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    Healthy way of getting rid of retained water?!

    Posts: 41 Member
    edited January 3 in Health and Weight Loss
    Is there a healthy way to get rid of retained water?? I woke up this morning and my hands were swollen and I felt extra huge!! Help? THANK YOU!!

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    • Posts: 391 Member
      Less salt, more sweat :D
    • Posts: 671 Member
      Water with lots of lemon

      Green tea

      Reduce your sodium for a couple days
    • Posts: 53 Member
      Sounds stupid but yeah, drink more water :)
    • Posts: 371 Member
      Fight water with water! :)
    • Posts: 2,008 Member
      Yup, get that sodium down and start drinking lots of straight water flush it all out.
    • Posts: 3,329 Member
      What they said...a lot of water, no or little salt, and I like to take a Diurex on the particularly bloated days (like time of the month days)...obviously a temporary solution only but it does work.
    • Posts: 41 Member
      Got it! Less salt/sodium, more water and more sweat!! Thank you!!!! :)
    • Posts: 628 Member
      agree with all responses. I was having the same problems. I added sodium to my tickler and I was eatting toooooo much sodium. Even diet soda's have sodium :( That and drink all your water even more than you think you could hold! It's helped me.
    • Posts: 4,391 Member
      Also eating whole, healthy foods and fewer carbs help reduce water retention. It's not 100% sodium.
    • Posts: 1,361 Member
      Drink water.
    • Posts: 560 Member
      Peeing

      it helps
    • Posts: 3,275 Member
      Peeing

      it helps
      FTW (I wrote that on your message before coming in here....LOL) \m/
    • Posts: 560 Member
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      FTW (I wrote that on your message before coming in here....LOL) \m/

      great minds my dear great minds :drinker:
    • Posts: 1,774 Member
      I drink 1 L of water with 1 tbsp of lemon juice mixed in it once a week, or if I eat out. I find it helps!
    • Posts: 13,274 Member
      Drink more water!
    • Posts: 251 Member
      Just curious, but why does the lemon in the water help?
    • Posts: 881 Member
      1. Cut the sodium way down...
      2. Drink lots of water, natural diuretic...
      3. Exercise and sweat it out...
    • Posts: 240 Member
      also talk to your doctor. if it is right for you, they could prescribe a diuretic.
    • Posts: 671 Member
      Just curious, but why does the lemon in the water help?
      Lemon is a natural diuretic.
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