Two Too Busy to Hydrate: 3 Simple Steps
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| My KORKEN glass water carafe from IKEA, and a complimentary La Neige water bottle I received from a recent purchase at Sephora. (Isn't the little "Refill Me" water droplet cute?) |
- Staying hydrated keeps you energized throughout the day (and is even a great way to cut back on the caffeine! Water = a quick energy boost sans the teeth stains and coffee breath. Sign us up.)
- Drinking water can brighten up your mood (dehydration is known to be correlated with grumpiness, irritation, and impatience)
- Healthy, glowing skin
- Weight loss - snack cravings and hunger can often be curbed with a bottle of water. Our bodies sometimes misread signals, and it's all too easy to confuse a dehydration for a snack craving. The next time you're in the mood for some Hot Cheeto's at night, try reaching for a water bottle first and see if it helps.
- Prevents headaches, constipation, and all sorts of bladder problems.
So even when you're too, too busy to drink water, you should. That's where we come in: we've broken down how to keep yourself hydrated into 3 easy steps.
A little anecdote (skim if you're TTB):
Last Christmas, when I announced to my boyfriend and my friends that I had just splurged on a $50 BKR water bottle as a little holiday gift for myself, I could almost see the "Is she crazy?" thought cross their minds.
"$50 on a water bottle?" Henry demanded. "That's what you decided to get yourself? You don't even drink out of a five dollar water bottle!"
But that was exactly the point. I tried to explain to him that I intended to hydrate more often, and that, by splurging on an aesthetically pleasing water bottle, not only would I be guilt-tripped (or rather, moolah-tripped) into using my water bottle more often, but that, as a result, I'd end up drinking more water. For a while, that held true. Purchasing the BKR, I had fun picking out the colour that the BKR inventors insisted would help me "express" myself. Call me a sucker for marketing, but the stunning array of colours and the fact that celebrities like Blake Lively were using it was enough to convince me to click 'Buy' on the BKR website and pay nearly $20 in additional shipping fees. Imagine how much fun my friends had teasing me about that purchase, especially when we found an almost near-identical imitation of the BKR at a Chinese supermarket months later for 3 bucks.
It sounded like a great plan at the time, but it wasn't. Within a few weeks, my BKR had fallen by the wayside, and I had been seduced by yet another pricey waterbottle that was on the market: the MemoBottle.
Again, my boyfriend was incredulous. "You already have one!" He insisted. "You definitely don't need another."
But you see, the thing was, the MemoBottle wasn't just any water bottle. Or so that's what I tried to tell myself (and him). It was elegantly shaped to lay flat, like a book, and could be easily tucked between my laptop and my books for work and school - it was the perfect commuting bottle. Plus, it came with two - two - different bottle caps, so I could personalize it a bit when I wanted to! How fun was that? Again, I found myself making the splurge.
Soon, I found myself using my new water bottles as bookends. They were collecting dust, and I definitely wasn't keeping hydrated or drinking the daily amount of water that I should have been. Instead, I was quickly becoming the Overpriced Water Bottle Collector/Hoarder, while my health (and my wallet) took a hit.
