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Water weight may make it harder to track your "true" weight, but that shouldn't affect your eating decisions. More specifically, your water retention will fluc
by klochner 14y ago
Water weight may make it harder to track your "true" weight, but that shouldn't affect your eating decisions.
More specifically, your water retention will fluctuate up and down within a narrow band depending on your diet, but you will never put on 40 pounds of water weight.
It's similar to limiting your how much water you drink so that you don't have all the liquid in your belly making you heavier.
- bad_user 14y agoWater retention is also a warning sign that something's wrong (like a hormone imbalance, one of the biggest causes for water retention) and you should probably take it easy. Fat people retain a lot of water. When people start a high-fat diet the first 5 pounds or so are from all the water loss (or even more). > It's similar to limiting your how much water you drink Not at all. In fact when dieting it's good to drink a lot of water, precisely to stop your body from retaining it. Odd, isn't it?
- klochner 14y agoaside from hormone imbalances, why do you care at all about water retention?
- bad_user 14y agoBecause hormone imbalance is the primary reason for why some people are fat and some aren't, being the reason for why type 2 diabetics can die of hunger while still being overweight. Do some reading on the subject dude.
- dguaraglia 14y agoYou should be able to get a relatively accurate number by always measuring your weight first thing in the morning, before drinking anything. You have to be careful not to get fooled, this is some kind of "best possible scenario" because your body loses a lot of water through perspiration during the night, but it'll give you a somewhat solid baseline.