Furthermore, as a side question and issue, since I was young I have experienced chronic
water retention. I wake up in the morning and I look fine, but throughout the day I gradually get more bloated/flabby, and by the end of the evening I have ballooned out, on average 2.5-3" in the abdomen. It is all abdominal, nothing in my ankles, etc. Early on a doc associated it with carbohydrates (I was tested for food allergies and they all came back negative), but it does not look food related.