Personal Narrative: After My Challenge Of Eight Glasses Of Water

Since, I have been working on my fitness and health goals over the last year, I of course have needed to start drinking more water. Yet, I still have not been able to get myself to drink the daily-recommended amount of water. Therefore, there are a number of reasons that support my reasoning for wanting to increase my daily water intake. For instance, I want to incorporate drinking more water, because I know that it plays such an essential role in a persons overall health. Changing this behavior will ultimately benefit me in now and in the future. Also, not drinking enough water fatigues the body and muscles, especially for those that are actively exercising. Since, I have been incorporating more exercise into my daily routine, it is important that I also incorporate at least the recommended daily water intake if not more. Another significant factor is that water is essential to organ health and function. Therefore, in order for my organs to function properly I must be consuming the proper amount of water. That is why, I would like to make this behavior change in my life now, so that I could live a long and healthy life. As I reflect back on the experiences I encountered while trying to change my water consumption, I have to admit that overall I had a positive experience. I learned a lot about myself, and my own personal

For me, that would be a very unfortunate situation. I absolutely love milk, and I drink more than I should. My go to drink is chocolate milk or hot chocolate. I have hot chocolate at least twice a week, and have plain ol’ chocolate milk at least three, if not more. It doesn’t help that I have a collection of Disney mugs that I love to use, and what perfect drink to put in them besides hot chocolate. Milk is of very high need in my life, and my world would be stygian without it. Don’t get me wrong though, I enjoy root beer too. However, I drink root beer abstemiously. I think the only time I ever drink it is when I’m looking for something fizzy to drink, and it’s the only pop in our house. There are also occasions when my mom brings home little

On September 1, 2012, I walked into my fifth grade teacher’s classroom for the first time in my life. Mrs.Cullen was standing in the front of the door with open arms ready to welcome her new fifth grade students. As I made my way to my desk and sat down next to Charlie Schutt and Quin Timmerman, I got the feeling that middle school would be a time of talking to some of my best friends and cruising through classes. As the school year progressed, and classroom seats changed, my thought of how Middle school would be changed as well. On the first day Mrs.Cullen explained our schedule, Homework detentions, and demerits. After about fifty questions, she sent us off to our first class, and the first step of our Middle School journey. The fifth grade

On the way home I thought about asking Soda about my essay. I knew Soda would tell me that “it was perfect and that I was so smart”, Darry would say “it needs more information”. When I walked into the house Soda had a weed and a letter in his hand, I thought to myself “It’s very strange for Soda to smoke.” He only smokes when he needs to calm his nerves. When i looked at his face closer he looked happy but mad. I asked “What’s wrong.” He didn’t reply, so I sat down next to him and the letter was from Sandy! The letter said “ Hello Soda i’ve missed you.” “There is something very important that i should have told you a long time ago.” “ I lied when I found out that I was pregnant I was so happy but, I thought that it would hold you back from being you.” That’s when I decided to move to Florida. “ I made you believe that the baby was someone else’s when it’s actually yours.” Right now your baby girl is five months old.” “ Soda i’m really sorry for any pain I caused but, if you want to see her I will give you the money for you and your brothers to come see her.” “ From Sandy.” Soda quickly crumbled up the paper and ran out the door. Shortly after that Darry was home from school.

"Come on, just a little bit longer. Just a few more hours and I can go home," I think to myself. It's the middle of the school year, right after our bathroom break, the second grade school year. We're the big kids in the hall. Kaley held me in the back and now I really have to use the bathroom. I feel just like the narrator of "Ringing Wet"; I am horrified.

