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April,

Thanx for the reply, and I wouldn't mind surprising myself...Melva

Thank you for that Monday is My weigh day I am @ 220. down 11 pounds from when I first met the group I plan on doing weekly. 

I will reach My goal in 2010


Melva

54 ounces good and as long as you know you have an issue you will make a conscious effort to get more liquid in. Give you self credit for the 54ozs that's over 1/2 of what is recommended.

I too have an issue with getting water/ fluids down. What I have done is, I have a really pretty sports container I keep cold water with lemon or crystal lite type drink in it. Whenever I look at the container that is my reminder to take a drink. I have been getting down more than the 96ounces daily now.

Tell yourself you must drink the water for survival and Remember: NO CHOICE NO CHOICE NO CHOICE !!

MELVA

April, they say we should have 64 oz of water a day, so it looks like you are almost there. Just keep working at it, it will happen!

I use to go days with out drinking water, here is what I did to help me get my water in.
First of all I DON"T like water and I find crystal lite very sweet if I use it in just one bottle of water,

So I have 2 - 20oz  bottles that I fill up every morning and I use 1 crystal lite package between the two of them so I just have a hint of flavor. I drink as much of it as I can before lunch. I take the bottles with every where i go  in to every room in the house.  When I go out shopping I make sure I have two full ones with me. In the after noon I would fill them both up again but only drink 1 of them that would give me 60 oz. . Now I drink all 4 so I get 80 oz a day.

When I do my journaling the first thing I write on the page every morning  is  my
weight
water    -  after I finish a bottle I give myself a 20, the next bottle I get another 20 and so on
vitamins   -   I give a tick after I have taken all of them
coffee  -  I write a one for every coffee I drink in the day. I recently discovered that in a coffee with two  creams there is 140 calories (I don't use sugar) so I'm trying to cut them out.
protein shakes -  I give myself a one for everyone I have, I don't find them filling so I have been trying to get my protein from my food.

I have also used a timer, I would set the timer for 15 mins and in that 15 mins I would drink as much water as I could. I would do this about 4 times through out the day it really helped to get use to drinking.

I sure hope these suggestions help

 April, glad you are back, feeling better and things have calmed down in your home life.  

Good to hear you are ready to move on. Stress can do a lot of weird things to our bodies.

Thanks for the breakfast tip I will have to try it. I tend to have protein coffee for breakfast every morning.
Yesterday was my hubbys  .  I didn't do to bad with the   but I certainly put almost all that I learned on BDS on the back burner for that day . So back at it today