how do you loose retained water? n how do you find out how much you have?

Question

i drink alot of water and i think thats why i weigh more than i think i should ....how can i tell how much of my weight is water?

Answer 1

You can flush your system by drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day. In a 24 hr period what goes in will come out.

You can also try this: add 1 Tbs of apple cider vinegar to a glass of water. Drink the entire glass a couple times a day. Your body will release lots of water this way.

Try weighing yourself in the morning before you start drinking the water. Next morning weigh yourself again. How much did you lose? That was retained water weight.'

Answer 2

Actually, drinking a lot of water is a good thing. You retain water when you have an excess of salts in your body, either through dietary intake or during certain hormonal fluctuations that cause salts to be retained. Ironically, you get rid of it by drinking more water -- you give your body more water than it wants, and in order to get rid of it, it has to use some of your body salts to cause the water to leave, so you flush out the salts and your body returns to normal. The other thing to keep in mind is that you also excrete water as sweat, which requires the same kinds of salts as well, so regular exercise can help reduce water retention, too.

Answer 3

You really can't, and even if you could that number in the absence of other information would be useless.

In general a human being has between 55% and 60% of the total body weight as water. Much more or much less you would die.

The more fat one has the smaller the percentage of body weight is water (ie the closer to 55% of total body weight).

With women because of the hormone cycles there is a variation in water retention. Drugs like asprin, ibuprofen, and other NSAIDs tend to cause water retention due to a decrease in blood flow to the kidneys.

Salt causes water retention leading to high blood pressure if your kidneys are not working well to get rid of the extra salt.

Sweating from fever or high temperture causes water loss, as well as diarrhea from any of a number of causes.

Diuretics can cause a net water loss but as in all the above causes of water loss you can have messed up values in your Sodium, Potassium, and other electrolytes which can be dangerous.

In general if you are thirsty then you should drink water, it is your body telling you that you need water.

Answer 4

Proper diet and cutting out snacks, coupled with regular physical exercise is the best way to attain a healthy weight. Drinking a lot of water is good for you but remember your body is over 90% water anyway. Check that you are getting proper and regular sleep too. These simple actions will regulate your body over a little time but be consistant!
Obviously exercise will produce perspiration which helps the body get rid of excess water apart from the obvious way!

Answer 5

Don't worry about a pound or two each day. The body will naturally fluctuate with weight water weight and bowel movements. Try something balanced like Weight watchers, and get regular exercise. Try not to weigh yourself more than once a week (otherwise those little fluctuations will make you crazy!) If you are eating clean lean healthy foods, and exercising, you will find you will lose weight at the end of each week...Hang in there and be patient...you WILL get there!

Answer 6

Drinking a lot of water is usually accompanied by a lot of urination..If you are retaining water, it would show up as a tightening of the rings on your finger (normal during menses and premenses). Water retention is usually the result of the factor which is responsible for pulling fluid from the tissues.. that factor being protein. Is the osmotic effect at the cellular level. Improved function of that diuretic effect can be enhanced by certain of the B vitamins. Considered to be co-enzymes.

Answer 7

You can tell if you are truly retaining water if you press on you shin if it leaves an indention you are retaining water and to get rid of it get a prescribed diruretic to do it naturally drink lots of water eat greenpeppers and cucumbers and lay on your left side as much as possible you will pee it out!

Answer 8

you could take diuretics but it is too dangerous, so the best way to do it is eating not salty food and you can also try with a tea made with green apple skin. You must have the skin boiling for about 5 or 10 minutes...let the infusion get cold and then drinking it ( the proportion is more or less: 2 skins in a half of litter of water =500 ml). Another thing..try to sleep with your feet higher than your head..put a pillow under your mattress. I hope it helps

Answer 9

I HAVE SWELLING IN MY HANDS AND BLOAT WHEN I RETAIN WATER. DRINKING WATER (EIGHT 8OZ GLASSES A DAY) HELP TO FLUSH THE SYSTEM. ASPARAGUS IS A NATURAL DIURETIC AND GREEN TEA HELPS SOME TOO. IN MY CASE MY GYN HAS PRESCRIBED A MILD WATER PILL, BUT THERE ARE A FEW OVER THE COUNTER ONES TOO. I WOULDNT ADVISE WATER PILLS WITHOUT CHECKING WITH YOUR DOCTOR FIRST.

Answer 10

Drink more water, your not drinking enough, causing your tissues to swell, you need to flush it out with pure water. Our bodies are made up of 10% water. Here is a link, I hope this helps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_makeup_of_the_human_body