You ladies who still have hormones will gain around the TOM. Eating more carbs will also cause water retention, as will salt. In fact, I once read someplace that we retain a pound of water for every pickle (this was referring to whole pickles, not spears or slices).
But speaking of salt, a diet doctor I once worked for used to tell his patients that when fat cells are breaking up they release salts into the blood stream which it takes the kidneys a few days to unite with water molecules and pee away.
It could be any of those things. Hang tough, chicks. As more and more "good days" stack up dietwise, that weight will come off. I finally gave in and upped my ticker today. Somehow I gained 2 lbs. in the last week. I weighed and reweighed for like 4 days, then decided maybe its muscle, maybe not. But whatever it is, it's all mine.
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When do you retain water?
