Tips to Keep Water Retention Under Your Control:

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Tips to Keep Water Retention Under Your Control:

Tips to control Water Retention!

1 - Spending a little time in the sun will help your skin tone as well as bake away some of the excess water. Drink a fair amount of water to replenish your supply.
2 - Keep your blood sugar under control by controlling your diet. Don't get too hungry and don't get too full. It's better to eat six small meals throughout the day than to go without or pig out.
3 - Stay away from excessively-sodium-filled-foods.
4 - Check the side effects of any drug or chemical that you may take before you take it.
5 - Practicing posing is a good way to squeeze out extra water from your body.
6 - Training and exercising can help you sweat out a lot of water, just remember to put some back in to avoid retaining water.
7 - A sauna or steam room is not the best basket to put all your eggs in, although it can help take out extra water. Just keep in mind, not only do you sweat out water, but minerals too. A definite must is a good multi-vitamin/mineral supplement, taken regularly to keep your body balance, strength gains, and energy going smoothly.
8 - Don't cut down on your fluid intake until the night before the contest and then only cut it about in 1/4 - 1/2. Remember to sip water that night and the next day to keep hydrated.

 

[sssc]

hey pro,
thanks for a great read...i have noticed in the past 3 or 4 weeks upping my water intake to roughly 1 or 1 1/2 gals of water a day helps keep any bloat under control...

 

[d-red]

question:......i don`t understand why drinking MORE WATER would keep you from retaining water???? i would assume it would make you HOLD MORE WATER??????? please explain the mechanics to this!!!

 

[sssc]

question:......i don`t understand why drinking MORE WATER would keep you from retaining water???? i would assume it would make you HOLD MORE WATER??????? please explain the mechanics to this!!!

red,
i wish i had an answer for you, but i dont... without a question there is a deffinate tighning up since i have upped my water intake...

i take a huge leak about 2 or 3 times an hour and i am guessing that i am flushing my body of things that may cause me to be smooth...

maybe the pros here on the board can expound on this subject...

ps...
for what its worth, i have been up since 2 am and have already done my cardio and worked out... as i finish this cup of water i will be approaching 1 gallon already this morning...

 

[Vicious Cycle]

question:......i don`t understand why drinking MORE WATER would keep you from retaining water???? i would assume it would make you HOLD MORE WATER??????? please explain the mechanics to this!!!

Credit TFTN

The body functions in feedback loops, including water homeostasis, that work like the thermostats and the AC (or heater) in your house, car, etc.

If you set the AC to 70 (its setpoint), the temp. much reach some threshold (say 72) before it kicks in. It will cool until it reaches some value below its setpoint, say 68. There is overshoot in the system. There must be some off-set or error to turn the AC on (temp reaches 72) and it will cool to provide somewhat of a temperature buffer (68? = 2? below the setpoint of 70?).

Now imagine how your thermostat, if it were "smart" like the body's, would react if you turned a heater on near the thermometer, but on the other side of the room from the AC. The heater would blast the thermometer (sensor) and the AC would be going full blast to cool the room. If you cut the heater off, the "smart" thermostat would not just cool the room to 68? - it would cool it to some level below that, b/c it remembers that there's a "threat" of heat AND the thermometer is simply is still hot even though the rest (most) of the room is at or below 70?. (It senses a hotter room than is actually the case!)

Water homeostasis is a bit more complicated, but you can use this principle to trick the body into drying out - losing water to a level of dehydration below its normal setpoint. Here's how:

-Turn on diuresis in the body by drinking LOTS of water, flooding it with fluid.
-The body will respond homeostatically by removing this water from the system. It senses that there is too much water b/c electrolytes (especially sodium) are diluted in the blood. When the water is lost, there will necessarily be some sodium loss.
-KEEP drinking water and the body will continue to lose water to try to keep up, but will lose some electrolytes as well. In fact, outpace the body's ability to lose water by INCREASING water intake gradually over several days and it will not quite be able to keep up. You'll be peeing like a racehorse by this point (but even get somewhat drier). (The body (hypothalamus) "senses" you have more water than you do, b/c electrolytes are so diluted.)
-ABRUPTLY stop drinking water and watch as the body continues removing it and "smartly" overshoots previous level of hydration, leaving you dry as a bone.


Hope that helps.
-VC-

 

[sssc]

wow vc,
great info you posted... i have also noticed it helps me keep my blood pressure down, and allows me to add a little salt to my meats without effecting my defintion...




ps...
peeing like a racehorse may be an understatement...