How to get rid of A LOT of water retention?
ok this is going to be long so let me explain. i used to be very fat in my early teen years,im 18 now. iv changed my lifestyle,eating habbits,and everything. i used to be 210 lbs and 5′6. I went on a high protien diet drinking protien shakes for breakfast and lunch then a lean peace of chicken or tuna for dinner, or any high protien meats. i started going to the gym everyday(not overworking myself) but i would run 2 miles every day. its been a year since i started this and im now 150 lbs and 6′0. i am skinny everywhere except my stomach. my stomach is a saggy tire and i dont know why. i eat great and i do alot of cardio every day. then i read about water retention and im convinced thats all it is, a giant gut of water. it makes sense because i never drink water. i dont think iv ever passed one glass a day besides the past month. is it possible this is all my gut is? 18 years of water retention? im going to start drinking at least 10 glasses a day if this is the case. is there any other way to get rid of water retention, it doesnt have to be over night but within about a month. it just doesnt make sense, a great diet, GREAT physical fitness and cardio, i do abs every day and its funny because i have a top 3 pack then the rest is the saggy gut. i need help please.im sorry about the grammer and puncuation but im on my phone so its kind of hard to type this long question.
The sagging gut is probably not water retention…anyway, you won’t reduce water retention by drinking more water! It’s just loose skin from your weight-loss and it will take a long time to tighten up. Keep trim and keep working the abs and it will gradually reduce.
If you want to experiment with reducing your retention of water, which can make you more bloated looking, then reduce salt from your diet severely, as well as carbs. Both of those increase the amount of water in your body. But I’m not even sure reducing salt permanently is that good an idea. You are meant to "retain" water. It is a healthy function of the body.
August 20th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
The sagging gut is probably not water retention…anyway, you won’t reduce water retention by drinking more water! It’s just loose skin from your weight-loss and it will take a long time to tighten up. Keep trim and keep working the abs and it will gradually reduce.
If you want to experiment with reducing your retention of water, which can make you more bloated looking, then reduce salt from your diet severely, as well as carbs. Both of those increase the amount of water in your body. But I’m not even sure reducing salt permanently is that good an idea. You are meant to "retain" water. It is a healthy function of the body.
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August 20th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
I did the same thing.
I got some HRI Water balance tablets from tesco (about £3 for a bottle of 50 pills. About 12 days worth.)
Basically, they make you pee more, you will need to drink more water (which I just don’t do, I have a 500ml bottle by my desk at work and rarely will I manage to drink it all in one day!)
While you pee more, your body is pushing out the retained water.
It wont make your gut magically disappear, but I went from 88kg down to 70kg over 3 years - change of diet, and a bit more exercise - longer it takes to lose the weight, the more chance it will stay off.
Then the last 5kg (down to 65kg) I managed to shift with the water tablets in about 4 weeks and it has stayed off for about 4 months now. Best of all, when I took them, and the belly went, I realised I had made myself a little 6 pack under the flab. Lol.
Read the instructions - don’t do it if you’re diabetic, etc. Be sensible about it.They may work for you too. Try one bottle, if no joy, don’t keep taking them as it can harm your kidneys / liver. If no joy, do more abdominal work / core muscles.
Best of luck!
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I got the idea from seeing the prescribed stuff my obese auntie was taking, and she lost a lot of water weight really quick.