ok, i was wondering if you ladies could help me out with some things/definitions.
when people talk about losing water weight, what does it mean exactly? initially i thought it is that you have exercised and are dehydrated, hence only water has been lost.
Losing water weight = when glycogen (sugar stored as energy in your body) stores get depleted you lose water with it, because it is stored with water, pounds of it actually. You can also lose water weight from getting dehydrated, although sometimes that causes water retention, so then sometimes once you start drinking lots of water again you will lose water weight! Confusing huh?
OP means On Plan, took me a while to figure that out too!
Daisy, Stephanie may have to correct me if I have this wrong but this is what I understand about water weight. You know people always talk about food and how if your body is not getting enough calories on a regular basis that it will start to store extra fat...going into 'starvation mode' as it is usually called. That way if you do not give it the food it needs it can live off the fat? Well your body does a smilar thing with water. When you do not drink enough water your body holds onto water in the form of water weight. When you drink enough water each day your body then knows it no longer needs to hold on the the excess water weight because it is getting it on regular basis. Therefore drinking water helps you lose your water weight. Once again this is just how I understand it and I am by no means a professional
I have seen people use OP as both "on plan" and "off plan" I just try to figure out from the context which they mean--obviously, if the post is about cookies and brownies or whatever, then it's "off plan"
Sometimes things like DH, DD, DS, and things get me confised because they could stand for SO many things! I always just say what I mean using actual WORDS (although I have started using IMO occasionally).
Right, but not everyone always uses them the same. For example, I have seen people use DS as Dear Sister--VERY different from son! So, I choose to use words. I never was a fan of all these pointless acronyms (and I HATE it when people use "u" instead of "you"--how lazy do you have to be to not want to type 2 more letters?!). These are pet peeves of mine, though, so I don't normally bring them up. Oh, I also used to DESPISE "lol," but it is growing on me a bit. I still almost never use it, but I don't get so annoyed when others do
Correct me if I'm wrong... If you eat an unhealthy diet of salty food, you retain water or stay bloated, then when you start excersizing and eating healthy, you lose the water... is that right?
Stephie & WannaBsize7 - you are both right, and I kind of touched on that in my answer. There are a lot of reasons people gain or lose water. But like for example when poeple do low carb, the reason they lose so much at first is because they depleat their glycogen stores and lose a ton of water with it (hence the 8-13 pound loss in just 2 weeks most of the time). But you are both right about the other reasons. And there are probably even more reasons than the ones we've listed. Our bodies do all kinds of crazy stuff with water.
some jargon explained please
i think i get it . . . might have to read it a couple more times.
but more like a "huuuuhhhhhhh?" 
I just try to figure out from the context which they mean--obviously, if the post is about cookies and brownies or whatever, then
