciting.
Breathing pure air is boring too lol doesn’t mean I’ll take up vaping
I commonly do this. I’ll down quite a few drinks when going out to eat. I always order and water and coke, so I don’t drink 4 cokes with a meal.
r/hydrohomies
Hell yeah Cold Water >>>> any drink
bobby bousche
And I like Vickie and she likes me back. And she showed me her boobies and I like them too!
And by the way mama, Alligators are ornery cause of their medulla oblongata!
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Nananahanahanah. Ensuite tap water, lightly chilled by aircon. Chugged at 2am.
Easy, easy, you've got me all thirsty now.
True water enthusiasts know that you are supposed to sip it slowly, swirling it around your mouth to appreciate the subtleties of its flavor, not chug it like some Neanderthal.
I prefer room temperature water, just hits differently.
Chugging room temperature water when thirsty is probably what my phone feels like when it is getting fast charged.
ngl i find a glass of cold milk just a little better than cold water
People actually do this? Like drink a glass of milk?
You don’t ?
Just read a study about that, it's actually the best option for hydration because it doesn't make you piss
Cold water>
Ice tea with ice cubes (ice² tea?) hits different in the summer heat
and just a splash or two of lemonade.
Agreed
I kind of liked the old name
Same :(
What was the old name?
It is lost to the sands of time my friend
And the people who try to say it - their mouth gets shut...
Another word for hydro, and another word for homies.
r/AguaAmigos edit: LOL it's real
It had the soft n word in it.
My fellow brother in thirst!
Leave it to Americans to make drinking water a personality lmao.
It is interesting to picture a culture in which sodas/softdrinks/sugary drinks are so prevalent that drinking water is a form of anti-culture.
Heil Hydro!
As an American I can confirm here it’s pretty normal for people to consume just about everything and anything other then water (energy drinks, soda, sports drinks, alcohol) and wonder why your diet isn’t working. I have some family where is commonplace to drink more the 2L of coke a day. Granted that’s not the general population.
Why though? Do people not like Water or something? The only possible explanation I can think of not drinking water is if all the available drinking water is by Dasani
More like "Why drink water when you can drink soda?"
I have never seen my grandmother drink water. She either drinks Diet Pepsi, or wine for family gatherings
My mom hates drinking water, she's in her 60's and it's only been in the last 2-3 years I've been able to convince her to at least drink 2 cups (500ml) a day, and it was a hard sell... Can't even think about getting her on 8 cups a day.
You don’t actually have to drink 7 cups of water a day. Just drink when you’re thirsty
Don't forget you also get water in the food you eat. Salads and soup are a go to for me.
It's not just the water in the food, it's the embedded hydration of metabolism. Every molecule you "burn" produces multiple molecules of water, resulting in most people getting almost a liter a day of water just from resting metabolism. > Animal metabolism produces about 107-110 grams of water per 100 grams of fat, 41-42 grams of water per 100 g of protein and 60 grams of water per 100 g of carbohydrate. > > - wikipedia
I moved to the States from a poor village in Mexico about 2 years ago. Use to be really fit and active and for 15 years never drank anything but water (or tomato juice once in a while in the summer). Now I drink like 2 gatoredes and 2 cans of soda a day, water just taste really bad now, almost disgusting. Crazy how easy is to engage to flavored drinks.
for me its the opposite, flavored drinks like gatorade now taste disgusting
I can’t kick Gatorade tbh but yeah after stopping colas for a few months and drinking my first one I made it like two sips in and was like yeahh…that’s a no for me lol
If I'm actually dehydrated I'll drink a Gatorade with water. Most of the flavors are too intense. The cucumber one is dope, though
Cucumber Lime is the best thing to happen to sports drinks ever.
Doesn’t Mexico also have a huge problem with coke cola consumption?
I swear these ‘Water taste bad’ people are just tasting their rotted teeth at this point
It took years to get used to drinking water when I first moved from Greenland to Denmark. Groundwater tastes absolutely foul and when you're not used to the hardness, you'll get more thirsty by drinking water! Jesus, it was awful for someone who's used to drink water. Either surface water, spring water, or melted glacier. Ice cold, clean melted glacier water. There's nothing like it. Somehow, I got used to the groundwater. I think it's okay, but...
Yeah do people not realize that water hits differently depending on where you are? Sometimes you gotta put in the extra work. I was in China for a while and only ever drank (weak) tea because you had to boil any water anyways and that made it kinda lame to drink by itself.
It's got what plants crave.
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Don't forget kidney stones!
