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creatine, does indeed increase water retention.
The idea behind creatine is that in your body, creatine phosphate is used as a energy store in muscles, cos it has a 'high-energy' (a typical biochemical misnomer) phosphate bond. And this allows rapid ATP renewal, etc.
However, the fact it 'works' is due to the retentive aspect. It causes your muscles to look larger, but be exactly the same efficiency. If it worked for you because you're a veggie, it means simply you didn't have enough protein in your diet. Eating an egg or two or those shakes would have been more effective. Furthermore, Creatine has been shown to have a placebo effect on work outs. Those on it and on a placebo substitute had 'statistically insignificant differences' in a variety of tests.
LPG has it in one- balanced diet, the best way forward.