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Originally Posted by nick3131
First of all I would like to thank everyone for all the responces.
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.
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Its a different process though with carbs specifically....
"The reason you do lose weight so rapidly on this," explains Anderson, "is that you are not eating carbohydrates, which are usually converted to quick energy, so you are burning glycogen, a quick energy supply stored in your liver alongside a supply of water. When you burn the glycogen, the water is excreted. Most of the weight you lose at first is that water."
After the 2-week "induction period" of small amounts of carbs prescribed by Atkins, dieters are allowed to phase some carbohydrates back into their reinvented lifetime diet. "As soon as sugar or starch crosses your lips," Anderson says, "you may find that water coming back on board."