Nobody Panic - How to Drink More Water

Episode Date: July 5, 2022

In a bid to tackle this listener episode suggestion, Tessa reveals she doesn’t know what the drinks aisle of a supermarket is and Stevie vehemently rejects a specialised water bottle that after this recording she will then go on to own and also swear by. A fun, absolute state of an episode. Subscribe to the Nobody Panic Patreon at patreon.com/nobodypanicWant to support Nobody Panic? You can make a one-off donation at https://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanicRecorded by Ben Williams and edited by Clarissa Maycock for PlosivePhotos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, I'm Carriad. I'm Sarah. And we are the Weirdo's Book Club podcast. We are doing a very special live show as part of the London Podcast Festival. The date is Thursday, 11th of September. The time is 7pm and our special guest is the brilliant Alan Davies. Tickets from kingsplace.com. Single ladies, it's coming to London.

True on Saturday, the 13th of September. At the London Podcast Festival. The rumours are true. Saturday the 13th of September. At King's Place. Oh, that sounds like a date to me, Harriet. And my well-hydrated friend, Stevie. I was just glugging some water, so that's what I was doing.

Talk us through what you've got there, Stevie. Well, I'm in the fancy plosive offices, which you call the Netflix offices. They've got a lot of well-lined-up soft drinks in the refrigerator. So good. This is a carton of what looks like old-fashioned milk. But it's actually called Noble Water, N-O-B-L. Some free advertising for them. Oh, my God, yeah, look, it's 100% recyclable, including the lid.

Good Lord, by Jove. It sounds like this podcast is brought to you by Noble Water, but it's simply not. This is a request that we've had in from Eva, from Germany, who says, I don't mind my message and my name being read on the air. Amazing. She says, not sure if it's broad enough topic for your podcast. Listen, have you heard the stuff that we do, Eva?

How to understand walls. How to understand what a wall is, thank you very much. It's actually quite specific. She said, but maybe you could talk about how to drink. enough water. We thought, fuck it. Yes, obviously, yes. I've struggled with drinking enough water

for as long as I can remember, and I've tried just about every trick. Special water bottles, apps, rewards, challenges with others. So what are you up to? It feels like you've done everything that we're about to say. I've got some suggestions. So far, nothing seems to really work.

I know how important it is, but somehow it doesn't come easy for me. Maybe you have some insights and ideas. Oh, boy, do we. I have two. Eva, loyal listener and fan from Germany. Look at us. Transatlantic.

That's what we are, Bebe. Or in German. Bebe. Lebleu. In German? Brilliant. Ich bin Bebe. I'm Bebe.

This is the podcast. Get on board. This is the topic. I think it's a very interesting one because we're really very, very bad at it. And it's crazy because it's free. Water comes out of the time. taps. God bless us. And your front bottom. What the fuck?

You wee. We're surrounded by water all the time. I come out the clouds. It comes out of pipes. Yeah, but... I'm just saying we're surrounded by it. I didn't think I'd rock the boat that much from talking about urine. I was just in... Next one. How to talk about weying openly. Oh my God. I think I was just saying to you, look, it's free.

It's in the taps. You can just drink it and you're like, and it comes out your front bottom, which is insane. It's an insane thing to suggest to help the listeners along. But you're right, we are completely surrounded by water. Our bodies are made up of 70% of water. We respond so physically to seeing the sea or even looking at the sea or being near the sea because we came out of the sea. And our front bottoms.

And out of our front bottoms. Get a grip, Steve. I'm sorry. Get a grip. No, please be free. Roam free through the podcast landscape of your mind. And yeah, so we're surrounded by water. Our bodies need it to live.

It's free. It comes out of the tap. everywhere and yet and yet and yet. We can't do it. No, we can't. I think part of it is, so apparently, the adequate daily fluid intake is 3.7 litres of fluids a day for men and 2.7 litres a day for women. I'm going to have the men's, I shan't be having this patriarchal divide.

I'm going to drink the men's section. Great. What you don't think, it comes from food as well. It doesn't have to be 2.7 or 3.7 litres of pure water. because a surprising amount of water. So it's like if you have a can of chopped tomatoes and you make a pasta with it, that's got water in it.

