What are you losing? Water or Fat.

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rishad

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Any starvation diet like Atkins or any other dieting technique will more or less make you lose water instead of fat. It has been proved through research that 60% of the weight loss is due to water. There are more chances of water weight loss when you see quick weight loss when you are on starvation diet.

Once you stop dieting you will regain the water weight loss and your body re-hydrates. Losing excessive amount of water from the body could be harmful for your health. Therefore you have to be precautious and very careful, and don't get excited if you lose weight.

It is always better to refrain from the diets which demands starvation. A healthy diet plan for weight loss is a more preferable option. A light exercise combined with healthy diet plan is usually more effective way to keep oneself lean.
 
rishad said:
Any starvation diet like Atkins or any other dieting technique will more or less make you lose water instead of fat. It has been proved through research that 60% of the weight loss is due to water. There are more chances of water weight loss when you see quick weight loss when you are on starvation diet.

Once you stop dieting you will regain the water weight loss and your body re-hydrates. Losing excessive amount of water from the body could be harmful for your health. Therefore you have to be precautious and very careful, and don't get excited if you lose weight.

It is always better to refrain from the diets which demands starvation. A healthy diet plan for weight loss is a more preferable option. A light exercise combined with healthy diet plan is usually more effective way to keep oneself lean.
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Very True.

A little nutrition trivia:

The reason you lose water on low carb/very low cal diets is because you are losing glycogen.

Glycogen is your bodies way of storing carbohydrate. It is found in your muscle, kidneys, and liver.

It is stored attached to water molecules. So when your body is devoid of carbs because of diet, it starts using the glycogen.

This is why all this extra water is released.

All the best,
Brian Dean MS, RD
Collaboration Coordinator, NutriYoga LLC
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rishad said:
Any starvation diet like Atkins or any other dieting technique will more or less make you lose water instead of fat. It has been proved through research that 60% of the weight loss is due to water. There are more chances of water weight loss when you see quick weight loss when you are on starvation diet.

Once you stop dieting you will regain the water weight loss and your body re-hydrates. Losing excessive amount of water from the body could be harmful for your health. Therefore you have to be precautious and very careful, and don't get excited if you lose weight.

It is always better to refrain from the diets which demands starvation. A healthy diet plan for weight loss is a more preferable option. A light exercise combined with healthy diet plan is usually more effective way to keep oneself lean.
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"It has been proved through research that 60% of the weight loss is due to water."

Hi I'm not disputing this but where did you get the 60% from?
 
I did something known as a Protein Sparing Modified Fast. Basically you eat adequate protein to preserve muscle coupled with trace amounts of veggies and healthy fats.

I only brought it up in this thread for the sake of maintaining objectivity. A lot of people have an either-or, always-never mentality and it really clouds their ability to think critically.
 
Steve said:
I did something known as a Protein Sparing Modified Fast. Basically you eat adequate protein to preserve muscle coupled with trace amounts of veggies and healthy fats.

I only brought it up in this thread for the sake of maintaining objectivity. A lot of people have an either-or, always-never mentality and it really clouds their ability to think critically.
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I remember that...I was so much younger then.
 
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