Tuesday, February 17, 2026

something about knowing you need to drink more water and then drinking more water and feeling better feels humiliating

 'drink more water' is like the 'do unto others' of health advice.

you need to be reminded of it because you aren't doing it enough but you get reminded so much that it stops feeling necessary so it just becomes background noise until you remember, 'oh yeah. it actually IS super important.' crazy

I take some amount of pride in thinking that I took good care of myself and then you find out you aren't drinking enough water and it's like 'well shooooooot' that's really like step one isn't it?

2 comments:

crab said...

my water habits - carry around a gallon of water in a huge pink bottle. It draws attention. it demands it. There aint a room I walk into with that bottle where it isnt the first thing people look at and think of. You plop it on the table and it makes a noise. A distinct sound. It controls the room now.

When the water bottle controls the room, you have to think about it. and about how you should take a drink from it. and once I've latched on like a wee babe, hungry for sustenance, I try and drink from it as much as I can. a big, long, drawn out pull. Like I'm a reverse capri sun. Or like blowing air into a capri sun. Or like when the capri suns is made in the capri suns factory, cuz they gotta put the capris in the sun packet, right? So yeah, drink water like that.

Now the next step is easy, let time pass.

Then at SOME POINT, because you drank a whole heap of water all at once like an hour ago or less, your body is gonna yell at you cuz its full and now you gotta go pee. Great, it's working. BUT HOLD ON! DONT GO NOWHERE YET! you can't get up until you pay the water tax. You are about to throw out a bunch of water. So you gots to take another giant pull from your monolithic bottle. "But crabs, im too full of fluids already! I am bursting at the seams! I cannot afford more liquid volume in my capri sun packet of a body! :( " NO! You're body is LYING TO YOU! It took all the water in ur internal capri sun pouch and transferred it to a different, more secret capri sun pouch. the second suns packet in the bunch. you got water room in ur stomach again, fill it!!

Once the water bottle tax is paid, then you can go potty. And now the cycle is complete and it will continue in this rhythm like once every 30-60 minutes depending on how much of a champion you are at drinking large quantities of water.

In summary, drink water. Then drink water again before you pee it out. now you got future pee. Just keep maintaining the cycle of old pee and future pee in ur body and you GOTTA stay hydrated because of it! I think? I'm not a doctor.

Andy Lawrence said...

FREE MEDICAL ADVICE OVER HERE EVERYBODY! RELIABLE AND CERTIFIED!