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What exactly IS "water weight"?
So... I lost a bunch of water weight. Like 5 lbs of it the first week on MFP. Cool, I guess. But what IS it? I'm familiar with adding 3 or 4 lbs around my TOM, and I think of that as "water weight", but what exactly causes your body to store "water" like that? And does drinking water have anything to do with it? My…
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I'M HUNGRY!
Sigh. I'm really trying to do this right, but I feel like eating the furniture.
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teacher, runner, mountain climber... and overweight.
I'm here because I had an aha! moment... I've been teaching for five years and preach/nag/harp on my middle school students to stay healthy and eat right. I commute on my bike and walk a lot, but I went home for the holidays and my mother said, "Are you pregnant?" I was hurt but took a good long look in the mirror and got…