Like cucumbers, shit loads of water in it. And I know this because my mom has to limit her fluids. Hello, Mom. She's probably listening and going, why are you talking about my fluids? She has to limit the water that she has each day. And it is incredibly difficult to do because she was like, yeah, fine.

It's in food. Sure, sure, sure. But mainly in, no. It's really not mainly the one you're drinking at. How long do you have to limit it? I have fluids for? The rest of the life. Oh, shitting hell.

Yeah. It's a surprising amount of water coming through your watery veg. You've got your soups. You've got your gravies. You've got your... Most meals. Most meals, apart from if you eat, wood. Or a rusk?

A ross. So I would say most meals have got high water content in them. Yes. Other drinks, obviously, you know, I've also got a liquid capacity. So you are getting it from other places. But not all of it. So you still need to be having a whole. massive

listen we're naming the water companies here noble vulvic you're in the supermarket and it's a proper big two litre chunky boy of your vulva you're aiming for roughly 1.2 litres a day that's where you're aiming

no I'm popping it higher we're going to shoot for the stars and we're hitting the chimney pots CV I'm going off the British Nutrition Foundation yeah but listen we don't listen to them we listen to Tesla

yeah and no I am listening to them and I'm saying pop it higher so people aim higher and they hit the thing and what I'm saying is if you pop it higher, people fail, think, well, there's no point because I can't reach that, feel like they're a failure every day and then they're less likely to persist. Whereas if you set a target low, it's an easier target for people to hit.

Okay, whichever type of pop psychology works for you, we'll either trick you into doing it for doing less or doing more. Yeah, and also may I say that when Tesla said all the drinks, alcoholic drinks don't count. So alcoholic drinks actively dehydrate you, so they actually count against. That's a real shame, isn't there? A real blow for the whinos. So I've immediately wrong, am I? Well, terrible shame.

In some ways. I think that's a big part of it is like, well, Sprite is clear. It looks like water, doesn't it? So that's the same. It's not. It's really not. So that's the first thing, I suppose, is get that the hell out of your mind. Don't trick yourself.

Alcohol doesn't count. Does a cup of tea? Does that count? Yeah. Okay. Tap tea, fine. Coffee? It does, yes.

But then often people will have sort of, you know, lardage. I think things are mainly milk-based, but milk still has a percentage of water in it. So, yeah, it all kind of, that does count. But I wouldn't necessarily be like, well, I've had three coffee, so I'm done for the day. No, absolutely, I say, let's not pretend. 1.2 litres of actual water or water diluted with juice. Now, can I just kick it off immediately by saying for ages, I thought if you diluted water with, like, you've got your Robinsonsons now, I did sugar,

you've got your Tesco own brand. May I suggest, oh, the lovely peach and raspberry flavour, which I'm absolutely thrilled with. My entire life I felt silly because I don't really love drinking pure water. Like, I do it sort of almost medicinally. You're like, oh, I've not drank water in four days, so I'll have a glass. Like, it's not like a thrill for me. Because I really like squash, and I thought that was bad. Apparently it's absolutely fine.

So if you want to jazz it up with different squashes, and also I've got a friend who puts cucumber in it, I can't be asked, But if you can be asked and you can put some fruit in your water, then, you know, put your ass in your water. If that's what helps you, you know. Yeah. Okay. And that's the end. I've got a story about some squash.

And I'm going to hold it. No, I think so. Let's do it. I've got to hold it. We haven't done an adult thing. Oh, my God. We were so excited to tackle the thorny water topic. Okay.

Do you want to hear mine? Yeah. It's not actually mine. I'm absolutely coping out here by reading out somebody else's. Okay. That's fine. Thank you. A couple of weeks ago we did How to Have a Smear Test.

Yes. You recall? I do recall. And somebody, let's keep her anonymous. Who's to say? Wrote in thanking us for the episode and wanted to share an excellent and hilarious tip for relaxing. She says, well, someone's fuffing around in your badge. Thank you, God bless.

I had a baby a few months ago. Congratulations. Wow. Jesus Christ. And during my hypno birthing prep, I learnt the phrase, floppy face. floppy face, floppy fanny. It really works. Relaxing your jaw and softening your cheeks

automatically relaxes your pelvic floor and stops you clenching. It really helped me during labour and I'll definitely be during it during my next smear test. All the best. You're both doing a famjaculate job. All the best. You both are doing a fabulous job.