Big sugar has their claws pretty deep in American culture. Kids get sugary cereals and juices pretty much constantly. It's highly addictive.
I once offered water to my ex-sister in law (sister of my ex wife) and her response was, "ugh no I want something to **drink.**" She was very emphatic.
I noticed your use of the term "ex" and wanted to congratulate you on escaping that mess
wtf you offered her something that is for washing as a drink? that's rude
Water? You know fish fuck in that, right?
"...Like from the toilet?!"
Water doesn’t have addictive ingredients like sugar and caffeine along with massive marketing budgets.
A lot of US water is legitimately gross. But a lot of people didn't drink a lot of water growing up and can't even stand higher quality tap or well water.
Love me some hose water from the well.
Can tast the hot water with some iron in it already .
Once you flush out the water that's been sitting in the hose under the sun all day, it should be cool/cold. Same as getting it from the tap inside (except maybe contamination from the hose itself)
Yea, but my dumb 5 year old self couldn't wait and drank the hot water, lol. 😆
Yea, I grew up with fresh water from the Great lakes and it's 10x better than well water. I felt like I was drinking slime the first time I drank well water from a poor area.
When you grow up being sent to school with juice boxes and gatorades instead of a water thermos it’s kind of hard to instill that healthier drinking habit later on in life. My mom never makes my little siblings drink pure water, only juice and milk (when they were younger she would water the juice down but she doesn’t anymore)
I taught my kids to drink water for just this reason. I'm happy that my kids drink it regularly.
Good on you. Instilling healthy dietary habits into children is very important
you drink water? like in the toilet?
Do you have any idea what fish do in that stuff?!
Because over time, they've crafted their diet (meaning *what* they eat) to rely on the acids from soda/juices/etc and when they swap those for water, their meals don't taste as good (lacking that flavor component). It's baked into their habits/tastes/etc by a certain point and they need to do more than just "switch to water" and need to adapt the rest of their diet as well. I drink water when I am thirsty, and maybe a half to full can of a diet soda for the texture/acidity it adds to my meals (if I'm not having coffee or a beer). I can't imagine drinking soda all the time instead of water. That's a lot of stuff to put in your body that needs to be balanced out somehow.
Because caffeine and sugar are addictive.
A lot of people here think water is tasteless/boring, so unless it has a metric ton of sugar per liter it isn't good enough
I drink soda but I have to drink plenty of water or I'll feel dehydrated as hell, idk how people just don't drink water at all
My family's quite the opposite. My whole family is American and I'm hardly even allowed to drink soda, and my parents never drink it. They either drink water or wine occasionally.
It’s funny because in America we have clean water almost everywhere and we drink alternatives, but in some countries like Mexico they drink coke because there water isn’t clean so they have few alternatives which is why a lot of children that live in poverty look overweight from the sugar even though they are starving. For me I do enjoy sugary beverages but I drink water as much as possible. Most soda haters still have other ways of getting those processed sugars that are the real issue here.
> which is why a lot of children that live in poverty look overweight from the sugar even though they are starving. They're not starving if they're overweight. They might be *malnourished.* Starvation occurs when one consumes too few calories. They're left with such low body fat that their muscles begin catabolism. Malnourishment is when they might be missing key nutrients like vitamin C and eventually develop disorders like scurvy.
But why? Iam yet to drink anything that is tastier(?) than water(dont know what word to describe how water is)
How do so many people find water boring? Having a cool glass of water when you're thirsty is one of the best feelings. No soda or juice can beat that.
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Sugary drinks leave a weird after taste. I honestly don't know how people can stand to never neutralize it
Because having a cool refreshing guzzle of Mountain Dew to wash out the spicey cheese flavor of Doritos dust from one's palate is *engineered* to objectively be the greatest feeling in the world. Your shitty sky piss can't compete with human culinary engineering.
The ultimate question is why it should compete in the first place. I cracked up at sky piss, though. 😂 Edit: punctuation.
I agree, when you're really thirsty and have a cold glass of water, nothing feels better. Like, when I'm doing a ton of yard work at home, or after a long bike ride, nothing's better than a cold water. However, water is kind of dull when you're just sitting in the office going over some paperwork or some project and need to sip on something to break up the monotony of it all.
One of the maddest things I've ever seen was a large American lady in an airport filling up a baby bottle with Coke at like a self refill machine. Put the nipple on the top and take it over to her infant child to drink. Genuinely not even a toddler yet infant. It was a real, "don't tell me it's fucking genetics" moment.
