water tricks

it's taken me awhile but i think i'm finally getting into a routine i'm happy with. i'm trying t remember and do all the little tricks that helped me the first time around. one thing i learned was how many calories i was wasting by drinking them up. it was quite surprising. i'm not the biggest fan of water but i like that i can have as much as i want and it's not extra wasteful calories. what sucks it getting up to pee especially at night cause i'm drinking so much. i do actually drink a lot. i am very thirsty. and i have read that a lot of times we think we are hungry we are really thirsty so i always try drinking first and esp. if i'm bust and don't have time to get something good to eat yet.
when i get up in the morn i've discovered i really am thirsty. too bad the first thing i usually drink is choc milk with my toast. well that could be quite wasteful calories as i'm barely tasting it just gulping it down. so i have my trusty doctored water bottle nice and cold ready to go for me in the morning. i add some crystal light lemonade to it so it has a little flavor at least. and as i'm making up our toast and choc milk for breakfast i'm swigging on my watedr bottle and not extra choc milk and extra calories that i'm not even tasting. i save it for when my toast is done and i can sit and eat and drink and taste. because when your eating less you have to make it all count and make sure u take your time with it. sure i'm usually reading the paper too but at least i'm sitting.
so as long as i have my water at the ready at all times i know i can grab that instead of something else wasteful to try and fill me up some first before i grab whatever meal i'm at. and if i'm drinking while i'm getting the food ready i'm filling up on the water and i'll eat less. because i'm constantly refilling the same bottle (go ahead tell me thats bad but it saves me $ and saves some plastic from filling up the landfills) it's hard to tell how much i'm actually drinking. but i believe its anywhere between 2 or 3 of those big 700ml bottles. or 1pint 7.7fl oz. whatever. it's a lot and it seems to be working.
153 today and am so happy i am much closer to 150 than 160 finally. i think my attitude adjustment is helping. if i'm into it and know i can do it i feel better about me. i feel better about exercising. i feel better about eveything. and that's just so much better.