Water, Water Everywhere, and Oh Enough Already! Pass the Chardonnay
How much water do you drink each day? Girlfriend Faux Diet Queen is learning to drink eight glasses of water daily. What advice do you have for her?
The Faux Diet Queen (or as we affectionately call her, FDQ) has agreed to share her latest (and last) weight loss journey with us as a regular feature at Girlfriendology. We hope you’ll join us to cheer her on, nudge her back on track when she strays, and generally giggle along.
From the Faux Diet Queen:
Have you ever noticed that the first thing all diets food plans healthy living lifestyle eating habits tell you is to drink water? And have you noticed that they don’t suggest a glass or two? Oh, no. They suggest you hook yourself up to the garden hose and get a frequent flyer card for the ladies room.
Everything else these plans dictate mandate suggest is all about adding flavor, incorporating new tastes, textures, and spices into your meals (to make up for the fact that you are eating exactly one teaspoon of yummy stuff a day).
But water? Have none of these gurus figured out that water has no taste, no texture, and no hidden layers of flavor?!
Don’t get me wrong. I’m drinking trying to drink my eight 8 oz glasses of water a day. Some days it seems easy. One minute there is a full water bottle in front of me and the next minute I’m wondering how it got empty. But other days, drinking all that agua seems like a Really Big Chore.
NOTE TO SELF: Saying “water” in a different language does not make it taste any different.
Have you ever noticed that with all the shows on the Food Network NOT ONE has ever been about different ways to drink water? Water has never been the secret ingredient on an episode of Iron Chef America. In fact, not one show has ever even had a single segment about the joys of drinking water out of different types of stemware. (Food Network—this is a throwdown challenge!)
And have you noticed that not a single restaurant has ever run a special featuring—ta da—unlimited refills on water with your meal?
I’m waiting for a nutrition expert to come along and declare that drinking a tall, pumpkin-vanilla, double whip latte is the key to weight loss success. I will follow this person to the end of the world. (Well, at least as far as the nearest coffee shop.)
Until then, I will sip from my bottomless water-bottle and occasionally pretend that I am sipping a fine merlot. Maybe if I wish hard enough….
The Faux Diet Queen is a Girlfriend and a Half, trying to find her Skinny Self. She promises to be absolutely truthful in this blog (although she may stretch a point now and then) and to share the good, the bad, and the frustrations of weight-loss.
Any girlfriend advice on getting your eight glasses of water a day? What healthy advice do you share with your girlfriends?
Girlfriendology / Debba here: We love our girlfriends no matter what size jeans they wear or what the scales tell them if they’re brave enough to get on them. (Something I personally avoid like the plague.) But, we also want our girlfriends to be around and healthy for a long time. We’re sharing this journey that our girlfriend, FDQ (the FAB Faux Diet Queen) because it’s what girlfriends do – we go through life and diets together (and shoe shopping, and highs and lows …). Join us on her journey to fitness and good health. We’re excited for her to motivate and inspire us all!
p.s. If your food stories fall into a more serious topic, like emotional eating, we’ve got a great girlfriend for you to meet too – ELLEN SHUMAN. She’s shared great advice on emotional eating on various guest blogs and podcasts. (Her podcast on emotional eating is our #1 listened to interview so lots of us have some emotional eating issues or friends/family who do.)
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