Boarding the Airplane - Your Flight & Dehydration

So, was my experience with travel and flight easier now that I have lost 110lbs? The same?

Nope.

I can only guess why:

Now usually I am drowning myself in water non-stop throughout the day, and I tried. I don't want to pay over 3$ for a bottle of water at the airport and I drank a few times from the fountain there but not nearly enough. I was left thirsty before the flight. I have gone on several planes in my life, the most recent one was a little over a year ago and except for my ears popping like crazy I have never had any problems.

This flight (and I can only attribute this to slight dehydration) my ears only popped slightly but my knees and ankles hurt like A LOT throughout the entire flight as did my back. My fingers were really swollen, I noticed my ankles were a little swollen as well as being in severe pain. Actually both my legs felt swollen and numb.

They offered drinks during the flight but I was so tired (I had pulled an all nighter so that I could leave my house at 3am for the flight.) So I slept through the flight attendant coming by twice.

When I stood up before boarding my flight I felt light headed and dizzy, like I haven't felt in months on the diet, since I started drinking huge quantities of water. So it was definetally dehydration. Shoot. And I was doing so well.

Now I don't know how you, as a traveller on the Dukan Diet can entirely avoid this. You can't bring water bottles from home on your flights so I guess you will have to be less cheap than me and buy loads of water at the airport. Or bring a mug or something.
You could always make your situation known to the flight attendants. Just make sure to drink tons of water to avoid all this.

I will admit though, I fit so much better in the plane seats. ;)

I don't know if I have any readers who have been through the Reagan International Washington airport (my first time connecting through Washington, from what I have seen I would love to visit there during the summer...) but am I the only one who found it super confusing? Very confusing airport, barely any signs or anything.

xoxo

PS: After my connecting flight to Orlando I can tell you that during this part of the flight I felt 100% better, drank a lot of diet coke on the plane. I feel less swollen and the pain is gone from my legs and ankles. Now I know, come prepared and when flying, drink tons of liquids to avoid feeling sick.