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It varies. I drink when I'm thirsty. I keep a water bottle on my desk so I can take a sip whenever I feel the urge. I'm guessing I drink about two-three liters a day. I generally sneak in some tea in the mornings and beers on hockey nights.
16 cups of water per day? Holy hell. Just me, but that seems like too much. If you view water as something to "get over with" and binge on, then you should maybe re-evaluate what water is and what it does in your body. If you're slamming most of that in the morning, most of it will probably just go right through you. If your piss is totally clear, stop drinking water. It should be light yellow. I prefer to just carry a water jug around with me all day and nurse it, and fill it up several times per day, or down a cup of water if I am feeling particularly thirsty.
I drink a quart of water with breakfast, one with lunch and one with dinner. I drink an additional quart after I work out -- be it in before or after lunch. I drink little else except a large cup of coffee in the morning. After definitely being dehydrated for decades of my life, I cannot remember the last time I actually felt thirsty. It's usually good practice to have a glass of water next to your desk at work. Take sips every so often to keep yourself hydrated throughout the day. Also, since it will fill up your bladder, drinking water regularly while at work allows you to take your eyes off the screen and go for a walk to stretch your legs on the way to the bathroom.
Within an hour of waking up I'm in for about 32 ounces of water then I steadily drink water throughout the day. It's not uncommon for me to have 1 to 2 gallons throughout the day and when summer hits because my job is physical 2 to 4 gallons isn't out of the ordinary with some packets of liquid IV mixed in. I don't drink coffee or energy drinks. The only time I have soda is a ginger ale usually mixed with alcohol. I'll have a nice tea though.
At work waiting at the water cooler, I have 3 mins to get a drink and get back to my desk and take another call. A new trainee has turned up and is filling a 1 litre+ water bottle. After 90 second I think eff this, and head back to my desk with 100ml left in my reused Innocent bottle. 90 minutes later it is lunch, and she is there filling up the bottle again. This time I can wait for a bit of water. I know they say keep hydrated, but this seems to be literally taking the proverbial. I think I heard on one of these Michael Moseley things a doctor saying 'drink when you are thirsty.' Which I do. Are people over hydrating these days? I honestly wouldn't have time to be going to the toilet every half hour, so I don't know where these people are putting it all.

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🏥 Yes. I used to be hospitalised with vomiting for days on end, including vomiting blood (hematitis, and gastro peresis) . It started happening in the early 1990s and by the early 2000s was happening around three times a year and involved at least a week in hospital plus a week at home recovering.
👨🏻‍⚕️ A consultant had proposed in the early days that I had autonomic neuropathy but this was never picked up on/taken seriously when I moved to Scotland.
🏥 At first the general belief there was I was somehow destroying myself through excess and not managing my diabetes, despite my blood sugars being ok when I was first admitted to the hospital (they got worse due to the time it used to take to get new diabetic patients written up for insulin) and my blood alcohol being zero.
👨🏻‍⚕️ One doctor thought I was entirely to blame and discharged me from the ward while I was still puking, getting the nurse to ring a taxi to pick me up.
🏥 (With a different hat on, sometime later I found myself at a hospital meeting where I raised the issue about insulin and I believe they took it seriously enough to change procedures, though I don’t know for sure).
🍳 Anyway eventually I was formally tested for autonomic neuropathy. I had to eat a meal of radioactive eggs and radioactive orange juice and get spun round in machines and so on. They discovered that I did indeed have this condition, explaining nausea, dizziness, fainting and vomiting.
💊 I’m now medicated and have only had the hematitis twice in the decade since, though I still get dizzy/faint/nauseus.
🚕 I sometimes feel I would like to get that doctor who discharged me, still puking, into a taxi, all those years ago and whack his head against a wall, metaphorically, and remind him that he should believe patients more often.

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