Stalls and sudden weight loss?
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Stalls and sudden weight loss?
| Mon, 04-07-2008 - 6:24am |
Hi,
I have a question about stalls and sudden weight loss. I know that the body needs time to 'catch' up after a significant weight loss but can someone actually explain the science behind why I can remain at the same weight for three weeks and then one morning weigh myself and I'm down 2-3 lbs., and that becomes my new weight for three weeks and then again one morning I have a loss of 2-3 lbs. and so on. How can this weight loss of 2-3 lbs. register overnight and then stay off?
Help, I'm confused!

I don't know the science behind it, but I would love it if that's what my body did!!
I don't know the how and why either, but all I can tell you is it appears that's how I am going to lose. And not only that, I'll see a new "low" be thrilled and then bump up 2 or three for a few days, and THEN go back down to that low.
That happened to me this weekend. I had my official 10 lbs lost and that was yesterday. Today is my one month anniv of starting. I wanted to come in here and post a big WHOO HOO! 10 lbs in a month!
I cannot tell you anything about why this happens either, but it is how I lose.
Here is an article that I found that was posted here years ago.....I found it to be very informative and helpful. Hopefully it has some answers that you are looking for and also I think will address many others peoples concerns & questions too .
STALLS -- WHY THE SCALES CAN LIE
A biologist at Berkeley shared something very revealing on the lower-carb BBS system about 4 years ago
that helps us all through the erratic weight fluctuations you invariably encounter: Fat cells are
resilient, stubborn little creatures that do not want to give up their actual cell volume. Over a period of
weeks, maybe months of "proper dieting", each of your fat cells may have actually lost a good percentage of
the actual fat contained in those cells. But the fat cells themselves, stubborn little guys, replace that
lost fat with water to retain their size. That is, instead of shrinking to match the reduced amount of
fat in the cell, they stay the same size! Result - you weigh the same, look the same, maybe even gained some
scale weight, even though you have actually lost some serious fat.
The good news is that this water replacement is