The first thing I ever felt was intense wind and somehow I knew that when I opened my eyes alI I would see is blue. Light pale grey blue. Blue so light that the horizon can’t tell where the grey water ends and the sky begins. Blue that promises rain and storms and chaos. I was sitting on something. Something with scales and muscles pumping, up and down, up and down and I could only grin because I knew. When I finally opened my eyes and looked at the dragon on whose back I sat, all I could feel was peace. Peace in the air with the slate skies. The dragon pushed harder, flapping it’s wings faster. Up up up up. I thought the farther up we went, the less air there would be, but no. There was more. I felt it in my blood. It flowed in constant wind, sending us through the layers and layers of atmosphere.

On November 16, I received the notice from U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission District Office, Phoenix.

Low battery. Exactly the two words I didn’t want to see right now. When having no juice you wouldn’t be able to text your ladies or do nothing on your phone. When your phone doesn’t have juice that's when your pocket “juice” or portable charger comes in handy. And if you don't know, well, now you do. The struggle is real.

Students are used to receiving a normal, academic report card. However, they are not graded on their out of school activities, so I have decided to make a report card for myself. My first category is water bottle flipping. Water Bottle flipping, to some people, is an art that needs to be mastered. To others, it is just a hobby that entertains them in their free time. At water bottle flipping, I am not at all consistent because I either land ten in a row or I miss an absurd amount in a row. This is because I get so frustrated that I keeping missing so I try and go faster. I eventually go so fast that I am out of control and not even close to landing the bottle. I am always determined to finish what I start, so not matter how many times I miss,

The first goal in my practice plan, for the physical aspect, is to start drinking more water. This has always been a challenge for me, because I find water to be boring and lacking taste. However, I know that hydrating your body is important for many different reasons. It not only flushes out toxins in your body, but also keeps your skin clear, and helps with weight loss, among many other things. One way that I will work to meet this goal, is to buy water bottles in bulk. By doing this, I will have the ability to grab and go a bottle to take with me when I am heading to work or to have in the car instead of stopping someplace to buy a soft drink. Another way that I will reach this goal, is to buy some drink mixes to put in the water in order to make it taste better to me since the lack of taste has been an

When I began doing my water fast (30 days of water only drink) it was horrifying to think about giving up soda pop. It seemed that during this time so many beverages were available to me for free. It was so easy to forget about the fast and get caught up in grabbing those drinks. I would be almost at taking a drink and then realize that wasn’t water that I was about to drink. That first water fast was one that was truly challenging, but was a sacrifice that helped me grow spiritual. I learned to be more conscious of the decisions that I made during this journey. After numerous other 30 day water fast I later found myself not regarding the sacrifice in the same way. The fast was something that I had done successfully several times before

Today in lifetime sports we did aerobics, which is running on the track in the Tarleton Complex. The class was told not to push ourselves, but I always tend to push myself, so I ended up running ahead with I the other guys. The goal, in the end, was to run ten laps and record your heart beats per hour, by multiplying your beats per ten seconds to six. I ended up getting twenty-six beats, so I guess I got one-hundred-fifty-six beats per minute. After I got done recording my information I just had to get up and walk some more laps. The best part was that we got so much time to change because of sweaty we

My parents always told me to “drink milk” at meals, so I grew up thinking water was something one only drank at restaurants to save money. It’s flavorless, not delicious, and lacks and nutritional value. I have learned the necessity of water the difficult way. Safe to say, I did not care about drinking water the majority of my life. I only drank approximately twenty-four ounces of water a day, on a good day, if even that, and that’s just in the past three years. The past two years I have fainted, blacked out, and become dehydrated because I did not drink enough water,

Dehydration is a problem that can be fixed easily through self-awareness and a conscious effort to drink. Many techniques exist to help facilitate and encourage water consumption: making drinking water a habit; keeping a liquid journal; and making water more appealing. Although the topic of water consumption and drinking eight glasses of water appears to be such a simple element of health, it is key to effective body function, and optimal health.

This paper will chronicle my eight week journey as I gave up all carbonated beverages. I will be discussing how I arrived at this decision and what were some of my thoughts/feelings during this process. This experience has taught me to look at addiction from a different point of view.