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Originally Posted by kaylae24
I have been checking nashuanutrition and I think my next order will be from there I am just worried about losing slower!
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Do yourself a tremendous favor and educate yourself about how fat loss works and how fat loss differs from weight loss. Here is a primer ...
Fat loss is an equation of energy. When you don't consume enough energy your body makes up the difference by utilizing stored energy. Energy is measured in calories. Thus, fat stores are reduced (you lose fat) when you consume fewer calories than you utilize in a day.
Weight loss/gain is how much weight you have total. Although weight has many components the big one you cannot control is water. People (and especially women) can retain water for a large number of reasons.
Fat loss is not the same thing as weight loss.
The scale only measures your weight. You cannot determine how much fat you have lost with any reasonable degree of accuacy without some expensive testing methods.
I'm telling you this because your weight loss will slow down.
Most will lose more in the first week than any other week. First, you're eating less and therefore have less digesting food and less waste. Second, you're eating very few carbs and therefore your glycogen stores have been massively reduced. For bigger people like us, these two can be substantial.
Your weight loss = fat loss + water loss + other LBM.
You've lost fat obviously. How much fat have you lost? Who knows. If I had to guess I would say around 4 lbs of your loss in week 1 is fat but that's merely a guess. I come to this conclusion because I would estimate your energy needs to be around 2800-3000 calories a day. IP has you ingesting around 700-900 calories. So you have a weekly energy shortfall of around 14,000-15,000 calories. A lb of fat has about 3500 calories. 4 lbs of fat = about 14,000 calories. You can google BMR caculator to estimate energy needs.
Knowledge is power.