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Personal experience - When I was pregnant I had a lot of edema. So much so that my ankle bones were not visible and normally I'm a reasonably slender person as my photos here show. It was just the water that my body was retaining because of the pregnancy. Dr told me to drink as much water as I could handle. I ended up drinking just over a gallon a day. When I got to that point where I was drinking a gallon a day was when I noticed a little relief in the edema around my ankles and I managed to get some feeling back in my hands. A gallon certainly did not harm, but rather helped me.
I'm an average size woman of a healthy weight. Unless you have other problems a gallon shouldn't be a concern. Often the thirst mechanism is misread my even myself as a hunger mechanism. I've found that at times when I just feel in a munchy mood I can eat and eat and not be satisfied but the minute I have a good drink of water the "hunger" goes away. It doesn't hurt to have a drink of water when you get the snackies.
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