Summer Hydration
This week’s Tuesday Topic is: Favorite warm-weather snack, meal, or hydration tip. I don’t have any “tips” but I do have some fun summer drinks going on. I’ve already mentioned this one: It’s like a ‘healthy” diet Coke! OR IS IT? I’m convincing myself it’s healthy because it’s sweetened with stevia, but it still has tartaric acid and citric acid in it- is that bad for my bones? LALALALALA…. right now I don’t want to know. Here’s another good one: Now, THIS has to be healthy… right??? It’s black tea, flavored with peach and sweetened with stevia and monk fruit. There’s some vitamin C added (I I guess that’s the “benefits”?) This has a slight stevia aftertaste, but other than that I’m loving it. Here’s another good one: I discovered this tea when I visited HTeaO in Waco, Texas. I was helping my son move into his new apartment, and it was 110 degrees. These iced teas HIT THE SPOT. Imagine my delight when I discovered you can order it on Amazon! This is green tea, with blueberry flavor, and again sweetened with stevia. On my long work days, I’ve adopted Gretchen Rubin’s advice to “treat yourself like a toddler.” In other words, don’t let yourself get too tired, too hot, too cold, too hungry, too thirsty… she also says it helps to refer to yourself in the third person. “Gretchen needs a snack. Gretchen needs a nap.” “Jenny needs lots of caffeine today” I’ll think, as I happily fill my water bottle with iced tea. It definitely makes the day more fun. I can’t end a summer hydration post without a nod to LMNT! On days when I do a longer run, I’ll fill my water bottle with LMNT and ice water, and sip on it all day. It’s nice to drink something with a flavor, and also feels like a reward for running in the hot sun. Do you have any favorite summer drinks? Next week’s topic: Summer solstice: what are you looking forward to this season? Link Up With Tuesday Topics Welcome back to Tuesday Topics, as Jenny, from Runners Fly joins Jenn at Runs With Pugs to co-host this link-up! Please join us every week for a new topic! Write on our weekly prompt or choose your own topic! Make sure to add your post to the link up, link back to your hosts, and comment on the other shared posts! You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter Top photo by Kaffee Meister on Unsplash