Hi BL,
I'm the bearer of bad tidings I'm afraid. I've had excessive hair loss as a result of being on a VLCD. This kind of hair loss is called telogen effluvium. I had the thickest head of hair you've ever seen. I made a hairdresser cry once because she ran out of time to finish highlighting my hair and had two angry clients waiting. I felt so bad! I even used to go so far as to warn new hairdressers in advance that my hair takes about double the amount of time to colour, so to plan to be there a long time!! My hair started to fall out about 20 weeks into my time on LL and I lost clumps! I was so scared. I still lose a lot more hair than normal four months after the initial huge loss. My hairdresser has said I now have the amount of hair of a normal person. She says I have no bald patches and that the hair loss is very even over my scalp (typical of telogen effluvium). Interestingly, she has also noticed very little or no regrowth at all. Apparently, my hair follicles have gone into an extended resting phase, and I've been told that this could last six months or possibly even longer before I get any significant regrowth. Then the doc says it will probably come in all at once. There is the possibility that it won't come back nearly as thick, or even that it won't come back at all! Sometimes I worry about it a little, but I'm lucky to have started out with such a healthy head of hair to start with. And actually, I feel the same way as helturner: I'd rather be healthy, confident, and thinner of hair than the way I was before.
I think if you haven't noticed any significant hair loss this far into your time on LL, you will probably be one of the majority who has no hair loss issues at all!
Linze