| AmyM
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I know I should hide my scale but I cannot, lol. I lost 4 pounds the first day, water weight, I know... and since then NADA! Not a pound. I have not cheated, maybe I have had one TBS too much peanut butter yesterday but that's it.
I only have 11 to go and I was hoping to take off at least 6 in phase 1...
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:56 pm |
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| volleyteach
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You might not lose any more until Phase 2. The big weight lose that people see in Phase 1 is mostly if not all water weight. Finish the 2 weeks of phase 1, that will help you get over the carb and sugar cravings, then once you get into P2, you will probably see another loss and slowly lose the weight from there (1 to 2 pounds per week is fairly normal)
Good Luck! |
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:30 pm |
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| AmyM
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Ah crud. Well, at least I will stop looking for it!
Thanks! |
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:47 pm |
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| Maxine91
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I found this in P1 discussion under getting through some of the rough spots. Someone gave some questions that Dr. Agatston answered. It was posted just recently.
The renowned South Beach Diet author helps readers get through some of the rough spots.
by Arthur Agatston, M.D.
Q: When I told one of my friends that I had lost 6 pounds in the first 2 weeks of your diet, she turned up her nose and told me it was all water weight. Am I getting dehydrated?
Dr. Agatston: Part of this comes from the experience of Atkins and ketosis. Loss of water weight is particularly common with severe calorie-restricted diets and severe carbohydrate-restricted diets where you deplete your body's sugar stores and begin burning fat, which produces ketosis and a lot of water loss. On the South Beach Diet, where we give enough carbohydrates to prevent ketosis, water weight loss is minimized. We hear again and again about our dieters' experience of noticing their belts are looser because belly fat begins to disappear early.
Is the whole water weight thing true?? How can I be loosing water weight yet be drinking a gallon of water a day? It's not making sense....but then again, that's why I am not a doctor or a nutritionist.... :) |
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:50 pm |
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| RedRox
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| I did a little research on this once. (try a search on "water weight" if you like.) Basically it has to do with the water your body stores in the glycogen in your muscle fiber. Greatly reducing the calories and/or the simple carbs that your muscles are used to tapping into for their energy causes them to do a kind of "WTF? Now where am I going to get the energy to do the work you are still asking me to do" (Or your body says "stop working so damn hard bubba", and we call this "fatigue" or "the blahs".) The next stop for your body to find that energy is in the glycogen stores that your body put away just in case you were having a bad day and couldn't hit the rabbit or the fish with your spear or find any fruits or nuts either. One of the properties of glycogen is that it has this unusual obsession with water and bonds to water in a 4-to-1 ratio (4 waters for every glycogen -- Please don't tell the Republicans!!). So for every unit of glycogen you use up to keep your body from doing a jellyfish impression on the floor, it also release 4 units of water. The water you are drinking just helps to flush it all through because you don't really need the water in your body that is being released if you are drinking enough (Help me I'm drowning!) Water is kinda heavy and so when the glycogen goes away, the spurned and lonely water goes away too and we lose weight, usually fairly quickly. But once we kick all that kind of emotionally drained and confused water out of our system, we just have to get down to the real weight loss process which is much slower, but ultimately what we need to be thinner and healthier people! |
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:19 pm |
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| Maxine91
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Very helpful.
Thanks! |
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:32 pm |
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