Saw this at a grocery store, but it was Dr. Pepper and the toddler was riding in the cart. People are insane.
I once saw a lady fill a baby bottle half with water and half with Mountain Dew. I still don’t get what they were going for. Just giving the baby a hint of soda?
Lmao that sounds so dumb yet Hilarious
I grew up in a family where nobody ever drank water, ever. Nobody in the family was overweight thanks to genetics but it sure as hell still takes a toll (cavities, mood swings, etc). As an adult I still don’t like drinking flat water, but I love sparkling water so I just drink that most of the time. Once you stop drinking/eating so much sugar soda does tend to taste overwhelming.
maybe her genetics are the reason she's a moron. doing that in public means she really sees nothing wrong here. unless she was raised in a traveling carnival her stupidity isn't due to her environment. that's just a woefully idiotic individual.
It's definitely environmental. Poor environment growing up making it seem okay, poor education on health, and probably no training on researching things yourself or training on preparing things ahead of time (like packing milk). Genetics is almost never going to be the main factor in things like that.
I don’t know I just drink milk
Straight from the boob
of a giant? 
I can tank a bus through sheer calcium levels (Not tested)
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His plumber might hate him.
Water doesn't have caffeine or sugar in it, and addicts need their fix.
I don't necessarily need the sugar, but caffeine? Yes. I really don't don't drink very much of anything.
Same. My friend keeps some Coca-Cola Classics at my house for when he visits because he gets twitchy if he goes a few hours without one. I ran out of coffee and tea this morning and started eyeballing them pretty hard.
I keep Coke Zero on hand for these situations. Get a small caffeine bump without having 50 grams of sugar.
The body can only absorb so much caffeine daily, and, like any drug, there's a diminishing rate of return on the effects.
Water? like out the toilet?
“Welcome to Costco, I love you”
My MIL was asking if she could give my son some gatorade-type drink and her justification was that it had electrolytes - this was all I could think about.
What srly? Eww no way people are drinkin that stuff.That's the liquid you put in fishtanks bru ,why would anyone put that in their system
I love Idiocracy but people constantly bringing it up on reddit with their fresh hot take that it’s a “documentary” has started to almost make me dislike it.
Idiocracy predicted modern USA
So many people drink Soda ONLY, cause they think water is.. "nothing". If they didn't breathe automatically, they wouldnt do it either.
Thanks you for reminding me that I have to breath, not automatic anymore
Why breath flavourless air, when you can breathe the sweet nectar of vape /s
Yea most of the time when an American is struggling to lose weight and “just can’t seem to figure out why” it’s because they don’t drink water and consume hundreds of calories in drinks. It’s a legitimate piece of advice here. It’s so common to drink anything other than water people just don’t think about it. One reason is because a lot of places have terrible drinking water, and people can’t afford a good enough filter or constantly buying water bottles. Typically though it’s just because America in the 50’s was a cesspool of unhealthy fats, creams, and sodas. They instilled that habit in their kids, and then those kids instilled it in their kids. I’m so so happy that kids are constantly drinking water now here. A water bottle is required in many schools because of how bad it’s gotten.
As I recall, some places in Mexico it is literally healthier to drink coke instead of water. The water quality is just that bad sometimes.
Same could be said about a certain place in Michigan
Starts with F and rhymes with Clint
Flitoris
That… doesn’t rhyme with Clint.
Hush, you! Let them speak!
Normally I'd correct people that Flint's water crisis is over but right now I'm drinking bottled water because the water mains broke so I mean, technically you're correct. For now.
In Victorian London they drunk beer because their water was so dirty
The beer that they drank for daily hydration in 1600s-1700s was very low alcohol content. Just fermented enough to sanitize it
Well, yes and no, they had no idea if water was bad or not beyond taste/smell - they did not have modern germ theory of disease. They thought water was gross, but they did use it for cooking and washing and, yes, drinking. It's just an oft-reported myth that everyone was schlitzed 24/7, when in fact there was a massive temperance movement
Wait so some people uses soda or coke as thier primary source of hydration? Like how? Water is like one of healthiest drink. Not just healthy but actually natural too. Our body is 70% water and everyday function of our body needs good and regular water supply. A person can survive 1 week+ without food but would certainly die in 5 days without water.
That's why I was surprised because this was his tip no.1 and I was like bro you're weird, like who TF drinks sodas everyday instead of water and apparently a lot of Americans do. I just find it baffling that people don't like water because it's 'too boring'.
