Fri, Sep-29-17, 07:33
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Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
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Are you talking about the Slow-Carb diet? I'm not too familiar with that plan, but doesn't it involve a somewhat more liberal carbohydrate intake, but stressing foods like beans?
First, I'd trust a before and after shot, or some tape measure numbers over that method of body fat analysis, any day. It can't tell you what you've lost. Excess body water? Glycogen?
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The other assumptions for BIA measurement are that the body is a cylindrical-shaped ionic conductor with homogeneous composition, a fixed cross-sectional area and a uniform distribution of current density [16,17]; BIA measures the impedance to the flow of an electric current through the total body fluid. Therefore, the conductive volume (V) which represents total body water (TBW) or FFM is directly related to the square length of conductor (S) and inversely correlated to resistance of the cross-section area (R), while p is the specific receptivity of the conductor, yielding the equation: V = p × S2/R. Based on this assumption, the same arms and legs respectively contribute to almost 47% and 50% of whole body resistance despite contributing to 4% and 17% of body weight respectively. In contrast, the trunk, which contains 50% of the body mass, contributes only 5–12% of whole body resistance
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I guess you're the best judge of whether you're a "cylindrical-shaped ionic conductor with homogeneous composition, a fixed cross-sectional area and a uniform distribution of current density."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2543039/
The numbers you give suggest that in losing ten pounds, you only lost around a half a pound of fat. To me this just lacks plausibility. Walk in with your limbs a bit dry vs. having even a slight pump, given that thing where a lion's share of the resistance comes from the arms and legs, sounds like it could make a big difference.
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