Almost always water retention drops fast in the first couple
of weeks.

Consider that water retention has several reasons:

1) Carbs stored as glycogen dissolved in water.  Lower carbs
enough and this goes goodbye.

2) Salt, which the kidneys eject within a day.  While low carbing
often includes higher salt intake because the lower glycogen
storage means lower blood pressure and thus no need to avoid
salt, salt caused bloating will not happen every day.

3) Previously unknown food intolerances that trigger bloating.
Anyone who loses more than 10-15 pounds during Induction
almost certainly eliminated a previously unknown bloat trigger.
The possibility is now you're regularly eating some food ingredient
you rarely ate before and it's causing bloating for you.  It is a
very low percentage shot that you both have a previously
unknown bloat trigger in the form of a mild egg intolerance.
Same comment for bloating from preservative nitrates.

4) All sorts of other random events that are so hard to control
they and the main contributor to scale bounce.  Scale bounce
is from this and other sources guarantee weighings more
frequent than weekly have extremely little signal and extremely
high noise.

So it's a puzzle.

:). Sure. That's Sloshmonster Syndrome. What's happening is -- your
body is releasing fat into your bloodstream and it's getting taken up
by your lymphatic system. Usually right before a whoosh you'll go
Sloshmonster because the fat has been lifted and released from some
chunko deposit on your bodymass. Then the lymphatic system takes it up
to flush it out, and when lymph is involved it tracks according to
your wedding ring as water retention. It works this way in reverse,
too -- if you're overeating and your body plans to store the extra
cheeseburgers, you see the fat formation starting first in your
fingers.  In a perfect world this would alll work instantaneously but
it usually takes a few days...up to a week, for what used to be your
butt to entirely evacuate your premises.

It helps to drink water and get fiber, but basically most longterm
lcers see swollen fingers as a sign they are either losing or gaining
weight.

At least I do, anyway.

c
Always sloshing one way or the other

Try supplementing some potassium and magnesium twice daily; lite salt of
potassium chloride is a great cheap way to get the potassium.  You
excrete  LOT of electrolytes with the initial water whoosh, and your
body may be retaining fluids in order to prevent more loss of these.

Susan