American women and water bottles? Why?

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Anonymous wrote:If you go to the doctor in the U.S., for almost any reason, they will ask you how much water you are drinking and suggest you drink more. Especially if you are overweight: the thinking on weight loss is that if you drink a lot of water, you will be less hungry and also not retain water due to salty food. That's why everyone carries water bottles.

Take the above and add in a desire to not use disposable plastic bottles (for health and environmental reasons) and everyone's carrying a reusable bottle.

No doctor has EVER asked me about my water consumption.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you go to the doctor in the U.S., for almost any reason, they will ask you how much water you are drinking and suggest you drink more. Especially if you are overweight: the thinking on weight loss is that if you drink a lot of water, you will be less hungry and also not retain water due to salty food. That's why everyone carries water bottles.

Take the above and add in a desire to not use disposable plastic bottles (for health and environmental reasons) and everyone's carrying a reusable bottle.

No doctor has EVER asked me about my water consumption.

+1 I have never been asked about water consumption.

[Anonymous]

Why? Because drinking pumpkin spice lattes and loving fall weather or enjoying other female-coded things wasn't pissing you off enough.

But seriously. Leave women alone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you go to the doctor in the U.S., for almost any reason, they will ask you how much water you are drinking and suggest you drink more. Especially if you are overweight: the thinking on weight loss is that if you drink a lot of water, you will be less hungry and also not retain water due to salty food. That's why everyone carries water bottles.

Take the above and add in a desire to not use disposable plastic bottles (for health and environmental reasons) and everyone's carrying a reusable bottle.

No doctor has EVER asked me about my water consumption.

+1 I have never been asked about water consumption.

Mine has.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not the environmental benefits. All the Range Rover driving moms in my neighborhood with their Stanley cups also all have recycling bins overflowing with la croix cans every week. If they cared about the environmental consequences, they’d just drink….. tap water.

No, they should save the tap water for the poors.

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Anonymous wrote:The answer is: because UMC people no longer sip soda as they did in the past. Soda machines used to be everywhere. Cans of soda were cheap and machines were plentiful. Now we are anti-sugar and drink water instead.

Also, because public infrastructure has crumbled and maintenance of public water fountains, if they exist at all, is sketchy. We are more germ-aware than ever before. Even if you can find a decent water fountain many people don't want to drink from it.

Also, we have extended fitness culture into popular culture--water bottles are like leggings--once seen only in the gym they have migrated everywhere.

Also, it might not just be water in the bottle. I sneak wine into places you wouldn't normally find it.

What? Before the early 2000s, people didn’t have a constant need to drink all day long. It wasn’t that they were chronically dehydrated and they definitely weren’t walking around drinking soda as a substitute all the time.

We drank water during meals, an occasional glass of water/milk at home outside of meals, and a cup of coffee at work in the am.

I had my first kid in 2001 and started guzzling water then. Breastfeeding made me so thirty and I never stopped. I actually think people WERE chronically dehydrated and didn’t know it.

+100 I only drank water with dinner as a kid. Otherwise it was a juice box at lunch and the milk in my cereal at breakfast. Also had tons of headaches growing up. I didn’t start drinking water regularly until I was pregnant with my first in my late twenties when I realized I was dehydrated all the time.
Now I get migraines if I’m dehydrated so yes I do often carry a water bottle if I’ll be out for a while.

[Anonymous]

Yeah .. I skipped that trend.

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Anonymous wrote:If you go to the doctor in the U.S., for almost any reason, they will ask you how much water you are drinking and suggest you drink more. Especially if you are overweight: the thinking on weight loss is that if you drink a lot of water, you will be less hungry and also not retain water due to salty food. That's why everyone carries water bottles.

Take the above and add in a desire to not use disposable plastic bottles (for health and environmental reasons) and everyone's carrying a reusable bottle.

No doctor has EVER asked me about my water consumption.

+1 I have never been asked about water consumption.

Mine has.

Mine hasn't. People have taken the "6-8 glasses of water a day" and run with it. We get a lot of the water we need from other drinks and foods. We don't literally need 6-8 glasses of plain water on top of a normal diet. So, you can stop lugging that 64oz jug of water around like you're about to cross the Mojave Desert.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we upset that women are drinking water now?

Women can't win.

[Anonymous]

Im avoiding aluminum water bottles from here on out.

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Poop

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If I don't drink enough I get constipated. Straining is worse for you than peeing more often or carrying a bottle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Im avoiding aluminum water bottles from here on out.

Why?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah I don't get it. Perhaps I am better than other women, because I am capable of going multiple hours without drinking water. I can count the times I've bought a disposable plastic water bottle in the last year on one hand. I have water with meals, and it's plenty.

I see women in meetings suuuuucking on their water bottles, backwashing into their water bottles, chugging water like they're on a cocaine bender and I just. don't. get it. Are you all diabetics??

Oh it's not a huge environmental flex to own a dozen heavy, manufactured, non-recyclable status-bottles that had to be shipped on a diesel freighter from the other side of the world, of which you have a "favorite" while the others all sit around unused. If you owned ONE water bottle you'd maybe have an argument. But be honest, water-addicts: How many stanleys, yetis, hydroflasks, and owalas have you had shipped to you from China?

I went through all 5 pages of posts and it was difficult to figure out which was the most ridiculous to respond to. I am a huge water drinker and I feel terrible on days I skip. I love water and you’ll pry my bottle from my cold dead hands. But like all things DCUM this is a competition, I guess. You win! You are better than me. But you are bothered by something that does not affect you in the least. So in reality, you are the big time loser.

Wow. I didn’t realize guzzling water could be addictive! Guess you really can be addicted to anything.

Why do you eat everyday? Are you addicted to food?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah I don't get it. Perhaps I am better than other women, because I am capable of going multiple hours without drinking water. I can count the times I've bought a disposable plastic water bottle in the last year on one hand. I have water with meals, and it's plenty.

I see women in meetings suuuuucking on their water bottles, backwashing into their water bottles, chugging water like they're on a cocaine bender and I just. don't. get it. Are you all diabetics??

Oh it's not a huge environmental flex to own a dozen heavy, manufactured, non-recyclable status-bottles that had to be shipped on a diesel freighter from the other side of the world, of which you have a "favorite" while the others all sit around unused. If you owned ONE water bottle you'd maybe have an argument. But be honest, water-addicts: How many stanleys, yetis, hydroflasks, and owalas have you had shipped to you from China?

I went through all 5 pages of posts and it was difficult to figure out which was the most ridiculous to respond to. I am a huge water drinker and I feel terrible on days I skip. I love water and you’ll pry my bottle from my cold dead hands. But like all things DCUM this is a competition, I guess. You win! You are better than me. But you are bothered by something that does not affect you in the least. So in reality, you are the big time loser.

Wow. I didn’t realize guzzling water could be addictive! Guess you really can be addicted to anything.

Why do you eat everyday? Are you addicted to food?

You know perfectly well that many people are addicted to food. That's what it means when people eat things that they know are bad for them, or eat past the point of satiation, and even into discomfort.

And of course people can be addicted to drinking water. Sometimes to their detriment.