I really got sick of drinking water to the point I do t want to drink water, electrolytes I can only handle so much, I love drinking coffee but I guess 2.5 pots a day is too much especially when you work overnight 12 hour shifts.

I hardly drink alcohol, I do t want to drink broth all day, is there another option

There are some flavor packets that advertise no sugar/no carbs. I was never big on drinking water And I used the packets to help with water. Food Lion lemonade worked for me. I met a guy who drinks unsweetened tea o the regular but I can’t see the point of tea without sugar. Almost in-American.

Caffeine free tea, or like coffee all tea has caffeine, I might try it with salt as I love salt in my coffee

Have you tried carbonated water? I drink decaf tea with lemon and black decaf coffee. I have a soda stream because I am not a fan of flat water.

4 hours ago, 1ino said:

I really got sick of drinking water to the point I do t want to drink water, electrolytes I can only handle so much, I love drinking coffee but I guess 2.5 pots a day is too much especially when you work overnight 12 hour shifts.

I hardly drink alcohol, I do t want to drink broth all day, is there another option

You can do what you want but when you're drinking that much coffee along with an occasional drink (not sure of your hardly drinking).

I come from 2 5ths a day to realizing it's doing nothing but poisoning me.

Coffee, I use to think I needed it, especially like takin a 30 min drive to the city I needed to have 2 12 oz redbull .

Since starting carnivore, coffee tastes good but I don't need it for working. 0 alcohol for 4.5 years and I cannot drink water without

my Redmond Real Salt added.

I'm a 2 cup of coffee / day if I remember but I don't freak out or worry if I don't have it.

It's more psychoscematic IMO than anything else for most people.

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Water, 2 cups of coffee a day (half caf) with a bit of butter and stevia. At times at work, a sugar free electrolyte mix for flavor and pazaz.

6 hours ago, 1ino said:

I guess 2.5 pots a day is too much

You have guessed right! As a coffee lover, this is quite a concerning amount. It's a diaredic, now you need even more of that pesky water! Keep tweaking your needs and wants and I am sure you'll find harmony.

I’m strictly a water drinker. I don’t go anywhere, hardly, without my tumbler of water. I live in Texas and I spend a lot of time out in the heat and water is very important to me as it should be to all carnivores. As carnivores we don’t retain water like we did previously eating SAD.
When I first became a carnivore I drank coffee every morning (3 cups). Shortly into my journey I lost my taste for it. I have no idea why but I just did.
I then started drinking tea because I still wanted that caffeine kick in the morning. I drank tea for a year and then decided that I didn’t want any stimulants going into my body so I stopped the tea. It was just part of my journey to clean myself of all non nutritional things in my life.
I do not put any flavorings in my water but I will put some salt in it when I know I’m going to be working in the heat all day. My only indulgence is I like ice in my water. I practicality crave it.
I basically only eat what I need and only drink what I need. I need meat and I need water and nothing else.


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I wish I could say yes. I call myself a drink whore. That means I want to have a beverage most of the day. Morning starts as coffee, then sparkling water and electrolytes during the day, and the occasional Zevia soda or Vitamin Water Zero (both stevia/monk fruit sweetened). None of these drinks bother me, so I've kept them in.

I don't deal with any sugar cravings either, but it's easy for me since I have up sugar many many years ago and know it will kill me (almost quite lierally). I don't drink alcohol, but don't rule out never having any every again.

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I just started adding the juice to half a lemon to water with relyte and a pinch of allulose. The allulose is new, I see that Ketogenic woman has been using it and it seems to have worked for her in loosing stubborn weight she blends it with Yerba mate. I drink some of that about mid-day.

1 hour ago, Miranda said:

I just started adding the juice to half a lemon to water with relyte and a pinch of allulose. The allulose is new, I see that Ketogenic woman has been using it and it seems to have worked for her in loosing stubborn weight she blends it with Yerba mate. I drink some of that about mid-day.

I love using allulose. It works for me too.

I'm straight water now. I used the flavor packets to get going in carnivore as I was never a big water drinker. From there I tried to add salt but it tasted some sort of bad to me. I could not do it. It was easier to eat a pinch or two of salt and chase it with some water and then go about my way.

Now I just drink water. We have a filtered machine at work and I have well water at the house. Those are pretty much my two sources.

Sort of leads off topic but I don't use near as much salt as I did early in the journey. I really like salt on my eggs so I get it there daily, to every other day but seldom use it on other foods. Funny thing also, don't know really when or why, but I am not much on pepper anymore. Salt and pepper was a staple on most anything I ate. Now it mostly just used to get food ready for the grill.

Another part of the journey I suppose.

Scott

I really love redmans onion salt on beef.

1 hour ago, Katlyn Gommerman said:

I love using allulose. It works for me too.

Have you had any issues with bloating? The brand that I grabbed at Walmart is mixed with monk fruit. I think I over did it today...my belly popped out below my belly button. Or it could just be that time...anyway...I have pure allulose on order.

11 hours ago, Miranda said:

Have you had any issues with bloating? The brand that I grabbed at Walmart is mixed with monk fruit. I think I over did it today...my belly popped out below my belly button. Or it could just be that time...anyway...I have pure allulose on order.

No, no issues with that.

11 hours ago, Miranda said:

I really love redmans onion salt on beef.

Yum!! I need to find that.

Could be wrong, but sounds like you could be drinking out of boredom and not thirst. Try restricting liquids until you desire water. I have the feeling any liquid craving other than water is not a thirst issue. "Sick of drinking water" is like being sick of breathing air.

On 6/12/2025 at 9:21 PM, Miranda said:

Have you had any issues with bloating?

I ordered allulose from Amazon and tried putting it my morning tea and it sends me running for the toilet about an hour later. But then I've used it on my homemade ice cream and seemed just fine. Very strange.

On 6/9/2025 at 11:40 AM, 1ino said:

2.5 pots a day is too much

I used to be a pot per day drinker, but quit in 2019. It turns out that coffee was the reason I suffered from ulcerative colitis for over 10 years. When I got off the bean my symptoms vanished and I no longer needed prescription drugs to manage them.

I got a bit bored with all that water,too. So I tried this non-sugar add-water juice a few months ago and I've been drinking it without problems ever since.

It has sucralose and Acesulfame K... I know artificial, possibly bad stuff. But I blend it pretty mild, got no sweet cravings and my body fat is disappearing very well.

Looks like these particular sweeteners are doing no harm for my keto.

I also drink water and a couple of mugs of Bulletproof coffee every day.

This is in Finland, I bet there are similar products everywhere.

I have said "no" to all sweeteners since 2000, until now.

On 6/19/2025 at 6:42 AM, Carburetor said:

It has sucralose and Acesulfame K... I know artificial, possibly bad stuff. But I blend it pretty mild, got no sweet cravings and my body fat is disappearing very well.

I still drink artificially sweetened beverages also. They don't have any impact on me.

I do see it as a crutch in that I would ideally like to get off them, but at the same time I enjoy them.