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Originally Posted by Gentle Tiger
Walked 3 miles yesterday and 3.5 today. I carry a 15lb bar with me and do exercises with it while walking. Now if I could just learn to enjoy drinking water. Even with the different tricks to spruce up the water, it's still water. lol But I will do better.
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My first two attempts at reading this yielded "15lb JAR"......and I was *very* confused. Heh... I couldn't imagine you carrying a big ol' jar with you while you walked.
Got it now.
I have always enjoyed watering lawns/soil because I see the ground soak up the water. Seeing that process reinforces to me just how much it was needed. I know it sounds all woo-woo and shit, but it really is (to me) such a beautiful process.
Thinking through all of that is what got me to start drinking water some years back. I've never enjoyed water, but I have always been very aware of how it hydrates my organs and flushes gross shit out of my body. That's definitely something I can get behind!
I still go through periods when I don't drink as much as I should; I am not a 64-ounces every-single-day champ!! But because I paid attention to all of the good it has done for me, I am way more aware of when my body needs it. The frequent peeing can be mighty inconvenient, but I shift my thinking to "getting rid of useless stuff" and feel better about it.
I wish I could "love water", but I don't. Thinking of it as watering my organs and cleansing my systems does the trick though.
Seeing pictures like the ones linked below always reinforced to me why I just couldn't continue drinking certain beverages on any sort of regular basis.
I hope this doesn't sound "preachy"; I don't mean for it to. This is the sort of thing that helped me; I'm just sharing in case it is able to help anyone else.
http://www.sugarstacks.com/beverages.htm