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when you buy all the water that you drink (no drinking the tap water here!) and you’re the only person drinking it, it’s really easy to track how much you drink in how much time. so, that’s what i did.

we buy our water in 5 gallon jugs and have created our own little culligan water cooler with the help of a small igloo-like water jug (think the type the NFLers use to dump the gatorade on top of the coach’s head after a big win, but smaller). i bought a 5-galloner a week ago sunday, and today it’s all gone. that’s 5 gallons or 640 fluid ounces (1 gallon:128 fluid ounces) in 11 days, which means approximately 58 ounces/day. assuming 6-8 ounces of water in a regular-sized glass (i used 7 ounces in my calculations), i’m drinking about 8 1/4 glasses of water a day. hello, hydration!

i always thought the recommended 8 glasses of water per day sounded like a crazy lot of water, but then again maybe not. granted, i’ve been drinking like a fish because of the heat the last few weeks, so maybe the 8 1/4 glasses isn’t my true baseline value? 101paige 101africa