Well, first off, you're never going to "get rid of" all your water weight. You are MOSTLY water, so your body weight is always going to be a good percentage water.
EXCESS water weight can be caused by lots of things, some of which we can control, some of which we can't. Dehydration can cause water retention, as can excess salt or carbohydrate consumption - drinking more water and eating less salt or carbs can help with that. But hormones (particularly around your time of the month, but at other points in your cycle, too) and hard exercise like weight lifting can lead to temporary bumps in stored water as well.
So why is water weight important? It can help explain some of the crazy things that happen on our scales. Let's say you're on plan, exercising a lot, and you are weighing yourself daily - some people can still gain 7 lbs overnight (let's say it's the day before TOM, you had a lovely soy-sauce filled stirfry for dinner last night, and did a killer leg workout so you're sore...it can happen). You KNOW that can't be fat...it's water weight. And knowing that can make it a little easier to deal with.
To get RID of water weight, you really just need to drink more water. That'll flush out the excess sodium and the scale will go down a bit faster. It'll go down eventually anyway, though, just because water weight by nature is temporary/transitory.
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