A question about water weight

gemmajenkins90
gemmajenkins90 Posts: 18 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've seen a lot of posts about water weight on here.

I have my own question(s):

What exactly causes it to come off? I assume drinking the recommended amount of water each day, along with all the other healthy dietary changes one will make? Say if I start my healthier eating/drinking and weight loss on a Monday morning, how long can I expect water weight to take to come off? 24 hours? 48 hours? a week?

Thank you in advance :)

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    At the beginning it generally comes off due to lower glycogen storage, as you're now eating fewer calories. But here's the thing: you're always carrying water. It makes up the majority of our bodies. It increases and decreases day by day depending on a number of factors (sodium intake, increased exercise, hormones, and stress are the biggest contributors). So you may see a large loss for several days, but don't get discouraged if you get on the scale the next day and it's actually up.
  • gemmajenkins90
    gemmajenkins90 Posts: 18 Member
    Thank you Malibu :)

    I actually just read an article about the glycogen thing while waiting for replies on here! :)
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    what @malibu927 said.

    for me personally when I eat higher carbs or more sodium then I can see water weight reflected on the scale by 2 to 3lbs and that lasts typically 4 days.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    gemmajenkins90 wrote: »
    Thank you Malibu :)

    I actually just read an article about the glycogen thing while waiting for replies on here! :)

    Please post the article; I'm interesting in reading it as well.

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