The major weight loss in the first week is your body depleting it's glycogen stores. Keep in mind that every gram of glycogen has 4 grams of water attached to it. This is why when you go into phase 4 you will have a one time gain of 2.5 to 5 lbs as your body replenishes it's glycogen/water. As far as the inches lost, IP explains it to the coaches like this...in a larger person, the fat is spread over a larger area. If you remove the same amount of weight from people of different sizes, the person who is smaller will show more inches lost even though the weight loss is the same. Imagine a roll of paper towels...if you pull one sheet off a new roll, you won't see any difference in it's size, but if you pull the same amount off a roll that is almost empty, you can really see the difference. Same sort of thing here. Remember NOT to compare your journey to someone else. Your body will lose at IT'S own pace and it may be more or less than your friend. You can make yourself crazy and set yourself up for failure by comparing. Hope this explanation helps.
Last edited by JoesHotWife; 04-25-2012 at 12:13 AM.
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