Personally, I love water and drink as much as possible each day. I carry a bottle of water with me almost everywhere I go and order water whenever I am dining out. There are lots of folks out there that can't stand the taste or lack of taste, and regardless of eating clean or not, we all need water to survive.
Water Alternatives
If you're a water hater, there are ways to get in your precious fluid intake such as:
- Coffee
- Sports drinks
- Tea
- Diet sodas
- Fruit juice
- Low calorie softdrinks (Crystal Light, etc.)
- Water with lemon
- Flavored water
- Carbonated water
Drinking the above is better than nothing if you don't plan on drinking water all that much, however, there are several negative effects to most beverages:
Coffee and Tea - These are two main beverages people will drink to help meet their water requirements. The downside is both are diuretics meaning they make you urinate more often.
Sugar substitutes - Many low calorie, sugar free, soft drinks contain sugar substitutes such as aspartame or sucralose.
Sugar - Sports drinks and flavored waters can contain high amounts of sugar.
Sodas - These steal water from your body not to mention stealing vital minerals.
Considering our bodies are made up of 80% water and that water needed for a multitude of vital functions, we should drink it more often, without added ingredients. There really is no substitute for the real thing. If you need to change your mind about water, simply read some of the negative side effects of the extra ingredients in most beverages — particular the dangers of sugar.