Thank you. God bless you. But on really, reading it and no doubt everybody listening is doing it. Works. You're like, blah, blah, and they're like,

yep. I can't put a finger on what that sensation is, but I think it's relaxation. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, like, horrifying facial expression from Tesla, by the way, it's like a worm's vagina. Yeah, well, and down there,

it's just gaping open. Yeah. It's ready for smears. Anyway, so I'm sorry, you thought you're coming in for water, but I've sidetracked you into smears.

I just, I like the tip so much. And I was like, I must share with the people. It's so nice. And I think it's really going to work. And now I'm actually excited. I mean, I haven't got one booked in, but I'm excited. I'm so excited for you. She's doing the face a lot.

It's just, there's a lot going on. Well, there is a definitely a lot going on there. Great. Mine's very simple. She's still doing it. I, well, I went on TikTok recently and been watching things. And I keep seeing girls doing makeup things and trying them. and being like, what's wrong with my face

and remembering that, of course, when someone tells you where to put makeup on their face, it's because it works on their face. And when you do it, you just look like a clown. And that's okay. And there's a reason why I have a way of doing my makeup. If you're listening now and you're like, oh, yeah, like, this is this thing where you're meant to put your concealer

like only here and here and the inner bit and the outer bit of your bags under your eyes. But I've got full bags into my eyes. So it just looks like multi-coloured. So I'm like, I'm going to stop taking advice from, well, children. Children, but also not children. Like people, I mainly follow people who are in their 30s because I've not got the same face as a 17 year old.

But 30 year olds even, they'll have a completely different skin texture, skin tone, eye shape, cheekbones, everything to me. And I'll be like, why does it not work when I do it? So this is your reminder that we all know to basically not listen to any of them and not feel bad if your eyeliner looks silly when you put it on your eyes.

Well done you. Thank you very much. Go on, hit me with your. fluid needs. Oh yeah, my smear story. My smear story and now my squash story. Yeah. We weren't allowed squash when we were children. Really? Yeah. Whereas weirdly, you were allowed like mum's like gin and tonic at the table, you know? So I don't know where she'd got it in. These are two things we weren't allowed. Crazy in retrospect. One, orange squash and two, the Richard scary please and thank you books. You know, that's just like the drawing. I'm going to bring him up because you'll be like, I know exactly who you mean. It's like a picture of a worm like

riding an apple to work. Yes. Yeah, you don't have to show me. Okay. I know. Those banned in our house. Wow.

Wow. What? What? So, like, my mum, in other areas of life, extremely casual, relaxed parent, do things she'd come down on.

The books and orange squash. So we weren't allowed orange squash because it made us giddy. Okay. But so did, I would say most other things. Did you have other soft drinks? We weren't allowed soft drinks in the house.

We weren't allowed soft drinks, no, but I would say that's fairly standard that you were. orange squash is not bad. Not bad. Not bad. And so it became this like...

So we were allowed ribina. Okay. Right. Debbie, what's the rules here? Right. How are we supposed to police this? We were allowed pure sugar. So we were pure sugar and Debbie's gin and tonic, but not orange squash.

But then I can't and still can't swallow pills. Yes. Never been able to have to do this weird sort of... Just like a fish out of water. Genuinely like... I have this weird sort of pretend chew. thing. And I was like, don't chew it. And I'm going to have to be up with my eyes. I say, like, I'm not. I'm just moving it around my mouth to trick myself into swallowing it.

It's not important. As a child, my grandma tricked me into having some paracetamol by dissolving two of them into a pint of ribena. And then she gave me the pint of ribena. And I was like, oh, this is, I'm never really given a pint of rabina. Hell's bells. Hell's bells, I said. Anyway, that I drank a big glug of it down. It was so, the taste of paracetamol was so thick within it. and I just vomited all over the kitchen floor. And it felt like such a betrayal that my greatest love, Rybina, had been sullied with my greatest hate, paracetamol.

And that everyone thought that they could trick me. And so I never touched Rabina over again. I mean, I'm speechless. I've had the exact same thing with Ribina in a sense that my... I don't know if it still does be. I mean, this is a fascinating episode, of course, for everybody. Drink more water.

