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cut out the sodium. You may be suprised at how much you consume. Even Dasani water has sodium!! LOL...
Make your own meals, try to limit fast food and eating out. Cut out the soft drinks. Drink more water, increase fiber (fresh fruit is the best).
Sodium is the main suspect when it comes to water retention. I totally watch it b/c I am super sensitive for all that stuff. Especially when eating out - check out the stats beforehand - a salad at Chili's has 1000mg of sodium - which is far too much. Avoid fast food/restaurants. Panda Express & Subway have decent contents for sodium.
The Diurex pills are the only ones that work for me. They're the blue hard ones, not the ones with the little balls in the caplet.
I also chow down on watermelon before I need to flush it all out.
HTH!
The progesterone in Yasmin is a diuretic. It's helped me immensely with water retention. I also avoid salty food.
My diet is very clean, but I am a Dasani-aholic. I NEVER knew Dasani had sodium in it. what the...!?
I went to the US and bought Diurex (w/ the balls) from Walmart for only $5 a pack (its 5X that in Canada). They proved to be a waste of money. I will check out the blue hard pills Mrsleopard. Thanks :)
I was reading about our salt intake too! We only need about 1tsp of salt in our diet per day, but the average person is consuming something insane like 1/4c of salt per day because so much of our food is processed. Ick.
Is water retention really that big of a deal, as in, is it going to make a difference if you loose the water... and is'nt water good for you? I guess I just don't quite understand what it is.
Water retention is that bloated icky feeling most women get before they get their period, except I have it almost constantly. My stomach looks swollen some days & by the end of the night my ankles are so swollen they look like bags of water. It's gross!
I'm not overweight, I exercise regularly... its just a pain basically. lol
Have you seen a doctor about this? I don't want to be alarmist, but the kind of water retention you're describing is not normal. A couple of days a month around your period is one thing, but every day? Not good and definitely something to get checked out.
My doctor has done tests on my kidneys... which is usually the root cause, but there were no problems! He gave me natural remedies, but none have worked out too well.
My ankles don't swell like that everyday btw, only after a long day at work on my feet. The bloated feeling is there daily. I've just learned to live with it.
The trick to see if you're retaining water is to press down on your arm... if your finger imprint doesn't go away instantly it means you're retaining water. It takes 5 mississippi's to return to normal.
I'm not really worried, but just annoyed. There has to be something to drain this crap from my body. I will stop drinking dasani & always eat protein with my carb intake... I'm hoping a combination of things will help!
@ressionistabride: Wait? If the imprint doesn't go away instantly... like the color of it?
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i drink about 2-3ltrs of water per day (thats almost a gallon to you US people) and the week of my periods i retain water like a sponge - my scales literally go up 3lbs and then 2 days after my periods my body starts going back to normal
as i have weekly weighings (damm my mothers genes) its like clockwork for me
Are you absolutely sure it's just water retention and not a newly developed food allergy? A friend of mine started having the stomach thing, but couldn't figure out what was wrong. It took the doctors about 4 months worth of tests before they found out she had developed an inability to process natural sugars.
The inability to process sugars runs in my family, the females anyways. I don't have it thank goodness but my sister, cousin and Aunts do. The doc that diagnosed my sister called it a "sugar allergy". They all have said that they feel so much better when they stick to their low glucose diets; they loose that belly pouch (bloating), they all used to suffer from headaches and they all said those have gone away, and they feel energized. I don't think any of them complained of swelling anywhere else but their stomachs, but its certainly something to look into.
Diurex pills, (I agree the blue hard ones work better) and lemon water the week before and of my period work wonderfully for me btw.
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What are some ways you've tried to combat water retention?
I was reading an article that talked about pairing all carbohydrate intake with protein... I'll be trying that. I have a massive water retention problem & I've tried everything from water pills, to natural remedies, teas, 6L of water a day... standing on my head and singing... I've tried it all! Nothing works.