Watermelons are 97% water. Depending on the size of that half-melon, it would be close to drinking the same volume of water. What's that? Four of five glasses? If you're eating it all at once, that's why you're peeing it all out. The body needs time to absorb the water. Instead it's getting rid of it as a waste product before it is absorbed into your cells. I don't think doing this periodically would damage your liver. Prolonged, it might do some damage; I'm not sure if it would be all that much. I'd think you'd be sick of watermelon after a few weeks of eating half a melon every day before you would do anything serious to your liver.
Or maybe not.
Maybe eat the melons periodically throughout the day.
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