How much water weight can you lose? I've lost 23 pounds and I don't kn!


Question: How much water weight can you lose? I've lost 23 pounds and I don't know if it's water weight or what?
I went from 183 to 160 pounds and Ive been dieting for about 3-4 weeks. So how much water weight can you lose? And was the 23 pounds water weight?

Answers:

The best way to tell if it was water weight, is to drink water.

You should be drinking 2/3 of your weight (in pounds), translated into ounces each day.
You weight 160 pounds. 160 x 2/3 = 106.67 ounces, or about 13 glasses of water. Don't get frightened by this number! A glass of water is 1 measuring cup. The standard water bottle is 2 - 2 1/2 cups of water!

Also, some of that weight might have been muscle weight, not fat or water weight. To keep your muscles intact, you should not only drink plenty of water, but eat your weight in grams each day (160 grams of lean, low-fat/fat-free protein each day). Starting off, you will need to use a kitchen scale. But as you get accustomed to the portion sized, you will be able to estimate by looking at the size of the meal. You should be eating about 1/3 to 2/5 of a pound of lean protein each day. Check out eggs, legumes, fish, and poultry first. Then go to red meat as a last resort.

Make sure you are getting 1200 calories more than you are burning as well! Any less, and your body can go into starvation mode! This will cause your body to burn your muscles as fuel, and store incoming food as fat for energy later!

One pound of muscle is equal to about 600 calories. One pound of fat is equal to 3500 calories. This is why your body will break down muscle before fat, if you are not careful with what you are doing!



If you lost the weight with a high calorie, low carb way of eating, then the first week's weight loss was water weight - fat was lost thereafter.

If you lost the weight with a low calorie way of eating, then the weight loss is mostly water weight & lean tissue lost.

On a low carb way of eating, you deplete glycogen stores within the first 3 days. Glycogen holds 3x it's weight in water (like a sponge) so you "wring" out the sponge as you deplete glycogen stores. This is the first week's weight loss.



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