Pledge To Drink More Water With Me For A Chance At $500 from Crystal Light!
Life isn’t slowing down for anyone. My own life seems to have the fast forward button permanently pushed in and with trying to keep up with work, my house, and the ever blossoming social life of my kids, most mornings it seems like my day has started without me and I have to hit the ground running just to avoid being left in the dust.
Since we can’t slow our lives down (I’m gonna assume you have all tried just as I have!), our other option is to try to be in our best form. One of the key ways to do this is also one that is so simple it is often completely overlooked – especially by folks like me who have a habit of grabbing a drink from the fridge and paying little attention to how many tin cans pass through my hands during the course of the day. Ready for it?
Drink
More
Water.
Seriously, it can be that easy. Need more motivation? These figures made me really sit back and think:
50-75% of our bodies are made up of water
Blood is 95% water
Skin is 70% water
Our brain is made up of 75-80% water
(THAT’S where all my brain cells have been going, they’ve been dying of thirst!)
~blinks and picks her jaw up off the floor~
Wow. Please hold while I go drink a glass and issue a formal apology to my body…
Did you also know that being dehydrated (which I can pretty much guarantee I am right now) can cause joint pain, lethargy, and irritability? Drinking enough water can help eliminate all of these problems and add more benefits such as improved concentration, too! It’s simple really, our bodies function on water, rely on water, and when we don’t give them enough water we can hit some substantial ruts.
So why don’t we drink enough water? Well I have one complaint about water. It tastes like…umm…water. Seriously. Can you get more blah?
This is where Crystal Light comes in. ~smiles brightly~
I’ve been a Crystal Light drinker ever since it first came out. That was back when Linda Evans did the commercials (We followed Dynasty, too). Honestly, Crystal Light is about the only time I do drink water, but I still haven’t been drinking enough – not by a long shot. Did you know, though, that people who drink Crystal Light ended up drinking an average of 20% more water than folks who just drank their water plain?
At this point in my life, I could use a little high performance and I think drinking more water might be just the boost I need to help me accomplish my goal of feeding the world homemade banana pudding.
So for the next week, here’s the drill
Water…
Dump…
Stir…
Enjoy.
Come on in, the waters fine!
Join me in pledging to drink more water.
Leave a comment below with your own pledge for a chance to win
a $500 Visa Gift Card from Crystal Light!
After you make your pledge, join me back here next week to read about
my progress and tell me about yours for a chance to win another $500
dollar Visa Gift Card!
It has been a pleasure bringing you this post, sponsored by Crystal Light.
For a delicious Crystal Light recipe, check out my StrawberryAde!
*Winners will be chosen at random from among comments on each post.
Posted by Christy Jordan
on Aug 11 2009. Filed under Misc.
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Count me in!!!
I love water! I really can tell a difference when I’m not drinking enough! It’s nice to add a little flavor & spice it up with Crystal Light. The kids are more enclined to drink it flavored!
I’m going to try Crystal Light–that looks delicious–love red stuff anyway and Christy–you look so adorable drinking that
) I do drink a lot of water daily but you are so right–it’s BLAH by itself.
I pledge to drink more water (and less sweet tea, sob).
I love to drink water. I gave up soda pop for a new years resolution 2.5 yrs ago. Drinking the flavored water would be a nice change from just plain water. Thanks Christy
My family enjoys the crystal light. We pledge to drink more.
Oh yeah, count me in on your challenge girlfriend!
I soooo have all the aches and pains of not enough water in the system, but hate the taste of water. Heading to the dollar store now to grab me some Chrystal Light.
Christy, Now, I love this contest. I keep looking at my skin and thinking – girl – you need more water. I am armed with a stockpile of crystal light. So drinking I will go. Up first – white grape!!!
Thank you for the reminder!
Tracie
Christy – this Tracie is my daughter – and believe me she will remind me to drink the water!
I’m going to drink more water! It seems easier in the summer when the weather’s warm and the lemonade’s nice and cold.
great pledge…Crystal Light…and what a delight
What a kawinkydink! I just bought a big costco sized crystal light lemonade for our family yesterday. It is perfect for summer. When I was pg with our twins, I LIVED on crystal light peach tea. Sooo good! That said, I have not been drinking as much of it lately. I’m on board to drink more crystal light!!!
