What about water?

[Guest guest]

Okay folks, here's a question for you: if IE is all about listening to your

body in regards to eating, what about water? All the " experts " say that we

don't drink enough water, that most Americans are running around dehydrated, and

we should drink X number of glasses of water per day. I know so many people who

carry around enormous containers of water and force themselves to drink drink

drink. (And then they're up all night peeing). Shouldn't IE principles apply

to water too? Shouldn't I trust myself to drink when I am thirsty? Did I ever

as a child think that I needed to drink more water than I did?

Yesterday I left my big mug of water in a classroom where someone else was

teaching, and thus didn't have it with me all day. I got up and got a drink at

the drinking fountain when I was thirsty, and felt fine. And I didn't have to

get up in the middle of the night to pee. And that got me started thinking

about it, and it seems strange to say to trust your body when it comes to food

and exercise, but not water.

And now, having written this, I realize that I'm thirsty now, so I'm going to

get up and walk down the hall to the drinking fountain, and I kind of wish I had

my big mug here, because I do like water a lot. When I get migraines I get

wickedly thirsty, and do drink and drink and drink, but it's my body telling me

that, not my head.

So?

Tilley