AAAAA!!!! I hate water weight!!!

briannadunn

I can't stand it. I exercise, I eat right, and then there is water weight..Lots of water, teas, it doesn't matter, 1 weekend of eating to much sodium sets me back a whole week or two!!! What to do without taking a diuretic??? I have contemplated it over and over again. I used to take them when my weight just wasn't budging but then you end up with other issues, made that mistake before. I lost tons of weight drinking prune juice, taking diuretics and drinking copious amounts of water and working my butt off in the past, WHAT should I do now, I don't want to go there again??

katamus

Try to stop obsessing over what the scale says. Drink more water. Weigh in less.

neohdiver

At the moment, I love it...I'm on a low sodium diet (1000-1500/day) for diagnostic purposes and am shedding water weight like crazy. (Down 6.8 lbs in 7 days, with only a around 150-300 calorie deficit/day.) I would not have said I was particularly sensitive to sodium - or that I consumed that much of it.on a regular basis. Now that I'm tracking sodium in an attempt to keep my world from spinning around I see I was wrong.

Don't worry about it - it will work its way out of your system as long as you mostly "behave."

deevatude

i tracked my sodium and kept it at about 1500, for about a month.

i have lost alot of water weight and it has leveled off. Now i eat foods extremely high in sodium and i have been going over on my calories and i have yet to gain weight.

Restybaby2012

Use a little lemon juice in your water or even tea. Its a natural diuretic and works great.

briannadunn

Thanks for all the suggestions I really appreciate the responses.

SnazzyTraveller

Doesn't water weight eventually go away? Does it even make a difference in physical appearance or just a temporary number on the scale? I dont even bother weighing myself when I'm on my period or retaining water for other reasons. No point :smokin:

MuddyEquestrian

Use a little lemon juice in your water or even tea. Its a natural diuretic and works great.

^^^ great advice! This is what I do. Taking pill diuretics or trying to find a temporary way will only make you feel worse andset you back. Try having lemon juice in ice water once or twice a day and you'll notice a difference. I also stay very low in sodium like others above have said. Good luck!

Jester522

Try to stop obsessing over what the scale says. Drink more water. Weigh in less.

This.

Water weight fluctuates 5lbs daily considering composition of the human form is 70% water.
Lower carb and sodium intake, drink more water, eat some asparagus. It goes away in a day.

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

Doesn't water weight eventually go away? Does it even make a difference in physical appearance or just a temporary number on the scale? I dont even bother weighing myself when I'm on my period or retaining water for other reasons. No point :smokin:

It definitely shows on me. I'm usually carrying about 5-10 lbs of water weight, and I was on a diuretic but am off it now because of hopes to get pregnant. And it does get better and worse but it never goes away unless I take something for it Tracking sodium does help though.

briannadunn

Thanks all, I do actually track my sodium religiously and I have got to try the lemon water. I am drinking tea and picked up my medicated tea so hopefully I will break this plateau. I gain the weight and yes, eventually it comes off but it can take up to two weeks. I am weighing myself once a week and that seems to be helping. I weighed myself last Friday and it was the same and has been the same for 3 weeks now..boy it has been frustrating. I am going to try some of these tips. Thanks for all of your responses.