But also, Ribina glass bottles. You remember? It was like glass bottle and they had a foil around it. Whereas now it's like your classic plastic. And I was like so excited because we didn't really have ribina a lot either. I poured it into a glass, didn't know you had to dilute it because it was ribena. drank it. Same.

Was sick. And then was like, well, I can never have ribena again. Wow. So neither of us have ribena. But we do have Tesco. Apple and Black current score. Wow. Same.

Same. Well, thank you for joining us. That helps either. I think what we've quickly unraveled is people have got a lot of stuff going on. With ribena. With everything. It's not enough just to be like, have more, just drink it. It's like, no, there's all people got shit going on.

Yeah. Now listen, we're obviously being extremely flippant vis-a-vis it's free and it comes out of the tap. I touched on it earlier by whispering the words, God bless. What I implied in that whispered God bless was, are we not extremely lucky to live in a country? I'm talking about the United Kingdom here that has water in our homes that is drinkable, how extraordinary, and that there are people listening,

even in countries around the world, who that is not a possibility. Yes, unfortunately, I don't think we are the people to talk about how to get drinking water if you're living in a country where there's no clean drinking water. We don't know.

And many apologies. And certainly apologies. And also I think, you know, comes hand in hand with this of being like how, not to be like, well, you should be bloody grateful. But like, how unbelievable and how lucky we are that our thing is like, oh, we got, I don't remember, you know?

Yes, exactly. When people would be like, I wish I couldn't remember. Yeah. And we're like, oh, we've got all this water, but it's just boring to drink. Imagine that. Imagine. Well, we don't have to because we're absolutely living in. We're doing it.

With those two ladies. With those two ladies. About our clean water. Oh, we're the worst. All right. Turn off, I think. Throw us out. Listen to another one.

But, I mean, another entire podcast. Right. So eat more foods high in water. I touched on that earlier. I'm going to give you one, two, three, four, five, six, seven absolute high water content bangers. Right. Lettis, 96% water. Jesus Christ. Celery, 95% water. This is an American sign I'm reading off, which, of course, we all know, corvette. That is, yeah, 95% water. Cabbage, cabage, 92% water. Watermelon. Surprise, surprise, 91%. And then honeydew melon. 90%. Wow. It's pretty good, isn't it? There you go. Get some of those in. Get some of those in and you're halfway there. And you basically add a glass of water. Do you find? Now, psychologically, apparently the single best way of doing it is literally just to pick a time or an instance where you're going to drink a glass of water and you stick to it. So, for example, you wake up every single morning you have a glass of water. And I know what, this is what I do is I go, I'm going to wake up and have a glass of water.

And I'm like, I don't want it because I don't like the taste of water in the morning. morning. It's weird. I'm sorry, but that's just how I am. So maybe others will be like that. The other thing is I go, well, if I'm going to have a glass of water, I might as well have a hot water with a fresh slice of lemon, my digestion. And then I'm like, well, do I have any lemons, and then I don't have any water. Okay. So as per, it's getting the prep in. Getting the prep in. Or just have a glass of water. You don't have to have it with lemon. It doesn't have to be hot. You have to, oh, I've not got my fresh cucumber. Oh, I'm out of squash. Just whatever happens, you commit to, you set a boundary with yourself as you wake up and you

drink a big pint of water. And that's the best thing as well you can do for yourself. And it doesn't matter what happens throughout the day. Maybe you don't hydrate as much throughout the day and you don't get you 1.2 in. But you've, you've had your, whatever that is, and you've also had your food. So that is a good starting point. And then if you can, like, extend it to then bedtime as well. So you've got your two, you're bookending your day with some hydration. You always know it's there. Because then what you shouldn't do is, I'm going to drink a glass of water on the hour, every hour, because it doesn't work. Because what happens is you miss an hour and then you're like, oh, fuck it.

I'm never going to drink again. Then you turn into a giant prune. Okay. Here's my suggestion coming out of you. Yeah, please. I want to hear it. It is. The big old chunky boys from the supermarket.

Okay. Are we talking chunky bottles or just men? The men who work in the supermarket. Yeah. Get one of them to come home with you. Yeah, yeah. And just get them to remind you to drink water. And then they go back to the supermarket for you.

