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Re:How accurate are Americans at estimating calories? by bad_user on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @12:50PM (#4938605)
Water retention is also a warning sign that something's wrong (like a hormone imbalance, one of the biggest causes for water retention) and you should probably take it easy. Fat people retain a lot of water. When people start a high-fat diet the first 5 pounds or so are from all the water loss (or even more).

> It's similar to limiting your how much water you drink

Not at all. In fact when dieting it's good to drink a lot of water, precisely to stop your body from retaining it. Odd, isn't it?

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Re:How accurate are Americans at estimating calories? by klochner on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @02:29PM (#4939102)
aside from hormone imbalances, why do you care at all about water retention?
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Re:How accurate are Americans at estimating calories? by bad_user on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @03:51PM (#4939512)
Because hormone imbalance is the primary reason for why some people are fat and some aren't, being the reason for why type 2 diabetics can die of hunger while still being overweight.

Do some reading on the subject dude.

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