Healthy Food Journey 🥑 - Signs showing you're not drinking enough water

“The greatest wealth is Health.”

Eating healthy food is a major key in order to have a fit body. When I look back 5 years ago, I havent eaten good and healthful food at all. As most of you might know, when I was younger I started dancing in another city so I needed to drive 1-2 hours to the final destination even on school days. It was pretty tough. I did the homework in the car while my parents were driving, I took a few naps to reenergize my body, later on I started to do my make-up in the car and to be honest with you, the car felt like a second home. Since I started dancing while I was still a cheerleader, I literally had no days off so I wasnt able to eat at home when my mom was cooking. Sometimes the training sessions got so late that every restaurant was already closed and I needed to eat fast food a lot. I dont really felt any negativity inside my body. I am not gaining weight easily so doing a lot of sports definitely helped me to stay healthy even though the food wasnt as good as it should have been. 

I recently started a new gym routine with 1 day off in a week and going as hard as possible. I want to change my fitness journey because of many reasons. While I did that, I realized that healthy food is more important than I once thought. Just hitting the gym and lifting weights doesnt give you a healthy body. The real health comes from within and this is where I started thinking of switching up my food routine and jumping on a healthy food journey. 

But before I start sharing  food, hacks, DIY, reports etc., I want to start with one of the most important topics of all time. W A T E R. The human body is made of 50-80 % water. Our joints, muscles, blood, sweat, lymph, saliva and a lot more. If we do not drink enough water during the day, our body is threatened by drying out. I dont want this to happen thats why I wrote some signs on my paper that are showing you when you arent drinking enough water. 

Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues. - Kevin R. Stone

1. Dry mouth

This one is pretty obvious. If your mouth feels sticky, it´s a sign of dehydration. Grab a bottle of water and take great swallow. 

2. Dry skin

The skin is the largest organ of the body thats why our skin needs a lot of water. If you stop taking enough of the "liquid gold " then the skin does not only dry out and becomes brittle, it also ages faster. Forget about all the anti-aging creams. Drink enough water in order to prevent wrinkles. Sure wrinkles will come at a time but not as soon as by dehydration.

3. Strong thirst 

Before your mouth is getting sticky and dry, you sometimes feel a great thirst. This is obviously a huge sign to warn you to drink enough water. This thirst will go away after taking a few nip of water. 

4. Dry eyes

A too little fluid intake will causes dry eyes. If your body is lacking in fluid then your lacrimal glands will dry out which can harm your eyes especially if you are wearing contact lenses. 

5. Joint pains

80% of our cartilages and intervertebral discs are made of water. They are used to ensure that the bones do not rub against each other during movements. But in order to keep enough of that "material ", you need to drink enough water!

6. Muscle mass goes back

Your muscles consist manly of water which means if you arent taking enough "liquid gold ", your muscles will go back.

7. You are longer sick 

By sufficient water supply, your body can continuously excrete toxins. It works like a filter and if the machine doesnt get enough oil to work, the filter will fail. In other words, if we dont drink enough water, our organs try to get the water from other places which will cause dehydration as well. 

8. Felling sluggish & tired

If we dont drink enough water, our body tries to get the water from other places inside our body which I wrote in point 7. The body will use water from our blood to be exact, which means that less oxygen is transported in our body. This is why we feel sluggish and tired sometimes.

9. Hunger

If you have not drunk anything for a long time, your body might falsely think you are hungry. But digesting food costs a lot of energy while water just cleanses our body and supplies "fuel " which the body needs for certain services. 

There are many other important points such as indigestions, reduced urination, headache, you do not sweat during exercises and so on... 

Water is really one of the most important essentials that you can supply to your body. 

An adult person should drink at least 1,5 - 3,2 liters of water per day. I recommend drinking still water because drinking a lot of sparkling mineral water will bloat the stomach because of the gas. 

No water, no life. No blue, no green.  - Sylvia Earle

This was my welcome post to my new series "Healthy Food Journey 🥑 ". Of course I would love to take my readers with me and trying out new challenges, recipes and a lot more together. 

Are you already living healthy? 

Is someone of you vegetarian or vegan?

Thanks for reading

Stay focused

Love, Soldier 

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