And they go to the big aisle because I find the sports. bottles, the, you know, what we're going to call the Nambi Pambi section. Yeah. Back into the more industrial section. Yes, I guess you're going to the big aisle. The big aisle. The big aisle. To the, the junkie man.

Yeah. And going into the industrial section of the supermarket. I don't know which aisle that is. A multi-pack bottles of Coca-Cola. Six bottles tied together. And we're talking two-liter bottles. Yeah, we're talking, but there's like an industrial section of the supermarket, even the small expresses that has got the big, I swear to God, it's got the big bottles.

It's got the big. bottle. It's got like your giant lemonade. Okay. And it's also got... Do you just mean the aisle in the supermarket where the liquids are? Like,

it's like the soft drink bit. Yes. Yes. But there's one bit... You haven't been to it. Like, sorry. There's one bit. That's like cans,

smaller bottles, individuals. That's often, if I may, grab and go when you arrive. But you don't go for your big chunky boy in the Grab and go sandwich section.

Just in case you've gone, grab and go, and you're like, I've got a water bottle from here. I'm like, stop. Go to the big bit with all the multipack. Yeah, it goes to a bit with the soft drink aisle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I really thought I was helping people. You are in a way.

In a way. Yeah. Okay, so what I now see is called the soft drink aisle. Yeah. Okay, so I guess because we weren't allowed to go down there. Right. As children. Wow.

So as an adult, I'm like, guys, can I tell you what there is in the same? supermarket. We weren't even allowed to look down there, Stevie. Okay. So, okay, right. So there's this section. You could have as many bottles as you like.

And that's so big. And what I want you to get from there is a bottle of water. They will be so cheap. Yes. So one of those, right? And we're home. You did just say you can only buy them and be like, no, sorry, you can.

But you can. But you really had to go to the park. Okay. The pack of seven. Give them out. Give them out. This is your like pilot flagship tip. Okay.

This is number one. No, okay, you can also definitely get them individually. Yes. If you can't, open the plastic wrapping, get one out of the six back. Okay. Okay. I just don't understand. So what this is going.

Is it drink it? I mean, so you're just drinking. Say your advice is. to go and just drink some water from a super bottle. Steal a bottle. No, yeah. So you're home now. What I'm saying is, keep your big bottle.

Okay, and it's just this. This is your only bottle. Right. Right, okay. It will, famously, you're not meant to reuse plastic bottles like that. Well, I have been. Okay, because the microplastics go into the water. They decompose and decompose very quickly.

Is that true? Yes. Right, that's a huge surprise. Okay. I'm so sorry. Okay. How does this haltie a tip? How long do you think it lasts before it's dangerous?

I don't know, man. Like a few uses. Okay, right. So what can we have we got a week of it? I guess so. Right. I've been at this point. I don't know.

It's anyone listening. Sunday night. Just buy a reusable water ball. For God's sake. It's so much easier. We wake up on Monday morning. Yeah. Here's our bottle.

It's going. with us for the whole day. Okay. Yeah, this big boy. We're carrying it around. Right. Okay. And so now it's not like, how many glasses have I had or how much everything was in there,

have had a tea, is this? You've got a bottle. It's going down. You can see it and you've got to get all the way through this bottle by the end of the day. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Next day, fill it up with tap water.

We go again. And then you go again. Or if you've got a filter. Then Sunday night, recycle this bottle off to the supermarket. Another one. And here we go. Right. What do you think?

I think. Um, that's one way of doing it. Okay. However, you could do that with a reusable water bottle and not have to throw away the plastic every week. The bottle isn't big enough. You can literally buy big ones, Tessa. Can you? Yes.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Right. Okay. Okay. You can buy like ones that are the exact daily allowance to have a light on it that say when you're close to finishing. And they're called your daily water bottle.

Right. Yeah, right. Okay, okay. Okay. Lot for me to unpack and learn here. You can also connect these bottles. Like, you just Google them. There's so many smart water bottles. You can connect them to your phone as well.

So you can go to Apple. I'm not having that. Yeah, so this is the thing that's tricky. I'm not having that. That's why I'm like, clear water, water. Just drinking. And it's there. It's with you.

Like, oh, I've got halfway through. Absolutely. Or sometimes you'll be like, oh, I really plowed through that. Oh, I'm, this is going way better than I thought it would be. Yes. And then you feel good about it. yourself throughout the day and also brutally hydrated. Yes, no, I completely agree with you.

