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.

what does OP mean?

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!

I'd like to know what IMHO stands for....
.hehe.

lockitup - i think i get it . . . might have to read it a couple more times.

thanks on the OP

IMHO in my humble opinion; or
IMO in my opinon

Hhahaha.. Thanks Daisy!

Ok I have one, what the heck does o.O mean. I see it on myspace a lot, not so much on here, but I never know what the heck it means!!!

o.O = look at it as a picture...

o.O = but more like a "huuuuhhhhhhh?"

... well from what i always used it as. hehe.

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 thought OP meant Original Post/er

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).

DH= Dear Husband
DD= Dear Daughter
DS= Dear Son

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.