Water weight

ppatel9264
ppatel9264 Posts: 3 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hey all,
I wanted to know if any one else has problems with water retention like I do? I weight 135 pounds last night ate healthy all day and just had 1-2 alcoholic beverages and I did eat dinner out last night but im 138 pounds this morning. I know I dint gain 3 pounds but it's also frustrating weighing 138 this morning because I finally broke my 136 plateau. And it always takes me a couple of days to lose the water weight and then I eat out and the cycle starts again
Any tips on losing the retention quicker?

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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Drink some extra water today.
  • ppatel9264
    ppatel9264 Posts: 3 Member
    I've been drinking lots of tea and water but it seems like it does not budge for a couple of days
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,089 Member
    It's really not worth obsessing over. It's not fat. It's water. It's just a number on a scale.
  • ppatel9264
    ppatel9264 Posts: 3 Member
    True...
    Would you still chart your weight at the 135 ?
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,839 Member
    edited June 2017
    The five extra ounces of cheese I ate yesterday did not make me gain two pounds overnight. The sprinkling of salt on the tortilla chips, on the other hand, probably did. This is normal. All of us have the problem to one degree or another. I weigh myself daily to remind myself what I'm supposed to be doing. The weight does swing daily. Sometimes there's an obvious explanation, sometimes there's not. When you graph it out, what you are looking for is a squiggly line with a general downward slope over time. The folks who seem to always lose and never gain are mostly just staying quiet on gaining days. Everybody has times they gain "overnight."
  • kincharles
    kincharles Posts: 20 Member
    I have fluctuations like that all of the time - sometimes I can explain it off to higher sodium intake and water retention, other times it just doesn't make sense. Overall, however, my weight is still trending downward - that is all I care about. I weigh myself daily and use a spreadsheet (nerdy I know) to keep track of my trends; I tend to take the week average as my weeks weight (with all of the fluctuations in a week it works best for me mentally) instead of the weight of my 'official' weigh in day (the day I update weight on MFP).
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,162 Member
    Yes, pretty much everyone retains extra water weight sometimes, for a variety of reasons. If you didn't eat enough calories for the scale jump to be added fat, it isn't added fat.

    Stress burns few (no) extra calories. Let it go.

    Maybe drink a little extra water. It'll drop off soon enough, and if you're in a deficit, the fat loss will outpace it soon.

    Scale direction over time, not one day's reading, is what matters.
  • Okiludy
    Okiludy Posts: 558 Member
    I also get irritated at water retention. More so when it's around my weekly weigh in. I know it's stupid but for some reason my Tuesday weigh ins are more special than the rest of week. Today is Monday here and last night I ate at KFC. I knew I would retain water even being under my daily and weekly goals. Sodium from that yummy fried chicken made me gain 1.6kg yesterday. I know I won't drop it before Tuesday.

    I think I am going to move my weekly weigh ins to Friday morning. I never eat out during week. It's just the weekends that do me in. I also am thinking of getting one of those apps that track trends it might help get rid of frustration. Maybe something like this can help you also.
  • CynthiasChoice
    CynthiasChoice Posts: 1,047 Member
    Not just extra salt but also extra carbs can make you retain water. I don't know if this is common, but hot weather makes me gain a few pounds. If you're really determined to see that 136 on the scale again, try eating grapefruit - it's a natural diuretic. Actually, many foods are diuretic http://diet.lovetoknow.com/diet-fitness/list-diuretic-foods
    Or do a day of fasting. They say it's good for your liver once in a while.
  • sosteach
    sosteach Posts: 260 Member
    That is why I only weigh myself once a week.
  • lisawadeson
    lisawadeson Posts: 11 Member
    use body fat weighing scale. then you can see for sure
  • DresdenSinn
    DresdenSinn Posts: 665 Member
    I like using a diuretic like MHP Xpel Maximum Strength

    Be sure to drink plenty of water when using any diuretic :wink:
  • Muscleflex79
    Muscleflex79 Posts: 1,917 Member
    lisawadeson wrote: »
    use body fat weighing scale. then you can see for sure

    these scales are wildly inaccurate and would not help at all. OP, as others have said, it is water weight, it is how the body works, it is nothing to freak out about.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,162 Member
    DresdenSinn wrote: »
    I like using a diuretic like MHP Xpel Maximum Strength

    Be sure to drink plenty of water when using any diuretic :wink:

    No.

    Don't do this. Don't use diuretics over trivia. Unless you have a genuine medical condition requiring diuretics, don't disregulate your body. It knows what it's doing.
  • InkAndApples
    InkAndApples Posts: 201 Member
    Funnily alcohol makes me lose my water weight - every time I get major water retention it seems like a night on the red wine gets rid of it completely (it's not deliberate just a happy little correlation I've spotted).

    I'm a daily weigher too, overall trends make me much less bothered about a daily up and down.

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