Posted by headachequeen on February 26, 2004, at 18:08:13
In reply to Re: topomax » headachequeen, posted by PoohBear on February 26, 2004, at 9:52:45
> Kat:
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> I spoke with my Weight Watchers lecturer about the water vs coffee issue, because WW is big on water as well. She said that for those people that are used to drinking A LOT of coffee each day, it doesn't have as much of a diuretic effect as for someone who rarely drinks it. By the way, this rule goes for any caffinated beverage, i.e., tea, Coke, etc, not just coffee.
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> Lots of water is supposed to help your system metabolize the fat better and take off the pounds.
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> I have heard that you should drink half your body weight in ounces of water each day. For me that would be 100 ounces or just a little over 3 quarts. That's a stretch, but I do try to get in about 5 12 oz. glasses of water plus 16-32 oz. of coffee each day. That would top out at 92 oz., not bad...
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> Does that help?
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> Tony
Tony, it helps greatly... finally I have the info I have been trying to find... thank you!!!
and I have a solid idea as to how much water I need to drink...
there are a couple of these pill bottles that tell me to drink lots of water with these medications... no one bothers to define the amount... and that leaves one drowning in a sea of non-information...
I guess if I were to drink between 70 and 75 ounces a day then I would be doing all right...
perhaps a little extra to be sure that I am taking enough for the other meds... sigh... and an extra sigh or two for good measure...
I still think that we need to be given more information when first we are given these meds...
why do the pharmacists think they have those chairs near the dispensing counters???
and when I read the dispensing fees listed on the containers, I think that at least some of that fee could go toward teaching me how to protect myself... one of the meds I have been taking for years (as in 20) suddenly appears with a sticker warning me not to eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice when taking this medication... NOW they tell me????
kat
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