Fill up your water bottle for the day ahead.  

Having the water ready to drink is not only a visual reminder of how much you need to drink throughout the day but it makes it a lot easier for you as well.  

If the water is in front of you, you are more likely to drink it. If you have to remember to go get it, you will probably forget.

Our bodies are made up of 70% water. You can go for a couple of weeks without eating but you won’t last 3 days without water. Not being adequately hydrated can makes your brain send signals to your body. The problem is that we often mistake this as hunger and eat.  

A lot of the time, what you think is hunger is actually a sign of dehydration. When your body is short on water, it hangs on to what it’s got.   That’s why you so often lose so much weight in the first week of the diet – the body is better hydrated so it let’s go of the water it has been retaining.

ACTION PLAN

1. Get yourself a bottle to drink out of now. I prefer glass bottles – they keep the water at a more even temperature and the water seems to taste better out of glass.  
2. Start with a 500ml bottle of water and work your way up from there.  
3.  Fill it up and take it to work with you.  
4. Leave it on your desk or somewhere that you can always see it.  
5. Drink a glass of water whenever you remember to.  
6. If it’s very hot, I often put my bottle in the freezer overnight – just don’t fill it completely - the water expands when frozen. When you take it out in the morning, add some water to get it to start melting - you’ll have nice cold water for most of the day.

Please refer to the book for more details on this activity.