When you start dieting you usually lose a lot of weight. It's because most diets tell you to omit salt and eat healthy. that tends to get rid of any excess water in your body. Dieting has a diuretic effect.
2006-06-29 14:38:18
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answered by tyreanpurple 4
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Water makes up about 60% of our total body mass. Sometimes if we don't drink enough water, our body holds onto what it has. Excess salt intake also causes us to hold too much water. Water weight is when our bodies are holding onto too much water, and the weight of this water.
It's difficult to know how much we're retaining, as when we weigh on the scales, all is being weighed, muscles, bones, water, internal organs, etc. To get an exact reading would be tough. This is why the scales really are not a accurate way to tell if we've lost fat if we're dieting. The best way is to look at our bodies, this is more accurate.
2006-06-29 15:08:31
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answered by trainer53 6
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It's the water stored in your tissue cells. Btw, 1 gal of water weighs about 8 pounds and you gain and lose about 2-3 pounds of water weight every day through respiration and transpiration (sweating) and urination. The remainder is stored in the tissue. So if you go on a diet, your body breaks down protein in your muscles which releases nitrogen. The body then releases water from the tissue to wash away the excess nitrogen. That's what causes the water weight loss.
2006-06-29 14:41:36
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answered by scubalady01 5
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If a person does not drink enough water, then thier body conserves what is there. So you carry an extra five or so pounds. When you begin drinking the water you should, you body knows that more will be coming, so it releases it's back up (urine, sweat). If you begin drinking a lot of water, and keep it up, you can loose a quick five pounds.
2006-06-29 14:35:52
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answered by Mom of 3 3
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u mean like if ur drinkin the supposed 8 glasses a day and when u dont loose ne weight it is b/c u have drank so much water it stays in u n thats water weight so ur actually loosing u just dont know it cuz u drank a lot of water
have a great day
2006-06-29 14:35:46
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answered by buck_wonderz 6
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Water weight is affected by changes in your water composition. What you eat/drink directly affects your water retention. Counterintuitively the less water you drink the more water you retain. Salt causes you to store water, caffeine will cause you to excrete it.
2006-06-29 14:52:36
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answered by Lore 6
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your body retains water, that is water weight, probably the fact that if your body isnt getting enough of anything it is going to try to hoard it, so drink more water you body wont hold onto the water it gets, less water weight.
2006-06-29 14:36:05
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answered by Anonymous
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it's what you sweat off. Such as wrestlers who need to make weight will run in garbage bags and lots of sweaters in order to sweat a lot and lose water weight so they can wrestle at that weight class.
2006-06-29 14:35:46
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answered by Anonymous
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It does make you much fatter! To learn all about how you retain water and how to get rid of retained water see "anti-water" on site below.
http://phifoundation.org
2006-06-29 14:44:28
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answered by Anonymous
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It's a woman thing that goes on a certain time of month and then leaves and comes back next month usually before the dreaded period. Of course, if she's pg all bets are off.
2006-06-29 14:36:23
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answered by knowsnothing 2
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