The problem with humidity
Aug. 12th, 2006 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grumI'm not really fond of hot weather.
I'm even less fond of humidity.
The reason for this is simple.
I've been drinking 2 to 2.5 quarts of water daily. This is on the order of two or three times what I routinely drink in Seattle even in the summertime.
All the secondary indicators I know to watch say I'm still dehydrated. Including the ones I'm not accustomed to noticing, like the fact that crying hurts because my tears are more salinated than they ought to be. The only one I'm not noticing at the moment is the dehydration headache I get when I've let it go way too far.
I suppose I need to be drinking even more than I have been.
(which is not really suprising given that even in Seattle I should be drinking 2 to 3 quarts daily, I just wasn't doing it)
I'm reminded of the summer I spent two weeks in July camping and doing manual labor in Florida. They provided us with 2 liter canteens. I drank 3 to 4 of them per day... And then I got yelled at by my counselor for needing to stop at the privies every time we passed them. (I'm sure it didn't help her mood that when we needed to go in the middle of the night we were supposed to wake her up so she could walk us up to the bathroom... I learned pretty quickly to function as though I was backpacking and forgo modern facilities in favor of the woods out back of the tent)
I'm even less fond of humidity.
The reason for this is simple.
I've been drinking 2 to 2.5 quarts of water daily. This is on the order of two or three times what I routinely drink in Seattle even in the summertime.
All the secondary indicators I know to watch say I'm still dehydrated. Including the ones I'm not accustomed to noticing, like the fact that crying hurts because my tears are more salinated than they ought to be. The only one I'm not noticing at the moment is the dehydration headache I get when I've let it go way too far.
I suppose I need to be drinking even more than I have been.
(which is not really suprising given that even in Seattle I should be drinking 2 to 3 quarts daily, I just wasn't doing it)
I'm reminded of the summer I spent two weeks in July camping and doing manual labor in Florida. They provided us with 2 liter canteens. I drank 3 to 4 of them per day... And then I got yelled at by my counselor for needing to stop at the privies every time we passed them. (I'm sure it didn't help her mood that when we needed to go in the middle of the night we were supposed to wake her up so she could walk us up to the bathroom... I learned pretty quickly to function as though I was backpacking and forgo modern facilities in favor of the woods out back of the tent)