So you've got your ones on one side. You've got your ones that have got Bluetooth speakers in them that glow to remind you to drink water. That's stupid. If you really need that, you know, if you've got the money for them, they're all different types of prices. You look at sort of around kind of 20 quid for those sorts of ones.

And for that price, you could get an industrial bottle for a year. You'd literally good. Or there are ones that don't have all the fancy gadgets and gizmos and stuff. They are just big, reusable water bottles, but they won't shed microplastics. They won't like, you know, essentially you have to go to the supermarket every Monday and get another. Sunday night, so you're ready for the Monday. I don't think I didn't think it through. This one here is a good one.

It's called the G-I-O-T-O. It's a one-gallon motivational water bottle. A gallon? You want me to carry that around with me? Well, look, look at that man's hand. He's managing it. That's a gallon? Is it?

Well, hang on. You're talking of an industrial-sized one. Not like a water cooler. It's not a water cooler. It's just a big bottle. It holds like, you know, a lot of... It's quite a chunky boy. And it's got like motivational slogans.

It's like, good morning, hydrate yourself. That's when it goes, remember your goal. Then it goes down to halfway. Keep chugging. Then it goes down to over halfway. You're feeling awesome. Then the next one is, don't give up. Almost finished.

You did it. I'd argue you did it is about a centimeter away from the bottom. So you haven't done it. You've nearly done it. should be on the base. On the base. You turn upside down. Traditionally, when you finish drinks, you turn them up and her down and you view the base.

That's we all do. I would. Yeah, but then you wouldn't be able to see the bottom until it was completely empty. Yeah. I mean, look, there's a lot to kind of workshop here. Okay, I've got an idea. Right. Right.

You've bought your two industrial boys. Yeah. Because you live with somebody. You really, you really, doubling down on this. I just don't like it. I don't like the Bluetooth. I don't like to be reminded. That's only one.

You can just buy a hydration bottle that is just the size you need. hydration bottle. You know, I think it's all this insane what are people drinking when they feel parted, you know, something else, is that what it is? No, water. That's what I'm saying, like, who needs this reminder? All of us.

No one's drinking any water. Okay, I've got a suggestion. Right, yes. Wherever you are right now. Yeah. I'm here. Find a pen. Okay.

Right, water on your hand. What do you think? It's good. It's not bad, is it? It might rub it off. By Sunday, yeah. By Sunday, now, pop it back on again. Okay, you live with somebody, housemate, family, partner, whoever.

You both get yourself an industrial water bottle. Oh my God, okay, yes. Then, mark a pen. You write on little slogans. That's nice. That's nice, isn't it? If you can wipe them off each day so then you can get like a different slogan each day. Right, a bit of fun.

But it'll wipe off on your stuff. Sure. Listen, we're troubleshooting it. But you write them on. And then it feels like, so doesn't, I would just tire of that bottle saying to me, keep on chugging. Again, I don't think that, I was just using that as an example. But if you've made me a little things of what you do. Okay, I've got some things to help people.

Oh, have you? Yes. Right, that's good. Okay. Right. This I think will help people. So rather than just been like, oh, I haven't had any water and constantly reminding yourself of that. Yeah.

Get a little bit more intuitive with your body. Okay. So rather than your little Bluetooth speaker going off and be like, beep, beep, beep. It's water time. Yeah. Be like, oh, my body is feeling like it would like some water. thought, so your second tip is to feel the mechanism of thirst and act upon it. Yeah.

Right. Yeah. Okay. So here's a really interesting thing. I think of a mile. So, right. No, please explain to me how first works. Well, an interesting thing is that 90% of hunger is it 90%?

Yes. Okay. Go on. Look it up. I'm just looking up so we know. Yes, no, I know what you mean? Sometimes you feel like you're hungry, but you're actually thirsty. Yes.

Yes. So we haven't got any our bodies the thing to say I'm thirsty. But that's the whole point of this episode is that people can't do it. I know. Okay. Right, listen in. Go on, look up. Go on, fact check me.

