As you might know, I have that ongoing story about my water retention. It is either linked to my bad sleeping patterns, my hormonal cycle or if I fly often... Well, in the past, it was also strongly linked to my Migraine, but since I am on Keto, I am completely off Migraine, which is such a relief, only this alone, would already be a good reason to eat the Keto Way!
But back to the subject of water retention. It is true, that your water retention should naturally go down, when being on an optimal Ketosis level or being on a Keto Diet, but unfortunately that does not alway work with me. Another reason could also be, that you had carb disaster, so called cheat meal. Remember that Carbs hold 4 times their weight in water, so 1 cheat meal with 100g of carbs = just to a good extra pound of water. It Doesn't matter how sensitive you are to carbs, this is just how much water follows the carb intake. Since cheat meals are usually also higher in sodium, that pulls even more water to the entire story (same can happen with too much cheese like Racelette or Fondu even if you stay within you Marcos & Calories...).
Here some general ideas to get best off the extra water you are holding in:
Drink a lot of Water
Do more Exercise
Stick well to your Marcos
Increase Magnesium
Reduce your Sodium intake
Take Dandelion herbs
And here my little secret recipe in the case of water retention once or twice a day:
1/2 tsp Perfect Keto Powder (otherwise I find it too salty)
300 ml Unsweetened Almond Milk
0.5 Carbs I 45 kcal I 3.3g Fat I 1.2g Protein
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