How To Lose Water Weight

Do you experience a bloated feeling all the time? Have you noticed that your wrists, ankles, hands and feet look swelled and your face seems puffy? If the answer to these questions is yes, it means that you are suffering from the problem of water retention or water weight. Yes, you read that right, the body can suffer from excessive water retention also. However, remember that it’s excessive water retention and not water consumption. Water weight can be gained due to many reasons like: high intake of calorie rich diet, lack of physical exercising, hereditary reasons, taking high levels of sodium, consuming alcohol, excessive sugar intake etc. We gain water weight when our body starts to retain water instead of normally flushing it out of the system. Water starts to buildup in the circulatory system and tissues of the body. In the following lines, we will tell you how to get rid of water weight.

 

 

Potassium & Magnesium Rich Diet: Take potassium and magnesium rich diet; bananas are the rich source of potassium, which helps in maintaining body fluid balance. Apricots, avocados and raisins are also rich in potassium. Magnesium also helps in avoiding bloating of the body; nuts, green vegetables, seeds, tofu, yogurt, orange juice are rich sources of magnesium.

 

Keep Your Body Hydrated: Keeping your body well hydrated will help you to keep off consuming calories unnecessarily. You will feel less inclined towards eating snacks as your body will feel full all the time. Also, you should take a glass of water before having a meal since it helps in avoiding water retention.

 

Physical Exercise: Leading a lifestyle with no physical exercise can lead to serious retention of water. Keep your body active if you want to lose your water weight. Exercising will lead to better blood flow in your body which will help eliminate the excessive water from your body tissues. Indulge in exercises like bike riding, tennis, walking or running, on a daily basis. These exercises not only burn fats, but also make you sweat. As you sweat, the excess water in your legs and ankles decreases. At the same time, you get rid of surplus salts. The best way to get rid of the water weight is to exercise 2-3 hours before the bedtime so that the excess water is shed and all night your body will efficiently burn the calories.

 

Magic Of Green Tea: A great way to lose water weight is to sip tea made of green tea leaf, all through the day. Green tea has all the essential antioxidants which help in increasing the body metabolism. The increased metabolism will then help in getting rid of the surplus water in the tissues of the body. Taking the supplement of Vitamin B complex has the same effect on the body.

 

Lifestyle Changes:  Perhaps the easiest way to get rid of the water weight is to bring in simple changes in your lifestyle. Adopt much healthier habits to help body from retaining excess fluid. Not sleeping for full 8 hours or keeping awake late in the night leads to water retention. Avoid taking carbohydrates at night as carbohydrates soak up the water of the body and causes bloating.

 

Medications: If you are taking medicines, check out whether they are amongst the ones that cause water retention, like steroids or estrogen replacement hormones. In case your medicines are causing excess water retention in the body, ask your doctor to provide you with different prescriptions.

Low Sodium Diet: One of the culprits behind water retention is sodium, in other words salt. When you consume too much salt, the sodium level in the body becomes high, leading to water retention. Lower your consumption of salty foods and purchase low sodium products.

Balanced Diet: A well balanced diet is very essential for getting rid of water weight. At the same time, make sure that your body is getting enough, neither too much nor too less, protein. This is because low protein levels can lead to water retention in the body. Fruits and vegetables also help prevent as well as treat water retention.

 

Healthier Diet: Consumption of apple cider vinegar, celery, celery seed, cranberry juice, dandelion, green tea, dandelion leaf tea, fennel, juniper berries, nettle and parsley is known to be good for water weight loss. Diuretic foods like artichokes, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, oats, tomatoes, watermelon and watercress help in the process of losing water weight.