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The Whoosh effect. How we lose weight.

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I was very interested to read how we lose weight. How many of us weigh each day (me ☺️) or are disappointed when we have a great week, but the scales do not reflect it? Now I know why. As fat is lost from fat cells, it is replaced with water. It can take days or weeks to lose this water. A sudden weight loss can relate to fat loss some time ago when you suddenly lose the water.

100down.org/the-whoosh-effect/

It also says that if you have a period of static weight, a cheat meal may help. This is just upping your calories. I have heard about this from a nutritionalist before. If on low carb eating; you up the carbs for a day. It seems odd, but that is what is said to work.

This is based on a war time experiment were men were on a semi- starvation diet (1500 cals). It is a very interesting read and will make me more complacent if the scales are not showing what I expect.

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morelessAdministrator7 stone

There are a number of strange phenomena regarding weight loss, that are fascinating and well worth taking the time to research :)

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wakywoo1 stone in reply to moreless

Definitely

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Dave196125kg

Its interesting isn't it? Our body is just not that simple to understand and weight loss is so much more complicated then just eating and exercising.

I am sure I read about that experiment where at a certain point, the body started doing some really weird things when nutrition was changed.

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wakywoo1 stone in reply to Dave1961

So true. We expect our body to act in a consistent and certain way.

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IndigoBlue61

Very useful reminder that fat loss is about more than the numbers on the scales! Thank you wakywoo 😊

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JiminyCricket7lbs

a good read, thanks for sharing

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wakywoo1 stone in reply to JiminyCricket

Pleasure JiminyCricket

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JiminyCricket7lbs in reply to wakywoo

Ive been poking myself to see if there's any mushy bits which could conceivably be water which I can persuade to vacate before tomorrows weigh in!

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wakywoo1 stone in reply to JiminyCricket

😂

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