Lesson learned:
I read about the importance of drinking LOTS of water when on cycle. Never felt like it -and had my doubts.
Not anymore.
Yesterday I started drinking water throughout the day, having between 2-3 gallons in total.
My water weight just fell off over night, waking up hourly to urinate. I could virtually see how I got smaller.
For me its an eerie experience, did not know about this dramatic effect until now.
Yesterday: 232.5lbs , today: 220.5lbs. No joke, no fluke.
12lbs lost in one day! Looks like a Guinness record.
Will keep my low cal/low carb diet. Since the CJC is still in my blood, no need to drop it, now watching my water intake.
Yeah - I drink 2-3 gallons of water throughout the day. I am constantly drinking. It's probably the only good habit I have.
Dont over do the electrolytes. it might cause kidney stones. I only use them with my pre and intra.
I use beer when I have been outside sweating all day. plus the buzz is better. (this is probably bad advice)
This is news to me? Calcium, yes - but Sodium/Potassium/Magnesium I've never heard. Actually, Potassium Citrate is really good at breaking up and preventing stones; which is a reason I choose this source when I do supplement potassium. Do you know more about this...it may be something for me to learn here.
So, drinking more water == less water retention?
Must be flushing extra sodium from your body thereby resulting in less water held by it? (just guessing)
Yes. Actually, more salt also = less water retention too. When people tell me salt causes them to get bloated, I get a twitch because it's just such a common myth that goes along with, "salt increases high blood pressure" and really shows a limited understanding.
So, our body constantly measures the CONCENTRATION of electrolytes in our blood. Water increases our blood volume and lack of water decreases our blood volume. This means a lack of water should, in theory, increase our electrolyte concentrations, and an increase in water should lower our electrolyte concentrations.
If our body sees that we have a high concentration of sodium in our blood - it will release vasopressin to cause us to retain fluid and thus dilute the concentration of water in our blood. So, if you are retaining fluids it is because your body does not have enough water to dilute the sodium it has in its system and is releasing more hormone to form a balance. So yes, you get bloated...until a balance is achieved again and then you reduce vasopressin levels.
Now, if you are chronically dehydrated, you will chronically have elevated vasopressin levels and become very sensitive to small changes in water volume. i.e. - if you drink a little extra water, you will bloat a little more because you are not solving the issue and your vasopressin remains high.
But if you drink enough water, you will dilute the sodium and solve the problem, your kidneys will stop releasing vasopressin, and BANG - water flush.
In other words, it's all part of a complex feedback loop that I have simplified and a big reason I have simplified it is because I don't fully understand it either.
But sodium also causes a similar feedback loop. If you have too little sodium, your hormones will try to stabilize by retaining salt and dumping potassium - which can become a chronic problem and can cause a small increase in salt to make you feel bloated from the water retention that goes with it.
In other words - people who bloat from salt are often bloating because they are not drinking enough and because they are limiting their salt intake. Once they put control back in the hands of their body and provide it with an abundance of what it needs, the body normalizes and the water and salt issues go away. So when someone says they bloat from salt intake, tell them to drink more water and increase their salt intake on a regular basis - eventually they will normalize and the issues will go away.
Of course - this is providing they are functioning normally. Some diseases can upset this also.
. Even though my PSA scores are extremely low. Over 4.5 is considered "at risk", if I recall. My test scores have consistently been .50 ~ .54.
