Water retention, weight fluctuations, vent

fougamou
fougamou Posts: 200 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I am so sick of weight fluctuations caused by water retention.

I wish my body would just stop randomly (to me) retaining water!

It is driving me CRAZY.


It is not primarily sodium, generally I keep my sodium intake low. Right now I think it is more the summer heat and humidity and I need to drink more water.

Overall I find it so frustrating. I hate seeing the scale suddenly jump up, even though I know before weighing myself that it will (tight ring is the clear indicator)

Other than drink more water and watching sodium, anyone have any good ideas for preventing water retention?

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  • fougamou
    fougamou Posts: 200 Member
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  • missbis
    missbis Posts: 116 Member
    This is so maddening to me as well. I don't have answers, I just searched for this topic to find them myself. I decided to weigh myself on Fridays and to record that weight, but I admittedly weigh myself every day. On Wednesday, I weighed 2 pounds less than my Friday weight, but I didn't record it because I KNEW it would go up, even if just a little. Lo and behold, I am the same weight as last Friday (maybe some tenths of a point different; I don't know because when I saw the number, I jumped off the scale angrily, lol). I ate over my calories on Thursday, but I was still technically at a deficit according to my maintenance calories. I have been eating a soup with a bunch of sodium, so that could be it. But this happens to me all the time, regardless of my sodium intake it seems.

    Sorry to vent on your vent post. I am very frustrated this morning. I know people will say that it's normal, but it doesn't really change how I feel, how hard I've been working. :ohwell:
  • bekkahlokey
    bekkahlokey Posts: 73
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  • TheGr8Kimbini
    TheGr8Kimbini Posts: 92
    I've run into that myself. I know last year when the heat was super bad, I was retaining water badly and had a sunburn too, so I soaked in salt water (our pool is salt water) and by the next day, my retention was really low, then gone after a couple of days.
  • willdob3
    willdob3 Posts: 640 Member
    Weight fluctuations are normal. You are not going to change that. What you need to do is stop worshipping the scale & letting the number rule your emotions.

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