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.
Being brought up by generations of southern women, I learned, quite early on, the importance of drinking water. My Gremma always had a mason jar of ice water with her. She told me it would make my skin pretty. True. My Mama doesn’t like the ice, but she always had a glass of water close at hand. She say’s “It’ll help you sweat”. True, water helps push the toxins out of your body. My aunts and great aunts, all of them thrive off of water. My Goofy uncle calls it “ice wooda”…lol.
My children, on the other hand, avoid it at all costs. What they don’t realize is the Crystal Light ‘red punch’ as they refer to it, is made with glorious water!!
A note to Christy: I am very picky about how I spend my time. I am not wasteful of it, fore one never knows. I cherish my time spent reading what you write. There is such power in your words, such emotion, devotion to what you love, and it shows! I give you a hearty pat on the back for you accompliments, and on showing the ‘outside’ world what a true southern woman embodies!
OK. You talked me into it.
I have recently embarked on a health “kick” (I hate to say “kick” because it is a lifestyle change). My goal is to lose weight and become healthy and to help my husband do the same and to ensure that my children grow up healthy and fit. To do this, I have pledged to drink 64 ounces of water a day – some days I may only get 48-56 oz but I try for 64. I’ve always had trouble getting my son, who is 16, do drink water, but he absolutely loves Crystal Light fruit punch and I make a pitcher of it almost every day. My husband loves all flavors of Crystal Light, and I keep another pitcher made up daily of pink lemonade!
Thanks for the contest! I would love to win!
Angela
I am in the same boat! I drink entirely too many Diet Coke’s most days! I am going to try to have just one Diet Coke a day and make the rest of my drinks either water or Crystal Light (I am a big fan of their tea & fruit punch)! A $500 Visa gift card is the perfect motivation — plus, we could really use that money since my husband’s business has been pretty much non-existent lately! Hooray for water!!! :o)
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!
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.
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.