I have been dieting. I dropped roughly 15 lbs over about 5 weeks just dropping calories. Then I thought I'd add eca, which I did. I'm about 3 weeks into the eca use and last week I started a post workout shake w/ dextrose. I'm all of a sudden holding water like crazy. I was starting to get fairly lean before the pwo shake. I allowed for the extra carbs/calories of the shake and everything. I'm either going to drop the sugar, or start cardio, cause the results so far are counter productive.
I should also mention that most of my water is probably coming from the creatine I started using pwo, with the shake. It's creatine ethyl ester, which isn't supposed to cause water retention, but I'm doubting that's true now. I added the creatine because after weeks of dieting I felt really depleated and needed something to help my workouts. Maybe sugar alone would be ok. Bob Smith recently posted a good thread about pwo carbs. Check it out.
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