Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Clothes are looser!

Monday, May 10, 2010

[fast5] Re: Clothes are looser!

No I don't have much to lose, which I suspect is partially why this is so super slow going for me. But I love this plan and at this point, the weight loss really doesn't matter to me as much. The scale doesn't have the power over me that it used to.

I also need to stop concentrating on the stupid scale. I know how I feel and how my clothes fit are much better indicators of success than an arbitrary number on the scale. It's a hard habit to break :)

You're right though - with other diets, I would lose crazy amounts of weight....the first week. And since it's a diet, as soon as I stopped doing it a couple of weeks later, I would gain the weight back plus some.

As I think of it, I have been moving much more...like I said, I have so much more energy that I play with my kids more, garden more, take the stairs more, etc. It doesn't "feel" like exercise, but to my muscles I guess it is.

Thanks for the reply Heather!

Heather in CO

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>
> It happens to a lot of people. Basically your "weight" consists of
> water, fat, bone, muscle. Of the four, fat weighs the *least*. Fat is
> like styrofoam. If you have a big box of, say, beef fat, you will be
> surprised how light it is.
>
> Fast-5 tends to cause fat loss, I think, but not bone, muscle, or water
> loss so much. Most "starvation" diets cause a lot of water loss,
> and also eventually muscle and bone loss. So you may have
> lost a few pounds of fat, which make your muscles more defined,
> but you also may have GAINED muscle, or your muscles may
> be more compact. You can gain muscle without exercising, if
> your body is happier.
>
> Or you may just have more water for some reason. 2 lbs of water
> is only 4 cups, which isn't really much mass at all.
>
> It's better I think to ignore the scale mostly and concentrate on
> how you feel and how your jeans fit. If your weight is in the 140's
> you don't have a LOT of fat to lose anyway.
>
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:32 AM, thirteenblessings13 <
> thirteenblessings13@...> wrote:
>
> > Although I still haven't lost much weight (was down to 147.3 on Saturday
> > but seemed to have gone back up to 149 today - starting weight was 151 - 4
> > weeks ago), I put on a pair of jeans over the weekend that were tight on me
> > not that long ago and they fit. By the end of the day they were even a
> > little loose!
> >
> > I'm happy about this, but a bit perplexed on how I can appear thinner (I
> > have noticed subtle changes in my body composition, for example, my arm
> > muscles seem more defined) but not really lose any scale weight. I haven't
> > done anything differently as far as exercise either. I might have more
> > energy to run around with my kids than I used to, but am still not really
> > doing any formal exercise.
> >
> > This is weird. Did this happen to you at first? Lost inches before
> > weight?
> >
> >
> >
>