Code Red Rebels drink a gallon of water a day.

It’s more than most people drink in a month, much less in a day, so it’s no surprise it raises eyebrows when someone first learns about this.

(A lot of people drink a gallon of soda or energy drinks a day, easily, so it’s interesting that a gallon of water a day seems dangerous or surprising, isn’t it?)

One question I often get about drinking that much water is, “Is it dangerous?”

If it was, I wouldn’t be recommending that adults drink a gallon a day.

That being said, there is one way drinking “that much” water could, potentially, be harmful, and it’s this:

Drinking the whole gallon in a short amount of time.

Doing that’s not good for you.

Though we do recommend you start your water first thing in the morning, that doesn’t mean the goal is to drink it all as quickly as possible.

Get it in by mid-afternoon if you can, because if you’re drinking your water into the evening you’ll be up all night peeing. Plus it may stall your weight loss to get it in late.

But don’t try to cram it all in within a 30-minute window, either.

Most people won’t be able to do that. You’ll reach a point where your body will go, “Okay, hang on, I need to process this!”

Water’s great for your hair, skin, and nails. It improves your energy levels. It helps manage your appetite. When you’re first starting Code Red, it flushes toxins you’re body’s releasing so you don’t reabsorb them.

There are SO many benefits to drinking it.

But that doesn’t mean you chug it like an underage college kid guzzling from a keg at a frat house party. (Drink it throughout the day and try to finish by 5 PM.

It also doesn’t mean that if one gallon’s good, two’s even better.

Unless you have a custom program with me that gives you an alternate amount of water, stick to a gallon.