Hello all! Well, I am just a tad baffled about something and so I was going to ask around here on the board! Exactly one week ago I started this whole new healthy lifestyle change. Before this I was eating over 3000 calories, which maintained my 255 pound self. Well, I have cut that to try and lose 2-3 pounds a week, and have greatly increased my water intake.

Anyway, last week I weighed in at 255 like I said above. Well, this morning, same scale same place same same time same everything, I weighed in at exactly 248. Now I don't know much about weight loss yet but I do know I could NOT have lost 7 true pounds in one little week. The first thing that entered my mind is water weight. Is that probably what this is?

Also, the parts of me that are most big used to be hard - now they are softer and feel very different. Can someone give me some ideas on what they think it could be? Can that much water weight go in that amount of time??? And could it be that I have lost a few in real pounds in one week, and the rest be water???????

Thank you
-Donna Lynn

could very well be water weight. Remember you will lose more weight if your heavier, but as you become slimmer, weight will decline. The first few weeks of weight loss is mostly water.

When I first started, the scale read 12lbs lighter after just two and a half days. I think I safely assumed, as you probably can in your case as well, that it was almost all water.

Well, I have cut that to try and lose 2-3 pounds a week, and have greatly increased my water intake.

Can that much water weight go in that amount of time??? And could it be that I have lost a few in real pounds in one week, and the rest be water???????



Yes, you lost some water weight as well as fat weight. Don't worry about it, they both count. The one thing you don't want to lose is muscle weight- that is what makes up your metabolism. So be sure you have a weight training program going. muscle also gives you form.

Suggestion: increase your water intake, try to get up to a gallon a day. It will help.