Your Morning Routine Blueprint128Drinking more water is the quickest, simplest way we can
scale up our energy.
The interesting thing about the human body is that it
doesn’t care how it gets water. So we often confuse thirst with
hunger. While food can provide as much as 20 percent of our
water intake, it’s easy to overeat when all we need is a drink.
Staying hydrated wards off the mindless snacking that leads to
poor food choices and energy crashes.
So how can we consistently drink enough to operate at our
optimum level?
STEP 1: TRACK
You can track your water intake with an app. Or a lower- tech
idea is to wear several bangle bracelets and move them
from one arm to the other as you finish a glass so you have
a visual of how well you’ve hydrated your body that day.STEP 2: TRADE
Trade your first drink of the day for water. Clare Smith sug-
gests, “Drink 8–16 ounces of water before you have your
coffee.” You can always have your coffee or tea right after,
but starting with that first glass starts you off on the right foot.
Trade your soda or sweet tea at restaurants for lemon water.
While sodas and other drinks hydrate you to some degree,
most contain caffeine, which is a diuretic, causing you to lose
most of that liquid via more frequent trips to the bathroom.