What does it mean when you lose or gain “water weight”. Is it as simple as you’ve drank a lot of water, then pee it out? Does that count as weight?
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Water weight is the weight you gain from the water in your body. Just as eating 1 kg of food makes you weigh 1 kg more, drinking 1 kg of water (about 1 liter) you weigh 1 kg more. If you pee or sweat away water, the you lose the mass of the water you pee or sweat away.
Water weight is sometimes used by anorexic people before having a weigh in in order to increase their weight so they appear less thin if they’re weighed. It is a clever trick of them, but sad that it can be used by them to get out of getting treatment or similar.
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