Ok, so this is considered, by some, a delicate subject; but in all honesty we all urinate so I'm going to explain what's going on with your plumbing.
The extra pee happens for a number of reasons. When you change your diet from unhealthy levels of salt and refined sugars to lots of wholesome foods, your body no longer need to protect you by holding on to more water to regulate your blood chemistry. Once your salt intake drops, your body starts to flush out the excess water. This accounts for the large weight loss most people experience in the first week.
Secondly the healthier fruit and vegetables you are now eating have higher levels of water than the McBurger and fries you were eating last month. Another factor is you probably try to drink the mythical 8 glasses of water per day. Your body does need water to survive, but any excess you drink has to go somewhere.
The reason you continue to pee like a fountain as you lose weight is down to chemistry. When you eat food, it gets broken down into basic building blocks that your body uses as fuel. Any excess fuel in our bodies is stored as fat. Once you start eating healthy food and your calorific intake drops below your energy needs, your body triggers the release of your stored fat. Various hormones trigger the production of enzymes that break the fat into the fuel chemicals our bodies use. When your body's cells burn these fuel chemicals the waste products are mostly carbon dioxide and water, both of which your body has to get rid of.
As you lose weight and get more active you need more calories to maintain your new activity levels. Your metabolism speeds up as well, this means that you burn more calories each day. The more fat your body breaks down, the more water needs to be expelled.
So next time you are cursing your bursting bladder at 3am, remember your body is just doing what you want and burning up all that fat.
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