Day 1: H2O Explosion

Today marks the day of the first day of my 30 day challenge. Today's challenge consists of drinking water and only water. This basically means that there should be no consumption of any other liquids -- i.e. coffee, tea, juice, soda, alcohol, etc. I am doing this as the first day of the challenge because I wanted to kind of flush out the body and help to start out with a clean slate. I also wanted to take this opportunity to check in and see if I am ACTUALLY getting the appropriate amount of water.

When I say "getting the appropriate amount of water" I am not only talking about getting the recommended 8 cups of water a day. There are several things that go in to how much water you should be drinking:

• Size of the person
• Activity level 
• Location
• Time of the year
• Other liquids being consumed

Based on these criteria, I need to be drinking the recommended 8 cups of water plus some for my activity level, the fact that I live in Texas and it is still summer months (aka 100+ degrees every day), and that I drink coffee on a daily basis. 

So far today I have done a pretty good job at sticking to only water, although I did have a minor slip up at breakfast. I accidently had some milk in my cereal this morning. But in my defense, 1. it was almond milk 2. it wasn't very much and 3. it was 5:30 in the morning. 

Other than that, I have been doing a great job solely drinking water, and lots of it. Although I do miss my daily dose of coffee and/or tea, I have a feeling that I will sleep nicely with the decreased amount of caffeine running through my blood stream. I feel like it is a great start to what will be a great challenge. I am all cleaned out and am starting with a clean slate. I can't wait to start the more in depth stuff tomorrow!

Until then, have a great night! And just keep sippin' that H2O!