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That’s all you can do besides manipulate water, electrolytes, and glycogen. And if you don’t feel comfortable manipulating water, you definitely shouldn’t mess with electrolytes much.
Eating some carbs the evening prior that do not bloat your gut can help keep muscles more full, but you generally want absolutely minimal water and no salt (because it will retain any water). Dates or dried apricots are fairly concentrated sugar that have a high amount of potassium (which will help shed water, while sodium helps retain it).
So fasting the day prior besides some of those dried fruits and maybe 20-32oz water total could produce a bit better look. But this is really trivial, and most important that your stomach isn’t all bloated and you didn’t consume sodium. If you need more water because you can’t tolerate the dry fast, that’s okay - don’t harm your health for a tiny aesthetic tweak. The wife and I do dry fast for watercuts for lifting competition weighins; you can feel really bad, high pulse, blood gets thick, headaches, obviously no energy. Keeping just water in normally will prevent a lot of that while still letting your stomach flatten out. Distilled water will flush more electrolytes out.