I knew all of those statistics about water making up most of your body (which still wasn’t enough to make me drink more), except one and it’s the most important one to me. I did not know that not having enough can cause joint pain. And guess what? That’s the one thing I have a lot of. Wow. I pledge to drink more water over the week and I hope to report next week that my joint pain subsides considerably. Just let me finish this Jack’s sweet tea (with a Jack’s gravy biscuit) before I get started. And besides all this, I need to use all of this free crystal light I’ve gotten over the last year from using southernsavers.com. (This is where I found your website.) Have a waterful day!
I got hooked on Crystal Light at work because they have the individual packets in several flavors out for staff to use. I love the lemonade.
Thanks for sharing, Christy!
We LOVE Crystal Light. It makes drinking water more pleasurable! I pledge to drink even more.
FUNNY YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT DRINKING MORE WATER I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO THIS. I WILL TRY THE CRYSTAL LIGHT I AM SURE I WILL ENJOY IT.
Being diabetic I need to drink things without the sugar. I am concerned about the artificial sweetners though. I have seen on TV twice now a thing about artificial sweetenrs causing weight gain in the stomach area. I do try to drink more water and will work even harder at it.
I didn’t like Crystal Light when it first came out. It tasted too chemically to me. Your strawberry-ade post made me decide to give it another chance, though. I got the pink lemonade. It tastes much better now that they are making it with Splenda! My husband even tried some and liked it!
I keep the individual packs with me and they certainly help me to drink more water!
Ok, I know I need to drink more water so maybe Crystal Light is my help!! I am going to focus on drinking more water!! Thanks for the reminder!!
In Christ, Aimee’
The more water with flavor, the better!
I’ll put in my pledge to drink more water too! What an awesome giveaway, Christy! I look forward to posting my progress next week, and hearing everyone else’s progress as well!
My whole family loves Crystal Light and with 5 kids, it helps eliminate a lot of sugar out of their diets!
My husband and I love Crystal Light’s fruit punch!!! We drink it every day! Sherri B.
I always drink a lot of water or unsweet tea (can you believe that in the South?) I found out a long time ago drinking water makes you feel better. I also like Crystal Lite, the to-go packs are great to take with you when you get tired of plain ole water throw one in for a little flavor. I pledge to drink more water….. Let’s all get healthy.
I love water, really ice cold water in the summertime, but I use crystal light in my water in the colder months…Love your post Christy, kutgw !
I LOVE the strawberry — ENERGY!!! It is a must for my day to go right!!!
I love Crystal Light!!! Been drinking it for a long time now. The “To Go” tubes come in very handy also. I use a tube of that in an empty Gatorade bottle, and always take it with me when I leave the house. I usually drink about 2 quarts of water a day, then a tanker or two of Crystal Light, and about 4 cups of coffee. So I actually get enough liquids, but I give a big THUMBS UP to Crystal Light for such a great product!!!
I agree with you on this. I know I need to drink more water and will pledge to do so. Of course, adding Crystal Light makes it that much easier
I’m on for the challenge – drink more water! Tracie (daughter) has me hooked on your site – so happy she got me started. There are so many flavors that I just dump into a bottle of water. I’m even going to record the number of bottles I am drinking per day. Thanks for your wonderful website.
Have you tried the Sunrise Tangerine Orange? Fantastic! And you get your vitamin C and calcium.
I love Crystal Light, and I totally agree that you will drink more water this way, especially if you don’t like the taste of plain water.
I will join in and drink more water. I need to lose weight so badly and have tried many times until a bad day comes along and I’ll grab a coke and then I’m hooked again. I love Crystal Light and have many flavors at home already. I buy the drink packets for my sons who really love them. My problem is I just love Coke (Dr. Pepper actually but call everything in a can coke!) Anyway, I promise that starting right now I will pass up the cans and begin drinking the water. I loved the strawberry ade, would that count?????
One of the keys to losing weight for me is drink less Diet Coke and drink more water. I love my water with crystal light!! I am restarting weight watchers this week (another weight loss key) and am pledging to drink more water!!
