Hi. In short, chronic dehydration seems to play a big part of it-as I see it-I speak for myself. My body holds on tight to a water/salt balance- no matter what! I, too, have had success with water fast- dropping 30lbs. or so so in 4 days. I was sucking down alot of water, eating nothing and bike riding.This was 7 years ago. I remember feeling great. Since then, I never got into the water-drinking habit. I put the weight back on, and,consequently, my doctor diagnosed me with high blood pressure and edema.

Currently, I'm graduating from college in 3 weeks. So, I'm doing the water, drinking half my body weight in ounces. For exercise, cleaning the house and walking on the treadmill. Since January, I took a fitness class: treadmill and drinking the water-not perfectly- lost 25 lbs. I over-did it with the stomach crunches and caused a hernia.

The more water I drink, the more water I want. Common sense (and the books,authorities,etc.) tells me to keep saturating my system with water- make it a lifetime habit and keep moving.


Jude

use water pressure

i had accumulated water myself and this quickly eliminated the excess water real FAST

this is for people who have access to a pool. some health clubs have pools so you could just get a few weeks membership. if your desperate, you will find a way

Go to the deepest part of the pool and swim around for maybe 30-45 minutes or so or longer if you like it, Do this for maybe at least 3-4 days or until your bladder fills up at least a couple times.

The deeper you can go in the water, the more water pressure you can induce on your body.

why? the water pressure will compress the excess water from all your body tissues into your bladder relatively quick.

You will know it is working when you find yourself needing to urinate at toilet much longer than usual shortly after being in the pool. Make sure your bladder is empty before swimming. You will be surprised how much water will empty into it.

For quickness, it probably beats every other method

as far as the methods that tell your to drink a lot of water, that may work for some people but the reality is that most people only drink when their thirsty and will get sick of over drinking the water real fast especially over long term and still bloated.

i just discovered that Ionized Water can remove the more difficult and resistant edema ... the non-pitting periopheral edema

maybe someone who sells those water ionization systems locally can usually give free water to test for a month

a cheaper way could be the alkapod or similar

there are also those homemade water ionizers which i don't know enough about