Welcome to the flexible dotting lifestyle podcast.

This is part two of the smashing plateaus episode.

We're going to get right back where we left off.

Okay, so let's move on to dehydration.

How does that play into your weight loss plateau?

So dehydration is actually going to cause you to retain water. And the reason for that is because

water is one of the most important thing, arguably the most important thing

that we have in our body. So your body doesn't just kind of want to roll over and die when you,

when you don't have enough water. So it's going to secrete a whole bunch of different hormones

that are going to cause some water retention. You're going to, you're going to pee out a lot less.

You're just going to, there're going to pee out a lot less. You're just going to,

there's going to be less, less water being taken to the, to the urinary system from your kidneys.

And that's going to cause you to retain a whole bunch of water. So if you try to dehydrate yourself,

you might actually see an acute spike in weight just because your body is fighting so hard to maintain that water.

So whether you have a chronically high or chronically or whether you have, sorry, an acutely high or water, acutely high or low water intake can affect your weight. If you drink a whole bunch of water, you might see a spike in weight because, well, you just

had a ton of water and that has weight to it. If you have a low amount of water, you can see a spike

in weight because your body is going to really retain the water.

So really what's optimal here is to try to consume roughly around the same amount of water per day.

And that's probably a minimum of three liters for females and four liters for males per day.

And one thing I want to remind you guys, your weight loss, your weight scale is going to fluctuate when you weigh yourself.

So you need to be weighing yourself first thing in the morning after you go to the bathroom.

So for example, I want you guys to do this.

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