So, I am a health nut. Love the statistical info… I will drink more water
What a great challenge. I too need to boost my water intake. Crystal Light is a great way to do it. They have a great variety of flavors too!
Congratulations Teresa on quitting smoking after 16 years, after losing both my biological mother, stepmother and most recently a good friend to smoking, I congratulate and admire any one who quits. Christy, I have a 64 ounce water jug that my dear hubby fills with ice and water for me every morning before we leave for work, usually about mid-morning I add a concoction of Crystal Lite to that water it consists (you know the “to go” packets): cherry pomegranite, strawberry, strawberry-banana, and sunrise. It is so delish! Keep on drinking “Crystal Lite”!
My daughter turned me on to the packets. It had been a long time since I had tried Crystal Lite, and I was so surprised by all the flavors and taste. I bought a pitcher with a filter,I save money by not buying bottled water, and I buy the Crystal Lite when on sale at Publix. I like the Green Tea and the flavors with the anti oxidents. Drink more water with an extra benefit.
Boy, do I need a challenge! Water also helps to lower blood pressure! Thanks for the challenge!
This is a huge issue for us for several reasons. First, the summers in South Carolina are HOT and we need to stay hydrated. Second, I get bad, bad headaches when I’m dehydrated. And it’s really hard for me a be a good wife and mom when I have constant headaches.
So I will definitely be paying more attention to my water intake! Thanks!
Oh Christy if only you realized how much I really needed to read this post today. I’m addicted to Diet Coke and think that is basically the only thing I need to survive through the day and boy can I really tell what it has done to me. I keep telling myself more water, more water the problem is I just ‘need’ that taste of something other than water. My husband drinks Crystal Light because he is a diabetic and it kind of gives him that sweet taste he craves when he can’t have sweet tea or soda. I would love to join you in drinking more water for our bodies!!!
This will not only be good for this old dilapidated body…but this gift would sure solve money issues at Christmas time. Thanks for this chance!
This is definitely something I need to do!
I have been a big water drinker for the past several years and Crystal Light just makes it better.
I used to keep a mug of water on my desk and drink water all day long and Crystal Light was my treat in the evenings. Then I got laid off in January and I confess – - – - the water drinking and even Crystal Light were not something I kept doing. Even though I know it is good for me. The results are that my joints hurt more (therfore I exercise less), I have gained weight, and I feel hungry more (when I may just be thirsty!). I did not know that keeping your water level up would also help concentration.
Thanks for the challenge and reminder. I am drinking a mug of water right now and will be going out to the store for a can of Crystal Light. By the way, I love your pitcher. Do you refrigerate it without a lid, or does it have one?
I love the wildstawberry in the energy crystal light, but i also drink anywhere from 80 to 120 oz of water a day. I didn’t like water at first but then when you start drinking it i just keep on and it is very good.
I’ve been drinking Crystal Light Iced Tea (decaf) and their lemonade everyday for years so I won’t have any problem joining this quest to drink more water.
wendyb532
DH LOVES Crystal Light’s Peach Tea…only way he drinks water!
I pledge to drink more water each day — my goal 9-10 cups a day. And, I pledge to get the family drinking more water each day…again, 9-10 cups a day!
Thanks for the motivation, Christy!
Christy, I pledge to drink more water. Love crystal light and this will really help me to drink more water. Love everything you put out there.Keep up the good work. Thanks.
Just discovered your blog through Southern Hospitality! This is a timely post as I last week have gone a body improvement campaigne, I have vowed to drink 8 glasses of water a day, 32 oz of that I have been bringing to work mixed with Crystal Light Lemonade..Yum!
Thanks for the give away chance.
I have been addicted to Crystal Light Peach Tea for years! I try to drink just plain water as often as I can, but more often than not I reach for the “packet” and enjoy a refreshing Peach Tea. Now that my husband has been diagnosed with diabetes, he is trying out all the different Crystal Light flavors and loves that he doesn’t have to find a dollar’s worth of change in his desk drawer for the vending machine any more. We [heart] you, Crystal Light!