Question about water retention

CookiesandCrunches16

For the past two days I've eaten approximately 2,800 mg of salt each day. Roughly 500ish mg over what I'm used to. Could this cause me to retain water temporarily? I'm a female and I'm a little more than 2 pounds heavier today. Thanks!

cwolfman13

Yes, of course...

spiriteagle99

Absolutely. I've learned to be careful when I weigh myself. Never weigh after eating out; restaurant meals tend to be really high in sodium.

CattOfTheGarage

Yup.

Also if you have eaten more carbohydrate than usual, that will make you retain water as well.

If you have eaten more food than usual, the food itself will make you weigh a little more for the 24-48 hours it is in your system.

And there are all sorts of other reasons you can weigh more temporarily, such as hormones/menstruation, exercise, illness or injury. So if you see a spike in the scales, don't let it worry you.

TavistockToad

Probably

Gallowmere1984

Absolutely, especially if your potassium intake happened to be lower than usual as well.

LAWoman72

Sure, and sometimes you can retain without any immediately obvious cause. I have my "tight ring" or "up two pounds" days that I can't trace to anything specific.

crackpotbaby

Many things can make you retain water including but not limited to exess sodium, creatinine, heavy strength training, hormonal change, medications, renal function, dehydration etc etc

If you went up but say 2 kg in a day and heart or liver failure and/or swelling of extremities then see a doc.

Otherwise, daily fluctuations in weight are quite normal. For women, particularly around ovulation or menstruation which is basically 2 weeks of the month already.

dotwilldoit

If I don't watch the Salt...weight goes up a little bit. Monday's are typically not the best day for me for that reason. Weekends can be a challenge. Part of life. FRidays, howwvere, have been my best days after 5 days of really watching the salt...

CattOfTheGarage

lizery wrote: »

Many things can make you retain water including but not limited to exess sodium, creatinine, heavy strength training, hormonal change, medications, renal function, dehydration etc etc

If you went up but say 2 kg in a day and heart or liver failure and/or swelling of extremities then see a doc.

Otherwise, daily fluctuations in weight are quite normal. For women, particularly around ovulation or menstruation which is basically 2 weeks of the month already.

I've gone up as much as 6lb in one day due to exercise related water retention - that's 3kg. The exact size of fluctuations depends on the person.

crackpotbaby

CattOfTheGarage wrote: »

lizery wrote: »

Many things can make you retain water including but not limited to exess sodium, creatinine, heavy strength training, hormonal change, medications, renal function, dehydration etc etc

If you went up but say 2 kg in a day and heart or liver failure and/or swelling of extremities then see a doc.

Otherwise, daily fluctuations in weight are quite normal. For women, particularly around ovulation or menstruation which is basically 2 weeks of the month already.

I've gone up as much as 6lb in one day due to exercise related water retention - that's 3kg. The exact size of fluctuations depends on the person.

Sure, but do you also gave heart or liver failure or swollen feet? Cause that's what I wrote in regard to when you might want a medical opinion.

Also, you might have had a big poo on there too, so a one of sudden changed reading can be a bit misleading.

6lb = 2.7kg anyhow, but that's kinda irrelevant to my post.

LivingtheLeanDream

yep...