I'm just fact checking. 37. No, no. That's not, is it 37% of people mistake thirst for hunger? No. Because their thirst signals are always. week. Some people do struggle to differentiate between hunger and thirst occasionally, but it's a

low percentage of people and it's certainly 100% not 90%. 90% of hunger is thirst. That is something that a marine I once met, shouted. I just don't think he knew what he was talking about

my body. Yes, he did. Okay, so listen, genuinely I'm not lying here. No, no, I understand. You're not lying. In your body, the thing that you're like, I'm thirsty. That is, you're feeling like dehydrate like a partch-muts you're like oh I've got okay you've got a dry mouth dry mouth yeah yeah you're like oh I'm I'll have a bit of that a bit of water of water you know we've got we've got the parched feeling they're like yeah

of course I feel thirst I'm like you dehydrated yeah but the actual but when we're like oh but you've got a really clear one for hunger but actually your body hasn't got a clear thing between like can I have water please and can I have food please I know this sounds mad but like I really feel different when I'm thirsty to what I'm Go on. Go on. When I'm hungry, I feel an empty stomach and grumbly stomach and I get like angry. And then when I'm thirsty, my mouth tells me I need water. That's part.

But isn't that just curse? No, it's not. It's not. The beginning bit is that. The Marine told you this today. Yes, the Marine said. And now most days I think to myself, 90% of hunger is thirst. So when I feel hungry, I have some water.

Okay. Does that make you feel like hungry? Yes, because it's not hunger. It's thirst. Okay. Your body can't honestly, I swear to God, your body can't. It is really, so it's like, okay, let's eat something. But it doesn't have that thing of like, oh, quick, let's drink something. Okay.

That, I mean. And people are bad. People are lacking the receptors. You're saying that you've got really good ones. No, not necessarily. Often it's, this is very funny. The people that often can't differentiate thirst from hunger is because they're not drunk. If you're not drinking enough water

and then basically there comes a point when if you're hydrated you can tell the difference it seems. But also there's lots of crazy stuff there. May I offer a suggestion to people? I think you have been the entire half an hour but yeah, I've got one right. You look at your hand says water on there, you've got your big bottle. Neither those are working for you. Fine.

You're at your desk, you think, oh, I'd like a snack. Yeah? Okay, yeah. Instead, may I suggest a pint of water? Just at no point when I want a snack, do I then, because you want a snack. Have a pint of water. And then wait 10 minutes.

Right. And then as an experiment for me, and then write in with your results. Yeah. After 10 minutes, be like, oh, I don't need a snack anymore. Or I do. In which case, God bless have them. But like just, and then either way, wink, wink, wink, wink.

She's really winking at me. She closed both eyes. Wing, wink, wink, wink, Steve. You had a pint of water. Yes. I think I was going to, yeah, I mean, you could do the thing where before each meal you have a glass of before every meal because that is just a good also a good signifier of being like, oh yes, you will remember to have that water rather than being like maybe I won't need the meal.

Oh, it's not to trick yourself out of the meal. This is in no way me being like, guys, maybe you could just drink a pint of water. Because it is what dieting people say. Absolutely. But what I've done is simply co-opted that for the hydration market to say, always just getting that habit of being like, let me check, do I want this snack or do I want a pint of water? You do want the snack.

You have it. But you've also managed to have a pint of water on the journey. Yeah. Okay. Fine. Okay. Because I would say no one ever says I forget to have a snack in the day, do they? You never ever have like, do you know what?

I had to get a Bluetooth speaker to say, beep, beep, beep. You should have a Snickers, you know? That's because it's very sort of different. If you want to snack, maybe you have some water. It's not going to be as effective as being like in the morning, every morning. I drink this amount of water. And every evening I drink this amount of water. So it doesn't matter what I'm feeling, what I've drunk in the day,

what I haven't drank. What snacks have I... Let's do combo. Because you always wake up and go to sleep. You wake up, you have that pint of water. If you don't, I'm coming around and smack your face. Right. Okay.

Then throughout the day, every time you think, oh, I'm hungry. Just for me, think of me. Think of my Marine. Say to yourself, 90% of hunger is thirst and have a drink. I don't... I read just remember the 9% of hunger is thirst. It is. I literally cannot find.

I've written 19% of hunger is thirst. Nothing has come up on Google. Like, I'd not to say... Not to message the Marine. It says 90%... I think he's got confused, but also fair play to him, he's got a lot on, I imagine. Yeah, it's busy being a marine. Yes.

