Fat loss as opposed to water and muscle loss

Hi everyone, I am now in my 8yh week of Juddd and have noticed some peculiarities that I would share, I weigh daily started 3 weeks ago as an experiment and have done everyday since as I find it fascinating anyway despite the fact that I can have increases after UP of 2, 3 even 4 lbs this never shows on me (i.e my clothes etc) I do feel slimmer after a DD but I don't feel bigger after an UP? I am also the same size now as I was this time last year and yet I was a stone lighter this time last year after following a VLCD, how do I know this well my sister got married and I bought a dress too small so that I would slim into itr, which indeed I did, I got to 11 7lbs ans it fitted lovely on the day, I tried the very same dress on last week and guess what , yes it fitted and yet I am still 12 st 8lbs ??? How can this be? I have strted to research the effect alternate day fasting has on your fat stores and it would seem that following this way of dieting you do actually lose fat rather than the weight loss consisting of water or muscle mass, this would explain my constantly changing shape and yet my weight loss being slow and steady. I copied this from a website (the best detox diets)

A big benefit to using alternate day fasting for weight loss is that your weight loss will be almost purely fat loss, because intermittent fasting prevents your body from cannibalizing your muscle tissue.In an average weight loss diet, 25 percent of the weight you loss is muscle tissue. That means if you're losing two pounds each week, only 1.5 pounds is fat.
With alternate day fasting, a two pound weight loss would result in the loss of 1.95 pounds of fat. Losing an extra half pound of fat each week can make a big difference in terms of inches and appearance.

I found similar claims on other websites but this was by far the easiest to understand. Anyone else noticing more NSV in relation to weight loss???

Interesting information. Thanks for posting that.

When I finished LL I went to our town university which has a large sports dept and had my body composition analysed in a bod pod. You sit in an enclosed pod, wearing a swim suit and a bathing cap and the machine tells you your body fat percentage, muscle mass etc. My weight, height and BMi was also recorded while I was there.

This was something I wanted to do as I was concerned I'd lost muscle while on LL. I also wanted a starting benchmark figure I could refer back to as I continued with my fitness training.

My body fat percentage was either 31 or 33%. I can't remember which off the top of my head. Which for my age, weight and height is slightly above where it should be. I think 30% was top of the average scale.

Im to go back every 8-12 weeks and be reassessed. About 4 weeks have passed and my weights remained pretty stable over those four weeks. I'll be sure to keep you all posted on the results and how what the scales show compares to what the bod pod says. Could be interesting for us Juddders.

I completely agree here!

Lots of NSVs but at 13,7 I don't feel light enough to have them lol!

JUDDD is obviously good for us!!!

Ruth
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I have a pair of skinny jeans with an elastic waist that now stay where they are supposed to be instead of rolling down!

17 lost : 50 to goal

Very interesting and good for us Juddd'ers x

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I unintentionally discovered this morning that I can pull my size 14 jeans up with the zip still up yay me lol ha ha xx

Going to start measuring this week , def losing size IYSWIM

Wooo well done Jo!!!

Ruth
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Thank you Ruth, I had a major panic I was wondering how they seemed tight going on

bajoleth said:

Thank you Ruth, I had a major panic I was wondering how they seemed tight going on

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Haha!

Bless you!!

Ruth
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Bumping up for newbies x

hmmm funny i've noticed that...

I was the weight I am now about 2 years ago, and I was definitely a size 24. Now at the same weight a 22 is a good fit... mysterious... lol

New favourite thread . I may have to show this to a friend of mine who's considering JUDDD.