Thanks Guys,
I am pleased with 8 lbs. I think it's a lesson learned about weighing every day. I'm not giving up and I suppose this diet is going to be a bit of an emotional rollercoaster anyway. We'll see what happens this week.
Tiara x
By the way, I've now got the runs... Maybe I was a bit bunged up!!!!
Hi Tiara,
The first weeks loss on a vlcd is mainly Glycogen from your Glycogen store. This is the first to go and if you jump off a vlcd and start eating high carbs again like sugar/bread/chocolate/crisps etc. it is the first place to fill up again quickly.
It is possible to overfill the glycogen stores so that they contain More than normal levels. Athletes do this and call it carbohydrate loading. Athletes stop eating carbohydrate to deplete their glycogen stores and then feast on carbohydrates. This gives them a larger reserve tank of ready fuel for endurance exercises, such as marathon running.
If we eat a lot of carbohydrate foods right after dieting we will accomplish the same thing.
Glycogen is stored with about 4 parts of water for each part of glycogen. This means that a pound of glycogen may hold an additional 4 pounds of water.
1800 Calories of Calorie deficit in the food eaten can cause a 5 pound weight loss. Compare that with the real need for fat loss. The same 1800 Calorie deficit will only use up 1/2 pound of fat.
Glycogen is stored in the liver, muscles and fat cells of the body. The amount we can store can vary depending upon what we eat and how much we use our muscles.
Recent research suggests that some people may store as much as a kilogram of glycogen that can be mobilized in the first few days of using a vlcd. This could mean that such a person could lose almost a stone in weight during the first few days of dieting and not yet have burned any fat.
This weight loss on the scales does provide wonderful incentive on the first week of the diet and it is a boost for the week ahead.
Some people find that weighing every morning first thing on an empty bladder and before taking either water or milkshake gives them a boost for the day.
Getting on and off the scales throughout the day is futile as water weighs heavy and one litre is 1 kilogram which is about 2.20lbs. and that is heavy when you think about it.
If you get upset when you weigh yourself you are best to leave it to when you see your CDC, otherwise you will be upsetting yourself unnecessarily which can get the old chatter box working over time and you can then talk yourself out of doing the diet. It happens
After four weeks you will see a pattern to your weight loss which is unique to you as everyone loses weight differently.
There is a member here who is on the 1,200 plan of CD and she is losing 2lbs. a week consistently. I am lucky if I achieve that on SSing some weeks.
Your doing well, believe in yourself.
Love Mini xxx