But listen. There is mixing up with the thirst and the hunger. That's a definitely thing. And therefore, it's a perfect way of when the thing comes up being like, oh, I want this, which definitely does come up, be like, oh, oh, the signal's gone off. Yeah. And now a signal has happened of a thing I want. Yeah. And now the thing I'm going to give myself first is a pint of water.

Yes. then 10 minutes later I'll be like that's that's not done it and now I'll have the thing that I thought I wanted Right Okay Just getting yourself in the habit of being like Absolutely I agree

Honestly good every day Every single day of my life Since the Marine Satyr said to me I think I'm hungry Then I think to myself 90% of hunger is thirst Then I have a drink

This fucking statistic Yes Then I eat Then I eat Then I eat If you're dehydrated Often your body does a clever thing that it thinks there's no water

because there's a water shortage so it stops you being thirsty so the more you drink the more thirsty you'll get and that can be quite annoying but like that's a good marker of whether you're dehydrated or not like do you actually feel like you want water in the day or do you not and if you don't and if you are struggling to

even remember to because like there's been days where I've had one glass of water and been like yeah I'm fine that's bad like that's my body being like oh there's no water so you'll just let her be happy with that so yes forcing yourself to regardless, you know that there are certain water points throughout the day mean that you will stave off that kind of level of dehydration

where you'll get confused between thirst and hunger as well. So that is also a positive too. I see now what I'm doing is sharing all the things that mean that I never need the Bluetooth speaker to go off. And it turns out that all lies. But just a barrel of lies. Yes. But also, I think actually, no, it's a good point,

which is that there's so much varying stuff and there's so much conflicting. Also, even just like whether you can drink, tap water in the UK. Like, loads of people feel you can. People like British-fielders, people think that that doesn't actually work. There's so much conflicting stuff. But the one thing that's the bottom line is you do need to drink 1.2 litres of water a day

to be a healthy functioning person with your brain function and your... How long could you last without any food, you know, before you die? I don't know. Go I guess. Quite a long time. Have a guess. A week. Three?

Three weeks. With no food. How long could you last with no water? Oh, three days. Correct. Is it? So look at that. That's fair.

Three weeks? Three days. Yes. God damn it. Remember that. Three weeks, three days. Also, don't shy away from those things that are trying to help you. The water bottles and the apps and things like that.

They don't personally work for me. The thing that works for me is just setting, like, something that I do every single day. Because sometimes I actually don't have snacks. But sometimes, but I will always wake up and I'll always go to sleep. It doesn't matter what I'm doing. That has helped a lot. If you're a snack person like Tessera is, then do that. Also, I'd say just really delve in, if you have a real irrational hatred and, may I say, fear of a Bluetooth speaker in a bottle, I'd say unpack it.

I haven't the time. I just don't like it. What was the telling me for? I don't want it. Fine. I think that was deeply unhelpful, but I think it was entertaining to listen to. I think people will come away being like, Jesus Christ, yeah, I'll just have some water so you two be quiet. Yes, well, there we go. That's the end of charge. I think we've done it. It was all part of the grand plan. You thought this woman. You thought I was just saying that, really? No, she wasn't. I was. I absolutely was.

I was. I'm very sorry. Or ever. No, I think, I think, oh yeah, maybe it's that. Oh, dear. This is mine. It's fine. I'm sorry. Oh, no, I don't know if you did.

Don't apologize. Oh, well, take our apologies just in case you need them. Yeah, and right water on your hand. White water on your hand. And for God they just just have some. Just drink some water. And they just get more into being like, oh, do I feel crazy? First step, let's have some drinks.

Tired as well. If you feel tired as well. You feel tired? I'm tired. I'm trying. I'm worried. You know, all these like, oh, what do I feel? I need.

Number one thing, water. It's probably water. And then we'll progress to the next level. Great. But first step is always, I'm feeling, I'm feeling, insert anything. I'm having some water. Is that helpful? If you have a thought, have some water.

Yeah. See you next week for some more absolute top advice. And keep your suggestions in because, as you can see, we're really smashing them. Goodbye everybody and I'm going to have a lie down. And some water. I'm having it. Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you. You know,