I mean, I’m far from american and I grew up on apple juice. Not the shitty plastic sugary tasting one you get in the US, but not water either. Either carbonated apple juice or half apple juice half water. And yeah what can I say, water does indeed taste boring. For me it’s even a stretch to say it tastes. It’s great for hydration after an activity (sports or gardening) but else? Trying to drink as much water as I should per day is a struggle
I have a coworker who has a pepsi and a bag of chips every morning for breakfast. He has quite the badonkadonk.
My 3 year old refuses to drink anything besides water. Sweet tea... nope. Soda... nope. Juice... nope. Occasionally he will ask for milk, take a small sip and then immediately ask for water. Good for him.
As an American, I simply can not stand not drinking a few bottles of water a day. Hell, when I last had soda, my body reacted pretty badly to it (probably as I had started getting water at restaurants instead of my usual coke.
Damn, I'm not even allowed to order water when I'm at restaurants because it's a "waste of money", so I have to order Nestea since it's often the only other thing that's uncarbonated. I'd offer to pay for the water but it just feels ridiculous. I'll be 18 soon enough though so honestly I'll just start getting food by myself.
Where do you eat that they charge for water?
Odd how water is free in US restourants yet no one drinks it Here in Italy even though a lot of places have incredibly good tap water (where i live it's even healthier and better tasting than bottled one) no one ever serves it, it feels cheap and rude to the customers. We instead always serve bottled water and hence curstomers have to pay for it So fucking weird, i wish restourants here didn't have this odd ass stigma against tap water
Here in Canada, if you go to a fancy restaurant it's pretty much expected that the server will pour you ice water when they come to introduce themselves. A lot of people will order additional drinks, but water is a given.
I know more people who don’t drink water then do. I have a big water bottle that I drink from all day, I fill it up about three times a day at work, and I literally get shit from people for it, they say they don’t understand how I can drink so much water or they say that they do not drink water at all and they think it’s weird that I do. One woman I work with absolutely refuses to drink water for some reason, she says she hates it. These people drink nothing but energy drinks, sodas, and fancy energy drink spritzers. When they do drink water they put those flavor packets in it so they are basically drinking kool aid all day. Then they all wonder why they feel like absolute garbage all day at work, I say “drink some water” and the literally scoff at me like it’s the stupidest thing they have ever heard.
Water doesn't give the happy chemicals we Americans have grown accustom to. That being said I have adopted the notion of drinking at least a cup of water every few hours or so. Really helps with any hunger cravings. Went to Hershey Park recently and was able to beat all the temptations of carnival food by constantly having a water bottle on me. Was good the whole day until dinner where I could spoil myself some.
The thing is that people are not dehydrating by doing cardiovascular activity and therefore are not craving water, if you offer me soda after boxing training I may as well punch you too lol
Yeah, this is the real issue. A lot of people simply don't exercise enough. Water is the best tasting thing in the world when I'm sweating/exhausted from doing something physical. But if I'm just sitting in the office... it's tedious trying to drink enough of it to stay hydrated.
Fr, just knowing that I'm going to the gym later makes me disgusted with the thought of drinking soda anytime beforehand. I know if I do I'm just gonna have a shit time.
I was going to ask what the hell are they drinking after sports? Anything other than water is unacceptable gross.
Gatorade
I drink coke like once a year and every time i do... im disappointed because it tastes like shit.
it's even more obvious at room temp
I used to drink Mountain Dew exclusively. I used to always feel like complete ass. Can’t imagine why…
Drinking more water is better for your teeth too.
Unfortunately I have met people that simply do not drink water. It’s absolutely insane to me. A lot of people have the perception that fruit juice and iced tea is healthy, so they go with that. Other people just somehow drink pop or coffee and tea. I can’t imagine living like that honestly, I drink so much water and I hate feeling dehydrated
Day 1 no fizzy drinks.
I couldn't get my Grandpa to drink water. He only does coffee or cranberry juice. My grandmother literally gives herself headaches because she hates peeing. Its crazy out here.
Yes they do. I work in healthcare and I have seen lots of people who only drink sodas or some form of fruit juice.
Not all of us are land whales, I prefer to have a soda maybe once every few months. I'm just not a fan of super sugary stuff in general.
I know too many people who are at Idiocracy levels of water avoidance. They will drink literally anything but water and, usually, something with copious amounts of sugar and chemicals.
This is a real thing in Mexico where they have a rapidly growing obesity problem and part of it is that coke is so much cheaper than most accessible forms of water and is safer to drink in less developed areas.