I had read on here to drink around 4 litres and questioned my CDC when she told me to drink 2 1/2 but she said that I shouldn't drink that much as all you are doing is flushing out all of the nutrients in the pack before they had time to be absorbed and also that i would be diluting the nutrients too much? I did see that people on here were advising more but I wondered why my CDC would say that.
Hopefully my bladder starts to behave its self and also once i can use the flavourings it may be a bit easier to up my intake xxx
Hmm, I don't know about that. Since the packs are 'food' I wouldn't think they'd come out of your body 'that' way. If you get my drift. Plus I never heard of flushing out vitamins from fruit & veg by drinking too much.
Maybe she's right but it doesn't sound like it to me. In the Cambridge book they recommend 2.25l per day & they say 'There isn't much benefit drinking more than double this amount' so it doesn't say either way.
I drink between 3 and 4 litres, maybe a bit more, and I still get dehydrated in the night, when I woke up this morning my tongue was all dried out!! I don't find it a struggle to drink so much, my body seems to need it. lshafik is right, you flush out the ketones (by product of the fat burning off your body) in your wee, the only other way they come out is your breath so the more you drink, the more will come out!
The first week I was drinking 4.5-5 just to get rid of the hunger, it didn't do me any harm!
Ack, the toilet situation is a nightmare! I carried a 9lb 12oz baby too, so my bladder is buggered, lol!
I started with 2 stones 2.5lbs to lose, I lost 6.5 in my first week doing SS 100%, I get weighed tonight for my 2nd week, have done SS+ 100%. Hope this helps, good luck!