I used to eat a lot of junk food and drink a lot of soda (like a lot like probably 6+ cans per day). Plus i ate a lot of crappy food before bed and would sometimes wake up during my sleep and eat a cookie with a glass of milk, you know typical fat guy stuff.
This Sunday that just passed was my 3 week mark of diet and exercise. I started at 236.6lbs and this morning i was 213lbs. So in 3 weeks with cutting out all that junk and soda especially im down 23.6lbs. (i did about 14-18lbs in my first week, cant remember exactly, mostly due to the soda/water weight) Ive def slowed down in weight loss so i think im done with all the initial weight loss i used to see like 1-3lbs per ever other day and now im seeing about .5lbs-.75lbs per day so roughly 3.5-5.25 lbs per week so far.
just remember 5lbs of fat looks like half a watermellon where as 5 lbs of muscle looks like a regular sized apple.
So i started at 236.6 and my goal is to be around 185(or 50 lbs less) i was originally gonna stop at 195 but my buddy convinced me to push to 185.
Cutting out the junk food was great, but the soda is the bread and butter so to speak. That stuff is deadly, good for you on breaking that habit!
The first weight you shed is water that’s stored with glycogen in your muscles, if I remember correctly. Your first two weeks will be super exciting, lots of weight lost and then it evens out once that excess water has been released and the glycogen stores have been burned (which your body will go through before it starts making the switch to burning fat for fuel). Exercise definitely helps keep things moving along, but even without it you will lose weight on a keto diet because of the switch to burning fat as a main source of fuel. Provided your calorie deficit is enough, that is.
My body fat percentage right now is probably only around 20-22% (being away from the gym for 4 weeks definitely means that some of my lean mass has been reduced), but since I’m back to keto full time and I’ll be back at the gym next week, I imagine I’ll be back down to 19% in no time.
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