01/12/2025
Today is the first day of the 12 Days of Christmas Challenge and we are talking about hydration (by the way - if you haven't joined the challenge yet and want to, let me know in the comments below or send me a DM and I will send you the link to join!)
There has been some talk about the effects of drinking more water and then waking up in the night needing to go to the toilet more. I get it, it's super annoying to be peeing all the time, and we don't want to destroy one part of your wellbeing to fix another part!
So, we need to then think about the timing of our water intake to get optimally hydrated without wrecking our sleep. Here is a little analogy to help you with this...
Think of your body like a plant.
If you only watered a plant once a month, then drowned it all at once, it wouldn’t cope… it would wilt, struggle and then overflow.
But if you water it regularly, especially earlier in the day when the sun first comes up, the plant stays upright, hydrated and happy.
Your body works the same way.
Front-loading most of your water in the morning and daytime is like giving your plant steady weekly waterings. Light, consistent hydration helps everything function well.
If you leave all your water until the evening, it’s like dumping a whole bucket on the plant at night… everything overflows, and in human terms, that means midnight bathroom runs and broken sleep.
So give your body its ‘proper watering’ earlier in the day, tapering off as the day goes on, and just top up lightly at night. It makes a huge difference! 🧡
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