Propel Fitness Water – Lemon

I've been one dehydrated moneybags loner recently, so instead of drinking my 19th bottle of Dr Pepper, I grabbed a Propel Fitness Water today. After all, it is a Gatorade product, of which I'm a fan, and it says "Vitamin Enhanced Water Beverage," so I figured this might help to save me from my half-asleep, zombified state this afternoon.

I passed on the "Peach" and "Berry" flavors and opted for a "Lemon," thinking it would possess extra Hydration Power™! (catchphrase my own). Instead I ended up drinking some sort of generic refrigerated clear liquid with a tacky medicinal aftertaste.

Ironically (and I hate irony), I had to try to scrape the residue taste away by drinking water out of the tap. Perhaps if I had just run 45 miles and kayaked the Colorado, Propel might've done the trick. Not so much with just walking back and forth from my cubicle.

Hmmmm, maybe the purpose of the beverage is to get you to drink more pure water for precisely the reasons I did. Even better. Either way, I don't feel particularly refreshed right now and in fact feel less motivated to get "fit" than I have in ages. 25 pounds overweight and coasting—the only thing being "propelled" is my waistline.

Review by Bradley Milton