Water intake vs retention

Jadedraggin
Jadedraggin Posts: 37 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
This week I decided to get serious about my water intake. I bought a Nalgene water bottle so I could see what I drank. This started Monday (4 days). I usually weigh in weekly on Tuesday. This week down one pound even though I ate whatever on Father's Day. I stepped on the scale today and down another pound. I'm wondering if the emphasis on water intake is flushing water weight out? Thoughts?

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  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,428 MFP Moderator
    There are so many variables it would be hard to determine that two cause. The good be shifts in sodium, increased waste production or fathers day just gave your body a needed refeed if you have been dieting for awhile.
  • thumperina2019
    thumperina2019 Posts: 1 Member
    Very interesting indeed. I upped my water yesterday and I stepped on the scale this morning and I dropped. I try to get all my required water in daily but feel like I'm falling short a day here and there.
  • spiriteagle99
    spiriteagle99 Posts: 3,745 Member
    If you are somewhat dehydrated, as many of us are, your body is more likely to hold onto water when it gets it. If your body knows there is enough, it doesn't hold onto it as much.
  • YellowD0gs
    YellowD0gs Posts: 693 Member
    My dietician told me to do exactly this same thing. I was having daily swings of 1-2 pounds total weight. She offered the opinion that I wasn't loosing 2 pounds of fat a day, then gaining it all back the next day while on a calorie restriction, the fluctuations were water retention. So she upped my daily water intake goal, and the fluctuations are settling out.

    Now what the mechanism of that is, I don't even. But it is working for me.
  • Jadedraggin
    Jadedraggin Posts: 37 Member
    Yeah, I was pretty certain it wasn't actual weight loss but I'd never heard of water intake affecting anything. Thanks

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