Originally posted by: Skoorb
It's a big myth that most people are chronically dehydrated and also a myth that you should drink until your urine is clear. I've even read from one of the best, if not the best running encylopedias that went into great detail on fluids and looked at studies and said that most runners, even, should drink "ad libidum", which means until you don't want any more. If an endurance runner doesn't need to force fluids, the layman or even mildly active person probably doesn't, either. Exess water, at least the amount you are having, is probably going to do nothing more than make you take more regular piss breaks.
Technically, if you read the point of thirst, you're already in the beginning stages of dehydration so that's not necessarily a great thing to go off of.
Isn't that like saying if you reach the point of hunger you're already in the beginning stages of starvation?