Drinking Water

SoleTrainer60

A friend of mine started drinking 16 cups of fruit infused water a day for the last 3 days. On the 4th day she noticed that she had gained 10 pounds. Could this be from drinking all of that water?

RelCanonical

Did she tell you what she ate?

DoubleUbea

16 cups? 128 oz of water a day?

nutmegoreo

Unless she used so much fruit that it became juice, I doubt it. Alternatively, to gain 10lbs of fat in 3 days, she would have had to have been eating over 11,000 calories per day on top of her maintenance calories, so about 13, 000 calories per day. Which I highly doubt, no matter how juicy her water was.

Sounds like a water fluctuation. Did she increase salt intake? Start exercising? Increase exercise intensity? Close to TOM?

SoleTrainer60

She stated that she thinks it was fluid retention. She did not mention what types of food she was consuming.

pinggolfer96

I drink 2-3 gallons a day and weigh the same in the am...

nutmegoreo

SoleTrainer60 wrote: »

She stated that she thinks it was fluid retention. She did not mention what types of food she was consuming.

Drinking extra water tends to help with water retention though. If I have a high sodium day, I tend to drink some extra water. It generally evens out. I did have a 2lb gain overnight one day following a high sodium day. I drank extra water that day and was down nearly 5lbs the next day. Fruit infused water shouldn't have a 10lb effect. Has it changed since then?

elsie6hickman

Is this something she is making herself or is this water she is buying? I had a nasty shock recently when I bought a bottle of Clearly Canadian with Blackberry. I drink infused water all the time with zero calories. Well, when I looked at the bottle - it had 80 calories!! Wished I had looked at the bottle before I drank it.

Aaron_K123

Drinking lots of water doesn't increase water retention...it actually does the opposite as the increased liquid intake dilutes electrolytes your body homeostatically regulates to specific concentrations. To compensate your body will expel excess fluid to try to bring up the concentrations back to homeotypical levels.

lynn_glenmont

What was she doing before? Maybe she was dehydrated when she started.

callsitlikeiseeit

i drink around a gallon a day.

no one gains weight (other than temp water weight while your body adjusts) from water.

SoleTrainer60

Thanks everyone, I will pass on the info. I haven’t received anymore info about her situation recently.

SoleTrainer60

My friend now feel that it was probably hormonal.