First of all I would like to thank everyone for all the responces.
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Originally Posted by BlueWire
What they dont tell you is this...
If you eat a balanced diet and exercise (especially if you weight train at all)..a lot of water gets stored within your heavily used muscles. Carbs are necessary for building that muscle and it is healthy to store this water in those muscle groups so that you can increase your lean body mass.
One of the primary reasons people lose SO much weight right off the bat with atkins is; if you cut out your carbs; your body doesn't store that water in those muscles anymore because there are not carbs around anymore. Not only does it stop that storage process; but it sucks the existing water out of there as well. Doctors think that anywhere from 5lbs to 10lbs of water is lost in the process and does not replace until...You guessed it...you start eating carbs again.
Funny how when people start eating carbs again they put on that 5-10lbs again overnight isnt it?
People should worry a lot more about their body comp than "weight" per say. For all you techie nerds out there like me...think of it like this...
Do you assume someone's site is good because it has high google PR? Or do you take into consideration a number of factors.
Bottom line: Control your portions, eat good stuff, when you need some unhealthy stuff go for it but just dont pig out on it, and sweat everyday  |
Yea thats called water weight. That happens to me every time I go on a diet. The first week or so I'll drop like 10 pounds, then the rest of the weight comes off slowly. I dont think it has THAT much to do with carbs per say thou. I think its more less volume of food in your stomach. Either that or I am doing a low carb diet without trying to. I just eat very little calories a day, i dont even look at carbs.