It's just water weight!!!!

No, I'm pretty sure the body retains water for various reasons. The body is 90% water in the first place, and thus water weight is what it is. It's like breathing. Even people who are within a healthy body composition have water weight fluctations.

Focus on fat loss, not water loss.

It's just water weight!!!!! People need to put that statement into perspective!! Water weight is still weight! Respect it. Your body is glad when its gone. That water crushes your heart and lungs! It blocks circulation from your legs and feet!!! It helps crush your joints in your hips knees,and ankles. People with excessive water weight have died from heart attacks, lost their feet or legs due to uncontrolled ulcers. When the weight comes off the body doesn't care if its just fat or just water or a combo of both. It just appreciates the relief! Be proud of every pound no matter what that pound is made up of!!! Blessings

This is one of the stranger posts I have read on here....

Whoa! I better stick with wine then just to be safe!!!

Amen to that!

It's just water weight!!!!! People need to put that statement into perspective!! Water weight is still weight! Respect it. Your body is glad when its gone. That water crushes your heart and lungs! It blocks circulation from your legs and feet!!! It helps crush your joints in your hips knees,and ankles. People with excessive water weight have died from heart attacks, lost their feet or legs due to uncontrolled ulcers. When the weight comes off the body doesn't care if its just fat or just water or a combo of both. It just appreciates the relief! Be proud of every pound no matter what that pound is made up of!!! Blessings

Excessive water retention is a serious medical condition that needs to be treated.

A few extra pounds of water retention after a sodium-heavy meal or around a woman's period is not anything to worry about.

Excessive water retention helps kills people everyday!! Its called edema. Morbidly obese people fight it daily. So do people with heart conditions. So when they lose 10 - 15 lbs in their first weeks of weight loss and people tell them its just water weight. They feel a little defeated, when that water is just as important to get off as fat. This journey is not just about fat loss, its about getting your whole body in tune. So no, no troll here. Study and get back to me.

People point out that it's mostly water in those early weeks so that when the losses SLOW DOWN later, the person losing doesn't get discouraged and think they're suddenly doing something wrong.

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Actually severe edema can cause all of those things, including skin ulcers, but that would be severe edema not some sodium/hormonal/muscle repair bloat.

I don't know if any of this is true, but I'm going to panic just in case.

Excessive water retention helps kills people everyday!! Its called edema. Morbidly obese people fight it daily. So do people with heart conditions. So when they lose 10 - 15 lbs in their first weeks of weight loss and people tell them its just water weight. They feel a little defeated, when that water is just as important to get off as fat. This journey is not just about fat loss, its about getting your whole body in tune. So no, no troll here. Study and get back to me.

I do understand the point. I began with a ketogenic diet because I knew it would be diuretic and glycogen depleting which, in turn, was enough of an initial loss to allow me to begin walking comfortably when I was morbidly obese. That first whoosh was as important as any part of my 109 pound loss.

And why is everyone so quick to discount someone who may not ask a question the EXACT way we want to hear it...... bullies!

1. She did not ask any question at all. She made a statement.

2. Really? Come on.

As a nurse I'm dying over here. To compare edema which stems from other bodily diseases such as CHF and PVD to the water weight people most refer to here after eating or working out are not one in the same. But whatever makes you sleep at night!

Can we classify edema a little better here???? Dieter's edema is not the same thing as pulmonary edema or cerebral edema for crying out loud.....

With dieter's edema the body holds onto water to replace fat loss in the fat cells. And it's pretty normal for most dieter's to experience this. Some people call it the "whoosh" effect. No weight loss, no weight loss, then WHOOSH, weight loss when the body finally gets rid of the excess water and fat cells.
Dieter's edema is the reason for the saying "weight loss is not linear".

And I have to disagree...all weight is not created equal. Fat weight is WAY worse for you than water weight and to think otherwise is foolish. Or by following the same mantra you are pushing of weight is weight, then why not water weight = fat weight = muscle weight? I guess no one needs to worry about being fat since all weight is created equal.

Re: severe edema, think of a balloon overinflating, the skin will burst causing weeping ulcers...