This is for those of you who are about to begin a training and/or dieting regimen. ... The majority of weight lost during the initial phases of a diet, especially if you are coming from a poor eating base, comes from losing intestinal bulk (food and toxins backed up in your system), burning through glycogen (the storage form of carbohydrates in your muscle cells), and subsequent water loss. Only a small fraction is actual tissue loss (body fat). Thats why you can lose a lot of weight in the first week or two on strict low-carb diets. It is not unusual to lose 5-10lbs in the first week. Once you lose intestinal bulk and burn through glycogen (and water), weight loss slows down. You start burning body fat and the real body composition changes begin to take place. These changes take place at a much slower rate -- the 1-2lbs a week we talked about before. Unfortunately, this is where dieters get impatient. After experiencing that first week of rapid weight loss, they want to continue along that pace forever. So they start drastically cutting calories and nutrients to recreate that environment. This results in the worst possible side effect that can happen for a dieter seeking visual change -- muscle loss ... This is from The Samurai Diet.
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 01:32:11 +0000
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