Quote Originally Posted by Irulan View Post
Just curious. Do you find you get much weight related to the heat? Whenever I spend time "down there", Caribbean, two weeks a year usually, I find a really retain a lot of water. Every time I get on the scale when I get home and and but it always drops off after I return to my regular PNW climate. It can affect my clothing fitting buy a full pant size. I retained over 6# of water when I was three weeks in the Grand Canyon last year. Heat Edema is what it is officially called.
Interesting! When we first got here, my feet used to swell a lot, but that stopped happening over time, so I am assuming my body adjusted. I haven't been back to the US since last August, so there's no way to know if I'm still retaining any extra water. I'm visiting my mother in June, but her scale is certainly not calibrated to mine, so who knows if I'll be able to tell anything.

However, since giving up the fruit smoothies, I am now down to 104 in just a few days, the lowest I've been since fall, so I am a cappy hamper. I weighed 103 when we arrived in Belize last August, so I doubt I'm retaining much water since my clothes all fit the same. When I was up to 108-109, I could definitely feel them getting tighter.