Tue, Apr-22-14, 00:28
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Senior Member
Posts: 8,654
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Plan: Atkins-ish, post-WLS
Stats: 408.0/288.0/168.0
BF:
Progress: 50%
Location: Southern Colorado, USA
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As others have said, a big part of the initial weight loss is water as your body adjusts it's electrolyte balance from a glucose-based burner to a ketone-based burner. Keep that in mind if you fall of the wagon for a day or two because your body will reclaim that water if you go back to glucose burning. I went on a business trip for three days and came back 18 pounds heavier. Even though I KNEW it was water, it was very discouraging. Combined with my addiction to sugar, that was all she wrote and within a few months my weight went from 304 lb to 384 lb. You may or may not be a sugar addict -- I hope you aren't.
The other thing to keep in mind is that most consumer scales are not very precise. You can test this out by simply stepping on and off your scale about ten times and note the min to max variation. You can generally minimize this by placing your feet in as close to the same position each time (on my scale the dust creates a nice outline of my feet that I use as a reference -- hence I don't clean the platen!). Cheap digital scales often have a variation of 5lb or more (even 10+ lb). If you know this, then you can more easily disregard gains and losses that are within the window as potentially just being scale variation.
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