Liquid Retention

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kerrys24

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Can someone help me with this? I'm really confused about the whole liquid retention stuff.
I've gone from doing basically no exercise to about 7 hours a week with a mixture of Aerobic and weight lifting classes. Could my body been retaining water while it gets used to the amount of exercise?
I've stopped eating processed foods because Kara made me realise about all the sodium in them. :ack2: I don't add salt while i'm cooking.

Can someone just please explain in simple terms why my body is holding onto this water (if it is) ;-)

Thanks.
 
"I've gone from doing basically no exercise to about 7 hours a week with a mixture of Aerobic and weight lifting classes."

My guess is, this is pretty much it. With weight lifting especially, your body floods your muscles with fluids after working out to help your body repair itself in a nutrient rich environment. After a couple weeks, fat loss will start to overtake fluid retention, and you will start to see the scale come down again.
 
Here's what I wrote about it in another thread:

Ok, as far as muscles retaining fluid ... when you exercise and work your muscles, what you're doing is creating tiny tears and fissures in the muscle. This is *good* ... mind you. That's how you build strength - by stressing the muscle and letting it build up stronger and better than it was. But ... when you stress the muscle, just like any "injury" your body reacts by rushing blood and other fluids to the site of the injury to provide more nutrition for repairs.

So when you work out hard or lift weights hard, your body is rushing fluids to your muscles to rebuild them. It can take anywhere from 2-7 days for that fluid to be circulated back into your body and excreted. If you're continually working out (allowing for a days rest between workouts), your body is continually cycling extra fluids to your muscles. (This is also a reason why you should drink more and consume protein after a workout - it gives more nutrients and more fluid to aid that muscle regeneration.)

Now after a while, the fat loss balances out the excess fluid in your system and the retained fluid becomes "invisible" ... but when you first start working out, the difference can be noticeable, in the form of pounds on the scale.
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MAR1984 said:
"I've gone from doing basically no exercise to about 7 hours a week with a mixture of Aerobic and weight lifting classes."

My guess is, this is pretty much it. With weight lifting especially, your body floods your muscles with fluids after working out to help your body repair itself in a nutrient rich environment. After a couple weeks, fat loss will start to overtake fluid retention, and you will start to see the scale come down again.
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Thanks. Someone else I know said that. :)
 
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