hi mouseclick :)

i'm on day 5 of my fast today and on the first four days i also lost about two pounds a day. (today i was only down 1 pound). i just thought that was due to "water weight"... like, i ate a few salty things a few days before i started my fast, so i know that i was retaining a bit of water, so those first few days of more rapid weightloss was not so much fat but water? Just a theory!

yours,

Bella Lucia

I'm starting Day 6 of my Water Fast and I've already dropped a staggering 19 Lbs! But this is only slightly above typical for me. In past fasts I've typically lost 5-6 Lbs the first day and it slowly declines from there. Usually after the first week I average at about 1 Lb per day. I've always just attributed the initial loss to food passing out of my system (along with some water weight too). Also could be due to the fact that I'm about 50 Lbs (now 31 Lbs) overweight. Either way - I'll take it! :D

Hello mouseclick,
there are many variables here as to weight-loss issues while fasting.
These could be some of them..........

"Losses of five or six pounds a day for the first two or three days (sometimes longer) are often recorded. But these losses are not losses of flesh. Most of this apparent loss is due to the emptying of the alimentary canal of several pounds of food and feces which is not replaced by more food."

"During the first few days of his fast Upton Sinclair lost fifteen pounds; an indication of the extremely poor state of his tissues. During the next eight days he lost only two pounds, a very unusual thing for this stage of fasting. Levanzin lost 29 pounds during his 31 days' fast in the Carnegie Institute. Major Gotshall says: "For the first eight days of my fast I lost twenty-five pounds." This very unusual loss indicates that his tissues were in very poor condition."

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch17.htm


The losses can also be explained by "water-loss", especially if your pre-fast diet has been mostly high-water-content food. The body is approx' 70& water and this can have a bearing on your losses..............
"Dr. Tanner took no water during the first 16 days of his fast (tissues became dehydrated) and lost weight rapidly. After the sixteenth day he drank considerable amounts of water (tissues re-hydrated) and gained four and one-half pounds during the next four days, after which he again commenced to lose weight."..................

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch17.htm


Nothing to be overly concerned about Mouseclick, as you have rightly pointed out.

Regards

Chrisb1.