One of the things I wanted to work on for the first quarter of the new year was to drink more water. While I don't do New Year's Resolutions, I do like to pick a habit to work on. It doesn't always happen though. I'm not the best at setting myself up for success.
But still, I try. On February 1st, I posted my goal which was to drink 32 ounces of water a day. That's just two regular plastic water bottles worth (16.9 ounces each). That's can't be that hard, right? I know I could polish off a water bottle during a meeting, so I thought, one bottle during the morning at work, and one during the afternoon driving the kids around. And I got so much encouragement from friends on Facebook and in real life. I was buoyed by the enthusiasm. Some even said they would do it with me! And lots of suggestions on how to make it work.
For instance, one suggestion is to have a water bottle with me at all times. Whether it is refillable or not, I should have water with me all the time. I was doing that at the beginning of my endeavor. The first couple of days, I was doing great! Then one day I left my water bottle at work. That's ok, I thought, I will try again the next day. The next day, I left it in the car - and it was a hot day. I even had a favorite water bottle...which I left somewhere and lost.
Another suggestion was to drink flavored water if I don't like plain. My issue with that was when I left it in that hot car. Ew. Plain is ok warm, flavored is not. Besides, plain water is ok, as long as it's cold.
Then someone suggested that I use an app to track my water consumption. I got 3 different app suggestions. So now, I have 4 different apps that roughly do the same thing that I don't use.
Well, that's it! I'm going to try it again! I just opened up one of my apps (which I don't like now because it doesn't have a way to post to Facebook - WTH?). I just drank 8 ounces from a water bottle. If at first you don't succeed, write a blog post about it, and try, try again!
