Curious about manipulating water weight
I have been doing bouts of 48’s dry and refeeding/rehydrating mostly with food and maybe a cup or two of light snake juice. My refeeds are normal sized for me - as in they help me maintain muscle and stay lean. I will, on occasion, go hard on a refeed and really carb up. Obviously eating a ton of carbs makes me drink more water and the extra carbs/salt make me retain a lot of water for a couple days.
My question is this: Say I’m coming off a 48 hour dry fast. I’m in ketosis. I decide to eat a normal amount of carbs (starchy) for my body size. If I’m already mostly dehydrated, and I’m well aware this might be a dumb question, will the the stored glycogen from said carbs force my body to pull metabolic water from fat cells into muscle cells and the liver assuming I don’t drink anything with my meal or at least 6 hours after?
I’m not seeking any sort of edge in the gym or anything. I’m just curious about the body. Anybody with any sort of nutrition and biology knowledge would be greatly appreciated.
Posted Jan 25, 2020, 8:12 AM UTC
Yep. I think it's called a dry carb-up or dry carb refeed. Your body stores something like 4g of water for each g of glycogen which has to come from somewhere.
Interesting...I never heard of a dry carb refeed. I’ll look into it. Thanks.
So technically you can lose more fat as you're pulling water from fat cells even after a carb up (with no fluids)?
No I think it works because when you burn fat it initially gets replaced by water in the fat cells. The "whoosh" effect is apparently the body dumping this water, one way to trigger it is doing a dry carb up.
I guess if you already didn't have water in your fat cells it may work?