Mon, Mar-17-08, 11:40
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Senior Member
Posts: 4,347
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Plan: vLC/GF,CF,SF
Stats: 197/136/150
BF:
Progress: 130%
Location: Alberta
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Ovulation often causes people to temporarily hold on to 2-5 lbs of water.
Carbs & salt also cause water retention. I am very carb/salt sensitive so an extra 30g of carbs or twice the RDA of sodium causes me to gain 1-3 lbs overnight.
But it is just water & bodies like to be hydrated, so I don't worry about it anymore, mainly because I weigh daily and have figured out that 2-5 lb gains of water are "normal" for me. In the olden days, scale rises used to cause me to give up and binge, but now I am older & wiser, and getting rid of this fear of what is really water weight, not fat, has finally allowed me to maintain for 18 mos.
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