as ur friendly Neighborhood Nursing Student™ i feel somewhat compelled to remind everyone with the hot weather:
every liquid except sea water and alcohol hydrates you. It’s not CHUG WATER OR DIE. in fact, gatorade and the like are designed to hydrate you efficiently.
yeah, this includes coffee and tea and soda. the diuretic is not enough to cancel out the liquid. juices and milk have solids in them, sure, but they’re also mostly liquid! it counts.
your body can only absorb so much water at a time, so chugging 64 oz of water at noon and calling it good will do a wonderful job of flushing your kidneys, but not so much of hydrating your tissues. it’s more important that you’re getting consistent fluid throughout the day.
there’s a lot of fancy ways to determine How Much Water (Liquid) I Should Drink but honestly? 8 oz (1 cup) every other hour on cool days and 8 oz every hour on hot days should be fine (assuming you sleep for a normal amount of time per day…. i’m assuming ur awake 16 hours a day.)
figure out how many oz each of ur favorite cups is. it’ll help your guesstimation.
if ur urine is darker than light yellow, you’re dehydrated.
if u pinch the skin on the back of ur hand for a couple seconds and it takes more than a second or two go to back to normal then ur dehydrated.
In regards to #1, don’t take this as an excuse to drink the sugar water that they call sports drinks. They aren’t bad for you per se, but please choose water.
actually this entire post was written in the spirit of ppl using it as an excuse to drink sports drinks and soda etc
ppl have been commenting abt sodium levels in soda and sugar levels in sports drinks and thats all well and good but what i’ve noticed is that people who internalize “well, ONLY WATER hydrates me” but who HATE WATER remain horrifically dehydrated cause they dont drink anything.
so like. if ur a person who haaaaates tap water, this is absolutely me giving you permission to drink whatever fluid you can stomach. please take this as a direct excuse to drink nothing but gatorade if that’s what it takes to get enough fluid into ur body.
it’s not the healthiest for you, sure, but you’re a smart enough person to know that. please drink fluids anyways.
if u like water thats gr8. if you can stomach water that’s gr8. if you can’t, that’s okay too, and you need to stay hydrated just as much as anyone else, so pleasedrink.
I used to hate tap water, and in some places (looking at you, Iowa) it is legit disgusting, but one thing I do which helped a ton and was long term cheaper than buying soda or juice was to get a bottle of Angostura bitters. It’s a cocktail additive with a strong distinctive flavor, so although a tiny bottle is like $6 it will last you for ages. Put a small drop or dash in your glass then fill with water. It has a pleasant sort of herbal metal taste (I understand that those words don’t seem like they should go together but it’s hard to describe) which masks tap water. It also helps me smooth an upset tummy but your mileage may vary. It’s not something that will get you drunk, just a flavoring like vanilla extract.
If that all sounds like too much bother, dropping a lemon wedge into water also helps.
I am learning that lemon wedges are magical in almost everything I like to drink.
here is the magic that made me stop being chronically dehydrated:
because yeah, i can’t STAND plain water – it tastes like the inside of my mouth. it tastes like spit. imagine drinking a glass of ice cold spit. ugh. but add a squirt of this stuff to your glass of tapwater, and now it tastes like apple, cherry, lemonade, whatever.
i also got a bunch of these
and pre-prep them with flavored water, iced tea, iced coffee, whatever (or ask my helper to do it), and then when i’m thirsty but distracted and want to just grab some kind of liquid without thinking about finding a clean glass etc., i can just grab one of these.
because yeah, hating water is a thing, and dehydration SUCKS. so drink SOMETHING, don’t be a water purist. better to chug iced coffee than go without.
mio was a damn genius for comin out with that shit
can I just speak up here as someone who has been a nurse for 17 years? I heartily endorse this post and also give you permission to DRINK WHATEVER THE HELL IT TAKES TO KEEP YOU FROM BEING DEHYDRATED
especially in the summer, you can’t play around with that. drink something. seriously. for the love of kittens. DRINK SOMETHING.
Listen to me. This is your life– no one else’s. At the end of the day, it is you who has to be happy with the choices you are making, food you are eating, things you are doing, goals you are pursuing. Do not let the opinions and judgments of others stop you from doing what you feel and know in your heart is right for you. Eat the food that makes you feel best. Do what makes you feel at peace. Surround yourself with people who make you feel good, who make you laugh, who sincerely make you smile. Go after what you want– not because someone else is telling you to, but because you want to. Listen to that inner voice, trust your gut, and trust yourself.
Circumstances have aligned in such a way that I’m planning a short little service tonight for beloved pet-dead so if you want me to send some energy to your passed on fur babies comment or shoot me an ask
But please don’t drown me like the January reiki send where I was sending to 700 people at once 😂 I’m an Aries rising I WILL TRY EVEN IF IT KILLS ME IT IS NOT HEALTHLY!!
I have not in fact been swamped yet so you guys have until 11 pm est to send me names!
That’s all folks! Everyone who commented and messaged me is in and I have plenty of names so I’m calling it closed! Thanks for sending 🙂
The result! 43 beloved dead pets were sent reiki and did someone submit a snake because I swear I saw one…
– felt my throat open up and, idk, relax? felt like I had the taste of something white and green on my tongue – like Sprite maybe (lemon-lime soda)
– deeply felt bittersweetness in the heart and center of the face. A pulling sensation pulling towards the light in the pic. A deep sigh. An urge to cry.
Very interesting. The pull makes sense because I use lights/candles as beacons in my spiritwork as keys to open gates and ways to move spirits on. And I was surprised how much just sending the reiki smacked me in the chest with guilt I didn’t even know I had about a horse I knew in my life in my life and had recently lost. He came through in the send and was basically confused as to why I was feeling guilt because I always scratched him and gave him delicious treats so why would I have bad feelings?
I’ll write this because maybe it’ll help ease feelings for those who had to put their pets down, but he sent me this image of going to sleep and ‘waking up’ a spirit and suddenly able to run again in an unbroken body, like there was no awareness of passing a stage, just asleep and then whole again. It wasn’t jarring, it was just a sense of joy and brightness, if that makes sense. I felt a deep sense of release after he sent me the image.
I love working with animals because even in the next world they’re constantly pointing out to me how silly we humans are in what we hold onto.
There’s a few things to unpack here, the first being that I am not Wiccan and witchcraft and Wicca are not synonymous. However there is nothing (to my knowledge) that would keep a Wiccan from following a bioregional worldview.
When you practice witchcraft it is informed by your land. When you practice witchcraft somewhere else, it changes drastically. Witchcraft in Florida is inherently different from witchcraft anywhere else. We live on a peninsula with the Atlantic on one side and the Gulf on the other. We have swamps, rivers, sloughs, lakes, and everything else you can imagine.
So yes, witchcraft in Florida is different from witchcraft anywhere else. No where will have the combination of ocean, swamp, and scrub lands that we do. The same way that Louisiana, California, and Oregon all have their own land and a witchcraft beneath the soil there. When your witchcraft comes from the dirt it has to change from place to place.
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