Day Three Hundred Forty Three

Did 3 miles this morning!

Did not finish my gallon of water this morning. That is one thing that I've decided. I have been drinking a gallon of water everyday since February. Today is the first time I didn't finish it. At first, I felt like a failure, but honestly, it's just one day. As long as it doesn't turn into a week, or worse a month, then I'm good. One day, Two days, those are nothing. Some days I feel so full of water that I just don't got room for any. I'd like to drink other things too. So, from now on I'm not going to be pressuring myself to finish the gallon everyday or the game is over! That's crazy. The important thing here is to be exercising. That, I'm definitely going to do everyday except for my Rest Days and/or days when I'm either too damn sore to move, or if I'm really busy with something else either work or family related. Those are my exceptions! Anyway, oh and another thing, this is something I'd like my readers to NOTE: When I started drinking a gallon of water per day, I checked my weight a couple weeks later. My weight increased! Yes and this was when I was dieting and doing some hard exercising and weights everyday! So it's not fat gain. It is true that when you first start hydrating yourself for the first time, your cells in your body will retain a lot of that water so if you're one of those crazy ppl like me and completely paranoid about what the weigh scale says, just note that it is possible for your weight to increase when you first start hydrating yourself in healthy ways. Some of us don't know it, but we are very highly dehydrated. Our bodies need water. One gallon per day is what we should be taking in. I've been doing that. Some side probs to that, you'll need to go to the bathroom a lot. Totally normal! Also, your weight may increase a bit. The good thing is that it really does clean out your system and by drinking water, you're not hungry as much and by drinking that much water, that's pretty much All you'll be drinking. I spread out my gallon throughout the entire day. I don't just guzzle it down all at once. I spread it out so I'm taking in water during the whole day and keeping myself hydrated. It helps during my workouts. So there are so many advantages in drinking water daily. Just don't drink too much all at once. I hear you can damage yourself that way. Spread it out! So for me, now, I'm going to keep up with the daily gallon, but I may skip a day here and there, just so I can drink other things like V8 juice, or Milk and the "occasional" Diet Coke. Just gotta limit yourself.

That was all the exercising I did today, just my 3 miles. I was going to do the Bowflex workout, but I got too busy today. I plan on it tomorrow for sure!